Getting Around Parental Control To Watch Pr0n DVDs
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The PS2 Experience
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To get around PS2's Parental Control, when asked for the 4-digit password, press the SELECT button then enter 7444 as the password. Hey presto, the old password is blown away.
Incidentally, has anyone ever mangaged to get a bootable QNX + firewall capability onto a 16MB Sandisk?
Anyone who has probably knows why I'm interested.
Why, so you can use your digital camera as a firewall? I guess since Doom has been ported to Digita, this would be a logical next step. Plug a USB hub and two USB NICs into the camera's USB port, and away you go!
It would be an excellent development environment... making snapshots would be a piece of cake! --
The encryption was broken if you had the SIM card in your possession for about 8 hours. The exploit involved asking its identity about 150,000 times, each with a different salt.
GSM security has yet to be broken over-the-air. --
Christ, I had my eyes closed. If you have any fairly recent Adaptec PCI card, you'll see the processor on it has "adaptec" in big white letters, with a white barcoded label stuck right over it like "a=====c", just showing the ends of the name.
The chips on that board are precisely like that. It's a definite ripoff. --
Re:IBM doesn't know how to utilize Transmeta
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IBM Wary of Crusoe?
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It's the ARM and Dragonball folks that should watch out.
Hah! While the DragonBall is a nice piece of silicon (and very flexible as well), it is a pile of steaming doggy doo compared with the likes of ARM (especially the StrongARM) and TM3200/5400 processors. I mean, the DragonBall's fastest speed in a commercially available device (that I know of) is 20 MHz in the Palm IIIc/Vx (16 MHz in all the other models). That just won't cut it for anything larger than a Palm. --
As per the front of the handout, about 2/3 of the way down, there is the following text:
YES!, please sign me up as a supporter and keep me informed about the freedom to innovate and compete in the marketplace!
COMPETE?! Oh, my dear Lord almighty! I'm printing this flyer off as we speak, filling in my info, and mailing it off -- no, wait -- FedExing it to Redmond. I mean, Microsoft needs my support to help them compete! --
(SLASHDOT NEWSWIRE) -- In a story today on Slashdot, a Slashdot employee compared Slashdot with other media and concluded that Slashdot was best!
Strangely, the stock price of Andover.Net failed to react to this ringing endorsement of Slashdot by Slashdot.
Jon, the fact that/. editors get their news from "open" media means zilch, because where do these places get their information from? By and large, "closed" media. How many links do you get from Slashdot to the New York Times in a typical week? Okay, now how many are going the other way? To me, that says that people still want to know that their media is coming from actual journalists, with fact-checkers, standards, and all the other desperately "old" standards that stop, to take a wild example, stories about GNOME and KDE being integrated from being posted while they're about a quarter baked. --
Breaking news! A commission may be set up that might look into whether or not Echelon may have infringed on the rights of Europeans!
Coincidentally, the European Parliament is due to decide in Strasbourg Wednesday whether to set up a commission to investigate whether Echelon infringes the rights of European citizens and industries.
(Whenever I see "whether" nested like that, I cringe. *shudder*) --
Here I paraphrase a coughimaginarycough conversation over at Spec:
Uhh... what's this really big cheque doing here?
Which really big cheque?
This one here [hands it to coworker] with all the names on it.
[reading aloud] Pay to the order of SPEC... uhh... one million dollars... whoa... what's with all the names in the upper-left corner? Hah! Five signatures! Some joint account it was written on, I guess... B. Young, L. Torvalds, R. Stallman, L. Ellison, L. Augustin." --
Though I am not convinced that ICANN is going to be capable of doing all that much good OR harm.
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive... Don't think for one moment that ICANN doesn't (or at least won't in the near future) have every bit as much power as the President of the United States of America... but on a global scale.
When ICANN is the Supreme Authority of the Internet, and they fsck something up, who can anyone else turn to? Like Micro$oft (in some areas), they're the only game in town... if you don't like it, too damn bad.
Unfortunately, what they say goes... and they have the final say on everything as far as the Internet is concerned.
And that's a whole hell of a lot of power to wield. Call me nuts, but maybe one organization shouldn't hold all that power alone? --
This is an excellent article highlighting the tremendous responsibilities that ICANN now has on its shoulders.
At the very least, ICANN will be implementing an online voting system for the ICANN At Large members, which should help speed things up. Considering some of their deadlines are as soon as September (yes, 2000), I certainly hope they don't fsck things up by dropping the ball.
Considering how dependent the world now is on the Internet, I think a crisis could occur on a global scale if ICANN doesn't live up to the world's expectations.
Please note that the ICQ service is not for use by children under 13 years of age. If it comes to ICQ's attention through reliable means that a registered user is a child under 13 years of age, ICQ will cancel that user's account.
Now if someone spams you on ICQ, or just generally pisses you off, whip up a genuine-sounding letter and fire it off to them...
Thanks to Rogers Digital Choice TV, I already get all the specialty channels I receive, plus all 45 PPV channels and 6 movie network channels, digitally -- and they look and sound amazing.
Call me nuts, but I think the digital revolution is already here. --
Honestly, when this happens to a company like Sony, you really can't (shouldn't) be surprised that they withdrew it, changed it so it wasn't half-assed, and refiled it.
I'm not trying to start a flamewar here, since I love *almost* everything Sony makes (anyone who's met me will know this is true), but I think Sony dropped the ball on their original suit.
I remember reading an article about how Sony breaks even on the PlayStation unit itself, and just makes money on the games. If this is true, then Sony should have nothing to worry about, since people have to buy the games anyway to use them with Connectix's software...
...or then again, can you use burned "backup" copies with it? Does the software check for the validity/legitimacy of the PlayStation CD inserted?
As an interesting side note, you can actually get black "PlayStation" CD-Rs -- unfortunately, they're almost impossible to find. (PlayStation CDs aren't actually black, they're dark blue -- hold one up to bright light and look around the center hole. Since the laser light is infrared, it goes right through a dark blue disc with no problems.) --
I was wondering about the changes to Tripwire, so I scrubbed the FAQ and found the following gem:
Will the open source version of Linux Tripwire be as secure as other versions of Tripwire? Explain the risks and advantages for an open source security solution.
An open source solution provides the user and the systems administrator the instructions that allow them to examine it for security holes, Trojan horses and trap doors. It provides an enhanced sense of security for those who would like to have the source code to examine.
Corporate IT managers and security administrators use good judgment everyday by deploying best-of-breed security products. Good security policy dictates that one purchases software or downloads software from the actual security vendor's site and not from "spurious sites" on the Internet. By taking the appropriate steps to create a solid security framework, the security community and the users of Tripwire vastly reduce any risks of the code being modified intentionally for wrongdoing.
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To get around PS2's Parental Control, when asked for the 4-digit password, press the SELECT button then enter 7444 as the password. Hey presto, the old password is blown away.
(That's right from the manual.)
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Incidentally, has anyone ever mangaged to get a bootable QNX + firewall capability onto a 16MB Sandisk?
Anyone who has probably knows why I'm interested.
Why, so you can use your digital camera as a firewall? I guess since Doom has been ported to Digita, this would be a logical next step. Plug a USB hub and two USB NICs into the camera's USB port, and away you go!
It would be an excellent development environment... making snapshots would be a piece of cake!
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Tens of feet thick? Artic (and antarctic) ice is more than 2000m (2 kilometers) thick (this isn't for icebergs, but ice caps on land).
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The encryption was broken if you had the SIM card in your possession for about 8 hours. The exploit involved asking its identity about 150,000 times, each with a different salt.
GSM security has yet to be broken over-the-air.
--
Christ, I had my eyes closed. If you have any fairly recent Adaptec PCI card, you'll see the processor on it has "adaptec" in big white letters, with a white barcoded label stuck right over it like "a=====c", just showing the ends of the name.
The chips on that board are precisely like that. It's a definite ripoff.
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Look in the lower-left corner of this image of the 6-processor board.
That's an ADAPTEC logo!!!!
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(I'm waiting for encrypted cellphones, like
those being designed by Starium, to
be available...)
I already have an encrypted cellphone. It uses a protocol called GSM, of which the voice AND authorization data streams are BOTH encrypted.
Thank you.
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(I once was "Ungrounded Lightning Rod" but slashdot slashed off my " Rod".
Oh dear God, they slashed off your rod?! Was it found in time to reattach it?
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Yes, New Scotland.
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It's the ARM and Dragonball folks that should watch out.
Hah! While the DragonBall is a nice piece of silicon (and very flexible as well), it is a pile of steaming doggy doo compared with the likes of ARM (especially the StrongARM) and TM3200/5400 processors. I mean, the DragonBall's fastest speed in a commercially available device (that I know of) is 20 MHz in the Palm IIIc/Vx (16 MHz in all the other models). That just won't cut it for anything larger than a Palm.
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As per the front of the handout, about 2/3 of the way down, there is the following text:
YES!, please sign me up as a supporter and keep me informed about the freedom to innovate and compete in the marketplace!
COMPETE?! Oh, my dear Lord almighty! I'm printing this flyer off as we speak, filling in my info, and mailing it off -- no, wait -- FedExing it to Redmond. I mean, Microsoft needs my support to help them compete!
--
Stop the presses!
/. editors get their news from "open" media means zilch, because where do these places get their information from? By and large, "closed" media. How many links do you get from Slashdot to the New York Times in a typical week? Okay, now how many are going the other way? To me, that says that people still want to know that their media is coming from actual journalists, with fact-checkers, standards, and all the other desperately "old" standards that stop, to take a wild example, stories about GNOME and KDE being integrated from being posted while they're about a quarter baked.
(SLASHDOT NEWSWIRE) -- In a story today on Slashdot, a Slashdot employee compared Slashdot with other media and concluded that Slashdot was best!
Strangely, the stock price of Andover.Net failed to react to this ringing endorsement of Slashdot by Slashdot.
Jon, the fact that
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Breaking news! A commission may be set up that might look into whether or not Echelon may have infringed on the rights of Europeans!
Coincidentally, the European Parliament is due to decide in Strasbourg Wednesday whether to set up a commission to investigate whether Echelon infringes the rights of European citizens and industries.
(Whenever I see "whether" nested like that, I cringe. *shudder*)
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It's modded at 2 because I have more than 25 Karma. I post at 2 by default.
Thank you.
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Here I paraphrase a coughimaginarycough conversation over at Spec:
Uhh... what's this really big cheque doing here?
Which really big cheque?
This one here [hands it to coworker] with all the names on it.
[reading aloud] Pay to the order of SPEC... uhh... one million dollars... whoa... what's with all the names in the upper-left corner? Hah! Five signatures! Some joint account it was written on, I guess... B. Young, L. Torvalds, R. Stallman, L. Ellison, L. Augustin."
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Mod parent up. This is true stuff.
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I prefer Coca-Cola as well (I'm even a shareholder), but this post's parent is the most absurd thing I've read on Slashdot yet.
Thank you.
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Though I am not convinced that ICANN is going to be capable of doing all that much good OR harm.
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive... Don't think for one moment that ICANN doesn't (or at least won't in the near future) have every bit as much power as the President of the United States of America... but on a global scale.
When ICANN is the Supreme Authority of the Internet, and they fsck something up, who can anyone else turn to? Like Micro$oft (in some areas), they're the only game in town... if you don't like it, too damn bad.
Unfortunately, what they say goes... and they have the final say on everything as far as the Internet is concerned.
And that's a whole hell of a lot of power to wield. Call me nuts, but maybe one organization shouldn't hold all that power alone?
--
This is an excellent article highlighting the tremendous responsibilities that ICANN now has on its shoulders.
At the very least, ICANN will be implementing an online voting system for the ICANN At Large members, which should help speed things up. Considering some of their deadlines are as soon as September (yes, 2000), I certainly hope they don't fsck things up by dropping the ball.
Considering how dependent the world now is on the Internet, I think a crisis could occur on a global scale if ICANN doesn't live up to the world's expectations.
(Can anyone say revolution?)
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To quote the ICQ Terms Of Service: [bold added]
Please note that the ICQ service is not for use by children under 13 years of age. If it comes to ICQ's attention through reliable means that a registered user is a child under 13 years of age, ICQ will cancel that user's account.
Now if someone spams you on ICQ, or just generally pisses you off, whip up a genuine-sounding letter and fire it off to them...
Presto, your problem has been resolved.
Thank you for using ICQ, and have a nice day.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Thanks to Rogers Digital Choice TV, I already get all the specialty channels I receive, plus all 45 PPV channels and 6 movie network channels, digitally -- and they look and sound amazing.
Call me nuts, but I think the digital revolution is already here.
--
...use a larger hammer.
Honestly, when this happens to a company like Sony, you really can't (shouldn't) be surprised that they withdrew it, changed it so it wasn't half-assed, and refiled it.
I'm not trying to start a flamewar here, since I love *almost* everything Sony makes (anyone who's met me will know this is true), but I think Sony dropped the ball on their original suit.
I remember reading an article about how Sony breaks even on the PlayStation unit itself, and just makes money on the games. If this is true, then Sony should have nothing to worry about, since people have to buy the games anyway to use them with Connectix's software...
...or then again, can you use burned "backup" copies with it? Does the software check for the validity/legitimacy of the PlayStation CD inserted?
As an interesting side note, you can actually get black "PlayStation" CD-Rs -- unfortunately, they're almost impossible to find. (PlayStation CDs aren't actually black, they're dark blue -- hold one up to bright light and look around the center hole. Since the laser light is infrared, it goes right through a dark blue disc with no problems.)
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Hey, what can I say... when you're good, you're good!
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Actually, no -- both of those were already in my bookmarks. I just dusted them off because I felt they were relevant to this discussion.
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This is a very complete list of security software for UNIX machines.
I was wondering about the changes to Tripwire, so I scrubbed the FAQ and found the following gem:
Will the open source version of Linux Tripwire be as secure as other versions of Tripwire? Explain the risks and advantages for an open source security solution.
An open source solution provides the user and the systems administrator the instructions that allow them to examine it for security holes, Trojan horses and trap doors. It provides an enhanced sense of security for those who would like to have the source code to examine.
Corporate IT managers and security administrators use good judgment everyday by deploying best-of-breed security products. Good security policy dictates that one purchases software or downloads software from the actual security vendor's site and not from "spurious sites" on the Internet. By taking the appropriate steps to create a solid security framework, the security community and the users of Tripwire vastly reduce any risks of the code being modified intentionally for wrongdoing.
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