Isn't this similar to what Stanley Miller and Harold Urey found in the 1960's with their spark-chamber experiment? While this seems to be stellar in nature, how much different is UV photolysis from electrical discharge as far as chemical reactions go?
Don't waste your time. I was CNA certified when I was 17, and a 45 user Novell network admin when I was 18, and the place I admin'ed wouldn't pay me more than 9.50 an hour. Mind you, I was fresh out of high school, and in college, but basically, if you're under 21 it seems, you won't get paid what you feel you *should* get paid, and even less so in the tech sector nowadays. At least where I live, older people hate getting shown up or otherwise proven to be less technically savvy than some 18 year old kid right out of HS.
When you spend $6 billion a year, it's kinda hard to make a jump from one platform to another just because of security fixes. Sometimes, it's easier to fix the problems that exist than spend the overhead to jump to a new system. It takes an awful lot for a customer *that* large to drop a vendor that they do *that* much business with. Maybe my understanding of business processes is wrong, but it just seems that it would be easier for them to ask Microsoft, politely, to change their ways. After all, the only thing MS seems to understand (or most big companies) is the bottom line.
Buy as many CD's as you can afford at the time, open ALL of them, and take them back immediately. Retailers don't like to take back opened merchandise, and will quite often (from what I understand) charge back a small amount the the distributor, which will then pass the cost upwards. While some may consider this approach stupid/ineffective, think about this: enough people buy these "CDs" and return them, and retailers will think twice about buying them or moving them into the retail chain.
This reminds me a lot of a particular scene in "The Diamond Age", where Miranda is in the club with the flashing dragonfly lapel pins, which pick up on your mood and the audience basically composed the music, moving along in time with whatever the dancers were doing.
Netgear hubs & switches are just fine. Their routers, however, leave quite a bit to be desired in my opinion. While easy to configure and whatnot, they are painfully limited in what they can do, and the fact that Netgear markets NAT as a security solution doesn't help their position.
Equipped with Stateful Packet Inspection to prevent Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, and Network Address Translation (NAT) to maintain network security against hackers
Any manufacturer that considers NAT 'network security against hackers' is delusional. That's just how it is. Far too many companies nowadays are selling eth2eth NAT boxes and calling them firewalls.
You don't need a service contract, you just need to have your router registered with them, and have a Cisco Connection Login. I've got a CCO login tied to a 1604, and I've downloaded/torn apart the code for a 12000GXR. No restrictions, they just don't want everyone on the damned planet with access to their firmware.
The problem is that the telephone network isn't a routed/multiaccess network like the majority of the Internet is. You still have upwards of 10K users (lines) terminating into one telco building/closet/whatever. This simply isn't going to change; telcos, being the legacy providers that they are, simply don't have the capital (or incentive) to go and redesign a service like this from the ground up, when it performs 99.99% of the time, catastrophe or not.
Yeah, wiring up a refridgeration unit to your water pan to cool the water is 'over-engineering', however digging a 15 foot deep hole in your yard to run copper tubing from inside your house into isn't.
Not flaming, just pointing out a rather glaring inconsistency in your logic.:)
While a novel idea, what does it do? Does it store-and-forward packets faster? Does it provide notification of unsuccessful/successful intrusion? I can see how it would be neat, but it's kinda like cloning, or picking your kid's genes: just because you CAN do it doesn't mean you should. (although, take that with a grain of salt, putting linux on a router doesn't have nearly as many moral implications as cloning/etc).
On the other hand, hey, yeah, good idea, let's make Cisco routers even less secure than they are now. I'd rather see FreeBSD or OpenBSD on it, with native crypto and the like.
How does it feel to be taking on, more or less, 'The Man'? The DVDCCA has enormous resources at it's disposal, and while this may not be the first case you've tackled where you're facing off vs. Big Business, this has to be in the top 5 high profile cases of the year. Defending a group of media-appointed 'hackers' doesn't really seem like it would endear you to the judge. Moreover, how does it feel to be arguing a highly technical point in front of a judge who doesn't seem to have, need, or want a grasp on the real nitty gritty technical stuff?
It seems kinda like the Scopes monkey trial, with you the in place of Darrow, arguing points of law or logic to a judge who's already inclined to side with the plaintiff.
Mongolia is forcing all of it's residents to choose a surname, because a large portion of the population relies on just one name for themselves. Interestingly enough, 50%+ have chosen 'Borjigon' as their new surname, because it was the surname of their national hero, Genghis Khan. I can see it now, 'Mr. Borjigon, would you please take the stand?'
Would something like this be covered under the literature/documentation GPL covered recently in another/. article? Or will WotC be creating its own license for this? And if so, any ideas on how restrictive/unhindered said licence would be? Given the number of companies jumping on the quote-unquote 'open source' bandwagon recently, but not using a truly free or unobstructed licence (cough Sun), I'm wondering if WotC might do something similar. Guess we'll have to wait for GenCon/GAMA
yeah, but there's an associated slowdown in running x86 lineo on top of the vliw translators, instead of running moblinux without the need for any such translators...or is moblinux also emulating x86? bleh.
I believe I'm correct in pointing out that the two are made for entirely different applications...although both shoot for the small, Lineo is made for x86, and MobLinux is made for Crusoe... I could be wrong, but that's what I understood from the Crusoe website....
Ever been 'requested' to do anything, hand over some info, poke around some stuff, by any gov't agency? I don't imagine that you'd be too happy about it, and I'm not insinuating that you'd cozy up with the government, but just wondering if maybe they've ever ordered or asked you to send them a copy of l0phtcrack, SLINT, etc...
well, two things...first, goodbye moore's law.. secondly, this kind of reminds me of the mr. fusion in back to the future: it's one of those things that you can't really imagine being around until you actually get one, or see one, etc...almost like some kind of weird outer limits episode....who would have thought 10, even 5 years ago, that people would be talking about having quantum computers in the short term. oh well. guess that's just technology. i never thought i'd see 1ghz pcs, but that's just me.
Notice how Intel didn't designate the 667mHz chips 666mHz? Obviously, there's a reason for that, but I find it funny that they would round down (166.6666666 mHz = 166mHz) on everything else, but round up on that one. Oh well. And I was so looking forward to a 666mHz PC.
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Not very surprising, given the recent news surrounding the Xbox 2...
Isn't this similar to what Stanley Miller and Harold Urey found in the 1960's with their spark-chamber experiment? While this seems to be stellar in nature, how much different is UV photolysis from electrical discharge as far as chemical reactions go?
Don't waste your time. I was CNA certified when I was 17, and a 45 user Novell network admin when I was 18, and the place I admin'ed wouldn't pay me more than 9.50 an hour. Mind you, I was fresh out of high school, and in college, but basically, if you're under 21 it seems, you won't get paid what you feel you *should* get paid, and even less so in the tech sector nowadays. At least where I live, older people hate getting shown up or otherwise proven to be less technically savvy than some 18 year old kid right out of HS.
When you spend $6 billion a year, it's kinda hard to make a jump from one platform to another just because of security fixes. Sometimes, it's easier to fix the problems that exist than spend the overhead to jump to a new system. It takes an awful lot for a customer *that* large to drop a vendor that they do *that* much business with. Maybe my understanding of business processes is wrong, but it just seems that it would be easier for them to ask Microsoft, politely, to change their ways. After all, the only thing MS seems to understand (or most big companies) is the bottom line.
Robbie.
My time is worth enough to try and put a stop to this nonsense before every music giant starts doing this.
Once one such corp starts doing this, I don't think it'll be too long before they all follow suit, if something isn't done.
Buy as many CD's as you can afford at the time, open ALL of them, and take them back immediately. Retailers don't like to take back opened merchandise, and will quite often (from what I understand) charge back a small amount the the distributor, which will then pass the cost upwards. While some may consider this approach stupid/ineffective, think about this: enough people buy these "CDs" and return them, and retailers will think twice about buying them or moving them into the retail chain.
This reminds me a lot of a particular scene in "The Diamond Age", where Miranda is in the club with the flashing dragonfly lapel pins, which pick up on your mood and the audience basically composed the music, moving along in time with whatever the dancers were doing.
I'm surprised no one else picked up on that. Hrm.
Netgear hubs & switches are just fine. Their routers, however, leave quite a bit to be desired in my opinion. While easy to configure and whatnot, they are painfully limited in what they can do, and the fact that Netgear markets NAT as a security solution doesn't help their position.
And I quote:
Any manufacturer that considers NAT 'network security against hackers' is delusional. That's just how it is. Far too many companies nowadays are selling eth2eth NAT boxes and calling them firewalls.
enable
password
config t
line vty 0 1
password 7 (insert password here}
^Z
wr mem
Oh yeah, real hard. 5 lines of commands is super difficult.
You don't need a service contract, you just need to have your router registered with them, and have a Cisco Connection Login. I've got a CCO login tied to a 1604, and I've downloaded/torn apart the code for a 12000GXR. No restrictions, they just don't want everyone on the damned planet with access to their firmware.
Microsoft does make routers, under the brand name Netgear. :)
(Yes, I know, it's Bay, but it's also complete and utter crapware)
The problem is that the telephone network isn't a routed/multiaccess network like the majority of the Internet is. You still have upwards of 10K users (lines) terminating into one telco building/closet/whatever. This simply isn't going to change; telcos, being the legacy providers that they are, simply don't have the capital (or incentive) to go and redesign a service like this from the ground up, when it performs 99.99% of the time, catastrophe or not.
It was 2 737-800's, possibly Delta Express. No word on hijacking, etc.
Yeah, wiring up a refridgeration unit to your water pan to cool the water is 'over-engineering', however digging a 15 foot deep hole in your yard to run copper tubing from inside your house into isn't. Not flaming, just pointing out a rather glaring inconsistency in your logic. :)
While a novel idea, what does it do? Does it store-and-forward packets faster? Does it provide notification of unsuccessful/successful intrusion? I can see how it would be neat, but it's kinda like cloning, or picking your kid's genes: just because you CAN do it doesn't mean you should. (although, take that with a grain of salt, putting linux on a router doesn't have nearly as many moral implications as cloning/etc). On the other hand, hey, yeah, good idea, let's make Cisco routers even less secure than they are now. I'd rather see FreeBSD or OpenBSD on it, with native crypto and the like.
How does it feel to be taking on, more or less, 'The Man'? The DVDCCA has enormous resources at it's disposal, and while this may not be the first case you've tackled where you're facing off vs. Big Business, this has to be in the top 5 high profile cases of the year. Defending a group of media-appointed 'hackers' doesn't really seem like it would endear you to the judge. Moreover, how does it feel to be arguing a highly technical point in front of a judge who doesn't seem to have, need, or want a grasp on the real nitty gritty technical stuff?
It seems kinda like the Scopes monkey trial, with you the in place of Darrow, arguing points of law or logic to a judge who's already inclined to side with the plaintiff.
Mongolia is forcing all of it's residents to choose a surname, because a large portion of the population relies on just one name for themselves. Interestingly enough, 50%+ have chosen 'Borjigon' as their new surname, because it was the surname of their national hero, Genghis Khan. I can see it now, 'Mr. Borjigon, would you please take the stand?'
Would something like this be covered under the literature/documentation GPL covered recently in another /. article? Or will WotC be creating its own license for this? And if so, any ideas on how restrictive/unhindered said licence would be? Given the number of companies jumping on the quote-unquote 'open source' bandwagon recently, but not using a truly free or unobstructed licence (cough Sun), I'm wondering if WotC might do something similar. Guess we'll have to wait for GenCon/GAMA
yeah, but there's an associated slowdown in running x86 lineo on top of the vliw translators, instead of running moblinux without the need for any such translators...or is moblinux also emulating x86? bleh.
I believe I'm correct in pointing out that the two are made for entirely different applications...although both shoot for the small, Lineo is made for x86, and MobLinux is made for Crusoe... I could be wrong, but that's what I understood from the Crusoe website....
Ever been 'requested' to do anything, hand over some info, poke around some stuff, by any gov't agency? I don't imagine that you'd be too happy about it, and I'm not insinuating that you'd cozy up with the government, but just wondering if maybe they've ever ordered or asked you to send them a copy of l0phtcrack, SLINT, etc...
well, two things...first, goodbye moore's law.. secondly, this kind of reminds me of the mr. fusion in back to the future: it's one of those things that you can't really imagine being around until you actually get one, or see one, etc...almost like some kind of weird outer limits episode....who would have thought 10, even 5 years ago, that people would be talking about having quantum computers in the short term. oh well. guess that's just technology. i never thought i'd see 1ghz pcs, but that's just me.
Notice how Intel didn't designate the 667mHz chips 666mHz? Obviously, there's a reason for that, but I find it funny that they would round down (166.6666666 mHz = 166mHz) on everything else, but round up on that one. Oh well. And I was so looking forward to a 666mHz PC.