this was truly a thing of beauty. I have no idea why the slash editors haven't posted something about it.
This should have made the front page just for the irony value of the RIAA being hacked while they are trying to get the right to hack others to shut down P2P networks.
1) large numbers of APs left on default settings have been plugged into otherwise secure lans. Banks, R&D labs, courts, military, government, you name it.
2) This provides an easy "back-door" into these lans for someone who is up to no good.
3) There are many privacy concens about the way wireless technology is being deployed. The use of unsecured 802.11b devices for point-of-sale systems (credit cards), and in government offices such as courts concerns many who otherwise don't care about network security.
4) Even otherwise "uninteresting" residential lans are useful to someone up to no good, if I want to hack, send spam, or a virus I can have it traced to some poor luser with a WAP rather than me.
5) Free mobile access. In many areas the desity of unsecured WAPs hooked up to some form of internet connection is high enough to allow mobile internet access over most of the area.
If I remember correctly on of the approches to Lindberg (the San Diego International airport) goes BETWEEN the skyscrapers downtown. I'm not sure how much actual separation there is but it is kind of freaky when you look out the window of the 737 you are in and can look directly across into people's offices.
It'll be your problem when you find all of your Credit Cards are maxed with charges you didn't make and you have to convince the issuer you didn't make the charges.
Trust me this is not fun to clear up and can play hell with your credit report until fixed.
It would be the same as me listening to music you broadcast over the radio (i.e. one of those cd-car radio thingys.) I could be driving by you, and tune into your "music" by accident... nothing illegal... for now, I'm sure the RIAA would love to change that.
Until I saw this article I'd never heard of this game.
signs you are becoming an old fart: 1) Slang has gotten to the point that is sounds like a foreign language to you. 2) Teenage trends/fads/fashion don't make any sense and just look stupid to you. 3) You first hear about the above trends/fads months after they are already "over" among the kids.
You in the cars with the too loud bass should listen too.
Don't worry in 10 years the losers who drive around with their "atomic bass cannon" turned up to be mistaken for an earthquake won't be able to "listen" because they will be stone deaf from hearing damage.
For me this is still the "classic" physical arcade game. Possibly because it is a social acceptable way to vent one's frustrations without getting arrested. Also the game bears a certain resemblance to many sysadmin/programmer situations, i.e. spam, viruses, lusers, etc.
Around these parts (Vancouver, Canada), the only people that play DDR are asian kids. It looks like fun, in the way that Karaoke is fun. (Which in my dictionary, is "marginally".)
The next step is for DDR to infect the minds of white folks. I expect to see long rows of these machines bringing in the line-dancing crowd in the very near future.
Karaoke IS fun, even more so when you get a friend liquored up enough to make an ass of themselves in front of the whole crowd.
Many of the VARs I know who do vertical market apps for small business have been switching their code over to either Windows or Linux. This has been the case for at least the last 3 years.
The motivation for switching to Windows is many of their customers are asking if their app runs on NT/2000 server.
The ones who are switching to Linux mostly sell turnkey black box systems that are supported by the VAR. Linux is attractive to them because they can implement changes and fixes faster than SCO would get around to it.
In any case SCO has lost many of the more agressive or innovative VARs to other platforms and mostly just has the el-cheapo mom and pop shops left.
Actually I think SCO gave the UNIX trademark to The Open Group as a condition of purchasing the AT&T source from Novell.
At the rate things are going I expect whatever IP has passed from AT&T, to Novell, to SCO, and now to Caldera (nee SCO) will end up in someone else's hands soon enough.
I wonder if the real point of all of the "content-control" efforts by the RIAA and the MPAA isn't to lock the little guy out of the market and ensure their place as middle men?
The real fear isn't that rampant piracy is going to wipe the labels and the studios out, its that changing technology is going to render them irrelevant.
Problem is people in high-school and college have done this for at least 35 years. In the old days they'd just copy each other's record collection to reel-to-reel or cassete tapes.
Of course what was (and still is) far more popular was making "comp tapes". It seems the studios are in the process of wiping out this time honored tradition in order to ensure no uncontroled, non-market-researched, toll-free use of their "product" is allowed by the "consumer"
Friend of mine has high-end amps and speakers on his along with a SACD compatable DVD player. He recently demoed the "Bach - The Brandeberg Concertos" multichannel SACD for me. Awesome does not begin to describe the experience. It sounded like there was a live chamber orchestra in the room.
The problem I have with S/MIME implementations such as in Outlook and Exchange is the amount of work required to simply exchange encrypted/signed email. From what I saw they presume you will either a) have an organization-wide CA that has issued keys for everyone, the cert for the CA is on everyone's computer, and whatever directory service you have set up has everyone's keys in it or b) everyone will have keys issued by a root CA and everyone has an entry in a supported public DS with an entry for their key. PGP/GPG has done a much better job in making it possible to find the public key of someone you've never corresponded with before. Similar infrastructure could be set up for S/MIME but everything I've seen so far seems to rely on a central "trusted" CA. PGP allows for a much more "bottom-up" deployment wheras most S/MIME implementations presume a "top-down" deployment.
Frankly I wouldn't be supprised if the lawyers at ActiveBuddy attempt to enforce their patents against IRC bots. Its a pretty standard tactic for many patent holders to force at lawyerpoint anyone who does anything even remotely similar to one of your claims to license your technology.
That said I know of prior art on IRC and bitnet relay going back to at least 1988. At least one MIT grad student had an AI software driven bot hooked up to IRC in 1991 or so that would attempt to interact on a channel as a normal user.
I have worked on many C3xxx HP-UX boxes as well as linux boxes, and the C3600's are nice workstations. I don't think it warrants charging $18k more than a similar intel box, but it does. The PA-RISC architecture probably costs quite a bit more to produce because of the low volume, the itanium may change that quite a bit.
For whatever reason HP has been able to get away with absurd pricing on the lower end of their workstation line. This despite the fact low-end Sun machines are much more in line with PC pricing and most of the software available for HP-UX can be had for Solaris. Sure Sun charges as much as HP for their high-end servers, but after paying for the Oracle licenses even a E10000 or SuperDome seems inexpensive.
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this was truly a thing of beauty. I have no idea why the slash editors haven't posted something about it.
This should have made the front page just for the irony value of the RIAA being hacked while they are trying to get the right to hack others to shut down P2P networks.
You wonder if Microsoft might do something like this against wine?
I have heard it said that the best teachers learn more from their students than the students learn from them.
The drive-thru liquor stores where you can get a mixed drink in a to-go cup or a fifth of JD are much more amusing.
In Oregon they outlaw self service gas as well. From what I understand the current argument for this is "think of all of the jobs that will be lost".
Being from Washington I am frustrated every time I have to deal with waiting for some minimum wage bozo to get around to pumping my gas rather than:
1) insert card in pump.
2) pump gas.
3) go.
Couple of reasons why this is of interest:
1) large numbers of APs left on default settings have been plugged into otherwise secure lans. Banks, R&D labs, courts, military, government, you name it.
2) This provides an easy "back-door" into these lans for someone who is up to no good.
3) There are many privacy concens about the way wireless technology is being deployed. The use of unsecured 802.11b devices for point-of-sale systems (credit cards), and in government offices such as courts concerns many who otherwise don't care about network security.
4) Even otherwise "uninteresting" residential lans are useful to someone up to no good, if I want to hack, send spam, or a virus I can have it traced to some poor luser with a WAP rather than me.
5) Free mobile access. In many areas the desity of unsecured WAPs hooked up to some form of internet connection is high enough to allow mobile internet access over most of the area.
If I remember correctly on of the approches to Lindberg (the San Diego International airport) goes BETWEEN the skyscrapers downtown. I'm not sure how much actual separation there is but it is kind of freaky when you look out the window of the 737 you are in and can look directly across into people's offices.
The really funny thing is how many of these same parents are obsessive/compulsive about their own exersise or are into "extreme" sports.
It'll be your problem when you find all of your Credit Cards are maxed with charges you didn't make and you have to convince the issuer you didn't make the charges.
Trust me this is not fun to clear up and can play hell with your credit report until fixed.
It would be the same as me listening to music you broadcast over the radio (i.e. one of those cd-car radio thingys.) I could be driving by you, and tune into your "music" by accident... nothing illegal ... for now, I'm sure the RIAA would love to change that.
Until I saw this article I'd never heard of this game.
signs you are becoming an old fart:
1) Slang has gotten to the point that is sounds like a foreign language to you.
2) Teenage trends/fads/fashion don't make any sense and just look stupid to you.
3) You first hear about the above trends/fads months after they are already "over" among the kids.
You in the cars with the too loud bass should listen too.
Don't worry in 10 years the losers who drive around with their "atomic bass cannon" turned up to be mistaken for an earthquake won't be able to "listen" because they will be stone deaf from hearing damage.
For me this is still the "classic" physical arcade game. Possibly because it is a social acceptable way to vent one's frustrations without getting arrested. Also the game bears a certain resemblance to many sysadmin/programmer situations, i.e. spam, viruses, lusers, etc.
Around these parts (Vancouver, Canada), the only people that play DDR are asian kids. It looks like fun, in the way that Karaoke is fun. (Which in my dictionary, is "marginally".)
The next step is for DDR to infect the minds of white folks. I expect to see long rows of these machines bringing in the line-dancing crowd in the very near future.
Karaoke IS fun, even more so when you get a friend liquored up enough to make an ass of themselves in front of the whole crowd.
Many of the VARs I know who do vertical market apps for small business have been switching their code over to either Windows or Linux. This has been the case for at least the last 3 years.
The motivation for switching to Windows is many of their customers are asking if their app runs on NT/2000 server.
The ones who are switching to Linux mostly sell turnkey black box systems that are supported by the VAR. Linux is attractive to them because they can implement changes and fixes faster than SCO would get around to it.
In any case SCO has lost many of the more agressive or innovative VARs to other platforms and mostly just has the el-cheapo mom and pop shops left.
Actually I think SCO gave the UNIX trademark to The Open Group as a condition of purchasing the AT&T source from Novell.
At the rate things are going I expect whatever IP has passed from AT&T, to Novell, to SCO, and now to Caldera (nee SCO) will end up in someone else's hands soon enough.
Mmmm ... Windowmaker.
Spirit of The One True Black Cube.
I wonder if the real point of all of the "content-control" efforts by the RIAA and the MPAA isn't to lock the little guy out of the market and ensure their place as middle men?
The real fear isn't that rampant piracy is going to wipe the labels and the studios out, its that changing technology is going to render them irrelevant.
Problem is people in high-school and college have done this for at least 35 years. In the old days they'd just copy each other's record collection to reel-to-reel or cassete tapes.
Of course what was (and still is) far more popular was making "comp tapes". It seems the studios are in the process of wiping out this time honored tradition in order to ensure no uncontroled, non-market-researched, toll-free use of their "product" is allowed by the "consumer"
Fuck the RIAA!
Friend of mine has high-end amps and speakers on his along with a SACD compatable DVD player. He recently demoed the "Bach - The Brandeberg Concertos" multichannel SACD for me. Awesome does not begin to describe the experience. It sounded like there was a live chamber orchestra in the room.
The problem I have with S/MIME implementations such as in Outlook and Exchange is the amount of work required to simply exchange encrypted/signed email. From what I saw they presume you will either a) have an organization-wide CA that has issued keys for everyone, the cert for the CA is on everyone's computer, and whatever directory service you have set up has everyone's keys in it or b) everyone will have keys issued by a root CA and everyone has an entry in a supported public DS with an entry for their key. PGP/GPG has done a much better job in making it possible to find the public key of someone you've never corresponded with before. Similar infrastructure could be set up for S/MIME but everything I've seen so far seems to rely on a central "trusted" CA. PGP allows for a much more "bottom-up" deployment wheras most S/MIME implementations presume a "top-down" deployment.
Yes I would. A common carrier should not have to police the content passing through it's network.
Doesn't matter if its kiddie porn or copyright violations. (and I don't think there is a difference in the minds of the RIAA and MPAA lawyers)
For unspecified anti-American activities.
Please report to your nearest PATRIOT/TIPS processing center immediately.
Frankly I wouldn't be supprised if the lawyers at ActiveBuddy attempt to enforce their patents against IRC bots. Its a pretty standard tactic for many patent holders to force at lawyerpoint anyone who does anything even remotely similar to one of your claims to license your technology.
That said I know of prior art on IRC and bitnet relay going back to at least 1988. At least one MIT grad student had an AI software driven bot hooked up to IRC in 1991 or so that would attempt to interact on a channel as a normal user.
I have worked on many C3xxx HP-UX boxes as well as linux boxes, and the C3600's are nice workstations. I don't think it warrants charging $18k more than a similar intel box, but it does. The PA-RISC architecture probably costs quite a bit more to produce because of the low volume, the itanium may change that quite a bit.
For whatever reason HP has been able to get away with absurd pricing on the lower end of their workstation line. This despite the fact low-end Sun machines are much more in line with PC pricing and most of the software available for HP-UX can be had for Solaris. Sure Sun charges as much as HP for their high-end servers, but after paying for the Oracle licenses even a E10000 or SuperDome seems inexpensive.