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heh, the stupid was the fucker who got the letter sent in the first place:)
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I've had some (stupid) interludes with government agencies... I sysadmin a small research lab, and one of the idiots in the lab tracerouted a State Department computer (it was a stupid thing to do in the first place )...
Got a letter a few days later asking me to confirm that the machine WASN'T compromised and please explain why we were tracrouteing them... Being this paranoid makes sense actually... by firing off a letter to machines acting suspisciously, they undoubtedly make life harder on their would be attackers by making compromised machines known to their owners.
The only complaint I have about the whole thing is it scared me shitless thinking we'd been compromised:-) The letter follows, although I removed the IP addressess...
Gentlemen,
Greetings, the U. S. State Department Computer Incident Response Team
(CIRT) received a report from our Security staff that we were being touched
from IP address ***.***.***.*** which translated to host name
*******.***.*** Interestingly the packet ttl is 1 and source port of 60704 did not
change. The events occurred on Sep Sep 23 20:51:17 (all times are local).
All attempts appeared to originate from host name ******.***.***
We understand that this may be due to operational activity. Please
examine your security logs during this time period and let us know if this
was indeed authorized activity. Your assistance and cooperation are
greatly appreciated.
Susan L. Tanoe
US Department of State - Bureau of Diplomatic Security
Computer Incident Response Team
301-985-8347
Report computer security incidents to: CIRT@state.gov
301-985-8375 (24-hour contact number)
For more information, visit us on the IntrAnet at:
http://acd.ds.state.gov/high/cif/cifmain.htm
CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED
This e-mail is unclassified based on the definitions provided in E.O. 12958
I think before you can expect to make a signifigant contribution you might gain some experience by writing a few apps yourself?... Pick something you think linux needs and code it
I worked on a the "gentoo" distribution for awhile (www.gentoo.org), back when it was called "enoch",... it was quite an experience to say the least...
ultimatley, your contribution will come down to this equation:
[ ( how much time you have to comit / how quickly you learn ) * how well you work with others ]
Amen! my 1990 accord gets driven 70miles / day + city / weekend dricing... I've put 60,000 miles on it in the last 3 years and its broken down exactly once.
As for being an adult:... be an adult when making life decisions: borrowing money, concieving children, choosing jobs... Have a great fuckin' time the rest of the year:)
If you can't let go and throw some candy everyonce in awhile, have fun in your cage. Thats not where I want to be...
And before I get a responsibilty lecture, I'm 22, I have 2 jobs, and carry a full load in one of the toughest engineering programs in the nation (note I didn't say best... just toughest:).
I saw this movie two weeks ago when this might have been news...
The sad fact is its just "ok"... the cinematography was excellent, the director did a fabulous job... but the plot just wasn't strong enough. This is more of a movie to rent then to pay 20$ for...
OffTopic: I got my moneys worth though, there was this 15 year old girl who wouldn't shut up during the movie, kept giggling and laughing and her friends were bothering her... 5 minutes didn't go by that we didnt hear "stop it man!!" A couple people walked up to her and told her to shut up and she still didn't get the message... so I took one of my g/f's starburst candies and threw it and hit the 15yo square in the head (very hard to, I threw it overhand)... all ya heard was this "OUUUUUUUUUU! hit me in the back of the head man, thats not cool!!"
I was very proud of myself:) Delivering a candy ordinance to a non orifice in a dark movie theature at high velocity:P... needless to say after all of this I became the disruption cuz I couldn't stop laughing for 5 minutes:)...
To summarize, with the right combination of people you can still have agood time at an exceptionally medicore movie.
As a musician (and a cs undergrad myself)... I can tell you the most you'll get out of beat detection is some multiple of the tempo... once you've got your fft going -- have your software look for strong regular spikes in ceartin frequency ranges... most reliable would be hte bass drum I would guess... this is of course assuming the music your analyzing has a bass drum...
But your plain screwd for music of any signifigant complextiy:)... kicks are rarely in the same time everytime... what you COULD do is overlay two pieces of the song ontop of eachother, and adjust the size and start position of the pieces and match up the beats ( Like holding two identical transperencies up to eachother)... when alot of the rythmic components match then its a pretty good bet you've discovered a measure. The difficulty then becomes finding measures in the first place... And you have the additional complexity of time signatures... if you discover what you think is a measure... who knows if its 4/4 with double time feel, or just 2/2... and odd meters like 3/4 (waltzes) and 5/4 (mission impossible theme... take 5)... and then you have compibanation time signatures which are a pain in the ass (to play and to detect I would immagine)... Like 9/4 is usuall expressed as a 4/4 measure followed by a 5/4 measure (the song alternates like this every other measure)... (off topic) I remember once playing with marshal hawking (minor jazz guy) at a jazz concert (idywild jazz festival in CA) and he handed us a piece he had just written in 12/4 which he wanted to perform in an hour!
all of this is not to mention that alot of pieces have "stop times" as well (sections where the rythm section stops completley...
Another method might be to filter out ceartin frequency ranges, and then gate the result of that... (this would be a good way to isolate bass drum impulses, cymbal impulses etc)
But if you really are interested -- I would suggest starting by checking out programs that convert spectral information into visual information -- ie XMMS visualazation plugins and I seem to recall a program for DOS back in the day called "Cthulu" which was essentailly a visualization program... It had a beat detection mode that would change the visualaztion style with the beat -- the source code might be avaliable. (though I don't recall how well it worked!)... when you see the sound waves expressed visually its very easy to pickout the beats by hand... its a good way to get your mind thinking about the problem.
Hey bro, maybe he needs the 5,000$ to pay for college or to buy his family out of slavery or something...
the real pitty is they only gave them each 5gs... shoulda been more like 50... I would have tried for 50:)... Winning 50g could change your life if you were smart with the money (pay off the mortage, invest the money you save... divorce your wife and start dating 18 year olds... etc:)
I don't mind helping people as an admin... I see my job as essentially (to quote a good friend) "an enabler." (this guy was fabulous -- he ran a charity group and he'd print up name tags for everybody that said "Hi my name is SALLY, I am enabled by John" )My job is to make sure others are able to do their work...
problem is that -- people become dependant on you when you help people too much... its gotten so bad that people won't ATTEMPT to find out something they need... they won't ask that little paperclip dude, they won't open the manuals, they won't look on the internet... they will SIT there with their thumbs up their ass complaining that their computer is broken to the boss (which makes me look back) until I get in for the day... these are problems like "How do I attach this file in outlook?" and "How do I open a zip file?" and "The color printer is out of toner"... my boss is *SO* clueless he will forward me e-mails he's recieved with the subject "pls print all attachments"... and it dosen't matter how many times you show someone somthing like that... I honestly believe some people don't have the capacity to use computers (without a crutch atleast...)
My rant aside... anyone have similar problems with their orginizations?... I'm planning on quiting for just these reasons
I had a similar situation in my work... I work for a lab at my university (I'm a student) as a sysadmin.. basically 10$ an hour to fix solaris, irix, windows, and mac machines when they break. The pay is a bit low, but how many jobs let you make your own hours? (save for emergencies of course)... I used to be a great admin:)... then I found out the shits in the CS department down the hall are making 18$ an hour, and I absolutley don't give a shit anymore:)...
Plus, the bosses won't let the secrataries go to **FREE** computer training seminars given by the university, because, "we have an admin you can just ask him."... so I spend 2 hours a day showing people how to attach shit in outlook and meanwhile we haven't backed up in 6 mos:)
Seems to me like the french are trying to revise history under the colorfull flag of "offense to the collective memory of a nation"... I think they'd much rather people didn't remember it at all...
they're still amateurs compared to the austrailian parliment though
I'm told in some parts of the world it is illegal to even mention the hollocust... does anyone know if this is true?
The EDU versions of office2k must be registered with MS (via internet) or they stop working after 50 startups of the program... better yet you can only register twice before the registration is "used up"... It dosen't say any of this on the box either Luckily, you can use a non edu serial # and get the regular version...
I think consumers will resist the software rental model strongly... it has no advantadges and alot of disadvantadges... and star office is always free
The p4's bag of tricks is far larger then just a few optimization tricks you learned in a digital design course... they've been working on incarnations of this design since the 8086 , I'm quite sure that they use damn near trick you can immagine to improve performance and alot you can't immagine... its all about the Average CPI (clocks per instruction)
But intel isn't competing on the performance market... they're leveraging their brand name and the biggest clock speed to sell chips... they know they're not as fast as the AMD's... they're not stupid:)
IMHO cpus should be sold by their Average CPI*Clock Speed... whole computers should be sold by their CPI with cache missess * clock rate:)
I agree with your thesis statement -- NPR is geared towards 40 or 50 year old college graduates. Theres nothing wrong with that though! Look at the target *intelligence level* of "mainstream media." Its disgusting...
NPR expands my mind by presenting information I can't get anywhere else.
Plus its damn cool:) Car Talk? Prarie Home Companion? radio at its finest... and I'm 22:)
I'd make sure I wasn't doing anything "wrong" because you can't win a battle wit the MPAA... then optinally, I'd wipe my ass with the letter, and then file about 5 lawsuits against them to show you mean business.
Evil empires like this can exist (MPAA, Rambus, Scientology) because us non-letigious mamals are afraid to play the same game they are playing. IMHO to fight effectivley one must become even more depraved then your oponent, otherwise your always on the defensive...
3rd of all, and this is just advice, whats wrong with hurting a few MPAA members? People like to think they can wrong people in court (believe me, the MPAA knows its wrong) and no harm will come to them. Once someone decides to bridge the gap between legal harm done to you, and harm dome to them, there are consequnces to the MPAA's actions -- think about it right now -- theres no consequence at all for them for making your life difficult. All the worry they cause you with the letter, the lawyers fees, -- is just another days work for them... they go home, fuck their wives and sleep well at night.
Some companies are starting to take responsibility... belkin has a program with all their UPS's where when your battery dies they'll recycle the old battery, give you a new one, and check out the UPS to make sure its working for like 40$.
Hey cut them some slack... immagine how many duplicates aren't getting thru... then count yourself among the blessed.
Then when your done, think about foxnews, CNN, MSNBC etc., and the fact that these stations can essentialy carry only one story for a week at a time... OJ, Elian Gonzales (notice how many people give a shit about him now?.. the media manufactured their own crisis), Presedential elections... be VERY greatfull theres a slashdot at all
OD
I've been friends with the admin for the company who proposed.kids (a little place in palm desert) he'd be the domain admin for.kids if they got it...
We were talking about it, and he said they'd never get it because it was "too controversal."... just think of all the inapprorpriate domains possible: molest.kids , naked.kids , mcdonalds.kids:)
Basically no one wants to take the blame for creating domain thats supposed to be entirely santized for young eyes
Your smarter then you think.. there is nothing wrong with photons that make kiddy porn. Photons are an emergent property of the structure of the universe. 1's and 0's are an emergent property of math. WE give meaning to these 1's and 0's...
Its hard to get indignant about emergent properties of the universe!
Once again, I say... stop child abuse, not bit strings:)
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heh, the stupid was the fucker who got the letter sent in the first place :)
Got a letter a few days later asking me to confirm that the machine WASN'T compromised and please explain why we were tracrouteing them ... Being this paranoid makes sense actually ... by firing off a letter to machines acting suspisciously, they undoubtedly make life harder on their would be attackers by making compromised machines known to their owners.
The only complaint I have about the whole thing is it scared me shitless thinking we'd been compromised :-) The letter follows, although I removed the IP addressess ...
Gentlemen, Greetings, the U. S. State Department Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) received a report from our Security staff that we were being touched from IP address ***.***.***.*** which translated to host name *******.***.*** Interestingly the packet ttl is 1 and source port of 60704 did not change. The events occurred on Sep Sep 23 20:51:17 (all times are local). All attempts appeared to originate from host name ******.***.*** We understand that this may be due to operational activity. Please examine your security logs during this time period and let us know if this was indeed authorized activity. Your assistance and cooperation are greatly appreciated. Susan L. Tanoe US Department of State - Bureau of Diplomatic Security Computer Incident Response Team 301-985-8347 Report computer security incidents to: CIRT@state.gov 301-985-8375 (24-hour contact number) For more information, visit us on the IntrAnet at: http://acd.ds.state.gov/high/cif/cifmain.htm CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED This e-mail is unclassified based on the definitions provided in E.O. 12958
I worked on a the "gentoo" distribution for awhile (www.gentoo.org), back when it was called "enoch", ... it was quite an experience to say the least ...
ultimatley, your contribution will come down to this equation:
[ ( how much time you have to comit / how quickly you learn ) * how well you work with others ]
Amen! my 1990 accord gets driven 70miles / day + city / weekend dricing ... I've put 60,000 miles on it in the last 3 years and its broken down exactly once.
Good old Nes 8 bit games ... The Konami cheat code is practically cultural knowledge.
whats your idea of mature "fun" then?
If you can't let go and throw some candy everyonce in awhile, have fun in your cage. Thats not where I want to be ...
And before I get a responsibilty lecture, I'm 22, I have 2 jobs, and carry a full load in one of the toughest engineering programs in the nation (note I didn't say best ... just toughest :).
The sad fact is its just "ok" ... the cinematography was excellent, the director did a fabulous job ... but the plot just wasn't strong enough. This is more of a movie to rent then to pay 20$ for ...
OffTopic: I got my moneys worth though, there was this 15 year old girl who wouldn't shut up during the movie, kept giggling and laughing and her friends were bothering her ... 5 minutes didn't go by that we didnt hear "stop it man!!" A couple people walked up to her and told her to shut up and she still didn't get the message ... so I took one of my g/f's starburst candies and threw it and hit the 15yo square in the head (very hard to, I threw it overhand) ... all ya heard was this "OUUUUUUUUUU! hit me in the back of the head man, thats not cool!!"
I was very proud of myself :) Delivering a candy ordinance to a non orifice in a dark movie theature at high velocity :P ... needless to say after all of this I became the disruption cuz I couldn't stop laughing for 5 minutes :) ...
To summarize, with the right combination of people you can still have agood time at an exceptionally medicore movie.
Is that anything like the jack of speed?
But your plain screwd for music of any signifigant complextiy :) ... kicks are rarely in the same time everytime ... what you COULD do is overlay two pieces of the song ontop of eachother, and adjust the size and start position of the pieces and match up the beats ( Like holding two identical transperencies up to eachother) ... when alot of the rythmic components match then its a pretty good bet you've discovered a measure. The difficulty then becomes finding measures in the first place ... And you have the additional complexity of time signatures ... if you discover what you think is a measure ... who knows if its 4/4 with double time feel, or just 2/2 ... and odd meters like 3/4 (waltzes) and 5/4 (mission impossible theme ... take 5) ... and then you have compibanation time signatures which are a pain in the ass (to play and to detect I would immagine) ... Like 9/4 is usuall expressed as a 4/4 measure followed by a 5/4 measure (the song alternates like this every other measure) ... (off topic) I remember once playing with marshal hawking (minor jazz guy) at a jazz concert (idywild jazz festival in CA) and he handed us a piece he had just written in 12/4 which he wanted to perform in an hour!
all of this is not to mention that alot of pieces have "stop times" as well (sections where the rythm section stops completley ...
Another method might be to filter out ceartin frequency ranges, and then gate the result of that ... (this would be a good way to isolate bass drum impulses, cymbal impulses etc)
But if you really are interested -- I would suggest starting by checking out programs that convert spectral information into visual information -- ie XMMS visualazation plugins and I seem to recall a program for DOS back in the day called "Cthulu" which was essentailly a visualization program ... It had a beat detection mode that would change the visualaztion style with the beat -- the source code might be avaliable. (though I don't recall how well it worked!) ... when you see the sound waves expressed visually its very easy to pickout the beats by hand ... its a good way to get your mind thinking about the problem.
OmegaDan ...
the real pitty is they only gave them each 5gs ... shoulda been more like 50 ... I would have tried for 50 :) ... Winning 50g could change your life if you were smart with the money (pay off the mortage, invest the money you save ... divorce your wife and start dating 18 year olds ... etc :)
OD
I don't mind helping people as an admin ... I see my job as essentially (to quote a good friend) "an enabler." (this guy was fabulous -- he ran a charity group and he'd print up name tags for everybody that said "Hi my name is SALLY, I am enabled by John" )My job is to make sure others are able to do their work ...
problem is that -- people become dependant on you when you help people too much ... its gotten so bad that people won't ATTEMPT to find out something they need ... they won't ask that little paperclip dude, they won't open the manuals, they won't look on the internet ... they will SIT there with their thumbs up their ass complaining that their computer is broken to the boss (which makes me look back) until I get in for the day ... these are problems like "How do I attach this file in outlook?" and "How do I open a zip file?" and "The color printer is out of toner" ... my boss is *SO* clueless he will forward me e-mails he's recieved with the subject "pls print all attachments" ... and it dosen't matter how many times you show someone somthing like that ... I honestly believe some people don't have the capacity to use computers (without a crutch atleast ...)
My rant aside ... anyone have similar problems with their orginizations? ... I'm planning on quiting for just these reasons
Plus, the bosses won't let the secrataries go to **FREE** computer training seminars given by the university, because, "we have an admin you can just ask him." ... so I spend 2 hours a day showing people how to attach shit in outlook and meanwhile we haven't backed up in 6 mos :)
they're still amateurs compared to the austrailian parliment though
I'm told in some parts of the world it is illegal to even mention the hollocust ... does anyone know if this is true?
Ahhhh the joys of core ram ... it was a shame to see mercury delay lines retired :)
I think consumers will resist the software rental model strongly ... it has no advantadges and alot of disadvantadges ... and star office is always free
But intel isn't competing on the performance market ... they're leveraging their brand name and the biggest clock speed to sell chips ... they know they're not as fast as the AMD's ... they're not stupid :)
IMHO cpus should be sold by their Average CPI*Clock Speed ... whole computers should be sold by their CPI with cache missess * clock rate :)
just my oponion
NPR expands my mind by presenting information I can't get anywhere else.
Plus its damn cool :) Car Talk? Prarie Home Companion? radio at its finest ... and I'm 22 :)
Evil empires like this can exist (MPAA, Rambus, Scientology) because us non-letigious mamals are afraid to play the same game they are playing. IMHO to fight effectivley one must become even more depraved then your oponent, otherwise your always on the defensive ...
3rd of all, and this is just advice, whats wrong with hurting a few MPAA members? People like to think they can wrong people in court (believe me, the MPAA knows its wrong) and no harm will come to them. Once someone decides to bridge the gap between legal harm done to you, and harm dome to them, there are consequnces to the MPAA's actions -- think about it right now -- theres no consequence at all for them for making your life difficult. All the worry they cause you with the letter, the lawyers fees, -- is just another days work for them ... they go home, fuck their wives and sleep well at night.
I remember the glass cube thing ... I'm afraid it was all hype though!
Some companies are starting to take responsibility ... belkin has a program with all their UPS's where when your battery dies they'll recycle the old battery, give you a new one, and check out the UPS to make sure its working for like 40$.
Then when your done, think about foxnews, CNN, MSNBC etc., and the fact that these stations can essentialy carry only one story for a week at a time ... OJ, Elian Gonzales (notice how many people give a shit about him now? .. the media manufactured their own crisis), Presedential elections... be VERY greatfull theres a slashdot at all
OD
We were talking about it, and he said they'd never get it because it was "too controversal." ... just think of all the inapprorpriate domains possible: molest.kids , naked.kids , mcdonalds.kids :)
Basically no one wants to take the blame for creating domain thats supposed to be entirely santized for young eyes
Its hard to get indignant about emergent properties of the universe!
Once again, I say ... stop child abuse, not bit strings :)