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Slashback: Slammer, Frames, Pop-Ups
FedEx should take notes. nweaver writes "We have completed our preliminary analysis of the Sapphire/Slammer SQL worm. This worm required roughly 10 minutes to spread worldwide, scanning at a peak rate of over 55 million IP addresses per second, making it by far the fastest worm to date and nearly two orders of magnitude faster than Code Red. It infected at least 75,000 victims and possibly considerably more. The remarkable speed was due to the use of a bandwidth-limited scanner. There were also two bugs in the random number generator. Copies of our analysis are available from CAIDA, Silicon Defense, and UC Berkeley."
"Sir, this patent application needs to filled out in ink. Not Crayon." We recently posted that the company SBC was calling in the chips on patents it holds which the company claim cover certain types of navigation links found on many web pages. Dan Gillmor writes "Noticed the link to Cringley's piece. Well, I did ask readers for prior art and got quite a bit, some of which I've posted..."
Speaking of SBC, theodp writes "The SBC Intellectual Property folks are back in the news, this time for donating a $7.3 million virus screening patent to the University of Texas. While patent donations are one of the latest twists on corporate philanthropy, the practice has aroused the curiosity of the IRS as a possible tax avoidance scheme."
I wonder how much they'd feel justified in writing off if they donated their web patent portfolio to the FSF.
Can we call this an on-again, off-again relationship? Albanach writes "It seems the BBC who had pioneered Ogg Vorbis broadcasting on a serious scale have abandoned Ogg indefinitely. They say other work commitments make Ogg support no longer a priority. Their statement can be read here"
What, and let all my pigeons escape? FedeTXF writes "We already love pop-up blocking in Mozilla and some other related browsers, now Blogzilla is reporting a great trick to get rid of embedded ads (banners and iframes) using plain CCS and the always amazing Mozilla flexibility and openness. Go check this page if you are anxious to see how to set it up."
Did you have your video camera trained on Columbia? Finally, Child of Apollo writes ""For anyone who has recorded video or taken photos that they believe may be of aid in the investigation of the Space Shuttle Columbia accident, NASA has established a special location on the Web where Internet users may upload their media files to be reviewed by NASA." Although sad news all around, thanks to pleasant for the link."
Here's the late-breaker. fonixmunkee writes "looks like SDF will return soon. a message stating that they negotiated a new contract graced the single page in the "members area" of the temporary www.lonestar.org, but did not cite who specifically with. a few different ideas were tossed around for hosting, so only time will tell with who. i also just today got an e-mail from the Washington State Attorney General's Office that offered a small ray (read: none) of hope for assistance with SDF's run-in with NWLink. (NWLink breached SDF's contract.) hope all is well soon." This is good news, especially so soon after SDF got the rug yanked from under them.
Nope, it doesn't validate with the w3c's CSS validator. Do we get to start making up random syntax like MSIE now?
Well, personally I use IE, and thanks to a well-maintained boffo hosts file I've yet to see an ad in just about any commercial website, including those that use iframes (no page, no ad). That includes Slashdot.
The popunders or popups I don't really care about so long as I know no revenue is going to anyone for the page hit (since the browser window comes up with a 404 anyway).
99% effective, in my experience. No openness needed, just a little bit of common sense and some network know-how. Not that openness is not good and all.
Check out the detail the BBC provide about their servers and network.
john
It actually looks like valid CSS v.3 to me, but that would mean that yeah, it wouldn't validate yet.
I'm not expert on the v.3 spec, so don't quote me, but I believe Mozilla has partial support already. That would explain why it works in Moz and not IE/others. Bloody brilliant idea, though.
Yup, this sure is valid!
The bits in square-brackets are attribute-matching: 'SRC' and 'HREF' are valid attributes, and the way that these are loaded is it is using a partial-match, which is why this works.
Unfortunately, this does NOT save the bandwidth wasted by loading these sites: you are just telling 'zilla not to display them, but they are still downloaded and loaded, and any javascript (eg in the IFRAMEs) is still run, and so on.
Still, it tidys things up nicely =)
-Trav
I should really get around to creating a sig.... Nah - too lazy =)
last time Slashdot mentioned any browser stats, IE's dominance was very similar to it's position for websites generally - ie, IE was over 90%.
That was classic intercourse!
If you don't feel like maintaining a userContent.css file, check out Adblock over on mozdev. Bannerblind also kicked ass, but it seems abandoned.
The concept of CSS-based ad blocking has been previously covered here, and here. I've been using it to make my Slashdot ad-free for some time now.
I have a positive modifier on Troll. When I mod someone Troll their karma should go UP!
I can't say directly, but indirectly the people that come to my site *ahem*OnRoad a great place for Automotive Engineering discussion *ahem* from slashdot shows that only 20% of them use IE. Opera is only slightly less (15%), with links/linx getting 5%, Netscape getting 20% and Mozilla getting 30%, Pheonix and Galeon get 10%.
From other sites (like ezboards and Yahoo mailing lists) I get a high percentage of IE and AOL users (50%, 35% respectively) and most of the rest are netscape at 10%.
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OnRoad: It gets you there and back again.
The Internet is more than just the web and email. UDP does have it's uses. Some types of networking will just work better with it. How would you do multicasting with TCP? What about video games? I doubt they'd work as well with TCP. If you think games are useless, you are wrong. FPS are early generation virtual reality systems. I think the Internet will be a better place if the VR dream comes true.
This problem happened because Microsoft is made up of idiots. This port was open because of thier "easy to use" bullshit. There is no need to open a second fixed port you are unable to disable so that other systems can figure out which port the database server is on, and they had a buffer overflow in this code too! There is a reason there are both default ports and places you can specify ports in URLs and such. Why have a discovery service in the first place? Bad judgment.