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Good things come in hidden pictures. Intrepid strongman Dug Song writes, in reaction to the "fairly thin" piece earlier today on Steganographic anlysis:
"The only cutting edge, practical work being done today in steganalysis and steganography is by Niels Provos, who gave a talk at HAL2001, and is also presenting at the USENIX security symposium tomorrow: He's been developing several interesting tools to do steganalysis during the course of his universal stego engine development: (http://www.outguess.org/) including stegbreak (which can detect images produced by all popular stego tools -- except outguess), crawl (which he's used to download 2 million jpeg's from eBay to analyze), discern (his distributed computing platform), etc."
Hushing up is not such a good answer sometimes ... Reader Brian McWilliams <brian@pc-radio.com< notes regarding the thread on Slashdot about the costs of full disclosure, "you might want to add an update linking to this story Newsbytes did a couple days ago about the Richard Smith posting. Contains responses from eEye & full disclosure advocates, as well as some more ammo from Smith."
Smith doesn't take kindly to being blamed for damages caused by security holes he publically aired.
So you want to patent "bacon and eggs"? I guess that's OK then. You recently read about the McAffee patent on a seemingly overbroad stretch of computing transactions. Well, it's raised quite a few eyebrows among people interested in a fair computing marketplace. geoa points to this article in which "Neil McAllister in The Gate takes too long to say we shouldn't let another monopoly in the playpen."
It was soooo old ... For everyone enjoying the recent upswing in retro computing interest, Silicon Avatar writes with another tidbit: "Although not necessarily new news, I found a link today when someone mentioned Roland MT-32 to me. Starting with Space Quest IV, Sierra games were written to use either the Adlib soundcard or the Roland MT-32 'soundcard.' Quest Studios seems to have repository of MANY of those songs, including the 'lounge tape' I once had but lost!"
Put that in your souped up underclocked emulator and smoke it.
When their father died, Mike and Michelle's Grandparents moved in with them and their mother. They were the paternal grandparents. Their mother Georgia, was devastated and the John and Martha decided to help her. John was 62 years old and Martha was 59. Mike was in his bedroom looking at the newest edition of Nude Girl magazine, and had just began to stroke his hard cock. Martha unexpectedly entered and saw him with his 8 inch cock in his hand. Mike quickly covered himself and was very embarassed.
Martha told her grandson that their was nothing to be embarassed or ashamed of. She told him that as a matter of fact, he should be proud of that big, hard, young cock. She sat down on the bed beside him and reached beneath the blanket and touched his still erect cock. Mike moaned as his grandmother began softly stroking him. Martha began unbuttoning her top, and Mike freaked when he saw his grandmothers humongous breasts. Yes, the were quite old and saggy, but they were very large. He reached out and touched the giant nipples and they became very hard.
He slid his hand up his grandmother's skirt, and was pleased to find that she wasn't wearing any panties. Her old pussy was soaking wet already. He slid a finger inside of her, and found that she was quite tight. Martha tossed the blanket off of her grandson and began sucking his hard cock. Mike moaned with pleasure. Michelle had heard the noises coming from her brother's room and entered to investigate. She couldn't believe what she saw. Her grandmother was sucking her brother's hard cock, and he was furiously fingerbanging her gray haired pussy. Michelle became quite aroused and stripped off her clothing.
Martha spotted her granddaughter standing behind her naked, and invited her to help suck Mike's cock. Michelle leaned forward and took her brother's cock into her mouth. Martha spread her granddaughter's tender young thighs and began licking her wet pussy. Martha nibbled on Michelle's swollen clit, and began thrusting her fingers inside of the pink wetness. Michelle ground her pussy against her grandmother's face, and continued sucking her brother's big cock. Georgia just happened to walk by, and peeked inside of the bedroom door which was slightly ajar.
Georgia began watching as her motherinlaw ate her daughter, and her daughter sucked her son's large cock. Georgia knew she should stop this, but the aching in her loin and the dampness in her panties wouldn't allow her. Georgia stood in the hallway and slid her hand inside of her panties, she began rubbing herself while watching the hot horny 3some going on. John had quietly come behind Georgia and noticed what was going on. His daughter in law was in heat. She was softly moaning as she played with her pussy. He could smell her pussy in the air. Georgia hadn't been laid in over 6 months.
Georgia fingered herself as her son shot his load all over his sister's face. As Georgia watched her daughter lick her brother's cum and saw her mother in law eating her pussy, she climaxed furiously. She fell backwards, and landed in John's arms. She freaked. John had been behind her watching her masturbate. Her face was very red, and she tried to quickly run away. John told her not to be embarassed. She watched as John unzipped his pants and removed his very hard 10 inch cock. She couldn't believe a man in his 60's could have such an erection, or such a large cock. She reached for him. She began stroking his very large hard cock. The precum oozed from the huge swollen cockhead.
Georgia knelt on the floor and took him into her mouth. God, it tasted so good. It had been so long. She had loved sucking her husband's cock very much, and missed it greatly. Meanwhile, Mike was still very hard, and his grandmother was lying on her back with her legs spread widely. Mike looked at the fluffy grey patch of pubic hair surrounding her wet, pink pussy. He shook as he guided his hard cock inside of her. She moaned as her grandson plunged his cock inside of her. It felt so good. Michelle was sitting on her grandma's face.
Grandma had her tongue deep inside of Michelle's young hot pussy. Michelle's juices flowed rapidly, filling her mouth with her sweet pussy juice. Georgia was now deepthroating John. He held his daughter in law by her long blonde as she swallowed his 10 inch cock. John told Georgia that they should go into Mike's bedroom and join the party. So the 2 headed inside of the bedroom. John began peeling Georgia's clothing from her. She stood there totally naked now, Mike looked up and saw his mother's large firm breasts and he reached for one and began sucking her nipples.
John was now naked and he entered Georgia from behind. She loudly grunted as his long thick cock worked it's way inside of her very neglected pussy. It felt incredible. John began fucking her deeply, as her son sucked her breasts. Mike was furiously pounding away inside of his grandma's old wet pussy. He was thrusting wildly. Grandma came, and her pussy muscles squeezed Mike's young cock so hard, that it caused him to cum. He began filling his grandma with his hot cum. She felt the hot liquid splash inside of her, and it made her cum again. Mike continued shooting inside of her. John fucked Georgia doggy style totally filling her pussy with his hard throobbing cock.
Georgia came and came again. She fell to the floor face first, exhausted from her muliple orgasms. John watched as his granddaughter stood in front of him, with her nubile breasts standing out firmly. Her tiny nipples were rock hard, and her pussy glistened with it's sweet nectar. She asked her grandpa if her would fuck her now. John removed his cock from the still motionless Georgia and began rubbing the swollen purplish cockhead up and down her young moist slit. He began pushing the head inside of her. It was the tightest pussy he had ever felt. He had trouble entering her, but she insisted that he get it in. John finally forced his large cock inside of his granddaughter. She moaned and groaned loudly as his big cock split her insides. Ooh grandpa she moaned.
He began sliding deeply inside of her, then would remove all but the large head, then he would slowly push it back inside. He continued fucking her this way, and she began climaxing. Mike saw his mother lying on the floor, and he crawled between her legs and began licking her pussy. Georgia began moaning as her son eagerly licked her wet pussy. Martha began sucking her grandson as he ate his mother. John was still slowly fucking Michelle. She begged him to fill her pussy with his hot cum, and John began to erupt. He erupted inside of her tight young pussy. Michelle squealed as she felt the hot thick liquid blast inside of her. Her grandpa was shooting an enormous load. Her pussy was completely filled with his hot cum. It made her cum again. John continued fucking her until the last of his cum shot from his cock. He began to go limp, and withdrew it from her. Meanwhile, Georgia was holding her son by the back of his head, and was grinding her wet tasty pussy against his mouth. She climaxed and Mike sucked all of the sweet juices from his mother's excellent pussy. Martha continued deepthroating her grandson. Michelle began sucking on her brother's balls. Mike announced that it was time for him to fuck his mother.
Ooh yes, moaned Georgia. Mike quickly thrust his cock inside of his mother. He was immediately buried in her wet tight pussy. As he fucked his mother, Michelle began eating grandma's pussy. Grandma maneuvered into a 69 position and the two hungrily ate each other's hot pussies. Grandpa began jacking off and his cock became very hard and long again. Mike was banging his mom with all he had. Put it in my ass, his mother begged him. He began rubbing her wet pussy juice all over her tight brown asshole, getting it all wet. He began sliding his cock inside of his mom's ass. She grunted as his 8 inches entered her. She thrust back against him taking him all the way inside. Mike had never fucked anyone's ass before, and this was incredible. He didn't last long, and his hot load exploded into her ass. Georgia groaned and bucked violently as she climaxed. John stood beside his wife and granddaughter as they 69'd and began sliding his hard cock up and down his wife's wet slit. Michelle licked her grandpa's hard cock as it rubbed her grandma's pussy. He then slid it inside of Martha's pussy. Martha moaned as her husband slid his long cock into her wet pussy.
Michelle crawled from beneath her grandma and joined her brother and mom on the floor. John furiously pounded away at his wife's pussy. Martha climaxed loudly. Her screams filled the room. As he felt his load build up her removed his hard cock from her and began jacking off over Georgia and Michelle. His cum erupted, splashing across their open mouths. Both began licking up the white fluid as it covered them. As his last drops seeped from the large head. Georgia began french kissing her daughter. They shared John's cum with each other. They were all totally wore out, and decided it was time to take naps. They all knew that this would be considered A Close Knit Family from now on.
If you're looking for more than Sierra game music, check out the Videogame Music Archive for other 8,000 midis for NES, SNES, Genesis, and more. :-) Now that is nostalgia!
Actually, if you're really into the music from the Nintendo, Super Nintendo and other old console games, you really should check out Zophar's Domain.
You can download music rips from the actual games and download special players (many come in the form of a Winamp or even an XMMS plug-in :)
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informative!? did the moderator actually follow that link? it's impossible to find ANY announcements from the page this ac gave
A 'business connection' will be just an excuse for higher chages with no improvement in speed, reliability or service.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
A quick visit to the National Alliance should help silence your doubts.
Some kind of jew thing?
I am sick of hearing about this. The systems administrators have had plenty of time to get the fix in. And it is within the full right of the bug "finder" to post and pretty much do whatever with what they found.. what if they didnt tell anyone and they decided to write CR#.. it would have been a much bigger mess..
my $1.49...
Yeah, and I'm sure he downloaded them just to see if they used steganography...
sulli
RTFJ.
Oh, come on. I bet only 35% of those were pornographic. You can't fault a researcher for having 600,000 porn pix, it's his job.
Expanding a vast wasteland since 1996.
Gotcha beat, stoopidasscuntbitchmuthafuckah!
Patents like this one, they ought to take the costs of challenging them out of the salary for the idiot patent examiner who approved them. Unfortunately, he'd be in the hole for 10,000 years...
FUD? Do you have a faint clue what that means? Since when did McAffee "seal a box up and prevent exploits" btw? It is a fscking antivirus that won't do anything to prevent future gaping holes in IIS or any other part of Windows 2000 from being exploited.
It isn't like someone that can't open Internet Explorer, click Tools > Windows Update and apply some patches that are making national news for two weeks is going to keep AV definitions up to date either. I wonder how your 'briliant' post didn't get modded '-1 Flamebait.'
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Eighth Wonder Of The World, But Nonetheless A
Fried ice cream is a reality. - George Clinton
Occupational Hazzard. Much like any other high-risk job
Don't Tread on Me
His argument basically boils down to "Security through Obscurity"; and anyone who has delt with security knows that this leads to no security at all.
Yes, there is "one hell of a price tag". Chalk it up to the hidden price tag of Windows.
What in the world do you expect of an architecture where blatant security flaws are deliberately ignored? What do you expect from a company which has publically stated that "security gets in the way"? And what do you expect from a company where the average time to release a security patch is about 60 days?
One expects problems - serious problems. And Smith's argument is an attempt to cover these problems up. This hinders how bad the situation really is. While some people might like to stick their head in the sand and not know the truth, this does not make our infrastructure stronger.
Quite frankly, given how insecure Microsofts' software has been historically, I would expect a strong attempt by them to try to do away with Full Disclosure. It is certainly a lot cheaper than having to fix the problems properly in the first place. While I would not accuse Mr. Smith of being a Microsoft shill, I would certainly say that he is misguided here.
Full Disclosure helps keep Microsoft honest. Anything less is an attempt to gloss over the fact that Windows is flawed; and that anyone who uses it has to pay an additional hidden tax due to its serious security flaws.
Please let us deal with the truth, and stick to the truth. Anything less is deceitful; nor will it stop experienced pros from exploiting the existing flaws. Lack of full disclosure will however, lull people into a false sense of security.
And as we have seen with the Code Red worm, the price of a false sense of security can be very expensive.
Activision was also an early supporter of sound...remember Deathtrack and Mechwarrior?
Thos were what sold me on the AdLib, but it was Wing Commander, and Wing Commander 2 with the speech synthesis which sold me on the Sound Blaster 16....
Wouldn't their estimate also include (a) average hourly rate of administrators fixing the problem multiplied by average number of hours required to correct the problem, (b) productivity loss due to downtime of systems? We rely on our NT server at work pretty heavily (SourceSafe etc), when it goes down half of our programmers either can't work, or can work but in an impaired way that wastes quite a lot of time. And programmers aren't that cheap :) If you have twenty people getting paid 20$/hour, and they all can't work for two hours, thats $800 lost, not to mention that you're probably ending up further behind on a project that was already running late anyway. Another factor is that when the server is down, people often find it a convenient excuse to take a break. Yet another thing is that for many companies, it usually takes something like CR to get the management to realise that they *need* to spend money on things like antivirus software, and you need to have someone keeping the server patched etc. Management often think they're saving money here and there, until something like this happens. So some companies may end up hiring an administrator. And often, not only will an antivirus be installed on the server, but on everyone's systems (hmm .. this is pretty much what happened at our company a few weeks back with SirCam). Installing on everyones systems takes yet more time and money and productivity loss. And of course, you need meetings - you have to have one of those meetings where everyone is present, where everyone has explained to them (by managers who now think that all email attachments should be banned, because they don't understand the technology) the dangers of using email attachments, or running unmanaged web servers, how to keep their antivirus software up to date etc. Many companies are also probably going to go purchase firewall software now too, after CR. Heck, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the cost did approach $2600. I mean, if a large company with 500 desktops suddenly decides to install antivirus software on all 500 desktops just because their server was hit with CR, thats expensive. Professional firewall software can be very expensive too, as well as the training and time required by the administrator(s) to set up and install all the stuff.
A young hillbilly and his new bride wanted desperately to start a family, but they didn't know what they had to do to have children. So, they decided to visit a doctor.
With a great deal of embarrassment, the young man explained their situation. The doctor took out his charts and books for adolescents and carefully explained the birds and the bees. The two looked bewilderedly at each other, then at the doctor. The doctor attempted to explain in various ways and terms the ins and outs of human reproduction. The same result.
Finally, exasperated, the doctor laid the bride on the examination table, removed all her clothing, and had intercourse with her. He then turned to the young hillbilly and asked, "Now do you understand?"
"Yes, doctor," the hillbilly responded, "but just one question." Slapping his forehead in total disbelief, the doctor squawked, "Yes, what is it now?"
"How often do I have to bring her in?"
for once this is actualy somewhat on topic...
It was me, I did it, I moved your cheese
Like this one.. This one is great!
Frank goes into the doctor's office and has some tests run.
The doctor comes back and says "Frank, I am not going to beat around the bush. You have AIDS."
Frank is devastated. "Doc, what can I do?"
The doctor says "I want you to go home and eat 5 pounds of spicy sausage, a head of cabbage, 20 un-peeled carrots drenched in hot sauce, 10 Jalapeno peppers, 40 walnuts and peanuts, 1/2 box of Grapenuts cereal, and top it off with a gallon of prune juice."
Frank asks, "Will that cure me, Doc?"
"No," replies the doctor, "but it will teach you what your ass is for."
You can't base your assumptions as to what would infringe and what doesn't based on the abstract; you have to read the exact wording of the patent itself. The abstract is just a 'summary' designed to quickly let you know generally what the patent is about.
I have to disagree. I want to buy *internet service* period. Charge me for extra bandwidth if you want (if I use it).. but don't tell me i "can't have listening TCP sockets'.
The internet is about connecting computers, not about 'consumers' and 'servers'
With a nick like FuckYourAss, you call me a Troll?
Pot? Kettle? Black? What?
BUT, I am still out $450 for a dedicated server they were going to set up. When I first got it set up, they failed to load the DNS entries properly, so couldn't get in. Then, there was a WEEK of TOTAL downtime (no HTTP, mail, ssh) because of the Code Red incident. On a LINUX box?!?!? Their excuse, after I repeatedly harassed them was they were upgrading their firewalls. Hmmm...
They botched installation of Majordomo, and I had to trace through the Perl code MYSELF to see what they did wrong. They have non-existent documentation, or inconsistent documentation for many things.
They exhibit TOTAL LACK of PROACTIVE customer notification of system problems, and only give canned responses AFTER you submit trouble tickets wondering what the hell is up.
Their tech support department is outsourced -- go to www.hostingsupport.com -- they don't even identify themselves, but just give a GENERIC screen -- ie, OUTSOURCED!
Their whole admin department seems to be one guy who can't speak English clearly.
Any more details?
Q:Why was P.M.S. named P.M.S.?
A:Mad Cow disease was already taken.
Q:What does it mean when the flags are at half mast at the post office?
A:They're hiring.
man, i go to California, and no sooner have i left the airport than i am surrounded by hordes of fat wetbacks, with about 30 fat wetback children each. how can people eat like this on an illegal dishwashing job or welfare?? it's not just the Jews we have to watch out for.
Well, that's a start, but is there anywhere that I can buy videogame or demo music in Redbook format?
Alex Bischoff
HTML/CSS coder for hire
BE sure to check it out.!! Funny. ;))
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Same moment, different card. Gravis Ultrasound. Totally blew me the hell away. Plugged it into my stereo and cranked it the hell up and didn't get any sleep that night. Must've pissed off the neighbors. Fuck 'em, I didn't care!!!
shut the hell up young Billy Bob... I've been looking forward to the jokes all day. They've been the high point of slashdot for the past little bit. I think they should all be at +1 (Not to high, they're being posted anonymously, who cares about the karma) so that everyone can read them. Most of them are pretty good, some do suck pretty bad, but hell, it's worth reading the couple of bad ones to get to all the good ones!
My Nazi ISP has done that for years, along with ports 21, 23, 25, 110, 6000, and anything else in /etc/services which might be considered remotely useful. Unfortunatly, there is no other alternative for broadband in my area, so I just have to take it and like it.
Gawd, what a whiney bitch you are! You think you're the first person to get screwed by an incompetent company?
And don't give the that, "Oh, I'm just trying to help others..." crap, either. You were probably hosting warez or kiddie porn so they cut you off.
Here's a fucking hint: get a DSL connection and your own box, then you won't have any troubles.
Sheesh, what a whiney little beeeyatch......
This is what confuses me about software patents. I thought you could only patent an implementation of a .. mouse trap. But these patents seem to be patents that cover all mouse trapping technology.
How could this be fair? If you have a mini hangmans noose for a mouse, I should be able to profit from a mini mouse guillotine. Right?
A teacher gave his students lifesavers candy to suck on and their job was to tell him the corresponding flavor to the colors.
The kids were shouting:
"Green lime!"
"Yellow lemon!"
"Red cherry!"
Then the teacher gave them honey flavored ones. The kids were stumped and the teacher finally gave them a clue.
"It's what your mother calls your father."
One little girl cries out, "EWWW!!! Everyone spit them out. They're assholes!!!!!!"
Arcade Tones
I'm not related to it, but it was the only place I could find the Megablast by Bomb the Bass from Xenon 2. Now all I need is someone to call me. Call, damnit!!
DD
"You can justify anything by putting it in quotes, adding a famous name and making it a sig" - Albert Einstein
My father-in-law just gave me his old (but working!) Kaypro. I'm in retro heaven. CP/M is a hoot. :D
We sit on it and pretend it never happened, then wonder why our servers are defaced?
Scenario 4: I'm an admin and I can't bring down my production servers because I'm unsure of how this new, untested patch might affect my systems. Thankfully, eEye or whomever has indicated mitigating factors and released a tool to test my machine for vulnerabilities. I remove the mappings and test my machine, reassuring myself that I'm safe from this.
I can see that you might not like "exploit" (proof of concept?) code, but for some folks (not just crackers), it's very, very valuable.
Easy does it!
This comment has been submitted already, 276865 hours , 59 minutes ago. No need to try again.
IIRC, the Sound Blaster percursor was called Game Blaster (what's it with Creative and Blaster?)
I remember at the time, the SB was like 3 boards in one: The Adlib, the GameBlaster, and the new one with the DAC. They were all different, unrelated chips.
Even beyond pathetic. It sucks to be you.
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What, you post here 3 times in the past couple of weeks, and now you think you're king joe shit and you can start telling people what to do? Well Mr. RockyJSquirel, I've got something to tell you to do... Suck My Fat One. You should be well practiced by now. You're what, 15 now? Your Pappy should have that mouth of yours well worked by now. Get on your knees sonny boy.
I remember when I first bought an 8 bits SoundBlaster to play DOOM, it was a truely unforgettable moment.
Creative Labs became the de facto standard of sound cards by using the same marketing strategy that RedHat, MS and Heinz use.
The point is, this article and others have been doning some amazing work on provably good steganography and making some strides in really making stego fit to the information theory model in good ways.
A lot of the papers cited are less "practical" experiments in steganography but rather information theory which has similar issues. The two most interesting were "writing on dirty paper" and "capacity of memory with errors". These were all about similar problems in VERY different areas.
The great thing about theory is that it finds connections you'd never imagine.
If you want to talk about this, my email is dbentley at stanford (it's a university, guess what the TLD is)
paragraphs man.anyway. solve problem. dont ever have a server OS that requires rebooting for meer patchs
Full disclosure, although it sounds like a dangerous idea, is perhaps the most effective manner for preventing attack.
It becomes a double-edged sword, when you release a vulnerability, who will get to it first, the vendor or the crackers?
Scenario 1: Crackers take charge. OK, for the sake of argument, let's say eEye discovers a remote root in IIS. They release the vulnerability specifics, and as soon as they do so, a cracker creates an exploit, and before you know it, it's the hottest thing on Packetstorm. The attacks spread rampant, but by this time, Microsoft has gotten wind of the threat, and released a patch. Thousands of boxen are patched by admins who keep up with the news, however thousands remain unpatched, and many have been cracked. Over the course of a few months, things get ironed out, cracked boxes get fixed, security patch is propogated everywhere.
Scenario 2: The Secret Vulnerability The same vulnerability, discovered by eEye, instead of being released to the public, is released to Microsoft only. Microsoft creates a patch, and puts it on the internet. Few admins apply it, because there is no huge hype about a massive attack wave. This leaves a massive amount of servers open to attack. Then, out of the blue, a cracker discovers the same exploit, and writes the code to exploit it. Script kiddies everywhere are rooting IIS boxen. The threat spreads vigorously, all the while, MS claims plausibly deniability, because they already released a patch.
The Skinny: Why one is better The second scenario is somewhat similar to the CodeRed situation. MS released a patch for the bug long before the worm spread, and people never expected it. When the wave hit, many admins flocked to the MS update site, and patched their boxen. It uses the media to propogate information about the vulnerability.
This is why CodeRed spread so fast, because there were fewer patched boxes. If more boxes had been patched, the spread would be less severe.
The point I am trying to make here is that we must sacrifice a certain amount of servers to any given bug before it is eliminated. The patching-frenzy is triggered by the massive infection. Such a necessity for a patch must be created for it to be propogated fully.
I hope this is understandable, for I still may be an idiot, I have yet to confirm.
--Ted
Kill the niggers.
On Wednesday, Computer Economics, an information technology cost research firm, put the total economic pricetag of the Code Red worm at more than $2 billion, based on an estimate that 760,000 computers worldwide were infected.
So, let me see, that makes it about $2600 per computer - I never knew that McAfee Virus Shield had gone up in price so much.
Does Newsbytes have no fucking editor or what?
This biker was riding around town one day, when he is approached by an homeless bum.
The bum tugs at his jacket sleeve, and says, "Hey, buddy, can you spare some change for some grub?"
"Come off it now," the biker replies. "I know what you want. Come with me to the bar, and I'll buy you a beer."
"No, no," the bum answers. "I don't drink. I just want some food."
"Come now," the biker says, "you don't drink? Then I'll go to the store and buy you a package of cigarettes."
"No, I don't smoke," the bum insists, "I just need something to eat."
"You don't smoke?" the biker asks, surprised. "Then I know what you really want. You can come with me to the casino, and I'll buy you some chips."
"I don't gamble, either," the bum answers. "I'm just hungry."
"I don't believe you," the biker says, with a sigh. "Okay, I'll bring you home with me to dinner. The missus will cook you a real meal."
"Really!?" the bum perks up. "You'd do that for me? Thank you so very much..."
"Think nothing of it," the biker replies. "I just want the missus to see what happens to someone who don't drink, smoke, or gamble."
A lady walks up to a checkout line at the grocery store and purchases the following things:
1 t.v. dinner
1 pint of ice cream
1 candy bar
1 bottle of water
1 bar of soap and
1 apple
The check out guy looks at her and says, " So I take it your single!"
" How'd you guess?" she replied.
He looks at her again and says, "CAUSE YOUR FUCKIN' UGLY!"
A hillbilly woman takes a bus trip north to visit her sister in the big city. While waiting for her sister to pick her up, she asks a group of women sitting near her, "Where y'all from?"
One of the women says, "Were from someplace where we don't end our sentences in prepositions."
"O.K.," responds the hillbilly. "Where y'all from, bitch?"
Actually, Space Quest IV was not the first Sierra game to use sound. King's Quest IV was (The Perils of Rosella). Sierra almost singlehandledly created a market for sound cards by supporting the Roland MT-32 and the Adlib music cards with it.
.VOC format?) It also had basic voice synthesis.
It response to some other messages, the Sound Blaster was predated by the Game Blaster, a.k.a. Creative Music System (I had one). As many people have pointed out, that card used crappy AM synthesis, and the Adlib sounded much better with FM synthesis. The Creative came out with the Sound Blaster, which emulated the Adlib, the CMS (initially at least, later optional), and had the DAC that permitted it to play recorded samples (anyone remember the
(Hello, my name is Dr. Sbaitso. I am here to help you. Please state whatever is on your mind freely. Our conversation will be kept in the strictest confidence. Memory contents will erased right after you leave. So, tell me about your problems.)
Space Quest III, released shortly after KQ4, was the first game to incorporate sound samples in it's design, although they were there unoficially - Sound Blaster support was added way AFTER the release. Play the game again, and during the intro sequence, when Roger wakes up, he states "Where am i?". When I heard that a few years after I pleayed the game I nearly flipped. I couldn't believe it had been there all along! Apparently Roberta Williams wasn't too thrilled the Space Quest guys had done so much more with the sound system than she had for KQ4, she said she didn't even know that was possible when she made her game.
Boy I feel old.
Hehe. Some people really have too much time/computing power to waste
<tounge-in-cheek>
I think it's a good thing that they haven't found anything yet, but not because I'm concerned about terrorists communicating over the Internet. Imagine some of the comments in the mainstream media: "Terrorists use Internet to send hidden messages to children!!" and "Popular Internet site taken over by terrorists!!". This would fit in nicely with senators learning about the dangers in things like file-sharing programs. Terrorists/pornographers/that sleazy guy across the road could be using Gnutella to communicate to other shady characters this very minute!
</tounge-in-cheek>
Porn isn't just for masturbation anymore, you can collaborate with fellow terrorists while fulfilling your sexual needs.
I got plenty of "Code Red" attempts in my web log from the speakeasy.net domain. Maybe they should've blocked port 80!
Here is a quick sound timeline:
1987 AD-LIB soundcard released. Not widely supported until a software company, aito, released several games fully supporting AD-LIB - the word then spread how much the special sound effects and music enhanced the games. Adlib, a Canadian Company, had a virtual monopoly until 1989 when the SoundBlaster card was released.
1989 Release of Sound Blaster Card, by Creative Labs, its success was ensured by maintaining compatibility with the widely supported AD-LIB soundcard of 1987.
1989 World Wide Web invented by Tim Berners-Lee
1990 MPC (Multimedia PC) Level 1 specification published by a council of companies including Microsoft and Creative Labs. This specified the minimum standards for a Multimedia IBM PC. The MPC level 1 specification originally required a 80286/12 MHz PC, but this was later increased to a 80386SX/16 MHz computer as an 80286 was realised to be inadequate. It also required a CD-ROM drive capable of 150 KB/sec (single speed) and also of Audio CD output. Companies can, after paying a fee, use the MPC logo on their products.
1991 Linux is born
1992 Introduction of Windows 3.1
1992 Wolfenstein 3D released by Id Software Inc.
1992 Sound Blaster 16 ASP Introduced.
1993 MPC Level 2 specification introduced This was designed to allow playback of a 15 fps video in a window 320x240 pixels. The key difference is the requirement of a CD-ROM drive capable of 300KB/sec (double speed). Also with Level 2 is the requirement for products to be tested by the MPC council, making MPC Level 2 compatibility a stamp of certification.
1994 Doom II released - Command & Conquer released - Netscape 1.0 released - Linux Kernel. version 1.0 released
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White House Selected Vegetables Coffee Mug
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
$450! That's it! Fuck you then. You're making it look like you've lost a lot more than that for the effort you're making. Feel lucky you didnt lose anything that's 4 figures or better and that you still have your health, unless of course the stress over this bs is getting to you.
(Joke, joke, thank you Mr. Modstick)
I wonder how far into the ground they will bash Napster before giving up; perhaps they just don't want to have to admit that there are hundreds of other P2P networks out there, and that they cannot stop them all...
Security through promiscuity is no better than security through obscurity.
Frank goes into the doctor's office and has some tests run.
The doctor comes back and says "Frank, I am not going to beat around the bush. You have AIDS."
Frank is devastated. "Doc, what can I do?"
The doctor says "I want you to go home and eat 5 pounds of spicy sausage, a head of cabbage, 20 un-peeled carrots drenched in hot sauce, 10 Jalapeno peppers, 40 walnuts and peanuts, 1/2 box of Grapenuts cereal, and top it off with a gallon of prune juice."
Frank asks, "Will that cure me, Doc?"
"No," replies the doctor, "but it will teach you what your ass is for."
You're thinking of spirographography.
Funny this should be brought up, I just finished getting my shoutcast stream working that plays exclusively Gameboy MIDIs. Tune in.
Watashi wa Amerika-jin desu.
in the ticket thing, but are too lazy to follow instructions Try this
I personally find most companies to be like this and would richly like to teach the corporate world that we are not going to just bend over and take it anymore.
Get the Hell off my planet, you slimy mobster Bush!
Hah, Adlib or the Soundblaster rocked your world comared to the piece of shite 'Gameblaster.' And besides, Ultima 6, Skyroads, did the music in these games not blow your mind?
Why when I was a kid we did'nt have these fancy laptop computers and tiny digital memory cards.. Nosir, we had punchcards, and we liked 'em.. If you wanted to type up a business proposal you had to punch it up on paper cards using a hydraulic press operated by connecting cables on a patch bay ..
And if you ever wanted to read one of those proposals you had to spread the cards out on your big-ol conference table-top and get way up on ladders to be able to read it all.. Yep.. Then some smart sumbitch invented the pneumatic chair which could get you up there to read the punchcards without the ladder.. yep. those were the days..
I think I'm gonna go down in the basment and bang on my altair..
air and light and time and space
SoundBlasters were the standard long before Wolfenstein 3D or Wing Commander. Blame it on the lack of hardware abstraction and the inevitable peecee tendency towards the lowest common denominator
Does this mean... that if i dont go there with an internet browser, i "worked around" the patent ? Lets take Microsoft and their .NET software... If I'm not totally wrong here, the idea there is to provide these types of services. You run programs of the servers, and maybe pay per use. So, Microsoft just integrates a .NET browser, (instead of an internet browser), a client software that can search the MS.NET for .NET applications out there.
Or the open-source approach ? Use a peer2peer-style software. You start GnAppliTella, enter search for "word processor", and voila, you have a bunch of servers providing you with an online word processor. And.. since the patent seems to require some password authentication, what if you provide these online software services for free ?
What I'm trying to point out, is that this patent is only useful if you use an "internet browser". I dont really think the online future lies within the restrictions of a web browser of todays style. They are big, sometimes filled with advertisements, they crash, they have security flaws, etc etc etc. Perhaps this patent seems like a big deal right now, but my guess is that tomorrow will tell different.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotele
Yeah, and I'm sure he downloaded them just to see if they used steganography...
So when he was complaining about the "hidden bits" in the photos, he was talking about steganography? Silly me...
Is anyone else bothered by the stylistic leap in Wired's direction that Scientific American did earlier this year? Happily they've kept the color choices in the reasonable contrast range, but the fonts and the graphics have gotten a bit to k-rad for me.
Wired itself seems to have gone further down that road; becoming a parody of the parody of itself it once was. I used to refer to it as "Technology Vogue". These days "Technology MTV Music News" would be closer to the mark.
" 'One thing is now crystal clear with Code Red: full-disclosure comes with one of hell of a price tag. There has to be a better way,' said Smith."
There is a better way: people who stick their bullshit product out on the network we all share taking responsibility for their little corner of it, keeping track of security and patching their damn holes.
I am getting really sick of this kind of argument that blames the messenger. As if the most dangerous blackhat hackers aren't going to work out the details on their own. As costly and irritating as stuff like Code Red and SirCam are, if this is what it takes for the numbskulls to understand what happens when they ignore security and good practices, so be it.
Maybe we should create a worm tax - for every piece of corrupt code sent out from a compromised server for which a fix exists and the owner was informed of the fix, you get charged $.001 by your ISP.
hubbabubba
And don't call me no Sig-less Wonder!
Fried ice cream is a reality. - George Clinton
I found that the stego article from earlier today, there were two pictures, one of a stego demo, and a picture of Dartmouth stego researcher Hany Farid. I have cracked the stego in this second picture. The guy's real name is Sudikoff.
http://remix.overclocked.org
A ton of old NES-era games remixed with new instrumentation and some downright questionable rescoring.
Fun memories, if nothing else.
clean language
less use of bold text
less use the the caps lock key
What is this, advice for a Slashdot editor?
Woot w00t w007.
Rush - Red Barchetta
(Rush is fucking godly)
My uncle has a country place, that no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm, before the Motor Law
And on Sundays I elude the 'Eyes' and hop the Turbine freight
To far outside the Wire, where my white-haired uncle waits.
Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind,
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me, an old machine ---
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream
I strip away the old debris, that hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta, from a better, vanished time
I fire up the willing engine, responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel, I commit my weekly crime...
Wind in my hair ---
Shifting and drifting ---
Mechanical music ---
Adrenalin surge ---
Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware
Suddenly, ahead of me, across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires, to run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley as another joins the chase
Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud
With fear and hope, I've got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside...
Take it from me, as a screwed over owner of the original adlib....
The reason that SB took over and Adlib died is because it had no ability to play back sampled sounds. So, it could beep and bop all day with it's crappy synthesizer, the it couldn't play speech or sound effects.
The SB, however, emulated the adlib's synthesizer perfectly, was 5 or 10 bucks cheaper, and it could play back samples.
Of course, game developers jumped on this, and Adlib pulled a 3DFX:
By the time it released it's 2nd gen products, it was 6 months late to market, more expensive, and had fewer features. The SB16 had won.
And I still had an Adlib.
There are 65,500+ other ports available to you. I have AT&T and I'm glad they did it. The ARP requests were begining to slow things down.
The usual scene. A Doctor says to a patient, "Well, I've got good news and bad news."
The patient asks for the bad news and the doctor tells him that he has just three weeks to live.
"Three weeks! That's terrible. I'll be dead in three weeks! What's the good news."
Doctor says, "See my huge breasted receptionist? Well, I'm fucking her!"
I remember what made me want a Soundblaster - it was Wing Commander. I had never heard such an exquisite score... even the tuning of the instruments in the intro sequence. Ahh, nostalgia...
Speaking of old MIDI stuff always made me wonder: Just how did Creative Labs become the de facto standard of sound cards back in the days of DOS gaming? Maybe I don't remember clearly, but it's not as if there was a huge gaming population back then (back then, yeah way back in the early 90's...cripes I feel old). Was music more of less an afterthought back then? Seems you'd want to make the gameplay independent of the music (not like movies, where the score plays an integral part in the emotion of the moment) just because there would be a good possibility the user wouldn't have a compatible sound card or perhaps not even a sound card at all.
Perhaps like all things in PC gaming, the sound card only became a necessity because of Leisure Suit Larry and Wolfenstein 3D. You've either got to have it to hear sleazy softporn sounds or the screaming deaths of Nazis.
My sigs always suck.
Last week AT&T Broadband's solution to stopping port 80 was just to completely block all incomming packet going to port 80. See the 7/30 accouncement. Its to bad they had to cop out and filter this network wide. Its to bad I can't get speakeasy dsl in my area yet because I would have switch over in an instant.
Most of the later Squaresoft rpgs were released with full soundtracks, as well, most of which you can probably find on ebay.
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NovAurora used to have a ton of rips from PC games, mostly MP3s and MIDI. Unfortunately, the owner of the site shut down the server and sold the domain name.
Fortunately I snarfed the archive before it went away. Between that collection, other game music sites on the web, and things I've ripped myself I have about 2GB of game music.
Anyone want to volunteer a server to host it?
Chelloveck
I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
I did that! Read my post, I contacted the BBB already, and am considering the state Attorney General. But I want to SPREAD MY TALE OF WOE to everyone! AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!!!
Would that be "Lynx"? Even IE lets you use links.
This next song is very sad. Please clap along. -- Robin Zander
Yeah, but does he have this one?
Not paying attention could mean the death of your relationship. You can't be too attentive in a great relationship. Try slipping between these Satin sheets for a romantic rendezvous tonight.
I know "Satan" is misspelled, but hey, they're terrorists!
--
As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
I don't THINK I'm posting this twice. The first time I tried to posting this, I left the Comment area blank and the software complained, so I tried again with the title repeated in the comment section and it refused saying this was already posted.
What're all the filters that stop posts?
Rocky J Squirrel
King's Quest V and VI are the best Sierra games. In fact, the best puzzle-adventure games. I'm listening to the opening music of V now and fondly remembering such zany adventures as the Ants (led by King Antony), the Yeti, and the memorable performance of Graham's line "Can I help you in any way?" which I am still quoting to thi day.
Holy crap. Is it also called steganography when you hide communications by presenting them as yellow text on a blue and red spiral background?
Edward Tufte would not be impressed.
-- Bob
look up at the top of this thread of discussion. for some reason that post with all the tips got modded up and shouldn't have been
subterfudge...mmmmmm....uuuuhhhhhhhmmmmmm...so delicous!
The current Slashdot moderation system is made by gay communists!
I have AT+T @Home cable modem, and port 80 is not blocked, and never was. still get one code red probe every five seconds.
I'm not quite sure if this is what you're looking for, but you can try Game Music.com for some video game soundtracks. They have your typical Final Fantasy series, and well pretty much any music from Squaresoft games. :)
They also seem to have non-RPG games soundtracks too.
Join the TWIT army now!
Go to your cave, troll.
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(_,_/\
so we don't have to listen to you
I played with stegbreak a little bit and it seems totally useless since I couldn't find any data on its false positive rate or on what conditions cause false positives.
Since sd must report SOME false positives, any answer it gives you is pretty meaningless. The only way to be even slightly sure that someone is hiding data is to get enough positive matches on data from them that you can prove that it's unlikely for all of the positives to be false. Even then there may be some other factor, like photoshop effects that are causing false positives.
By the way, the original article had too many topics. Why mix a bunch of unrelated stuff together?
Rocky J Squirrel
YOU can't GET in WITHOUT dns?
So, EVERYONE, please go to ticketmonster.hostingsuppo rt.com and REGISTER for a free login/password. You DON'T need to be a customer.
If the /. effect doesn't kill them outright, then logging in lets you
submit trouble tickets. So, spam them with brilliant trolls about Jews,
goat sex, niggers, WHATEVER! Make their tech support team a living hell
so they won't be able to answer any tickets at all -- it's no big loss,
'cause that's how they ALREADY are!
Finally, please write a nice email to noalegal@noa.nintendo.com explaining how CI Hosting is using Pokemon graphics and characters illegally and in infringement of Nintendo's copyright. Once you see the Ticketmonster site, you'll see what I mean. Hopefully Nintendo will slap them with a big lawsuit.
Anyways, please join in and teach them a LESSON for SCREWING ME LIKE THIS!
EVEN IF YOU DON'T WANT TO /. THEM, PLEASE AT LEAST TURN THEM INTO NINTENDO, BECAUSE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER I GOT SCREWED OR NOT, THEY ARE USING POKEMON CHARACTERS ILLEGALLY!
Links is a text only web browser like Lynx but with a different feature set. See http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/ for more details.
that's a bit iffy. however, I'd love to catch a copy of that script, my error log is filling with 'file does not exist: default.ida'
Difficult to find enough machines:
Charlie was visiting an old friend and his wife for dinner. When the time came to leave, his car wouldn't start, and it was too late to call the local service station.
The husband urged Charlie to stay over. There was no spare bed in the house; there wasn't even a sofa. So Charlie would have to sleep with the husband and wife.
No sooner had the husband fallen asleep when the wife tapped Charlie on the shoulder and motioned for him to come over to her. "I couldn't do that," he whispered. "Your husband is my best friend!"
"Listen, sugar," she whispered back, "there ain't nothing in the whole wide world could wake him up now."
"I can't believe that," Charlie said. "Certainly if I get on top of you and screw you, he'll wake up, won't he?"
"Sugar, he certainly won't. If you don't believe me, pluck a hair out of his asshole and see if that wakes him."
Charlie did just that. He was amazed when the husband remained asleep. So he climbed over to the wife's side of the bed and fucked her. When he finished, he climbed back to his own side. It wasn't long before she tapped him on the shoulder and beckoned him again.
Again he pulled a hair to determine if his old friend was asleep. This went on eight times during the night. Each time Charlie screwed the woman, he first pulled out one of the husband's asshole hairs.
The ninth time he pulled a hair, the husband awoke and muttered, "Listen, Charlie, old pal. I don't mind you fucking my wife, but for Pete's sake, stop using my ass for a scoreboard!"
Cool stuff. Alternatives are always good.
This next song is very sad. Please clap along. -- Robin Zander
Poor, you'd hit his content.
On the other hand, something like:
move \inetpub \inetpub.old
move \winnt \winnt.old
force-reboot
would be perfectly acceptable.
-- The act of censorship is always worse than whatever is being censored. Always.
right now I am sshing from a windows box to my linux box at home so I can use links, a browser that is small, fast, secure, and doesn't distract you with dancing monkeys or gaudy pictures.
Here's an ethical question for you:
/y \inetpub" instead?
Currently, I run a script "default.ida" that, when hit, logs into the attacker's back door and reboots his server.
What would be the ethics of making it do "deltree
Kauft nicht das Juden ein!
SS Sturmgruppenfuehrer Schicklgruber
Actually, MS innovated a whole Virus/AntiVirus industry when they refused to use the user/system protection hardware which was introduced with the 286 chip (80286 at the time -- and other chips at the time had better protection; the 386 was much better, but MS still didn't use any protection). Wide open system, wide open for infection.
tips:
clean language
less use of bold text
less use the the caps lock key
mail a letter anonymously to Nintendo
explain to us how they screwed you
double-check that 403 error
2 million jpegs? He's got my collection beat.
why don't you fuck off you motherfucking peice of shit?
Odd for me to have seen much of the bones of his story already discussed at length in The Register, on the day before McWilliam's posted his Newsbytes contribution.
Still; I'm sure the slashdot effect will please his employers & increase his marketability.
Here, meanwhile, is what TheReg thinks of mcWilliams and his half-assed understanding of things technical.
""
Ouch! You better take that tounge out of your cheek!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Just a friendly reminder: keep a close eye on the jews, they're after your money.
beeyatches!
Q: What's the best thing about a blow job from a Spice Girl?
A: 10 minutes of silence.
I hope to die peacefully in my sleep like Grandpa did, instead of screaming insanely like his passengers.
Q:How many men does it take to shingle a roof?
A:It depends on how thin you slice them.
This converts the music to midi or mp3!! It's a project I was working on for my CS class - the source is right here.
I grew up playing Sierra games, and Mark Siebert et al. have given me a lot of inspiration for what I write, as well. Hours listening to looping midi themes really give you a taste for how to fit a mobius track together. I'm still glad somebody is keeping alive all the music I loved. I even bought the CD, some of us actually think it's worth a little money to hear it again as it was intended... Rolands weren't cheap then, and they aren't cheap now.
Never eat brocolli in the dark.