I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, AND CURRENTLY SERVING AS PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE
NOT MET NEITHER IN PERSON NOR BY CORRESPONDENCE. I CAME TO KNOW OF YOU IN MY
SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE AND REPUTABLE PERSON TO HANDLE A VERY CONFIDENTIAL
BUSINESS TRANSACTION, WHICH INVOLVES THE TRANSFER OF A HUGE SUM OF MONEY TO
AN ACCOUNT REQUIRING MAXIMUM CONFIDENCE.
I AM WRITING YOU IN ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE PRIMARILY TO SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE IN
ACQUIRING OIL FUNDS THAT ARE PRESENTLY TRAPPED IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ. MY
PARTNERS AND I SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING A TRANSACTION BEGUN BY
MY FATHER, WHO HAS LONG BEEN ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN THE EXTRACTION OF PETROLEUM
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND BRAVELY SERVED HIS COUNTRY AS DIRECTOR
OF THE UNITED STATES CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.
IN THE DECADE OF THE NINETEEN-EIGHTIES, MY FATHER, THEN VICE-PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SOUGHT TO WORK WITH THE GOOD OFFICES OF THE
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ TO REGAIN LOST OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE
NEIGHBORING ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. THIS UNSUCCESSFUL VENTURE WAS SOON
FOLLOWED BY A FALLING OUT WITH HIS IRAQI PARTNER, WHO SOUGHT TO ACQUIRE
ADDITIONAL OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE NEIGHBORING EMIRATE OF KUWAIT, A
WHOLLY-OWNED U.S.-BRITISH SUBSIDIARY.
MY FATHER RE-SECURED THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF KUWAIT IN 1991 AT A COST OF
SIXTY-ONE BILLION U.S. DOLLARS ($61,000,000,000). OUT OF THAT COST,
THIRTY-SIX BILLION DOLLARS ($36,000,000,000) WERE SUPPLIED BY HIS PARTNERS
IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA AND OTHER PERSIAN GULF MONARCHIES, AND
SIXTEEN BILLION DOLLARS ($16,000,000,000) BY GERMAN AND JAPANESE PARTNERS.
BUT MY FATHER'S FORMER IRAQI BUSINESS PARTNER REMAINED IN CONTROL OF THE
REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ITS PETROLEUM RESERVES.
MY FAMILY IS CALLING FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE IN FUNDING THE REMOVAL OF
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ACQUIRING THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF
HIS COUNTRY, AS COMPENSATION FOR THE COSTS OF REMOVING HIM FROM POWER.
UNFORTUNATELY, OUR PARTNERS FROM 1991 ARE NOT WILLING TO SHOULDER THE BURDEN
OF THIS NEW VENTURE, WHICH IN ITS UPCOMING PHASE MAY COST THE SUM OF 100
BILLION TO 200 BILLION DOLLARS ($100,000,000,000 - $200,000,000,000), BOTH
IN THE INITIAL ACQUISITION AND IN LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT.
WITHOUT THE FUNDS FROM OUR 1991 PARTNERS, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ACQUIRE
THE OIL REVENUE TRAPPED WITHIN IRAQ. THAT IS WHY MY FAMILY AND OUR
COLLEAGUES ARE URGENTLY SEEKING YOUR GRACIOUS ASSISTANCE. OUR DISTINGUISHED
COLLEAGUES IN THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION INCLUDE THE SITTING VICE-PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, RICHARD CHENEY, WHO IS AN ORIGINAL PARTNER
IN THE IRAQ VENTURE AND FORMER HEAD OF THE HALLIBURTON OIL COMPANY, AND
CONDOLEEZA RICE, WHOSE PROFESSIONAL DEDICATION TO THE VENTURE WAS
DEMONSTRATED IN THE NAMING OF A CHEVRON OIL TANKER AFTER HER.
I WOULD BESEECH YOU TO TRANSFER A SUM EQUALING TEN TO TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT
(10-25 %) OF YOUR YEARLY INCOME TO OUR ACCOUNT TO AID IN THIS IMPORTANT
VENTURE. THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL
FUNCTION AS OUR TRUSTED INTERMEDIARY. I PROPOSE THAT YOU MAKE THIS TRANSFER
BEFORE THE FIFTEENTH (15TH) OF THE MONTH OF APRIL.
I KNOW THAT A TRANSACTION OF THIS MAGNITUDE WOULD MAKE ANYONE APPREHENSIVE
AND WORRIED. BUT I AM ASSURING YOU THAT ALL WILL BE WELL AT THE END OF THE
DAY. A BOLD STEP TAKEN SHALL NOT BE REGRETTED, I ASSURE YOU. PLEASE DO BE
INFORMED THAT THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO
CO-OPERATE IN THIS TRANSACTION, PLEASE CONTACT OUR INTERMEDIARY
REPRESENTATIVES TO FURTHER DISCUSS THE MATTER.
I PRAY THAT YOU UNDERSTAND OUR PLIGHT. MY FAMILY AND OUR COLLEAGUES WILL BE
FOREVER GRATEFUL. PLEASE REPLY IN STRICT CONFIDENCE TO THE CONTACT NUMBERS
BELOW.
98% of the DNS queries at the root level are unnecessary. [...] This means that the remaining 2% of necessary DNS queries are probably not necessary either."
Uhh... right, eliminate 100% of the root queries, they aren't needed..
How does the system ensure that the file the hash was computed from is the same file the client will be giving to other users?
If I read your question correctly, you're referring to what's called a hash collision, that's highly unlikely. Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" has a lot of good reading on this. Parts (or "chunks" as eDonkey/eMule call them) which come in 9 MB pieces are also checked. It's a pretty sweet system. When you see a file with a lot of sources and you've gotten the file ID from a reputable source, say ShareReactor or FIleDonkey you shouldn't have any problems.
It won't work well with all P2P networks. A prime example is the eDonkey network which uses a hash of each file as an identifier, not a filename/size identifier. You can rename the file to anything and the hash won't change. eMule Project is another great eDonkey network client and is open source.
This is too little, too late, unless you're stuck on Kazaa.
For boosted security, they could make it re-randomize the password every hour.
Yes, that makes a lot of sense, randomly change the password and lock out the user after an hour. Or were you suggesting something even more brilliant: change the password and display it on the user's screen?
Itdosn't seem like they've got the bandwidth to survive a slashdotting. how do they expect to push the games down constantly?
Here's a thought.. don't push the games from your webserver or machines on your corporate LAN. Contract to a place with big pipes to hold the files on worldwide mirrors. It's done every day.
Bob Young gave out 23 free red velvet fedoras. He commented that he would have liked to have given out more but being that RedHat only made $300K last year "times were rough".
Across the hall, 6 gentlemen from the RepoDepot were clearing out the Mandrakesoft booth.
VA Software had a good showing, several dozen slashdot fans shared pizza with Cowboy Neal and CommanderTaco was demoing a beta version of his GPL spelling software.
Taco's ESL grammar aside, this sounds like another proprietary mass storage system with a cheap drive unit and disposable cartridges. Reminds me of "Give them the razor, sell them the blades". Remember Zip drives? Jaz drives? etc etc? Open standard CD and CDRs obliterated them.
Thanks but no thanks. With a large hard drive in a laptop and a larger one in a server at home I don't see the need.
"Phone, dial Universe.Milky-Way.Earth.Canada.Ontario.Toronto.Ma in-Street.2871.apartment-832.Smith.Robert.Henry" That's much easier than having to remember 11 digits!
Slashdot Mirror
I just called my insurance company:
me: g1bb0r m3 h4x0r 1n5ur4nc3.
insurance co.: Pardon me?
me: g1bb0r... m3... h4x0r... 1n5ur4nc3...
insurance co.: Sir, this is an insurance company.
m3: 3y3 gn0 j00 l4m3x0r! G1BB0R M3 H4X0R 1N5UR4NC3!
-- click --
Some people have no sense of humour.
Would a firm get a break on their insurance if they ran 100 OpenBSD servers rather than 100 Windows servers or do they view a box as a box as a box?
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED :
HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH
DEAR SIR / MADAM,
I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, AND CURRENTLY SERVING AS PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE
NOT MET NEITHER IN PERSON NOR BY CORRESPONDENCE. I CAME TO KNOW OF YOU IN MY
SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE AND REPUTABLE PERSON TO HANDLE A VERY CONFIDENTIAL
BUSINESS TRANSACTION, WHICH INVOLVES THE TRANSFER OF A HUGE SUM OF MONEY TO
AN ACCOUNT REQUIRING MAXIMUM CONFIDENCE.
I AM WRITING YOU IN ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE PRIMARILY TO SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE IN
ACQUIRING OIL FUNDS THAT ARE PRESENTLY TRAPPED IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ. MY
PARTNERS AND I SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING A TRANSACTION BEGUN BY
MY FATHER, WHO HAS LONG BEEN ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN THE EXTRACTION OF PETROLEUM
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND BRAVELY SERVED HIS COUNTRY AS DIRECTOR
OF THE UNITED STATES CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.
IN THE DECADE OF THE NINETEEN-EIGHTIES, MY FATHER, THEN VICE-PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SOUGHT TO WORK WITH THE GOOD OFFICES OF THE
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ TO REGAIN LOST OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE
NEIGHBORING ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. THIS UNSUCCESSFUL VENTURE WAS SOON
FOLLOWED BY A FALLING OUT WITH HIS IRAQI PARTNER, WHO SOUGHT TO ACQUIRE
ADDITIONAL OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE NEIGHBORING EMIRATE OF KUWAIT, A
WHOLLY-OWNED U.S.-BRITISH SUBSIDIARY.
MY FATHER RE-SECURED THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF KUWAIT IN 1991 AT A COST OF
SIXTY-ONE BILLION U.S. DOLLARS ($61,000,000,000). OUT OF THAT COST,
THIRTY-SIX BILLION DOLLARS ($36,000,000,000) WERE SUPPLIED BY HIS PARTNERS
IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA AND OTHER PERSIAN GULF MONARCHIES, AND
SIXTEEN BILLION DOLLARS ($16,000,000,000) BY GERMAN AND JAPANESE PARTNERS.
BUT MY FATHER'S FORMER IRAQI BUSINESS PARTNER REMAINED IN CONTROL OF THE
REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ITS PETROLEUM RESERVES.
MY FAMILY IS CALLING FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE IN FUNDING THE REMOVAL OF
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ACQUIRING THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF
HIS COUNTRY, AS COMPENSATION FOR THE COSTS OF REMOVING HIM FROM POWER.
UNFORTUNATELY, OUR PARTNERS FROM 1991 ARE NOT WILLING TO SHOULDER THE BURDEN
OF THIS NEW VENTURE, WHICH IN ITS UPCOMING PHASE MAY COST THE SUM OF 100
BILLION TO 200 BILLION DOLLARS ($100,000,000,000 - $200,000,000,000), BOTH
IN THE INITIAL ACQUISITION AND IN LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT.
WITHOUT THE FUNDS FROM OUR 1991 PARTNERS, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ACQUIRE
THE OIL REVENUE TRAPPED WITHIN IRAQ. THAT IS WHY MY FAMILY AND OUR
COLLEAGUES ARE URGENTLY SEEKING YOUR GRACIOUS ASSISTANCE. OUR DISTINGUISHED
COLLEAGUES IN THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION INCLUDE THE SITTING VICE-PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, RICHARD CHENEY, WHO IS AN ORIGINAL PARTNER
IN THE IRAQ VENTURE AND FORMER HEAD OF THE HALLIBURTON OIL COMPANY, AND
CONDOLEEZA RICE, WHOSE PROFESSIONAL DEDICATION TO THE VENTURE WAS
DEMONSTRATED IN THE NAMING OF A CHEVRON OIL TANKER AFTER HER.
I WOULD BESEECH YOU TO TRANSFER A SUM EQUALING TEN TO TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT
(10-25 %) OF YOUR YEARLY INCOME TO OUR ACCOUNT TO AID IN THIS IMPORTANT
VENTURE. THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL
FUNCTION AS OUR TRUSTED INTERMEDIARY. I PROPOSE THAT YOU MAKE THIS TRANSFER
BEFORE THE FIFTEENTH (15TH) OF THE MONTH OF APRIL.
I KNOW THAT A TRANSACTION OF THIS MAGNITUDE WOULD MAKE ANYONE APPREHENSIVE
AND WORRIED. BUT I AM ASSURING YOU THAT ALL WILL BE WELL AT THE END OF THE
DAY. A BOLD STEP TAKEN SHALL NOT BE REGRETTED, I ASSURE YOU. PLEASE DO BE
INFORMED THAT THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO
CO-OPERATE IN THIS TRANSACTION, PLEASE CONTACT OUR INTERMEDIARY
REPRESENTATIVES TO FURTHER DISCUSS THE MATTER.
I PRAY THAT YOU UNDERSTAND OUR PLIGHT. MY FAMILY AND OUR COLLEAGUES WILL BE
FOREVER GRATEFUL. PLEASE REPLY IN STRICT CONFIDENCE TO THE CONTACT NUMBERS
BELOW.
SINCERELY WITH WARM REGARDS,
GEORGE WALKER BUSH
Switchboard: 202.456.1414 Comments: 202.456.1111 Fax: 202.456.2461 Email:
president@whitehouse.gov
Kind of explains what happened to the Atari Lynx and Jaguar, dunnit?
Atari Lynx, Jaguar and *BSD you mean. Netcraft doesn't even have Lynx and Jaguar on the radar!
"A rose by any other name..."
The hottest thing I've seen at this show so far is a guy with six piercings jumping up and down
What he doesn't tell you is that it was actually Cowboy Neal. The other 9 piercings were.. hidden..
All they need is netcat, shell scripts and grep.
98% of the DNS queries at the root level are unnecessary. [...] This means that the remaining 2% of necessary DNS queries are probably not necessary either."
Uhh... right, eliminate 100% of the root queries, they aren't needed..
sheeeesh..
hitchhiker: hey man, you going south to Florida?
trucker: No I'm goi... err. yeahhh.. hop in little buddy!
How does the system ensure that the file the hash was computed from is the same file the client will be giving to other users?
If I read your question correctly, you're referring to what's called a hash collision, that's highly unlikely. Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" has a lot of good reading on this. Parts (or "chunks" as eDonkey/eMule call them) which come in 9 MB pieces are also checked. It's a pretty sweet system. When you see a file with a lot of sources and you've gotten the file ID from a reputable source, say ShareReactor or FIleDonkey you shouldn't have any problems.
It won't work well with all P2P networks. A prime example is the eDonkey network which uses a hash of each file as an identifier, not a filename/size identifier. You can rename the file to anything and the hash won't change. eMule Project is another great eDonkey network client and is open source.
This is too little, too late, unless you're stuck on Kazaa.
For boosted security, they could make it re-randomize the password every hour.
Yes, that makes a lot of sense, randomly change the password and lock out the user after an hour. Or were you suggesting something even more brilliant: change the password and display it on the user's screen?
Sheeeesh.
Name just one console where the player can be eaten by a grue?
[/curmudgeon]
Real Soon Now.
Don't mod this post up, it's obvious. Do however feel free to mod the parent down.
The Caldera/SCO chart doesn't look very good. [...] They are hemmoraging money [...] These guys are history [...]"
Wow, that reads almost like the *BSD is dying troll. All you needed to add was a line about a "charnel house".
Well done!
Who'd win in a fight, Theo de Raadt or god?
Ha, trick question, Theo de Raadt is god!
Rename all your shared P2P ZIPs/ISOs/RARs/etc to "filename-ext.mp3" and let the RIAA wade throught the flood of "mp3" files.
Itdosn't seem like they've got the bandwidth to survive a slashdotting. how do they expect to push the games down constantly?
Here's a thought.. don't push the games from your webserver or machines on your corporate LAN. Contract to a place with big pipes to hold the files on worldwide mirrors. It's done every day.
Pong, Breakout, Space Invaders..
LinuxWorld was a huge success!
Bob Young gave out 23 free red velvet fedoras. He commented that he would have liked to have given out more but being that RedHat only made $300K last year "times were rough".
Across the hall, 6 gentlemen from the RepoDepot were clearing out the Mandrakesoft booth.
VA Software had a good showing, several dozen slashdot fans shared pizza with Cowboy Neal and CommanderTaco was demoing a beta version of his GPL spelling software.
What chapter does VA Software appear in?
Being that it's similar to looking through a small hole to see a large interior I think they should call it The Speculum
Taco's ESL grammar aside, this sounds like another proprietary mass storage system with a cheap drive unit and disposable cartridges. Reminds me of "Give them the razor, sell them the blades". Remember Zip drives? Jaz drives? etc etc? Open standard CD and CDRs obliterated them.
Thanks but no thanks. With a large hard drive in a laptop and a larger one in a server at home I don't see the need.
Use Telephony-DNS!
"Phone, dial Universe.Milky-Way.Earth.Canada.Ontario.Toronto.M
Soooo... am I demented for wanting to bed Rebecca Romijn-Stamos?