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Slashback: Regalia, Godseye, Undetection
How very magnanimous. Amazing Quantum Man writes "ZDNet reports that Timothy Koogle and Yahoo were acquitted of condoning war crimes by selling Nazi memorabilia. The article is rather sketchy, so that's all I have. Here are some background articles from Slashdot history."
He doesn't sign anything, just sprinkles on some invisible nanobots. shawn writes "The Penguin Group's site has a schedule of upcoming book signing events for Willam Gibson's Pattern Recognition . The new book was mentioned on Slashdot earlier."
And now Gisbon's new book has been reviewed, as well. Look out for a review of the No Maps For These Territories DVD (with extras) soon too.
Aren't you glad some people are realistic enough to be paranoid? For everyone worried about your ISP suddenly deciding to detect and crack down on everyone who's taken advantage of the currently ubiquitous, simple-to-use NAT hardware (here's the post we ran about the means to snoop behind your NAT box, which links to the Bellovin paper mentioned below), an anonymous reader writes with one way to foil detection efforts: "Good news coming from OpenBSD camp! Read CVS log message (mail archive): 'Add scrub option 'random-id', which replaces IP IDs with random values for outgoing packets that are not fragmented (after reassembly), to compensate for predictable IDs generated by some hosts, and defeat fingerprinting and NAT detection as described in the Bellovin paper.'"
Right place at the right time when the wrong thing happens. fonixmunkee writes "an 11-year-old Mac and a COTS (commercial-of-the-self) telescope may have captured a very helpful image in solving the shuttle Columbia tragedy. this article here at CNN tells the story of how some self-proclaimed 'geeks,' working on an Air Force project aimed at watching satellites & incoming missiles, whipped up a contraption with some simple parts that captured an image of the shuttle on descent that may offer some light on what happened. also interesting is how many news sources mistook the image as a capture from the high-tech cameras that the people *actually* worked on."
Just a scratch in the historical record. truthsearch writes "In response to a leaked Sun memo complaining of Sun's Java implementation on Solaris, News.com has Sun's response. Many posters doubted its authenticity (myself included due to missing dates), but 'Sun confirmed the memo's authenticity, but said that the document is two years old and that the problems it describes have been fixed.'"
GPS, free databases -- these are a few of my favorite things ... Tony Pryor writes: "In April 2001, while there at arsDigita University, I developed a web interface called the Godseye Project, designed to enable 'grassroots cartography,' allowing individuals with web access to add subjective knowledge details about their surroundings to closeup satellite images. Although I wrote Godseye over a year and a half ago, it isn't currently online- I'll spare you the gory details of the events between then and now.
I just wrote two new pieces which *are* live. The first is a script that dynamically adds geolocation pages using Movable Type, and automatically registers each of them with http://www.geourl.org. The second part is a geolocation-based search centered upon any one of these geopages. The search aggregates the results of consecutive google queries on each of the sites (or geopages) within a given radius."
Visit the still-growing Godseye Project to test out this cool geographic search capability; Tony promises that the functionality will improve with lots of visitors and suggestions.
i don't have the link, but wasn't something similar to this one of the winners to that programming contest google was running a while ago?
Satellite tracking itself isn't too hard, it is tracking a object that is entering the atmosphere that is tough.
Sat Tracker allows you to track/image sats with a LX200 chipset telescope.
For everyone worried about your ISP suddenly deciding to detect and crack down on everyone who's taken advantage of the currently ubiquitous, simple-to-use NAT hardware..., an anonymous reader writes with one way to foil detection efforts:
The problem with this paper is that it describes an overly complicated way to detect multiple IP's behind a NAT firewall when there is a much easier, simpler and already used method: transparent proxying of HTTP and checking the browser identifier.
Shocking, but true. Many ISP's already use this method to scan all of your outbound HTTP traffic. Figuring out if you have more than one computer (especially if their OS or browser's are different) is trivial.
The only way to defeat this is to implement your own proxy (like squid) and have it re-write HTTP headers. Or... run all machines with the exact same configuration.
...but Moses gets the rebound!
=Smidge=
He doesn't sign anything, just sprinkles on some invisible nanobots.
Is this William Gibson we're talking about or Steve Gibson?
Since Penguin's homepage is several clicks away from the actual signing schedule page, try this: Gibson Rocks Come on, submitters, you can do better than that.
I wonder what will happen if ISPs were to limit their customers' ability to use NAT devices...
:)
Either they will lose customers in droves due to the fact that the users can no longer use their fancy-schmancy Linksys router to connect all their computers together, or the router manufacturers will cook up an option in thier firmware to use the NAT-hiding approach mentioned above...
Just my 192.168.1.1's worth
--RickTheWizKid
P.S.: FIRST INTELLIGENT POST
Now why the fuck don't you modify the code so that only logged in users can use that reply button?! It would wipe out the frist pron pstrs.
The replytothis link wouldn't be nearly as interesting to the morons.
...with a better annual yield.
>> Practice Safe Hex
What, he pulled it out of his ass?
[snip] ...The people who work here are geeks. [/snip]
Finally, management who understands! Now when are they going to let me start dinking around with gadgets at work when I have a good idea, instead of telling me to file more paperwork.
-theGreater Geek.
also interesting is how many news sources mistook the image as a capture from the high-tech cameras that the people *actually* worked on."
Yes, that is interesting. Interesting in a way that might make one wonder if this story is total fabrication to conceal the existence of higher-quality images from the "professional" scopes at that site.
Not saying I believe that's the case, but it is simply more fodder for the anti-NASA conspiracists
I'm sorry that is incorrect!!
"commercial-of-the-self" would be if Ellen Feiss made an ad just about her. (Admit it, you'd watch.)
Finally! Linux nerds gonna git some!
I asked him for some pearl of wisdom. He offered: "Never eat anything bigger than your head!" Should have thought *a head* and gotten a few extra signed books for eBay... ;) - Alex
regalia != memorabilia
The french are just jealous because no one wants to buy french militaria (ever seen their uniforms? yuk!)...
I saw Gibson do a reading at the University of Washington about a week ago. The lecture hall was packed- I get the feeling he isn't quite mainstream but having comparative literature courses that feature Neuromancer and occasional media references to the 'inventor of cyberspace' probably help with that.
Gibson mentioned the book started coming together after he was sent by Wired to meet with a lot of music video directors at a festival a few years back- He even fictionalized the Bjork video with the sexy female robots into background material for one of the main characters.
...would have been much better if he hadn't also been playing Dark Castle at the time.
Sigh, I thought you were talking about Bush.
Nerd: Derogatory term typically directed at anybody with a lower Slashdot ID than you.
here is a direct link to William Gibson tour dates information.
was awesome when he wrote neuromancer, no doubt about it. These days the tech has taken a back row seat, and character relationship dymanics are in the front. Much more techy stuff is being written by the next gen of writers (or is it the gen after the next gen?) such as Neal Stephenson, writer of Cryptonomicon, and Quicksilver, which is due for release next month.
Do you need a website upgrade?
Know that most of it is bullshit, and that your here today because of it. Hindsight still offers you little chance and that says alot concidering what passes by today undetected.
Who is to say you didn't get several more signed copies. You have a black marker, right?
'Sun confirmed the memo's authenticity, but said that the document is two years old and that the problems it describes have been fixed
The problem is that many of these issues are not fixed in the 1.3 JVM, which is still the one that most enterprise systems ship with (WebLogic for example). I've just done a six month contract performance testing a WebLogic 6.1 J2EE application on Solaris and I can tell you now that performance of their JVM is less than stellar. Memory requirements, for example, are insane.Never, ever lose a file again. Ever.
When I was looking for broadband some providers made you pay extra for the privilege of connecting more than one computer, with fines if you used a NAT and got caught.
I think currently most providers take the sensible option of allowing it but not supporting it.
I am told that similarly, phone companies made you pay when you hooked up another telephone to your existing line, but this was challenged in court and declared illegal.
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
France surrenders.
-(())
since south park we all know that saddam and the devil have a special anal relationship
How many people use VMWare?
Now watch residential ISPs ban VMWare along with VPN and VNC.
Will I retire or break 10K?
When cyborg-hitler has returned and conquered the world, all history books will be rewritten.
Read the freaking article. It's Jewish groups that happen to be based in France who sued, not the French government. Actually, from what I know, most French people don't even approve this pointless lawsuit.
That really makes me mad when news people assume everything, and don't even look into what they are talking about. I would much rather see a news person say "we don't know" then give me a bunch of garbage, that forces me to continue watching the news just to see if they have to correct themselves. Maybe it's a big scheme to make us watch the news.
PS: this is NOt offtopic.
well, wouldn't it be a shame if you did soil your pants. then you'd actually be subjected to a shower! OMG! you won't be called that when your country decides that they actually care if they get invaded (ww1 & ww2), and get the cajoles to stand up to international threats, especially when the ideas your country gives, are proven to not work.
if it wasn't for that horse, i wouldn't have spent that year in college.....
Does anyone remember a game from about 10 years ago that was a shuttle simulator?
I remember it ran on a pc and was amazingly hard to figure out with no instructions. There were about a million knobs and buttons to play with.
There were many screens of the shuttle interior and you could also switch to an external view.
Anyone know what I am talking about?
Condoning war crimes is illegal? It seems Mr. Orwell was only out by 9 years :-(
Maybe because of this and this and various others on the subject of blue laser DVDs. Quite honestly, they get hundreds of submissions a day... some good ones are bound to fall through the cracks.
bits of the WTC or Columbia on eBay
Both are actually required as evidence in ongoing investigations. No doubt some bits of the WTC, at this very late stage, would not be of much use to anyone, but even the smallest fragment of the Columbia could be crucial to figuring out what happened. The US is hardly the only country that gets excited when people wander off with bits of evidence from crime scenes and crash investigations.
Unless this nazi regalia is actually needed for some continuing investigation into war crimes there is no real comparison here.
the memo was part of Sun's strategy to attack Microsoft into getting Java shipped with windows. They know it STILL to this date reminds me of the classic tale "The Turtle and the Hare".
I don't know why, but java reminds me of turtles. They bite hard and are really slow.
I've seen passing references to Joshua Schacter's Geourl, and the Geocoder project Dave Egnor wrote (which won the Google programming contest)... but not much feedback here on Godseye.
Please take a moment *look* at the Godseye Project, look it over, try the search feature at the bottom of one of the geopages, and then yell at me if you would.
There's more to this project than you can see- the orthophoto polygonal clickthrough tool is already written, and I'm working on making this distributed.
You can add geosearch functionality to your own site fairly easily with the directions provided.
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Isn't the quote from the book 2+2=5? I guess 2003-1984=9!
100 French Army rifles, circa WWII... great condition! Never fired, and only dropped once!
Isn't it somewhat telling that people could have thought that it was written today? All the problems that they talk about still afflict the JVM.
Runs Java like the wind? Please, Scott, learn to program will ya?
- CNN Said the shuttle was going 18 times the speed of light
- Foxnews said the shuttle was 200,000 miles above the earth
- CBC Newsworld had an interview with a redneck who claimed to find an 'afterburner' and a 'solenoid' from the shuttle that looked suspiciously like it was from an old dodge
- CNN publishes crap photo as high-tech secret military photo
Tomorrow CNN will probably report the "shuttle blown up by palestinian suicide bomber" story again.Some dutch pilots may have gotten a better view of the breakup.
I think France's GDP is lower than Yahoo!'s revenue. In any case, I'm sure Yahoo! uses deodorant.
"The electric company doesn't care what appliances I hook up, they just bill me for what I use."
Actually if your "appliances" affect the power network, then yes they do care. Some industrial customers have to deal with this issue. Just like ISPs.
<pretend rant>
Now if one could only get the Slashdot crowd to realize cause and effect. Like P2P apps and their effects on a network. Or everybody suddenly going Buffet style on a shared network. But it's always easier to blame the "other" guy, than look at the consequences of one's actions.
</pretend rant>
First a quick note to others replying to this, IE indicates the version of the OS in the UserAgent field, so it is possible to tell there are different OSs behind a NAT.
However my main point is, that is _all_ (different OSs) every one of these methods prove. So what, you've just caught my Linux workstation running 1 or more virtual machines running other OSs (Something I do).
If they decide to try and cancel my contract simply because I am running multiple OSs at the same time, they are in breach of the contract and I _will_ sue, if only to make a point.
Until they have a way of proving that there are multiple _machines_ sharing a connection, then you have some fairly decent plausable deniability, and the best thing is _they_ have to prove that you have multiple machine not just multiple VMs.
Of course this all depends on the wording of your contract.
You're fucking welcome!
JSR 121 -- The Isolation API
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We have this news
Saddam is why God
Made B-52s
courtesy of http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110003063
You really do need to follow the links from the PLO through Haj Amin el-Husseini and tell me where they lead you. Try it - you'll like it.
The government brought the case, based on a complaint by various groups.
Little hint, if you see the threat of jail time, it's a criminal case by the government.
And when somebody fires up IE because a site they are looking at doesn't work in Mozilla? Or they change their browser ID to make a site that checks the browser type before letting you access it?
I agree, that's a point... (though Mozilla's finally gotten to the point where I can only think of one non-microsoft.com site which doesn't work with Mozilla, and that's because it doesn't like the fact that the term "MSIE" isn't in the user agent string)
However, if I were an ISP looking for a short but sweet way of coping with massive NAT usage, I'd be collecting that list anyway, and shortlisting those users for closer inspection.
Anyone know of any way of transparently replacing the user-agent strings at the NAT box?
Not that I personally care, my ISP kicks ass. They offer a 1.2Mbps DSL service with the option of a static IP address for cheap. And they don't care if you run servers, truly a geek's ISP. www.dsl.ca
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
They can bitch at me for using multiple machines when they start paying my power bill and remove the upstream and downstream caps on my service!
My current provider, Adelphia, seems to think 15KB/s is reasonable. My previous ISP, Roadrunner, was at 60KB/s. I won't depress you or myself with my previous previous ISP's stats, but here's a hint: university.
-- Having a Creationist Museum is like having an Atheist place of worship
Use BSD is dying troll and s/BSD/Iraq.
Yes, one way is to transparently proxy to junkbuster and have it rewrite the user agent.
There are two kinds of people: 1) those that need closure
Check out what they're publishing now!
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
How do you "come within two digits" of cracking a code?
Just take a look at this wonderful kernel enhancement for Linux.
Moreover is has something on lines of "systrace" from Niels Provos. Basically you create ACLs for what applications may or may not do, including an autolearn-mode.
PS: I know that PaX can be circumvented, but there is much more than PaX included in this project.
PS2: I am aware that parts of this patch is based on SolarDesigner's OWL patches. Although you can get OWL for 2.4 kernels (finally), they lack a lot of the cool protection functions included in grsecurity.
I'm curious what version of Sun's JVM or OS patch levels you need to be running to rule these issues "irrelevant" and to allow Java to run like the wind? Anyone know or interested to find out?
You're the first person I have seen object to grabbing chunks of the WTC or the shuttle on the gounds of investigative necessity in an on-line forum. The bulk of complaints (and death threats, and what not) are from people outraged at others exploiting the tradgedy. Which is reasonable enough - but, oddly enough, many people in France werenn';t very fond of the Nazi regime, either.
Dipshit, if Isreal really wanted to commit genocide in Palestine, there wouldn't be any Palestinians left alive. It would take, what, three or four days?
Fortunately, the Isrealis mostly just want a peaceful coexistance.