Seems like only "Face saving" efforts to me. The usual spin put on after blatant failure. In this case, I really think they were just unlucky that they got hit. With the lax effort put forth on most dot com's when it comes to security, I think their practices are the rule rather than the exception. With all the press the DoS and other attacks in the news recently, maybe the positive path is that companies will take a more serious attitude towards information security post the knee jerk period and really firm up defenses for the long haul.
I more or less said that the brain works harder, not nessasarily better, or at least better for any sustained period of time. I would have to think it would be really bad long term, not just for your brain but your health would have to suffer. What good would a +2(Insightful) brainbonus due you if you were laid up sick all the time.
The ability of the brain to function following Slashdot deprivation appears to vary with the task at hand, and in some cases the brain attempts to compensate for the adverse effects caused by lack of Slashdot, according to a study published in the Feb. 10 issue of Flamebait.
A team of researchers from the UCSD School of Medicine and the Zelot Affairs Healthcare System, San Diego used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology to monitor activity in the brains of Slashdot-deprived subjects performing simple verbal learning tasks.
They were somewhat surprised to learn that regions of the brain's prefrontal cortex (PFC) displayed more activity in direct correlation with the subject's sense of Slashdotness; the Slashdotier the subject, the more active the PFC.
Furthermore, the temporal lobe, a brain region involved in language processing, was activated during flaming previous posts in troll subjects but not in Slashdot deprived subjects. Additionally, a region of the brain called the parietal lobes, not activated in troll subjects during the posting exercise, was more active when the subjects were deprived of Slashdot. The parietal region normally performs somewhat different functions in the learning process than the temporal region. Although subjects' memory performance was less efficient with Slashdot deprivation, greater activity in the parietal region was associated with better memory.
"Only in recent years have we begun to realize the prevalence and severity of Slashdot deprivation in our population, with a significant number of people doing first posts work, suffering from karma lag and so forth," said J. Natalie Portman, M.D., professor of psychiatry at the UCSD and the San Diego VAMC, and an author of the Flamebait paper. "Yet, we don't know very much about how Slashdot deprivation impairs sexual performance, and how precisely the brain reacts to lack of Slashdot. These findings are just a beginning, and as we learn more, perhaps will be able to devise interventions to alleviate the behavioral impairments associated with lack of Slashdot."
This is pretty accurate. That guy from the 50's ended up dying about a year later, can't remember if he did the deed himself but I do recall that he went off the deep end, not like shooting up a mall but divorced or left his wife, forgot the names of his kids etc., A full blown personality change.
And if that's not really revelant, the folks from NYC would gain insight into how to finally kick the rat problem.
Although the depravation maked the brain work harder, pulling in other resources from other parts of the brain, the overall effect is actually quite dammaging. Not my field at all, however there was a pretty in depth article I read a couple of weeks ago that basically said there was a direct corelation between lack of sleep for extended periods, like 48 hours, and unrecoverable dammage to the brain overall.
Me I take the safe route, I view non-sleep time as that annoying period between naps, and limit all non-sleep time as much as possible.
I also feel rather insulted. I'm 40, married 12 years, 4 little trolls at home, hold an exec position in a fortune 10 firm, yadda yadda yadda. I think that his remarks show that the flames did get to him a little. Which also seems to negate him stating that they really don't bother him.
Jon, I for one have been one of your few supporters around here, now I'm not so sure, you blindly insulted the majority of this community with those remarks and I for one will browse with the "don't display Katz articles" option.
I run revenue streams for companies like this and I can tell you the numbers that they attribute to loss are greatly exaggerated. They do it because it is more ecenomical to write it off as bad debt(LIN also includes general corp losses) and take the tax break. The more they report as bad debt, the bigger the tax break. Makes quarterly reports look very good at the top and then they bury it deep inside the report. DoS, Hacking, Fraud, Employee theft etc. all this goed into that line item.
Re:welcome to the new slashdot!
on
Furry Cow Cases
·
· Score: 2
3 cheers! Thats funny. Since we can't get to the cow story due to Slashdots DoS attack your post was well timed.
This has got to be the silliest waste of money I've ever seen. (bar the Govt. of course)
Who would want one of these things? Got to admit it's sort of funny but at the same time sort of disturbing at the same time. Gateway is going to have a field day with this guy.
Along the same lines, I always enjoy the copanies who claim they have lost gazillions of dollars due to the hack. I know theres money invloved, but the costs allways seem to be very inflated.
This is the alert posted jointly from DOJ, the FBI and NIPC
NIPC Alert 00-034 and re-issue of National Infrastructure Protection Center Information System Alert NIPC Alert 99-029 originally issued 12/6/99; Unclassified Beginning on 7 February 2000, a number of high-profile Denial of Service (DOS) attacks temporarily disabled significant electronic commerce Internet web sites. These cyber attacks targeted companies sites like Yahoo.com, Amazon.com, CNN.com, Buy.com, Ebay.com, Stamps.com, Exodus.com, E-trade.com, and Zdnet.com; reported victims have apparently recovered from the attacks within a few hours. Public reporting cites coordinated, Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks originating from multiple points on the Internet. The FBI is now investigating a number of these attacks; in view of these events the NIPC is re-issuing its original alert describing the DDOS exploit. Additional information can also be found on the NIPC web page at www.nipc.gov and at the Carnegie Mellon Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) web page at www.cert.org. Beginning in the fall of 1999, the FBI/NIPC became aware of several instances where intruders installed DDOS tools on various computer systems to create large host networks capable of launching significant coordinated packet flooding denial of service attacks. Installation was accomplished primarily through compromises exploiting known Sun RPC vulnerabilities. These multiple denial of service tools include Trin00, Tribe Flood Network (or TFN, TFN2k, and Stacheldraht,) and were reported on different civilian, university and U.S. Government systems. The FBI continues investigation of many of these incidents, and was and is highly concerned about the scale and significance of these incidents, for the following reasons: A.) Many of the targets are universities or other sites with high bandwidth Internet connections, representing a possibly significant threat to Internet traffic. B.) The known cases involve real and substantial financial loss. C) The activity ties back to significant numbers and locations of domestic and overseas Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. D) The technical vulnerabilities used to install these denial of service tools are widespread, well-known and readily accessible on most networked systems throughout the Internet. E) The tools appear to be undergoing active development, testing and deployment on the Internet. F) The activity often stops once system owners start filtering for Trinoo/TFN and related activity. Possible motives for this malicious activity range from exploit demonstration, to exploration or reconnaissance, to preparation for widespread denial of service attacks. NIPC was concerned that these tools could have been prepared for employment during the Y2K period, and remains concerned this activity could continue targeting other significant commercial, government or national sites. NIPC requests that all computer network owners and organizations rapidly examine their systems for evidence of these distributed denial of service tools, in order to be able to quickly implement corrective measures (specific technical instructions are available from CERT/CC, SANS, NIPC, or other sources). These checks should be done to both check and clear systems of Trinoo/TFN, and related threats, and to support law enforcement efforts investigating these exploits. Recipients are asked to report significant or suspected criminal activity to their local FBI office NIPC or ANSIR Coordinator, computer emergency response support and other law enforcement agencies, as appropriate. The NIPC web site is located at www.nipc.gov.
Sun--which makes money off server sales, as well as services--apparently believes free software has its advantages. The company decided to drop the license fee for copies of the upcoming Solaris 8 running on computers with eight or fewer processors.
When did this happen? This is the first I've heard of this. Are they going to cover Slowaris under GPL?
Slashdot Mirror
Seems like only "Face saving" efforts to me. The usual spin put on after blatant failure. In this case, I really think they were just unlucky that they got hit. With the lax effort put forth on most dot com's when it comes to security, I think their practices are the rule rather than the exception. With all the press the DoS and other attacks in the news recently, maybe the positive path is that companies will take a more serious attitude towards information security post the knee jerk period and really firm up defenses for the long haul.
Way too expensive, with todays alternate technologies why in the world would anyone buy something like this?
I more or less said that the brain works harder, not nessasarily better, or at least better for any sustained period of time. I would have to think it would be really bad long term, not just for your brain but your health would have to suffer. What good would a +2(Insightful) brainbonus due you if you were laid up sick all the time.
A team of researchers from the UCSD School of Medicine and the Zelot Affairs Healthcare System, San Diego used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology to monitor activity in the brains of Slashdot-deprived subjects performing simple verbal learning tasks.
They were somewhat surprised to learn that regions of the brain's prefrontal cortex (PFC) displayed more activity in direct correlation with the subject's sense of Slashdotness; the Slashdotier the subject, the more active the PFC.
Furthermore, the temporal lobe, a brain region involved in language processing, was activated during flaming previous posts in troll subjects but not in Slashdot deprived subjects. Additionally, a region of the brain called the parietal lobes, not activated in troll subjects during the posting exercise, was more active when the subjects were deprived of Slashdot. The parietal region normally performs somewhat different functions in the learning process than the temporal region. Although subjects' memory performance was less efficient with Slashdot deprivation, greater activity in the parietal region was associated with better memory.
"Only in recent years have we begun to realize the prevalence and severity of Slashdot deprivation in our population, with a significant number of people doing first posts work, suffering from karma lag and so forth," said J. Natalie Portman, M.D., professor of psychiatry at the UCSD and the San Diego VAMC, and an author of the Flamebait paper. "Yet, we don't know very much about how Slashdot deprivation impairs sexual performance, and how precisely the brain reacts to lack of Slashdot. These findings are just a beginning, and as we learn more, perhaps will be able to devise interventions to alleviate the behavioral impairments associated with lack of Slashdot."
But only because I was really commited to actually getting to the end of the latest Katz article
And if that's not really revelant, the folks from NYC would gain insight into how to finally kick the rat problem.
I went to Fiarfax County Public Schools, I write very goodly english.
Me I take the safe route, I view non-sleep time as that annoying period between naps, and limit all non-sleep time as much as possible.
Jon, I for one have been one of your few supporters around here, now I'm not so sure, you blindly insulted the majority of this community with those remarks and I for one will browse with the "don't display Katz articles" option.
actually, in the Navy it would be a promotion.
Wasn't Hindus, its the /. DoS attack. Sounds so much cooler than the /. effect. Very Cosmopolitan.
Thank you
Time to up your medication again. . .
I run revenue streams for companies like this and I can tell you the numbers that they attribute to loss are greatly exaggerated. They do it because it is more ecenomical to write it off as bad debt(LIN also includes general corp losses) and take the tax break. The more they report as bad debt, the bigger the tax break. Makes quarterly reports look very good at the top and then they bury it deep inside the report. DoS, Hacking, Fraud, Employee theft etc. all this goed into that line item.
3 cheers! Thats funny. Since we can't get to the cow story due to Slashdots DoS attack your post was well timed.
Who would want one of these things? Got to admit it's sort of funny but at the same time sort of disturbing at the same time. Gateway is going to have a field day with this guy.
LMAO! That was funny. Where can I get one?
Mr. Harper, the old fairgrounds caretaker
Along the same lines, I always enjoy the copanies who claim they have lost gazillions of dollars due to the hack. I know theres money invloved, but the costs allways seem to be very inflated.
Mostly because "CERTs have retsin" and this whole thing is pretty stinky.
Thank you
.#2 in comes only it then even and, away given be to has which Linux unlike, it for charge can they so better is NT, backwards it have you.
NIPC Alert 00-034 and re-issue of National Infrastructure Protection Center Information System Alert NIPC Alert 99-029 originally issued 12/6/99; Unclassified
Beginning on 7 February 2000, a number of high-profile Denial of Service (DOS) attacks temporarily disabled significant electronic commerce Internet web sites. These cyber attacks targeted companies sites like Yahoo.com, Amazon.com, CNN.com, Buy.com, Ebay.com, Stamps.com, Exodus.com, E-trade.com, and Zdnet.com; reported victims have apparently recovered from the attacks within a few hours. Public reporting cites coordinated, Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks originating from multiple points on the Internet. The FBI is now investigating a number of these attacks; in view of these events the NIPC is re-issuing its original alert describing the DDOS exploit. Additional information can also be found on the NIPC web page at www.nipc.gov and at the Carnegie Mellon Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) web page at www.cert.org.
Beginning in the fall of 1999, the FBI/NIPC became aware of several instances where intruders installed DDOS tools on various computer systems to create large host networks capable of launching significant coordinated packet flooding denial of service attacks. Installation was accomplished primarily through compromises exploiting known Sun RPC vulnerabilities. These multiple denial of service tools include Trin00, Tribe Flood Network (or TFN, TFN2k, and Stacheldraht,) and were reported on different civilian, university and U.S. Government systems. The FBI continues investigation of many of these incidents, and was and is highly concerned about the scale and significance of these incidents, for the following reasons:
A.) Many of the targets are universities or other sites with high bandwidth Internet connections, representing a possibly significant threat to Internet traffic.
B.) The known cases involve real and substantial financial loss.
C) The activity ties back to significant numbers and locations of domestic and overseas Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
D) The technical vulnerabilities used to install these denial of service tools are widespread, well-known and readily accessible on most networked systems throughout the Internet.
E) The tools appear to be undergoing active development, testing and deployment on the Internet.
F) The activity often stops once system owners start filtering for Trinoo/TFN and related activity.
Possible motives for this malicious activity range from exploit demonstration, to exploration or reconnaissance, to preparation for widespread denial of service attacks. NIPC was concerned that these tools could have been prepared for employment during the Y2K period, and remains concerned this activity could continue targeting other significant commercial, government or national sites.
NIPC requests that all computer network owners and organizations rapidly examine their systems for evidence of these distributed denial of service tools, in order to be able to quickly implement corrective measures (specific technical instructions are available from CERT/CC, SANS, NIPC, or other sources). These checks should be done to both check and clear systems of Trinoo/TFN, and related threats, and to support law enforcement efforts investigating these exploits. Recipients are asked to report significant or suspected criminal activity to their local FBI office NIPC or ANSIR Coordinator, computer emergency response support and other law enforcement agencies, as appropriate. The NIPC web site is located at www.nipc.gov.
I don't know if I am comfortable with blindly installing binaries from the government or anyone else for that matter.
When did this happen? This is the first I've heard of this. Are they going to cover Slowaris under GPL?