You're the one making the fantastic (to be kind) assertions without any evidence. See "argumentum ad ignorantiam".
Your claim that we have "10 times more nukes than required to wipe out life on Earth" is ridiculous. Worldwide megatonnage is roughly something less than 10,000 MT. The estimated energy of the K-T event is 100,000,000 MT, and it did not come close to "wiping out life on Earth". Sucked for the dinosaurs.
I don't know if any sound cards do it, but I've seen microwave receiver cards for PCs that put all noise-sensitive circuits in little shielded boxes that are attached to the PCB.
I was thinking of the case where the RST generation is being done at one of their larger routers, not at the neighborhood where the packets were generated. In that case, the router doesn't have the MAC address and doesn't really know where the packets came from.
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I wouldn't want to drive a tank that had the nickname "Ronson" (lights first time, every time).
Believe me, if it was a DOS attack, forging RST packets would not help. There's a good chance the source IP is bogus, and even if it is the actual IP address, it isn't going to pay attention to the RST packets.
"Hey boss, the bank teller says that bank robbery is a crime."
"Really? I guess we better stop and give them back their money."
It doesn't have to be huge and clunky. Many hand-held amateur radio VHF/UHF transceivers meet the mil-specs for dust, water, etc. and are not very large.
Aren't these the same bastards who had a police constable arrested and convicted of attempting to obtain money by deception after he inquired about unauthorized withdrawals from his account?
I think the judge should have a big red button on the bench, connected to a solenoid and trap-door located under the plaintiff and his lawyer. As volcanoes are in short supply, a pool full of hungry crocodiles would do.
If they use HF and low-VHF frequencies, it isn't just an issue for Indonesia. They could cause interference all over the world. I wish someone would put a stake in the heart of BPL and chop off its head. A power line is a very large antenna, not a properly shielded transmission line. Mumbo-jumbo about new technology is not going to repeal the laws of electromagnetic theory.
Some of that was due to programmer stupidity, like putting type tags in the "unused" bits of pointers. There always seem to be a certain percentage of people who don't read the documentation, or just ignore the warnings. IBM did this when they wrote the BIOS for the original IBM PC, which used vectors that Intel had clearly marked as reserved.
Even when checks were on paper, it was rare that any bank looked at the signature.
I've seen plenty of forged checks that looked like they were created by a second grader. The bank normally just has someone read the numeric amount and type it into a MICR printing machine. Everything else runs on autopilot without human intervention. I was told by a banker that it was cheaper for them to correct any errors after the fact, when the customer complained.
Many of the Nigerian scammers have just relocated to other countries, including the USA and Canada. It's not like they've seen the light and renounced their life of crime.
That's a problem. I've seen companies get repeatedly shaken down by nuisance lawsuits because they believe it's cheaper to settle for $20K than to spend $60K fighting it in court, even though they have an excellent case. That's true in the short run, but how much does it cost the company in the long run to be viewed as an easy mark by every lawyer in town?
Most people are aware, or they should be aware, that in the event of a war or national emergency, they may be in for the duration. I was certainly aware of it. That's one of the risks that you take. It isn't the Hooterville Chowder and Marching Society.
That sounds like an early version of the Cultural Revolution. It's depressing that this pattern has been repeated so many times in ancient and modern history.
It doesn't have to be unencrypted. There's no reason that encrypted frames of GSM data can't be packetized and shipped off to another GSM base station. From what I've read GSM only offers link encryption, of questionable strength, for the mobile-to-base link. Since modern cell phone networks are already switching packets between end-user nodes, why not treat them as dumb networks and let the cell phones directly negotiate protocols and communicate with each other.
Catching someone moving between point a and point b in 5.5 minutes, where point a and point b are 10km apart, equating to an average speed of ~110kph is much smarter - there is no doubt that the car in question was traveling over the speed limit for a sustained period of time.
You are assuming that there are no discontinuities in the space-time continuum. I never leave home without my wormhole generator.
How about not monitoring my calls in the first place? I am at a loss to understand the mindset of a person who thought that this was a problem that needed a solution.
I want end-to-end encryption on all my calls. This could be added to cell phones with some modest changes. Not having it on VOIP is just inexcusable. If the FBI wants to tap my phone, why don't they get off their lazy asses, obtain a warrant, and do some actual work, rather than expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter, complete with booze and hookers. I'm under no obligation to make it easy for them.
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Your claim that we have "10 times more nukes than required to wipe out life on Earth" is ridiculous. Worldwide megatonnage is roughly something less than 10,000 MT. The estimated energy of the K-T event is 100,000,000 MT, and it did not come close to "wiping out life on Earth". Sucked for the dinosaurs.
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Congratulations, your firm grasp of facts and science makes you an ideal candidate for a leadership role in the environmental movement.
They've sent Doug a new pair of boots and two boxes of cartridges.
Look at a cross-section of the Earth and think for a second.
I don't know if any sound cards do it, but I've seen microwave receiver cards for PCs that put all noise-sensitive circuits in little shielded boxes that are attached to the PCB.
I was thinking of the case where the RST generation is being done at one of their larger routers, not at the neighborhood where the packets were generated. In that case, the router doesn't have the MAC address and doesn't really know where the packets came from.
I wouldn't want to drive a tank that had the nickname "Ronson" (lights first time, every time).
"Hey boss, the bank teller says that bank robbery is a crime."
"Really? I guess we better stop and give them back their money."
Yaesu VX-7R hand-held VHF/UHF transceiver.
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks/18.25.html#subj5
Why fix your own systems when you can blame the customer?
I think the judge should have a big red button on the bench, connected to a solenoid and trap-door located under the plaintiff and his lawyer. As volcanoes are in short supply, a pool full of hungry crocodiles would do.
If they use HF and low-VHF frequencies, it isn't just an issue for Indonesia. They could cause interference all over the world. I wish someone would put a stake in the heart of BPL and chop off its head. A power line is a very large antenna, not a properly shielded transmission line. Mumbo-jumbo about new technology is not going to repeal the laws of electromagnetic theory.
That would be an antitrust lawyer's wet dream. IBM got into a lot of legal trouble for doing similar things with mainframes.
Some of that was due to programmer stupidity, like putting type tags in the "unused" bits of pointers. There always seem to be a certain percentage of people who don't read the documentation, or just ignore the warnings. IBM did this when they wrote the BIOS for the original IBM PC, which used vectors that Intel had clearly marked as reserved.
Even when checks were on paper, it was rare that any bank looked at the signature. I've seen plenty of forged checks that looked like they were created by a second grader. The bank normally just has someone read the numeric amount and type it into a MICR printing machine. Everything else runs on autopilot without human intervention. I was told by a banker that it was cheaper for them to correct any errors after the fact, when the customer complained.
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/orgcrime/africancrim.htm
Many of the Nigerian scammers have just relocated to other countries, including the USA and Canada. It's not like they've seen the light and renounced their life of crime.
That's a problem. I've seen companies get repeatedly shaken down by nuisance lawsuits because they believe it's cheaper to settle for $20K than to spend $60K fighting it in court, even though they have an excellent case. That's true in the short run, but how much does it cost the company in the long run to be viewed as an easy mark by every lawyer in town?
Most people are aware, or they should be aware, that in the event of a war or national emergency, they may be in for the duration. I was certainly aware of it. That's one of the risks that you take. It isn't the Hooterville Chowder and Marching Society.
That sounds like an early version of the Cultural Revolution. It's depressing that this pattern has been repeated so many times in ancient and modern history.
It doesn't have to be unencrypted. There's no reason that encrypted frames of GSM data can't be packetized and shipped off to another GSM base station. From what I've read GSM only offers link encryption, of questionable strength, for the mobile-to-base link. Since modern cell phone networks are already switching packets between end-user nodes, why not treat them as dumb networks and let the cell phones directly negotiate protocols and communicate with each other.
You are assuming that there are no discontinuities in the space-time continuum. I never leave home without my wormhole generator.
I want end-to-end encryption on all my calls. This could be added to cell phones with some modest changes. Not having it on VOIP is just inexcusable. If the FBI wants to tap my phone, why don't they get off their lazy asses, obtain a warrant, and do some actual work, rather than expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter, complete with booze and hookers. I'm under no obligation to make it easy for them.
George!
Things sure were simpler when we were monkeys.