Total cost in Canada: C$0, but some serious taxes and a wait on a waiting list.:)
If I was impatient, though, and needed the surgery, I would very seriously consider US$10K for the Indian equivalent. The Indian people as a whole are highly intelligent, so I would put my trust in an Indian doctor.
The CIA World Factbook has some EXCELLENT reference maps, available in 100% vector PDF (meaning they can be infinitely scaled without any pixellation).
Actually, I've been thinking about modifying a few cable modems to intercept the QPSK OOB signal on digital cable, and spoof it. Have 2 cable modems, with some splitters and filters in between them, so that we can get QAM to the set top box, but the first cable modem could listen/talk to the headend, and the second cable modem could listen/talk to the cablebox.
Oh. My. God.
This tweaks my geek *bigtime*.
I'm not an RF engineer, but I've done my share of DOCSIS fun in the past.
Count me in... fire me an email if I can be of any assistance whatsoever!
(Rant: GI/Motorola digital boxes are total garbage. SciAtl Explorer 3000 etc are the shit. Are you listening, Cogeco?)
According to this page (quoted below in italics), "Dana" is trying to remove the defacement.
If you use WHOIS to look up the domain registration for ilovebees.com it has the following information:
Margaret Effendi (ladybee777@hotmail.com) 2370 Market Street #510 San Francisco CA 94114-1575 Phone: (415) 248-2617
Calling the phone gets you a voicemail "Hi, this is Dana, please leave a message." but the mailbox is full. From this I would assume the address also belongs to Dana.
--- The domain name ilovebees.com was registered on June 14, 2004, the same day as the first post in Dana's blog. The domain is registered until June 14, 2009.
However, the tags tell another story.
Before the closing/HTML tag, there is a FONT tag with the attribute "CLASS=dana_white", which applies to what is supposedly the "regular" site text.
However, in the piece of HTML inserted after the final/HTML tag which produces the black square overlay, there is a FONT tag with the attribute "CLASS=dana_big".
Would a real defacement have taken the time to begin their class names with "dana_" as in the rest of the document?
Probably not.
This, combined with the domain registration taking place the same day as the first post in Dana's blog, leads me to the conclusion that the whole thing is a set-up.
However, the authors of this elaborate set-up (as in the movie The Game) have left those of us that are smart enough to figure out that this is bullshit a little easter egg: <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="honey, bees, Margaret, small busines, beekeeping, hives, retail, market, Operator, bug, buggy, virus, infestation, WTF is going on with this damn thing, parasite, strong intrusive inclination, medium, messages, shipwreck, network throttling, SOS, hoax, game, bee hoax, bee game, survivor, survive, evade, resist, escape, a little help would be appreciated, thanks and tip your waitress, sleep, is, good, install, reinstall, re-reinstall, re-re-reinstall, I, love, bees">
the police will have to use a spectrometer to measure my speed. I'll be driving my "get out of jail free" car until the sonic booms shake it apart.
I have modpoints, but merely modding this as +1 Funny simply doesn't do it justice.
That line is an absolute gem! Consider it stolen.:)
Keep up the good work, and buy one of these while you're at it, just in case the next patrolman bothers to look up while writing the ticket and notices you're not in an Edsel. They're worth every cent. Don't settle for ANYTHING less.
The name still resolves, and there is still a responding HTTP server at the IP address. If it were a name-based virtual host (which is quite common), that would be about as down as it would get if the hosting provider does not control the authoritative nameserver[s] for the domain name. (Whether or not they do really doesn't matter to me.)
The content was removed, including the Perl script. So it's sufficiently down inasmuch as it is no longer a threat to the Internet community.
The front page of www.refestltd.com was nothing but a graphic ad for anti-spyware software being sold, which was merely a link to the anti-spyware company's website (the link included an affiliate ID). So it wasn't the home site of that software (not to say that I would trust that software in any way either).
There are many more points I could use to refute your argument, but I don't want to waste any more of my time. Back to saving the world...
When QuickBooks Pro 2004 is released for Linux, I bet you'll see find many more small business owners (such as myself) willing to move to a pure Linux desktop.
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We got lucky. First time was a success.
:)
Congratulations!
Total cost in Canada: C$0, but some serious taxes and a wait on a waiting list. :)
If I was impatient, though, and needed the surgery, I would very seriously consider US$10K for the Indian equivalent. The Indian people as a whole are highly intelligent, so I would put my trust in an Indian doctor.
KITT always seemed to refer to its driver by name:
Officer: You were doing 100 in a 50. Do you have anything to say for yourself?
Speeder: The voices in my head. I was trying to get away from the voices...the voices...make it stop.
Car: Michael, I see that you are stopped on the side of the highway. Do you want me to call the highway patrol and alert them?
Speeder: Ahhhhhhhhh!
The CIA World Factbook has some EXCELLENT reference maps, available in 100% vector PDF (meaning they can be infinitely scaled without any pixellation).
And dare I mention the trouble a person could get into?
:)
The DMCA doesn't apply here in Canada.
P similar to Q similar to the square root of N, of course, is the birthday bound, which is most efficient.
Phew! I'm glad we got that cleared up!
Actually, I've been thinking about modifying a few cable modems to intercept the QPSK OOB signal on digital cable, and spoof it. Have 2 cable modems, with some splitters and filters in between them, so that we can get QAM to the set top box, but the first cable modem could listen/talk to the headend, and the second cable modem could listen/talk to the cablebox.
Oh. My. God.
This tweaks my geek *bigtime*.
I'm not an RF engineer, but I've done my share of DOCSIS fun in the past.
Count me in... fire me an email if I can be of any assistance whatsoever!
(Rant: GI/Motorola digital boxes are total garbage. SciAtl Explorer 3000 etc are the shit. Are you listening, Cogeco?)
prevent up to 95.8% of Windows crashes
:)
With statistics like that, no wonder I laughed so hard. Thanks for the morale boost!
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Can I write the appendix covering hot grits, Natalie Portman, and pants?
(If you haven't been here several years, you are not expected to get the joke.)
You, my friend, know your shit.
I suggest you contribute this (and more) to Wikipedia.
But until you can set up a mortgage, loan, or interest bearing savings account with them
What the hell is this then?
Or this?
Or this?
If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
A bank, they are. A bank, they must be regulated as.
According to this page (quoted below in italics), "Dana" is trying to remove the defacement.
/HTML tag, there is a FONT tag with the attribute "CLASS=dana_white", which applies to what is supposedly the "regular" site text.
/HTML tag which produces the black square overlay, there is a FONT tag with the attribute "CLASS=dana_big".
If you use WHOIS to look up the domain registration for ilovebees.com it has the following information:
Margaret Effendi (ladybee777@hotmail.com) 2370 Market Street #510 San Francisco CA 94114-1575 Phone: (415) 248-2617
Calling the phone gets you a voicemail "Hi, this is Dana, please leave a message." but the mailbox is full. From this I would assume the address also belongs to Dana.
--- The domain name ilovebees.com was registered on June 14, 2004, the same day as the first post in Dana's blog. The domain is registered until June 14, 2009.
However, the tags tell another story.
Before the closing
However, in the piece of HTML inserted after the final
Would a real defacement have taken the time to begin their class names with "dana_" as in the rest of the document?
Probably not.
This, combined with the domain registration taking place the same day as the first post in Dana's blog, leads me to the conclusion that the whole thing is a set-up.
However, the authors of this elaborate set-up (as in the movie The Game) have left those of us that are smart enough to figure out that this is bullshit a little easter egg:
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="honey, bees, Margaret, small busines, beekeeping,
hives, retail, market, Operator, bug, buggy, virus, infestation, WTF is
going on with this damn thing, parasite, strong intrusive inclination, medium,
messages, shipwreck, network throttling, SOS, hoax, game, bee hoax, bee game,
survivor, survive, evade, resist, escape, a little help would be appreciated,
thanks and tip your waitress, sleep, is, good, install, reinstall,
re-reinstall, re-re-reinstall, I, love, bees">
Does this mean I should send back the OpenBSD 3.5 CD I just bought from the University of Toronto Bookstore, then? :P
Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution
Gates team, light your flamethrowers!
the police will have to use a spectrometer to measure my speed. I'll be driving my "get out of jail free" car until the sonic booms shake it apart.
:)
I have modpoints, but merely modding this as +1 Funny simply doesn't do it justice.
That line is an absolute gem! Consider it stolen.
Keep up the good work, and buy one of these while you're at it, just in case the next patrolman bothers to look up while writing the ticket and notices you're not in an Edsel. They're worth every cent. Don't settle for ANYTHING less.
The site isn't down.
The name still resolves, and there is still a responding HTTP server at the IP address. If it were a name-based virtual host (which is quite common), that would be about as down as it would get if the hosting provider does not control the authoritative nameserver[s] for the domain name. (Whether or not they do really doesn't matter to me.)
The content was removed, including the Perl script. So it's sufficiently down inasmuch as it is no longer a threat to the Internet community.
Good enough for me. It's down.
You gonna follow that up with a +friend, or shall we just say you did? ;)
"has OpenGL support, transparency and all other whistles...."
Sorry, but if it doesn't have bells, I'm not interested.
The front page of www.refestltd.com was nothing but a graphic ad for anti-spyware software being sold, which was merely a link to the anti-spyware company's website (the link included an affiliate ID). So it wasn't the home site of that software (not to say that I would trust that software in any way either).
There are many more points I could use to refute your argument, but I don't want to waste any more of my time. Back to saving the world...
As of 7:11 PM Eastern Time (1.5 hours after my phone call), the site is now offline.
According to the linked article, this BHO phones the mothership located at:
http://www.refestltd.com/cgi-bin/yes.pl
www.refestltd.com is 66.226.64.11; the ARIN pull is below.
I'm on the phone right now with Matt of Abacus America to get the website taken down.
I am saddened to think that I'm the first one that's bothered to go to the trouble...
OrgName: Abacus America Inc.
OrgID: ABAC
Address: 5276 Eastgate Mall
City: San Diego
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 92121
Country: US
NetRange: 66.226.64.0 - 66.226.95.255
CIDR: 66.226.64.0/19
NetName: ABAC2002A
NetHandle: NET-66-226-64-0-1
Parent: NET-66-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.ABAC.COM
NameServer: NS2.ABAC.COM
Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate: 2002-01-31
Updated: 2003-03-27
TechHandle: AD384-ORG-ARIN
TechName: A Net DNS Administrator
TechPhone: +1-858-410-6900
TechEmail: dns@aplus.net
OrgTechHandle: ANETS-ARIN
OrgTechName: A Net Support
OrgTechPhone: +1-858-410-6900
OrgTechEmail: support@aplus.net
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2004-06-28 22:17
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
When QuickBooks Pro 2004 is released for Linux, I bet you'll see find many more small business owners (such as myself) willing to move to a pure Linux desktop.
Parent's poster has hit the nail right on the head. Mod them up!
On a side note I would really like to know which one is page number 1.
Why, Larry Page, of course!
Troll my ass; mod parent up! That's good stuff. :)