It's more complicated than that. They are not creating direct connections to the target, that would be too easy to prevent as you only had to block certain IP addresses. They are creating bogus requests to millions of misconfigured DNS servers around the world, making those servers respond to the victim's address. You would have to block millions of IP addresses to prevent something like this, and even if you managed to do that in your firewall the amount of traffic would most certainly bring down your ISP.
That's beside the point. Here you have a trained killer threatening to severe heads with an axe. I don't know if it's a crime per se, but it's something the government would be held liable if they don't investigate. The truth is that there are a lot of nutjobs, but when you have trained person threatening to use such training to attack the government it would be irresponsible not to act.
Facebook is forced by law to monitor and report on such activities. This is non news.
... including Chavez supporters and ALL THE OPOSITION. In fact, this is the ONLY issue, after 13 years, where both sides agree completely.
(sorry, posted as anonymous by mistake. this is not redundant)
It's very easy to have an opinion when you live in a first world country. But when you have experienced the level of violence on the streets (regardless of your support or not for the regime), this measure is like a (small) breath of air.
Our situation is very different than in other countries. In all my life I've seen, while walking on the street, 4 people get killed by gunshots. All of them robberies. How many people can claim to have witnessed that much crime while simply walking on the street? And the first one was when I was 10 years old... long before Chavez.
Violence runs on the blood of the people here. It's a really sad state of affairs. You can be shot for not letting a car pass, or just looking at the wrong woman on the street.
I'm not saying that this is a perfect solution, or that this will solve all of our problems. This will not solve the deep problems that cause people to kill each other like nothing happened. But for once EVERYONE is at least trying, regardless of political views. And I really hope they succeed.
They are using it to pump the economy. The heating produced by this cluster must be cooled with extra air conditioning systems, increasing the demand for power and for air conditioning unis, thus creating new jobs and incentivizing the research for new energy sources.
No, they not. That's the point of double hashing. If you know 'xyz' you still need to know 'opqr' to send a valid hash (remember that you need to hash 'xyz-opqr' with the session salt). Since the server never sends 'opqr' to the client, the only way to generate it is through HASH(xyz + plaintext_password).
This is nonsense. You can double hash passwords. That's the correct way:
plaintext: 1234 salt: xyz salt+plaintext hash: opqr you store on DB: xyz-opqr
when the user requests the login page, the server creates a new salt, stores it in the session (server side) and sends the two salts to the client (session one and DB one):
server extracts salt from DB: xyz server creates a session salt: abc client receives session salt: abc client receives DB salt: xyz user enters password: 1234 client hashes using DB salt: opqr 1st hash is: opqr 1st hash with salt is: xyz-opqr client hashes using session salt: hijk 2nd hash is: hijk client sends the twice hashed password to the server: hijk
Now the server hashes the DB password using the session salt (that was stored on the server side session, remember not to trust the info from the client), and the two should be the same, without the server needing to know the plaintext password.
This is basic auth and security stuff. Which means sony must have hired some second hand programmers to develop this whole system. Creepy indeed.
Microsoft added a 'Do Not Crack' plea button to Internet Explorer... hackers were unavailable for comments on whether this new button will convince them of leaving the browser alone
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, I use it since 95, and I wouldn't install anything different to a server. But right now Linux interface (yes, Gnome, I'm talking about you) feels so old it's frustrating. And don't get me started about the beautiful-but-hiper-unstable KDE... If KDE's stylists wold support Gnome's good but aesthetically blind developers, we may be on to something.
But right now Linux feels stuck on FVWM95, while OSX provides a CLI just as powerful (MacPorts rule, BTW) and a consistent-yet-usable-yet-nice-looking GUI.
What impresses me the most in this case is how everyone is mocking this guy. I mean, he screwed up big time, but as some of the articles have pointed out, he managed to identify a couple of members of anonymous (whom had not been identified before in public), and almost identified another, who admitted in public that Barr pointed instead to his girlfriend. I mean, that's pretty close isn't it?
Again, this guy is a dick head and whatnot, and got what was coming to him and all... but he got really close.
I mean, he owns the TV station, and he goes outside the country to make accusations (that may be true, mind you) without presenting any proof, and then transmits those declaration nonstop on his TV station. This is not about free speech, or freedom of press. It's about making claims without any proof and then using your own TV station to repeat the message ad-nauseam.
You have the freedom to accuse the government of killing people, but you have the duty to present the proof. Nowhere in the world (including the USA) you can accuse anybody of mass killing people without presenting any proof and come out clean. And when the accuser is the owner of a major TV channel it's worse.
Next, we'll see slashdot out-crying the incarceration of killers because they voted against Chavez.
It's really simple. They own the 'Android' name. If you are a handset manufacturer and want to jump in the Android bandwagon, you will have to pay google (more likely you will have to pay for each phone delivered with the Android label (and google label, they'll want to put that too)).
Owning the platform (it's free, so you have a license to do almost anything, but impersonate google as the creator) gives them a lot of power. 10MM USD is pocket change compared with the publicity and the amount of great applications that will surface for the platform.
The Jedi or Sith employ an attack in rare instances to use the cutting power of their lightsabers for an object at an unreachable location called the saber throw, or a throwing of his or her lightsaber. The lightsaber is thrown; usually the blade tip spins in a circular motion about the hilt; and the saber hits its target, usually to cut it. Skilled practitioners will use the Force to manipulate the trajectory of the lightsaber and then redirect it back to their hand; this technique was demonstrated in Return of the Jedi by Darth Vader when he fought Luke Skywalker; when Skywalker jumped onto a catwalk, Vader threw his lightsaber to bring the catwalk crashing to the ground, and demonstrated again in Revenge of the Sith when Yoda killed an attacking clone trooper fighting his way into the Jedi Temple.
This technique has become a staple in multiple video and computer games featuring lightsabers such as Jedi Knight, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles, Knights of the Old Republic, and Star Wars Galaxies.
Read that article and tell me where are its sources. It's an interpretation of a nerd that saw the movies too many times. That's encyclopedia material but a stub saying 'The comic All My Boxes has run on the web for X years. It has Y readers according to Z' is not?.
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It's more complicated than that. They are not creating direct connections to the target, that would be too easy to prevent as you only had to block certain IP addresses. They are creating bogus requests to millions of misconfigured DNS servers around the world, making those servers respond to the victim's address. You would have to block millions of IP addresses to prevent something like this, and even if you managed to do that in your firewall the amount of traffic would most certainly bring down your ISP.
LOL
That's beside the point. Here you have a trained killer threatening to severe heads with an axe. I don't know if it's a crime per se, but it's something the government would be held liable if they don't investigate. The truth is that there are a lot of nutjobs, but when you have trained person threatening to use such training to attack the government it would be irresponsible not to act.
Facebook is forced by law to monitor and report on such activities. This is non news.
Posting to undo wrong mod :( sorry
... including Chavez supporters and ALL THE OPOSITION. In fact, this is the ONLY issue, after 13 years, where both sides agree completely.
(sorry, posted as anonymous by mistake. this is not redundant)
It's very easy to have an opinion when you live in a first world country. But when you have experienced the level of violence on the streets (regardless of your support or not for the regime), this measure is like a (small) breath of air.
Our situation is very different than in other countries. In all my life I've seen, while walking on the street, 4 people get killed by gunshots. All of them robberies. How many people can claim to have witnessed that much crime while simply walking on the street? And the first one was when I was 10 years old ... long before Chavez.
Violence runs on the blood of the people here. It's a really sad state of affairs. You can be shot for not letting a car pass, or just looking at the wrong woman on the street.
I'm not saying that this is a perfect solution, or that this will solve all of our problems. This will not solve the deep problems that cause people to kill each other like nothing happened. But for once EVERYONE is at least trying, regardless of political views. And I really hope they succeed.
They are using it to pump the economy. The heating produced by this cluster must be cooled with extra air conditioning systems, increasing the demand for power and for air conditioning unis, thus creating new jobs and incentivizing the research for new energy sources.
'nuff said
Other sources say they found some shit
According to some sources, they didn't find no shit
Porn site RSS log:
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speed: 40 mph
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speed: 60 mph
speed: 40 mph
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connection lost
ReiserFS will kill it
No, they not. That's the point of double hashing. If you know 'xyz' you still need to know 'opqr' to send a valid hash (remember that you need to hash 'xyz-opqr' with the session salt). Since the server never sends 'opqr' to the client, the only way to generate it is through HASH(xyz + plaintext_password).
This is nonsense. You can double hash passwords. That's the correct way:
plaintext: 1234
salt: xyz
salt+plaintext hash: opqr
you store on DB: xyz-opqr
when the user requests the login page, the server creates a new salt, stores it in the session (server side) and sends the two salts to the client (session one and DB one):
server extracts salt from DB: xyz
server creates a session salt: abc
client receives session salt: abc
client receives DB salt: xyz
user enters password: 1234
client hashes using DB salt: opqr
1st hash is: opqr
1st hash with salt is: xyz-opqr
client hashes using session salt: hijk
2nd hash is: hijk
client sends the twice hashed password to the server: hijk
Now the server hashes the DB password using the session salt (that was stored on the server side session, remember not to trust the info from the client), and the two should be the same, without the server needing to know the plaintext password.
This is basic auth and security stuff. Which means sony must have hired some second hand programmers to develop this whole system. Creepy indeed.
Microsoft added a 'Do Not Crack' plea button to Internet Explorer ... hackers were unavailable for comments on whether this new button will convince them of leaving the browser alone
OSX is what Linux wants to be when it grows up.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, I use it since 95, and I wouldn't install anything different to a server. But right now Linux interface (yes, Gnome, I'm talking about you) feels so old it's frustrating. And don't get me started about the beautiful-but-hiper-unstable KDE ... If KDE's stylists wold support Gnome's good but aesthetically blind developers, we may be on to something.
But right now Linux feels stuck on FVWM95, while OSX provides a CLI just as powerful (MacPorts rule, BTW) and a consistent-yet-usable-yet-nice-looking GUI.
What impresses me the most in this case is how everyone is mocking this guy. I mean, he screwed up big time, but as some of the articles have pointed out, he managed to identify a couple of members of anonymous (whom had not been identified before in public), and almost identified another, who admitted in public that Barr pointed instead to his girlfriend. I mean, that's pretty close isn't it?
Again, this guy is a dick head and whatnot, and got what was coming to him and all ... but he got really close.
I salute you, fellow futurama buff!!!
You should always host the MD5 or SHA hashes offsite.
What disturbs me is that everyone fails to mention that the TV station owner used his TV station to accuse the government of mass killings, without presenting any proof whatsoever.
I mean, he owns the TV station, and he goes outside the country to make accusations (that may be true, mind you) without presenting any proof, and then transmits those declaration nonstop on his TV station. This is not about free speech, or freedom of press. It's about making claims without any proof and then using your own TV station to repeat the message ad-nauseam.
Everybody has internet in venezuela. It's not a jungle, you know.
If you have the balls to make wild claims, you better have a pair to prove them.
You have the freedom to accuse the government of killing people, but you have the duty to present the proof. Nowhere in the world (including the USA) you can accuse anybody of mass killing people without presenting any proof and come out clean. And when the accuser is the owner of a major TV channel it's worse.
Next, we'll see slashdot out-crying the incarceration of killers because they voted against Chavez.
how long until they elect Hugo Chavez as president?
A better slogan: The only reactor that lives in 2D space! You can paint it in the wall!
The new reactor, which is only 20 feet by 6 feet
It's really simple. They own the 'Android' name. If you are a handset manufacturer and want to jump in the Android bandwagon, you will have to pay google (more likely you will have to pay for each phone delivered with the Android label (and google label, they'll want to put that too)).
Owning the platform (it's free, so you have a license to do almost anything, but impersonate google as the creator) gives them a lot of power. 10MM USD is pocket change compared with the publicity and the amount of great applications that will surface for the platform.
From Lightsaber combat:
Saber throw
The Jedi or Sith employ an attack in rare instances to use the cutting power of their lightsabers for an object at an unreachable location called the saber throw, or a throwing of his or her lightsaber. The lightsaber is thrown; usually the blade tip spins in a circular motion about the hilt; and the saber hits its target, usually to cut it. Skilled practitioners will use the Force to manipulate the trajectory of the lightsaber and then redirect it back to their hand; this technique was demonstrated in Return of the Jedi by Darth Vader when he fought Luke Skywalker; when Skywalker jumped onto a catwalk, Vader threw his lightsaber to bring the catwalk crashing to the ground, and demonstrated again in Revenge of the Sith when Yoda killed an attacking clone trooper fighting his way into the Jedi Temple.
This technique has become a staple in multiple video and computer games featuring lightsabers such as Jedi Knight, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles, Knights of the Old Republic, and Star Wars Galaxies.
Read that article and tell me where are its sources. It's an interpretation of a nerd that saw the movies too many times. That's encyclopedia material but a stub saying 'The comic All My Boxes has run on the web for X years. It has Y readers according to Z' is not?.
Wikipedia editors are really full of it.