I remember coding a nuissance program in 6510 assembler on my C-64 that sat in the background and when a key was pressed it had a tiny chance not to echo it to the screen or to echo it twice. After installing it on several classroom computers off the old 1541 floppy it drove some students batty, they thought they had sticky keys. This was before real viruses:)
I am probably going to get flamed hard here, but I've been running Vista Ultimate on one of my boxes for quite a while, and it completely blows my other Ubuntu 8.10 box (ran Gutsy 7.10 through Horny Heron 8.04 and now this) out of the water, both in terms of overall functionality, the number of "boring" productivity apps that make me money and fun gaming apps, and the amount of time that I do not have to spend dicking with typical Ubuntu drivers and config problems. Vista has been more stable, less time consuming, and overall waaay more productive. I guess some people like to work on cars, I like to drive mine. And for discreet screwage around, there is the ultimate "quickie" Backtrack3 that gives you the stuff where Linux shines without the Ubuntu commitment.
Some things are obvious, the economy will continue to slide because there are way too many people in the goverment interested in maintaining and profiting from the status quo. Also because of the profiteering angle, both parties are vested in the Iraq quagmire, so neither will have the sack to say "The day I take office will be the day we are going to get our troops out of Iraq and spend the war budget on helping our veterans reintegrate back into the society." In the meantime because of the impending tax hikes and continuing chokage of small and medium businesses their owners (the smart ones) will continue to open up dummy companies overseas and cycling their cash through offshore banks, cutting off the tax revenue to the prolifically wastefull local and federal govermental money grubbing pigs. Large businesses will continue to move tech jobs out of this country, and that combined with ongoing dependency on imports will starve our cash position and drain the remaining cash into the other countries as we create their middle class at the price of ours. The Fair Play doctrine is going to go into effect and there will be LESS complaining on the radio, especially from those pesky concervatives. The Constitution of this country will continue to get marginalized as both parties continue to take turns wiping their ass with it. Individual rights will continue to get marginalized for the greater good, and the little of your wealth will get "spread around". As the masses remain ignorant of the mindblowingly consistent repetition of history, the country that was one of the key catalysts of Globalization will slowly slidw towards third world status, all the while being entertained by TV and told they are still Number One. Hopefully once things get bad enough (we still got a bit to go there) The People will realize that both parties are a sham, and that Republicans can only be called Conservatives as a joke, and that besides the "gay issues" and "pro-life rhetoric" there are no differences between them and the Democrats, and that both parties are just a corrupt business lubed by the 3 billion dollar lobbying industry which has no problem with fisting the public to accumulate power and wealth. Empires that overextend themselves externally and neglect themselves internally end up collapsing and serve as texbook fodder for the future generations to ignore on things not to do. Good luck and VOTE DAMMIT.
Comparing todays Internet content to Library of Alexandria or something... Come on, the VAST majority of the data out there is comprised of pirated movies, mp3s, and pr0n. The authors concern that in case of the sudden demise of our emails, tax files and robust pr0n collections the future generations would be somehow deprived of CULTURE is laughable. When I was growing up, CULTURE came from books, museums and other things that did not involve a floppy or a hard drive.
Finding child porn on an abandoned computer constitutes ample cause, and considering the computer was abandoned removes any constraints from investigators as to the tools they choose. Seems cut and dry... Now I got to read more on this case - maybe there is more to it not apparent from the immediately linked article.
Unless there is more to the story, which is not obvious from the RTFA, the evicted party forfeits the rights to what they chose to leave behind during the eviction. I am a firm believer in due process (14th) and in the 4th amendment, but again, I do not see how they apply here. In this one rare case court seems to have gone overzealous on the technological aspect of the case.
The guy whose computer was searched, abandoned the computer and gave up any rights at that point, the person who found the porn was computers new owner. Just like any trash tossed out becomes public domain, there should have been zero expectation of privacy at that point. I am not a legal scholar, but I do not see how the 4th amendment applies here. It would be no different than if this was a diary in a different language and the person who inherited the diary found a translator, upon finding criminal evidence it would be fully admissible.
I remember back in late 80s, things were getting out of hand with newbie kiddies just getting into hacking and phreaking and playing with credit card numbers and phone codes. They were creating too much noise that made investigations of bigger fish more difficult. So law enforcement folks got credit companies to bankroll Operation Sundevil, put up a sting BBS (Phoenix Fortress) and captured a tonn of minors, most of who had files with phone codes and credit card numbers because they shotgun downloaded everything that seemed "cool". There are a bunch of honeypot sites and rooms popping up now getting ready to reel in the next crop.
NASA cant afford to put people into space, but continues to dump money into frivolous research like this? Russia for the longest time focused on making sure that people prone to depression didnt get into space in the first place, they get weeded out during academy training. Its interesting how US is unable to maintain its space program despite its high tech, and yet Russia "putts" along using their "unsofisticated" means. I've been through NASA recently on business and I got to tell you, the place needs a ducheing, it smells like the 60s in there, and the oversight free, spend cash like there is no tomorrow on dead end unnecessary projects kick started within the entrenched cronyism system has got to end.
Words, Pictures, AND VIDEO can travel through the INTERPIPES?! We need tighter goverment control over the Interpipes Spiggots, to cut off the flow of unapproved megabites and megahurtz. Get the feeling that goverment gets their technology "know-how" from cheesy movies like http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/16/ ?
I love how people tend to underestimate local resistance and believe that in order to bog down and decimate an army you need another army *points at afganistan and iraq*. In WW2 resistance fighters under occupation were able to inflict amazing casualties by very low-tech means. Creation and Destructions are acts of will, you do not need an army or elaborate tech.
Little known fact, but one of the brothers that own Fry's Electronics owns a stripped down F-14 (no weapons), last I heard it was located in Arizona. Not sure why there is so much news coverage on something this innocent. I mean if we found out that Larry Ellison was building a Death Star (he isn't is he?!), then I understand the hubbub.
Isn't it more cost effective to do RAID 1, with a nightly backup to an external. At least in my home, I do not require mission critical hot-swapping capabilities. Then again I only have 3x 1TB hard drives.
Also, after RTFAing the author of the article assumes that an unrecoverable read error corrupts your RAID array. It does not, typically your bad sector gets added to the list and mapped out of being used. Speaking of used, article assumes that entire drive is being used, but if the error on the part of the drive not covered with data, this is also a non issue.
Looks like Pirate Bay is celebrating too, with the classic Gill Bates retro pic and subcaption "Bill Gates Made Me Do It!"
So get in on the festivities, fire up https://thepiratebay.org/ and tagoo.ru and see whats on tap!
OK after RTFAing and reading others comments, isn't this something that can be patched by the Adoobie company? In the meantime I set my faithful Fruitfucker 2000 robot on Extreme Vigilant Flash Plugin Fuxx0ring setting.
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I remember coding a nuissance program in 6510 assembler on my C-64 that sat in the background and when a key was pressed it had a tiny chance not to echo it to the screen or to echo it twice. After installing it on several classroom computers off the old 1541 floppy it drove some students batty, they thought they had sticky keys. This was before real viruses :)
"Hey its just a series of tubes, how hard can it be?!"
Get the XP version so you can run all the boring real world software and run Backtrack 3 for your naughty Linux needs - works GREAT!
Thank you! I guess I can fire up my old Amiga 4000 and run my online banking through AWeb :)
For the truly paranoid, what are the best tools to run on your system to detect potential intrusion of this type?
Its called Deflation, and its here.
I am probably going to get flamed hard here, but I've been running Vista Ultimate on one of my boxes for quite a while, and it completely blows my other Ubuntu 8.10 box (ran Gutsy 7.10 through Horny Heron 8.04 and now this) out of the water, both in terms of overall functionality, the number of "boring" productivity apps that make me money and fun gaming apps, and the amount of time that I do not have to spend dicking with typical Ubuntu drivers and config problems. Vista has been more stable, less time consuming, and overall waaay more productive. I guess some people like to work on cars, I like to drive mine. And for discreet screwage around, there is the ultimate "quickie" Backtrack3 that gives you the stuff where Linux shines without the Ubuntu commitment.
Perhaps the most hilarious thing I ever found on Slashdot.. http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/
Some things are obvious, the economy will continue to slide because there are way too many people in the goverment interested in maintaining and profiting from the status quo. Also because of the profiteering angle, both parties are vested in the Iraq quagmire, so neither will have the sack to say "The day I take office will be the day we are going to get our troops out of Iraq and spend the war budget on helping our veterans reintegrate back into the society." In the meantime because of the impending tax hikes and continuing chokage of small and medium businesses their owners (the smart ones) will continue to open up dummy companies overseas and cycling their cash through offshore banks, cutting off the tax revenue to the prolifically wastefull local and federal govermental money grubbing pigs. Large businesses will continue to move tech jobs out of this country, and that combined with ongoing dependency on imports will starve our cash position and drain the remaining cash into the other countries as we create their middle class at the price of ours. The Fair Play doctrine is going to go into effect and there will be LESS complaining on the radio, especially from those pesky concervatives. The Constitution of this country will continue to get marginalized as both parties continue to take turns wiping their ass with it. Individual rights will continue to get marginalized for the greater good, and the little of your wealth will get "spread around". As the masses remain ignorant of the mindblowingly consistent repetition of history, the country that was one of the key catalysts of Globalization will slowly slidw towards third world status, all the while being entertained by TV and told they are still Number One. Hopefully once things get bad enough (we still got a bit to go there) The People will realize that both parties are a sham, and that Republicans can only be called Conservatives as a joke, and that besides the "gay issues" and "pro-life rhetoric" there are no differences between them and the Democrats, and that both parties are just a corrupt business lubed by the 3 billion dollar lobbying industry which has no problem with fisting the public to accumulate power and wealth. Empires that overextend themselves externally and neglect themselves internally end up collapsing and serve as texbook fodder for the future generations to ignore on things not to do. Good luck and VOTE DAMMIT.
Comparing todays Internet content to Library of Alexandria or something... Come on, the VAST majority of the data out there is comprised of pirated movies, mp3s, and pr0n. The authors concern that in case of the sudden demise of our emails, tax files and robust pr0n collections the future generations would be somehow deprived of CULTURE is laughable. When I was growing up, CULTURE came from books, museums and other things that did not involve a floppy or a hard drive.
Finding child porn on an abandoned computer constitutes ample cause, and considering the computer was abandoned removes any constraints from investigators as to the tools they choose. Seems cut and dry... Now I got to read more on this case - maybe there is more to it not apparent from the immediately linked article.
Unless there is more to the story, which is not obvious from the RTFA, the evicted party forfeits the rights to what they chose to leave behind during the eviction. I am a firm believer in due process (14th) and in the 4th amendment, but again, I do not see how they apply here. In this one rare case court seems to have gone overzealous on the technological aspect of the case.
The guy whose computer was searched, abandoned the computer and gave up any rights at that point, the person who found the porn was computers new owner. Just like any trash tossed out becomes public domain, there should have been zero expectation of privacy at that point. I am not a legal scholar, but I do not see how the 4th amendment applies here. It would be no different than if this was a diary in a different language and the person who inherited the diary found a translator, upon finding criminal evidence it would be fully admissible.
Instead of getting "gifts" he should have taken money wired through a "Series of Tubes" to an dummy company somewhere in Panama.
I remember back in late 80s, things were getting out of hand with newbie kiddies just getting into hacking and phreaking and playing with credit card numbers and phone codes. They were creating too much noise that made investigations of bigger fish more difficult. So law enforcement folks got credit companies to bankroll Operation Sundevil, put up a sting BBS (Phoenix Fortress) and captured a tonn of minors, most of who had files with phone codes and credit card numbers because they shotgun downloaded everything that seemed "cool". There are a bunch of honeypot sites and rooms popping up now getting ready to reel in the next crop.
NASA cant afford to put people into space, but continues to dump money into frivolous research like this? Russia for the longest time focused on making sure that people prone to depression didnt get into space in the first place, they get weeded out during academy training. Its interesting how US is unable to maintain its space program despite its high tech, and yet Russia "putts" along using their "unsofisticated" means. I've been through NASA recently on business and I got to tell you, the place needs a ducheing, it smells like the 60s in there, and the oversight free, spend cash like there is no tomorrow on dead end unnecessary projects kick started within the entrenched cronyism system has got to end.
BackTrack 3 is awesome, light on resources, installs with lower requirements than Ubunty 8.04, no driver headaches. GET SOME http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html ! Overview and history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BackTrack . Enjoy!
Words, Pictures, AND VIDEO can travel through the INTERPIPES?! We need tighter goverment control over the Interpipes Spiggots, to cut off the flow of unapproved megabites and megahurtz. Get the feeling that goverment gets their technology "know-how" from cheesy movies like http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/16/ ?
I love how people tend to underestimate local resistance and believe that in order to bog down and decimate an army you need another army *points at afganistan and iraq*. In WW2 resistance fighters under occupation were able to inflict amazing casualties by very low-tech means. Creation and Destructions are acts of will, you do not need an army or elaborate tech.
Little known fact, but one of the brothers that own Fry's Electronics owns a stripped down F-14 (no weapons), last I heard it was located in Arizona. Not sure why there is so much news coverage on something this innocent. I mean if we found out that Larry Ellison was building a Death Star (he isn't is he?!), then I understand the hubbub.
Isn't it more cost effective to do RAID 1, with a nightly backup to an external. At least in my home, I do not require mission critical hot-swapping capabilities. Then again I only have 3x 1TB hard drives. Also, after RTFAing the author of the article assumes that an unrecoverable read error corrupts your RAID array. It does not, typically your bad sector gets added to the list and mapped out of being used. Speaking of used, article assumes that entire drive is being used, but if the error on the part of the drive not covered with data, this is also a non issue.
But at first no one believed there were Internets in Kentucky. Well their pipes are in trouble now.
Looks like Pirate Bay is celebrating too, with the classic Gill Bates retro pic and subcaption "Bill Gates Made Me Do It!" So get in on the festivities, fire up https://thepiratebay.org/ and tagoo.ru and see whats on tap!
He can still appeal. Wouldnt it be easier to just drown him in a vat of warm whale spunk?
OK after RTFAing and reading others comments, isn't this something that can be patched by the Adoobie company? In the meantime I set my faithful Fruitfucker 2000 robot on Extreme Vigilant Flash Plugin Fuxx0ring setting.