How do I actually tell the remailer the final destination? Never used one before... connect to a web server on it via HTTPS? SMTP or mail header can't be used, that's sniffed, body can't be used, that's encrypted.
X-box will have better security you say? Right... man, I can't WAIT till consoles are on line... I love laughing at security holes in all the crap I don't use, or know how to use properly.
X-Box was already cracked. It didn't get much press covereage... Eweek did a story, here's the reg's:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/25568.htm l
Your ISP wouldn't do it on their mail server, they would have to sniff all outbound port 25 traffic and record that way. Scary stuff, since even PGP doesn't help much. They'd still known everyone I mail. Time to start putting the Subject: in the body of the message, people!
> Our country may not be as good as it could be, but thank God we're not socialists.
Norman Thomas, For many years the U.S. Socialist Presidential candidate proclaimed: "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of "liberalism" they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
Norman Thomas and Gus Hall, the U.S. Communist Party candidate, both quit American politics, agreeing that the Republican and Democratic parties by 1970 had adopted every plank of the Communist/Socialist Party and they no longer had an alternative party platform on which to run.
Looking at the patent, it seems they've patented a CGI ranking system. Bravo! What an invention. Who could have concieved of such a system except some brilliant mind at nVidia.
The only reliable cookie solution is already here. No changes are required server-side, and you just need a competent browser like Mozilla client side.
First, disable third-party cookies. Then, weekly, or whenever you're bored, go in to cookie manager, check 'do not reaccept deleted cookies', and delete all the cookies for the sites where you do not need them (login info, valuable preferences, etc). Eventually, you'll end up with a block list that rejects all the bogus cookies of the sites you visit, and you never had to bother with dialogs per cookie, or sites not working because of cookie prefs.
Wow, these are pretty bad. They didn't really even change any of the plot, or dialog. Just substituted in SW characters doing Pulp Fiction line for line.
If you want Pulp Fiction, go rent it. If you want a SW parody, go rent Space Balls.
> you trust the linux community to look close > enough at software to stop someone from > inserting nasty code
That's trust based on good practice. Linus reviews everything that enters the tree. Many other people see the patch. Red Hat reviews it as well, likely through Alan Cox. Hundreds of third parties can and do check it.
> Some people trust PC-World not to post nasty > code
They sure do, but if they had any brains they certainly wouldn't install some shareware app off pcworld.com on any machine or network with any personal or otherwise important data on it. Has PC World reviewed the code they host? Has anyone other then the author? What's PC Worlds motivation to do QA on files they host to make sure they don't have hidden backdoors and spyware components? They're not liable, and their reputation wouldn't even be hurt. As everyone else hosts it (zdnet, shareware.com, etc), no one looks worse. So some third party shareware company now has a bad rap. But there's thousands more, and it's too late, the damage is already done. Passwords are stolen out of your registry, your network's being sniffed, and if you don't entirely get rid of all the software it installed (including the stuff it doesn't really uninstall in add/remove programs), it's going to flash your BIOS in two months. HAND.
I've read through many of the programs I use. And for everything else there's a very good chance many others have.
The point is, you can't sneak anything in if you have to publish the source, so no one would be stupid enough to try (on any large scale). And if something odd happens, intentionally or otherwise, you can always look back at the exact intructions it's running. Try that when you're using CuteFTP 4.0 and it sends encrypted packets to and from some server out there.
How long until they're adding windows media video support? Since MPEG-2 encrypted with CSS has ben defeated, moving to Microsoft's content control mechanisms sounds like something the MPAA would be for. This would have the fun bonus of giving Microsoft a monopoly on DVD software, and making DVD playing on Linux (excluding the current illegal hacks, which aren't a nice way to experiance the media you payed for; no menus to access lots of the content) even more of a pipe dream.
> been sleeping through the groups that *have* been ripping and releaseing every CD
Nope. Just that those group released files are rare to find on napster/gnutella/etc. This will make them more available.
> I've yet to see a game that is "too big" - even the 7CD monsters.
Sure, everything is warez'd to some degree. Some poor college kid with ethernet in his dorm doesn't care how long it takes to download. But even if I was into pirating software, I'd sooner spend a measly 40-50 bucks then waste days locating and downloading Diablo 3. I can't just hop on gnutella and search for $game_I_want, click download on one of the links, and expect to get it. Being bigger means it takes longer to download. Obvious, but this causes other problems. Queues fill up. The uploader is quite likely to log off, have his service interupted, cancel your leeching, have his computer struck by lightning... And once you get those gigs, you're much less likely to share it to help the demand.
If there's a popular song... it's quite easy for the 3M mp3 to spread. If there's a popular game, it's MUCH harder for the twenty rar's, 10M each, to spread.
By making it slightly harder to turn your CD into mp3/ogg's, by the techniques described above (Macs, binary imaging, then spliting with Cool Edit, etc), groups will end up doing the releasing, like in the warez scene. This will ensure a more organized (complete cd's, as soon as the CD is release), high quality (decent hardware used to extract the audio) music album releases.
The only thing hurting the warez scene is games being so friggin big nowadays... multiple CDs, etc. You can't run bladeenc, or oggenc on a game.
Maybe DVD-Audio will help combat music piracy, but that's a bit off.
I hate two pane. I need a tree. Was Windows 95's explorer.exe the pinnacle of file manager design? They've since integrated the web browser, and added all this HTML cruft on the side that 99.9% of people don't know how to turn off (even computer savy friends of mine asked me to show them).
Is its rename at least inline? Can I hit (eg) F2 and be editing the files name? No dialog. No clicking properties like in gmc. One button access to making the filename a text field. That's all I ask.
No inline rename, no right-click drag, tries to put icons on my desktop, entering large directories is very slow (what's it DOING), and BOY, are directories UGLY. BRIGHT BLUE? What are they thinking. Oh, and it crashed twice, in the 10 minutes I used it (Clean RH 7.2 install, with the gmc it came with).
The filemanager he mentions seems to be bitroting. Can anyone recommend a windows explorer style file manager for X that I don't have to worry about eating my files? I just searched through freshmeat's 190 matches for "file manager", and found only one file manager that looked usable... and it was binary only.
I normally don't care for such a thing. I get along fine with mv, bash/zsh's advanced replacements (for file in *.fred; do mv $file ${file%.fred}.barney; done), and a little perl script I cooked up to do regexp renaming (remv). But occasionally a certain file management task comes along that leaves me begging for explorer.exe, and its in place edit, and its quick multifile selection that doesn't choke on quotes and spaces.
With Ogg Vorbis we have a good, streamable mp3-type audio encoding that satisfies pretty much all sound needs... We've got nothing for video, however.
Most sites out there seem to offer all three of real, quicktime, and bill's media player, as there still isn't a clear winner in the area. Still ample opportunity for Ogg Tarkin or DivX2, but they need to be as good as or better then all three of the commercial alternatives, in cpu use, streaming, file size, etc. I have a feeling this is going to be much more of a challenge for video then it was for audio, and if an open source solution can't pull it off, eventually the winner of the video battle (probably microsoft) will win the audio battle for free.
With todays Mozilla build, I can't even access MSN's "Zone". I get a browser unsupported page, and when I click the link to proceed anyways, I'm redirected back to the same page.
Not that I was going to get a "passport" to play their stupid games anyway (most of which are available on the companies web site who developed them, for example, bejewled (one of their most popular games) is available elsewhere (same code) under differant names).
Wiping out warez can only be a good thing for Linux and Free/Open Software. If people actually have to pay $600*workstations for MSOffice, they won't. I only wish XP's activation wasn't so easy to circumvent.
A complete set of PC hardware goes for $250-$300 now... Windows XP + Office XP is $900. So you can have a new workstation for $300 running Linux, or, now that you can't pirate Microsoft's crap, the exact same machine, for $1200.
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> That's what anonymous remailers are for.
How do I actually tell the remailer the final destination? Never used one before... connect to a web server on it via HTTPS? SMTP or mail header can't be used, that's sniffed, body can't be used, that's encrypted.
X-box will have better security you say? Right... man, I can't WAIT till consoles are on line... I love laughing at security holes in all the crap I don't use, or know how to use properly.
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X-Box was already cracked. It didn't get much press covereage... Eweek did a story, here's the reg's:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/25568.ht
Your ISP wouldn't do it on their mail server, they would have to sniff all outbound port 25 traffic and record that way. Scary stuff, since even PGP doesn't help much. They'd still known everyone I mail. Time to start putting the Subject: in the body of the message, people!
> Our country may not be as good as it could be, but thank God we're not socialists.
Norman Thomas, For many years the U.S. Socialist Presidential candidate proclaimed: "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of "liberalism" they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
Norman Thomas and Gus Hall, the U.S. Communist Party candidate, both quit American politics, agreeing that the Republican and Democratic parties by 1970 had adopted every plank of the Communist/Socialist Party and they no longer had an alternative party platform on which to run.
Looking at the patent, it seems they've patented a CGI ranking system. Bravo! What an invention. Who could have concieved of such a system except some brilliant mind at nVidia.
Oh, and battle.net.
And 10 year old Internet chess servers.
The only reliable cookie solution is already here. No changes are required server-side, and you just need a competent browser like Mozilla client side.
First, disable third-party cookies. Then, weekly, or whenever you're bored, go in to cookie manager, check 'do not reaccept deleted cookies', and delete all the cookies for the sites where you do not need them (login info, valuable preferences, etc). Eventually, you'll end up with a block list that rejects all the bogus cookies of the sites you visit, and you never had to bother with dialogs per cookie, or sites not working because of cookie prefs.
Wow, these are pretty bad. They didn't really even change any of the plot, or dialog. Just substituted in SW characters doing Pulp Fiction line for line.
If you want Pulp Fiction, go rent it. If you want a SW parody, go rent Space Balls.
> you trust the linux community to look close
> enough at software to stop someone from
> inserting nasty code
That's trust based on good practice. Linus reviews everything that enters the tree. Many other people see the patch. Red Hat reviews it as well, likely through Alan Cox. Hundreds of third parties can and do check it.
> Some people trust PC-World not to post nasty
> code
They sure do, but if they had any brains they certainly wouldn't install some shareware app off pcworld.com on any machine or network with any personal or otherwise important data on it. Has PC World reviewed the code they host? Has anyone other then the author? What's PC Worlds motivation to do QA on files they host to make sure they don't have hidden backdoors and spyware components? They're not liable, and their reputation wouldn't even be hurt. As everyone else hosts it (zdnet, shareware.com, etc), no one looks worse. So some third party shareware company now has a bad rap. But there's thousands more, and it's too late, the damage is already done. Passwords are stolen out of your registry, your network's being sniffed, and if you don't entirely get rid of all the software it installed (including the stuff it doesn't really uninstall in add/remove programs), it's going to flash your BIOS in two months. HAND.
I've read through many of the programs I use. And for everything else there's a very good chance many others have.
The point is, you can't sneak anything in if you have to publish the source, so no one would be stupid enough to try (on any large scale). And if something odd happens, intentionally or otherwise, you can always look back at the exact intructions it's running. Try that when you're using CuteFTP 4.0 and it sends encrypted packets to and from some server out there.
Oh, gotta love the Windows software world... post a link to a executable file and everyone just runs it. Who cares what it does!
Netfilter is extremely well documented... this poster must not have tried very hard.
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# HOWTO
Home page: http://www.netfilter.org/
FAQs: http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/FAQ/netfil
Excellent HOWTOs: http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/index.html
For more information on how much software patents suck, be sure to check out the League for Programming Freedom.
Playing MPEG stream from Dueling Banjos.mp3
Nothin' like multinational corporations duking it out. Who'll be the first to sue Phillips under DMCA?
How long until they're adding windows media video support? Since MPEG-2 encrypted with CSS has ben defeated, moving to Microsoft's content control mechanisms sounds like something the MPAA would be for. This would have the fun bonus of giving Microsoft a monopoly on DVD software, and making DVD playing on Linux (excluding the current illegal hacks, which aren't a nice way to experiance the media you payed for; no menus to access lots of the content) even more of a pipe dream.
> been sleeping through the groups that *have* been ripping and releaseing every CD
Nope. Just that those group released files are rare to find on napster/gnutella/etc. This will make them more available.
> I've yet to see a game that is "too big" - even the 7CD monsters.
Sure, everything is warez'd to some degree. Some poor college kid with ethernet in his dorm doesn't care how long it takes to download. But even if I was into pirating software, I'd sooner spend a measly 40-50 bucks then waste days locating and downloading Diablo 3. I can't just hop on gnutella and search for $game_I_want, click download on one of the links, and expect to get it. Being bigger means it takes longer to download. Obvious, but this causes other problems. Queues fill up. The uploader is quite likely to log off, have his service interupted, cancel your leeching, have his computer struck by lightning... And once you get those gigs, you're much less likely to share it to help the demand.
If there's a popular song... it's quite easy for the 3M mp3 to spread. If there's a popular game, it's MUCH harder for the twenty rar's, 10M each, to spread.
By making it slightly harder to turn your CD into mp3/ogg's, by the techniques described above (Macs, binary imaging, then spliting with Cool Edit, etc), groups will end up doing the releasing, like in the warez scene. This will ensure a more organized (complete cd's, as soon as the CD is release), high quality (decent hardware used to extract the audio) music album releases.
The only thing hurting the warez scene is games being so friggin big nowadays... multiple CDs, etc. You can't run bladeenc, or oggenc on a game.
Maybe DVD-Audio will help combat music piracy, but that's a bit off.
I hate two pane. I need a tree. Was Windows 95's explorer.exe the pinnacle of file manager design? They've since integrated the web browser, and added all this HTML cruft on the side that 99.9% of people don't know how to turn off (even computer savy friends of mine asked me to show them).
Is its rename at least inline? Can I hit (eg) F2 and be editing the files name? No dialog. No clicking properties like in gmc. One button access to making the filename a text field. That's all I ask.
No inline rename, no right-click drag, tries to put icons on my desktop, entering large directories is very slow (what's it DOING), and BOY, are directories UGLY. BRIGHT BLUE? What are they thinking. Oh, and it crashed twice, in the 10 minutes I used it (Clean RH 7.2 install, with the gmc it came with).
What an awful app.
The filemanager he mentions seems to be bitroting. Can anyone recommend a windows explorer style file manager for X that I don't have to worry about eating my files? I just searched through freshmeat's 190 matches for "file manager", and found only one file manager that looked usable... and it was binary only.
I normally don't care for such a thing. I get along fine with mv, bash/zsh's advanced replacements (for file in *.fred; do mv $file ${file%.fred}.barney; done), and a little perl script I cooked up to do regexp renaming (remv). But occasionally a certain file management task comes along that leaves me begging for explorer.exe, and its in place edit, and its quick multifile selection that doesn't choke on quotes and spaces.
Anything out there for me?
Forgot to mention...
Real(tm) realizes this, which is why they've integrated their two players into "Real One" (which, by the way guys, is a stupid name).
With Ogg Vorbis we have a good, streamable mp3-type audio encoding that satisfies pretty much all sound needs... We've got nothing for video, however.
Most sites out there seem to offer all three of real, quicktime, and bill's media player, as there still isn't a clear winner in the area. Still ample opportunity for Ogg Tarkin or DivX2, but they need to be as good as or better then all three of the commercial alternatives, in cpu use, streaming, file size, etc. I have a feeling this is going to be much more of a challenge for video then it was for audio, and if an open source solution can't pull it off, eventually the winner of the video battle (probably microsoft) will win the audio battle for free.
Linus has just as good a case... Lindows starts with Lin, which is over half of the name Linux.
> "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware of for Windows desktop systems," said Scott Culp..
I think he meant, the first, today.
With todays Mozilla build, I can't even access MSN's "Zone". I get a browser unsupported page, and when I click the link to proceed anyways, I'm redirected back to the same page.
Not that I was going to get a "passport" to play their stupid games anyway (most of which are available on the companies web site who developed them, for example, bejewled (one of their most popular games) is available elsewhere (same code) under differant names).
Wiping out warez can only be a good thing for Linux and Free/Open Software. If people actually have to pay $600*workstations for MSOffice, they won't. I only wish XP's activation wasn't so easy to circumvent.
A complete set of PC hardware goes for $250-$300 now... Windows XP + Office XP is $900. So you can have a new workstation for $300 running Linux, or, now that you can't pirate Microsoft's crap, the exact same machine, for $1200.