You know why those older SGI machines (think Indigo 2 era) have removeable drivers? SGI had a large contract with the US miltary and the miltary wanted to be (easliy) take the hard drive out at night and lock it in a secure safe.
I know on the older IBM think pads (think 486), it takes 2 seconds to remove the hard drive (a switch on either side of keyboard, pull keyboard up, grab hard drive "bar", pull up on bar, hard drive is removed).
It might be worthwhile to look for easy hard drive removeal for all notebooks that contain senstive data. At night, take the hard drives out and put them in a secure safe that is non-remove-able OR extreme difficult to move the entire safe out of the building.
Also there is notebook "chains" that you can buy, if the user is at their desk, require them to lock down the notebook to the desk so some one can't just pick it up and walk away.
When getting a laptop make sure the "chain hole" goes THOUGH part of the hard drive. If you have a laptop securly fashioned to a desk, but the hard drive can be removed easliy, this is stupid. Those older IBM think pad had the "chain hole" actucally go into part of the hard drive, you could NOT remove the hard drive when it was chained up. If you tried, it would cause ALOT of phyiscal damage to the hard drive (hopefully rendering most of the data unuseable), if you tried to force the laptop from the desk, it would also phyiscally damage the hard drive.
Get a chain that can hook to "most things". If they need to take the notebook off site, make sure they chain it up to a fixed structure at all times.
I haven't seen anything like this, yet. But what would be REALLY NEAT is to have the power supply REQUIRE that the notebook is securly fashioned before power on. That way, users would be more likely to chain it up before using it. (this doesn't help if they have it unchained with the power off (ie. having it just sit on their desk))
Use an encrypted files system, encrypt all important files by hand (with a differant, stronger but slower encryption method and differant key). Use a GPS tracking system. Require that "important" data be backed up on a secure offline server in the office and deleted from the notebook hard drive if the user doesn't need or isn't working on that file. (like if you have 2 projects on your laptop, but project A has already been completed and no longer involved with it, back it up and delete it from laptop)
Also a security guard at the front door could be usefull for on-site theft. Have a list of which items can and can't be taken from the building, and for each item have a list of people that can or can't take the item out of the building. Require ID for anything taken from the building. Require a quick "pat down" when leaving the building (if you have a notebook stuff in your pants, this is quickly revealed to the secuirty guard in 2 seconds with a pat down)
Also require you "check in" you "important" equipment during the day with the security officer on site, so they know exactly where all important hardware is (do this when you first get there, before and after all breaks, bathroom breaks, meetings, lunch, about anything you have to leave the office or anything the equipment leaves you eye sight...)
Be a bastard, lock it down really heavy if you have to, but make sure that "important" equipment doesn't get a chance to leave company eyes...
How much does it cost to get a good physically secure site going? How much does it cost if all your companies trade secerts are posted on slashdot and usenet forums?
All email clients should be illegal. Cause in fact all email clients can send MASSIVE amounts of email that could _possiablly_ fill the disk space on the server and cause the server to reject valid emails, DOD attack of sorts.
If you posted "Someone DOD my server though disk space consumation" on newsgroups and I posted back "Try quota". Would this be considered illegal since the orignal poster released "cracking methods"?
What about web broswers, they could be use to _hand key_ a "brute force" attack against a htpasswd protected web server, sure it might take FOREVER and a day, but the possiablity of using IE to break into www.porn-o-village.com is there.
Maybe the phone companies should keep "extensive logs" of ALL phone calls. Maybe the post office should keep "extensive logs" of ALL packages and letters. Maybe humans in general should keep "extensive logs" of ALL face-to-face communications they have thoughout the day.
I truthly think that carrier pigeon owners should keep "extensive logs" of ALL messages they pass though pigeon carrier communication.
Oh and DON'T get me started on requiring the "shoe shine boy" to keep "extensive logs" on all communications he has when shiny shoes!!!
Sure, but your examples: IE and Netscape, and for the "User" market. If your Win98 box crashes at home when you are viewing porn cause a bug or security hole in Netscape, reboot the box and everything is cool.
Say your "good enough" software that runs a temperature alarm for a nucealer faclity goes down cause of a simple exploit. Say your bosses six firgure investment on a web page goes down cause the "good enough" software running on the server gets exploited...
Sure I trust IE and Netscape to view slashdot... but I won't trust either one of them (or same quality software) to run anything critical.
"Life, exploded some guys head like a melon with a trusty double barrle shot gun. How long you in for?"
"60 years, I changed slashdot's main page to 'you are 0wnZ3d f00l ph3ar me f0r 1 am 31337'. If I didn't have the 'SlashDot hAx0r pack version 5.1', I couldn't of 0wnz3d them f00lz"
Under the purposed billing you couldn't even "crack" for research purposes. For example, if you thought that your sendmail daemon had an undocumented "hole", under this bill, it would be illegal for you to research the possiablilty of the hole. It would be illegal for you to "crack" at it to see if the possiablily is real or not. Even if you are the current maintainer of sendmail!
And if you did find a hole, it would be illegal to tell others about it (so they can fix it or upgrade!)!
It might not be malice "cracking" or "hacking" whatever the best word is, but it would be illegal, even if you are doing it to protect yourself or others from malice "crackers"
If the OpenBSD was in the US, under this bill, it might be illegal for them to do code audits since, in a sense they are looking for crackable mistakes or holes in software. They are not doing this out of malice intent (actucally to prevent malice events on their software), but still it would probably be illegal under this law.
Unix is no longer an operating system. An operating system is the software that comes with a computer (or OS distribution) that programmers and users need to make themselves productive.
Unix is only a small part of that.
Last I checked an OS is:
"The three main purposes of an operating system are to attempt to schedule computational activities to ensure good performance of the computing system, they provide a convenient environment for the development and execution of programs, and convenience for the user. )
An operating system has four components. These four components are Resource Management, Hardware Control, Application Services and Applications" - Source Nia_Cial at everything2.com
So 1) this author is WAY off 2) even if Unix is defined by his diluted defination he is still WAY OFF!
I got 5-10 "OS" distrubation in the back room. If the "OS" is defined by "additional applications and functions that are required for it to run" then his statement: "Unix is only a small part of that" is way off, this guy is a dumb ass.
SuSE Linux 6.3 - 6 CDs PACKED with "Additional applications"
Freinds "custom" debain build 7 CD PACKED
Solaris 7 - 1 "os" disk and 2 CD's packed with applications (software disk 1 & 2)
Windows 95 b - 1 CD, half of which is taken up by a Weezer MPG movie
Windows 98 SE - 1 CD, half empty
MacOS 7.0 - 1 CD, half empty
So by this authors OWN defination he is complety fscking wrong, by the correct defination he is complely fscking wrong. Who is the fuck that gave him web space to put up this shit?
I am really starting to hate Mac users.
In reference to the iMac --
"MY COMPUTER IS GRAPE" -- penny-arcade.com
Last week, the persons of the known hacker project OpenSSH (http://www.openssh.com) have all be inprisioned waiting for trial in a massive 17 state, 7 country raid last week.
"The openssh project has been on-going for awhile now, some of the best hackers in the world have been working on this project, we brought most of them down last Thrusday night" said FBI's Agent Smith.
The OpenSSH software project contains 2 peice of software, the server and client SSH clients.
SSH clients have create with the sole purposes of accessing other computer systems on the Internet. "Yea this is public knowledge, that is why the are created for a secure connection to remote hosts, very fancy software" say security expert Mr. Anderson of Stop Crackers Dead, Inc.
The SSH server included with OpenSSH will actucally create a portal that can be used to take remote control over the remote system. "Yea, these hackers just install the server and then can use the client to remotly access the computer system securly with the ssh client included with open ssh" said Mr. Anderson.
"Would you consider this a trojan or virus Mr. Anderson" Mr. Reporter
"Not per say, a trojan is ussually a program that claims to do something else, the SSH clients and servers SAY exactly what the are doing, and well documented. Even the source is avaiable, so if you don't beilvie it is doing what it said it would do, you can read it for your self. And it is in no way a virus, it doesn't prograte it's self automatically, although it is popular" Mr. Anderson
"So apparently what you are saying is this trojan is so cocky it tells you it is going to comprise your system and it issuses a type of mind control so users manually prograte the software?" Mr. Reporter
"[YES I DID SAY THAT]...No I didn't say anything even close... [YES]" Mr. Anderson
Also in related news the programmers of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator have been sentanced to death for create some of the most popular hacker software used to access remote computer systems.
"All your have to do is type in the domain name (computer name) and it ussually gives your direct access to their web site" Mr. Anderson explained "It is really easy, even people with little or know computer expeirence can type in a url and get direct access to the web site" A url is nothing more than a computer name, this information is made readily avaiable at the hackers web site http://www.networksolutions.com. With the powerful IE or Netscape as the hackers have coined them, anyone with little or know computer knowlege can use these programs to DIRECTLY ACCESS OTHER COMPUTER SYSTEMS ON THE INTERNET WITH ANY LOGIN OR PASSWORD.
I asked Mr. Anderson if there was anything the average consumer could do to protect themselves "Well, if you don't have any information you want to give out, don't install any web server on your machine. If you do have a web page, you can password protect it with htaccess, there are other methods, but it is a little deep for average consumers, if you are running a web server you must be a system admin or web master, in that case there is a ton of resources out there. The web server is one of the more easier service to secure, they are quite robust."
You heard it hear first, at the slash daily post, there is nothing you can do to protect yourself from malice hackers expect pay massive amounts of money to your goverment.
For the record, IMHO is that even the community level should NOT be in charge of what your kid see's or doesn't see. I think if an person is under 18 years of age his legal guardian should decide or they should decided together what material can and should not be view by the person under age.
It is the parents or legal guardians responsiable to raise their kid and not the federal, schools, communities job. The parent or legal guardian needs to own up to their rights and responiables and do the work needed to properly raise thier kid as they see fit. The federal, state or other goverment or community entiy should not get involved in this.
Oh yea, if the goverment does decide to do this, guess who money they are spending for this project? Yours and mine tax dollars, maybe we should just keep are money and buy software filters, food or other things we see proper for our kid to have, instead of letting the goverment decide what our kid should or shouldn't have. That would say alot of time and effort and generate better results.
The above post is not advocating that the community should be involved in implenting software filters, the above post is just stating a differant way a community could handle a community problem. Software filters are not a community problem. It was more intended as a "Do we need a fire department, the town square has been on fire for 2 weeks staight". Since community voting came up, I though I would throw in my 1 cent, hey I am cheap;)
Also in a "perfect world", all local choices could be voted and debated in a town hall meeting of sorts. I forget what they are called.
In medival times, when the village wanted to do something that effected the entire village, anyone could show up at the meet and _everyone_ could be aloted X amount of time to state their point why it is a good thing, bad thing, ugly thing or other.
Once everyone had there time to present their view point to the other village members, a vote would be cast. Everyone that showed up receive exactly one vote. The votes where tallied and the majority won. Then they would accept or reject the idea or plan based on what the majority ruling was.
This works really well in small communities, but on a large level or federal level it would quickly be to much "talk time" and would take forever. But villages in medival time where rather small and it worked out well and I consider it a more democary than what we have now (referring to US, don't know about other countries).
Today this won't work well in larger communities. Try getting what 11 million (?) New Yorkers in one spot and give them each 4 minutes to present there case, HAHA that would take a ton of room and WAY to much time.
What I was thinking, maybe have a web site, where everyone is allowed 2-3 post ala slashdot sytle. Open up the forum about 1-2 months before the issuse is to be voted on, each person that is a resident of that community gets to post there view point to the forum. Any memeber of the community could read an amount of post they wished. Once the issuse came up, vote on it though the site, and then get the results.
This would be more of the "medivel town vote" gone high tech and time and space requirements would no longer be a problem.
The only problem I could see are these:
1) It would be hard to proof who lived and who didn't live in that "community", maybe require registion at the DMV or something? Securing valid posters and voters would be the first big problem.
2) Who would pay for the server/bandwidth? local community tax to pay for it? Non-profit donations?
3) Not everyone has access to the internet. This could be sloved by a listing of places that offer "free" internet access, like libaries and schools, where citizens of the community could go and though proof of citizen-ship use the computers to post there views and/or vote. Having places like ISP, cyber cafes, etc get a local tax break if they allow "citizens" free access to post/vote.
Also have a snail address where users can send in paper copies of there view and/or vote and have some one enter them in the system. I think this method might work best for citizen without computer gear and/or computer knowledge. Get volunteers to manually type in the info to the forum, etc..
I think this would work good, raising the funds and getting a secure method of filter how is and isn't a citizen of the "community". I think this would even be scaleable upto the federal level if you had a really secure method of doing it and enough hardware to handle the load.
I don't think it's unreasonable to give parents a little help in keeping tabs on what's going on in their homes.
I think it is VERY UNREASONABLE to ban or limit material like video games from kids. It is the PARENTS job, not the goverment job to RAISE THEIR CHILDERN.
If the are incable or disabled in some way of spending time raising their kids properly, they should NOT have or had kids.
If they have kids, it is THEIR responiablity to take care of those kids and to raise them into well adjusted members of society. This is NOT the goverments job, this isn't the department store's job, this isn't video game companies jobs, this is THEIR job.
I wish this country would get off it's lazy ass and own up to our indivaul rights and responiablies as humans instead of looking for a lacky to pawn all our duties off on to.
If you can't take the time to properly raise childern, then do NOT have kids. If you have kids and don't have the time or knowledge to properly raise them, you better own up to yourself and learn really fucking quick.
This is not a job for the goverment, they should be busing themselves with their own responiablies (defensive and protection against hostile enties) and not playing parent because the parents of this country don't want to own up to their responiablies.
Either the parent can take the time to objective look at the material their child wants to play, read, watch, listen to, etc. or the parent can just "trust" that "the man" will inform them (the parent) as what is good, non-good and bad.
Also it is not only deciding what is acceptable and non-acceptable for their child, the parent now can also take a "relaxed" appoach to enforcing the access or lack of access to good, non-good and bad material that has been pre-decided by "the man"
A parent can slack off and play the "good guy" in the game of parenting. "Sorry hon, I wish you could watch or listen to this music, but the man says it is unacceptable for your age, if It where MY choice I would let you", when in reality, it IS the parents choice, but they choice not to decide or take a firm stand with their childern.
That is what makes me so fucking sick about this country and society. We are willing to GIVE UP FREEDOM for the sake of a less "demanding" life. We are so willing to give up freedom because we as a society are so fucked up in the head that we can't make simple choices for our selves and for the people we are resposiable for.
THOUSAND if not millions of people have DIED for the pursuit of FREEDOM in this country, and for the most part they did not die in vain. Though their blood, sweet and even deaths, a large amount of freedom was obtained, for further generations, for us right now, they gave us freedom.
What do we do with this freedom? The freedom that cost so many fucking lives?
We piss it away because we lack the back bone as a soceity and as a parent to say "No Bobby you can't buy that video game, the volient is to gory for your age, wait till you are older"
People bitch and complain that "The Goverment and `the man` has to much power". You want to know why the Goverment has so much fucking power? Did they take it forcefully, did they use mind control on the masses, did they kill all the "non-beilviers"?
No. It is because we GAVE THEM THE POWER willfully, and in some cases actucally WANTED them to have the power.
It basically comes down to this
"Uh excuse me Mr. Goverment, I am a US citizen, but you know what I am so fucked in the head that I can't run my own live or make my own choices, let alone raise these childern, kid thingies, how bout you help me out a little"
"Umm, the Federal Goverment isn't here to run your life, we are here to provide protection and defense against hostile forgein countries, but hey listen, give me controll over EVERY aspect of your life and I will see what I can do"
"Oh golly thanks Mr. Goverment, I will do what ever you say, just don't make me think for myself, it hurts my head to much"
Please read the consitution (sp) and tell me where the GOVERMENT has power of what I eat, what I put in my body, what my hobbies are, what I post to usenet and/or restication on movies and video games I choice or choice not to watch and/or play. Please show me that part of the constition (sp) and I will stop ranting.
I know the Nazi during WW2 used to imploy methamphines (don't know how to spell), ie. crank or meth to keep there soliders more alert and to reduce the time needed for them to rest (compared to the allies).
The first 2-4 hours of "normal working day" is boring anyway, ussually spent loading up on coffee and checking servers/email, it could use some "excitement":)
1. I wonder, if you say sleep 16 hours, during the end does the REM sleep last roughly 90 or more?
We know REM sleep is connected to long term memory, so if the statement 1. is true, then: more sleep == better memory or better learning ability ??
Like if you read a book for 16 hours, just read it, not really study it, then sleep for 16 hours would you rememeber more than if you read it for 16 hours and then sleep for 8 ??
Interting question. I wonder if this could be tested in a scientific way to prove or disprove it. Any pysch students out there looking for a cool little project? I would willing donate my self/time to this study.
One intersting thing, is if you are deprivated of sleep for an extended amount of time (ie. more than a couple days), when you finally do get to sleep, your REM will come in shorter terms, last longer and be of higher "quality".
Also in your term of sleep deprevation (when you are wake and deprivated of sleep), you mind will "know" it needs REM sleep to clear your inbox, so it tries to "trick" you into it, this is why you hear or see things that aren't real after a couple days sleep deprivation.
This things you hear or see that aren't real are nothing more than "hard drive files" loading into "RAM" so your "CPU" can cross-reference and determine where to "store" your current "cache" onto "disk". When you are loading, writting files, you have to open them, during this time you may expeirence so "unwanted" effects.
Basically this unreal voices and visions are REALLY _REAL_, they are nothing but REAL memory "blocks" coming into the current mind. They aren't real to everyone else, but they are REAL in the sense they are REAL memories.
That is why, you will never see anyone you don't know in your dreams. If you do see someone you don't know, you did see them and your mind did store it, but you where aware of it. Like if you look into a 1000 person crowd, you see "all" of them, but your "current" aware mind doesn't bring the current image of everyone to your "stack".
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You know why those older SGI machines (think Indigo 2 era) have removeable drivers? SGI had a large contract with the US miltary and the miltary wanted to be (easliy) take the hard drive out at night and lock it in a secure safe.
I know on the older IBM think pads (think 486), it takes 2 seconds to remove the hard drive (a switch on either side of keyboard, pull keyboard up, grab hard drive "bar", pull up on bar, hard drive is removed).
It might be worthwhile to look for easy hard drive removeal for all notebooks that contain senstive data. At night, take the hard drives out and put them in a secure safe that is non-remove-able OR extreme difficult to move the entire safe out of the building.
Also there is notebook "chains" that you can buy, if the user is at their desk, require them to lock down the notebook to the desk so some one can't just pick it up and walk away.
When getting a laptop make sure the "chain hole" goes THOUGH part of the hard drive. If you have a laptop securly fashioned to a desk, but the hard drive can be removed easliy, this is stupid. Those older IBM think pad had the "chain hole" actucally go into part of the hard drive, you could NOT remove the hard drive when it was chained up. If you tried, it would cause ALOT of phyiscal damage to the hard drive (hopefully rendering most of the data unuseable), if you tried to force the laptop from the desk, it would also phyiscally damage the hard drive.
Get a chain that can hook to "most things". If they need to take the notebook off site, make sure they chain it up to a fixed structure at all times.
I haven't seen anything like this, yet. But what would be REALLY NEAT is to have the power supply REQUIRE that the notebook is securly fashioned before power on. That way, users would be more likely to chain it up before using it. (this doesn't help if they have it unchained with the power off (ie. having it just sit on their desk))
Use an encrypted files system, encrypt all important files by hand (with a differant, stronger but slower encryption method and differant key). Use a GPS tracking system. Require that "important" data be backed up on a secure offline server in the office and deleted from the notebook hard drive if the user doesn't need or isn't working on that file. (like if you have 2 projects on your laptop, but project A has already been completed and no longer involved with it, back it up and delete it from laptop)
Also a security guard at the front door could be usefull for on-site theft. Have a list of which items can and can't be taken from the building, and for each item have a list of people that can or can't take the item out of the building. Require ID for anything taken from the building. Require a quick "pat down" when leaving the building (if you have a notebook stuff in your pants, this is quickly revealed to the secuirty guard in 2 seconds with a pat down)
Also require you "check in" you "important" equipment during the day with the security officer on site, so they know exactly where all important hardware is (do this when you first get there, before and after all breaks, bathroom breaks, meetings, lunch, about anything you have to leave the office or anything the equipment leaves you eye sight...)
Be a bastard, lock it down really heavy if you have to, but make sure that "important" equipment doesn't get a chance to leave company eyes...
How much does it cost to get a good physically secure site going? How much does it cost if all your companies trade secerts are posted on slashdot and usenet forums?
All email clients should be illegal. Cause in fact all email clients can send MASSIVE amounts of email that could _possiablly_ fill the disk space on the server and cause the server to reject valid emails, DOD attack of sorts.
If you posted "Someone DOD my server though disk space consumation" on newsgroups and I posted back "Try quota". Would this be considered illegal since the orignal poster released "cracking methods"?
What about web broswers, they could be use to _hand key_ a "brute force" attack against a htpasswd protected web server, sure it might take FOREVER and a day, but the possiablity of using IE to break into www.porn-o-village.com is there.
Maybe the phone companies should keep "extensive logs" of ALL phone calls. Maybe the post office should keep "extensive logs" of ALL packages and letters. Maybe humans in general should keep "extensive logs" of ALL face-to-face communications they have thoughout the day.
I truthly think that carrier pigeon owners should keep "extensive logs" of ALL messages they pass though pigeon carrier communication.
Oh and DON'T get me started on requiring the "shoe shine boy" to keep "extensive logs" on all communications he has when shiny shoes!!!
Sure, but your examples: IE and Netscape, and for the "User" market. If your Win98 box crashes at home when you are viewing porn cause a bug or security hole in Netscape, reboot the box and everything is cool.
Say your "good enough" software that runs a temperature alarm for a nucealer faclity goes down cause of a simple exploit. Say your bosses six firgure investment on a web page goes down cause the "good enough" software running on the server gets exploited...
Sure I trust IE and Netscape to view slashdot... but I won't trust either one of them (or same quality software) to run anything critical.
Let start a pentition or something. Mass-activism as my Political Sceince teacher called it.
I think he said that (Mass activism) is the only way the masses (ie. us) can communicate with the elites (ie. the goverment).
IIRC he said it worked pretty well, or everyone dies in a bloody gun fight, or just disappears. I forget. Anyone up for it? We got about a month.
Welcome to my web page!
I had a stroke yesterday so I had to move my webcam to my hositpal room.
click here to raise the temperature in my room.
click here to have a lego mindstorm shake up a magic 8 ball.
click here to adjust the controls on my artifical heart.
click me to dose me with 10mg of mophine.
click here to turn the lights on.
click here to ring the buzzer and annoy the nurses
click here to fiddle with an unknown device hooked up to me. I think it controls breathing or something.
click here to send me spam.
"So how long you in for?"
"Life, exploded some guys head like a melon with a trusty double barrle shot gun. How long you in for?"
"60 years, I changed slashdot's main page to 'you are 0wnZ3d f00l ph3ar me f0r 1 am 31337'. If I didn't have the 'SlashDot hAx0r pack version 5.1', I couldn't of 0wnz3d them f00lz"
Under the purposed billing you couldn't even "crack" for research purposes. For example, if you thought that your sendmail daemon had an undocumented "hole", under this bill, it would be illegal for you to research the possiablilty of the hole. It would be illegal for you to "crack" at it to see if the possiablily is real or not. Even if you are the current maintainer of sendmail!
And if you did find a hole, it would be illegal to tell others about it (so they can fix it or upgrade!)!
It might not be malice "cracking" or "hacking" whatever the best word is, but it would be illegal, even if you are doing it to protect yourself or others from malice "crackers"
If the OpenBSD was in the US, under this bill, it might be illegal for them to do code audits since, in a sense they are looking for crackable mistakes or holes in software. They are not doing this out of malice intent (actucally to prevent malice events on their software), but still it would probably be illegal under this law.
Please RTFA, it is really short and an easy read.
If you don't know how, get your local geek to help you. Paymet is normally accepted in pizza and/or coke.
Most geeks I know shy away from hard drugs. Pizza and jolt are almost always accpeted though.
"Lego's and Neuticles
Does it get any better for overall amusement?"
Yea quite amusing, also brings back memories. I remember when I was a kid I would play for hours with Legos and Neuticles.
The thing I am wondering, is could say Neuticles be used on say for an example on a small chipmuck or goat? Hypotical speaking of corse.
Unix is no longer an operating system. An operating system is the software that comes with a computer (or OS distribution) that programmers and users need to make themselves productive.
Unix is only a small part of that.
Last I checked an OS is:
"The three main purposes of an operating system are to attempt to schedule computational activities to ensure good performance of the computing system, they provide a convenient environment for the development and execution of programs, and convenience for the user. )
An operating system has four components. These four components are Resource Management, Hardware Control, Application Services and Applications" - Source Nia_Cial at everything2.com
So 1) this author is WAY off 2) even if Unix is defined by his diluted defination he is still WAY OFF!
I got 5-10 "OS" distrubation in the back room. If the "OS" is defined by "additional applications and functions that are required for it to run" then his statement: "Unix is only a small part of that" is way off, this guy is a dumb ass.
SuSE Linux 6.3 - 6 CDs PACKED with "Additional applications"
Freinds "custom" debain build 7 CD PACKED
Solaris 7 - 1 "os" disk and 2 CD's packed with applications (software disk 1 & 2)
Windows 95 b - 1 CD, half of which is taken up by a Weezer MPG movie
Windows 98 SE - 1 CD, half empty
MacOS 7.0 - 1 CD, half empty
So by this authors OWN defination he is complety fscking wrong, by the correct defination he is complely fscking wrong. Who is the fuck that gave him web space to put up this shit?
I am really starting to hate Mac users.
In reference to the iMac --
"MY COMPUTER IS GRAPE" -- penny-arcade.com
DON'T SLEEP THE GOVERMENT IS AFTER ME
I use my FM Radio to both access, [and] intercept
DON'T SLEEP THE GOVERMENT IS AFTER ME
Last week, the persons of the known hacker project OpenSSH (http://www.openssh.com) have all be inprisioned waiting for trial in a massive 17 state, 7 country raid last week.
"The openssh project has been on-going for awhile now, some of the best hackers in the world have been working on this project, we brought most of them down last Thrusday night" said FBI's Agent Smith.
The OpenSSH software project contains 2 peice of software, the server and client SSH clients.
SSH clients have create with the sole purposes of accessing other computer systems on the Internet. "Yea this is public knowledge, that is why the are created for a secure connection to remote hosts, very fancy software" say security expert Mr. Anderson of Stop Crackers Dead, Inc.
The SSH server included with OpenSSH will actucally create a portal that can be used to take remote control over the remote system. "Yea, these hackers just install the server and then can use the client to remotly access the computer system securly with the ssh client included with open ssh" said Mr. Anderson.
"Would you consider this a trojan or virus Mr. Anderson" Mr. Reporter
"Not per say, a trojan is ussually a program that claims to do something else, the SSH clients and servers SAY exactly what the are doing, and well documented. Even the source is avaiable, so if you don't beilvie it is doing what it said it would do, you can read it for your self. And it is in no way a virus, it doesn't prograte it's self automatically, although it is popular" Mr. Anderson
"So apparently what you are saying is this trojan is so cocky it tells you it is going to comprise your system and it issuses a type of mind control so users manually prograte the software?" Mr. Reporter
"[YES I DID SAY THAT]
Also in related news the programmers of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator have been sentanced to death for create some of the most popular hacker software used to access remote computer systems.
"All your have to do is type in the domain name (computer name) and it ussually gives your direct access to their web site" Mr. Anderson explained "It is really easy, even people with little or know computer expeirence can type in a url and get direct access to the web site" A url is nothing more than a computer name, this information is made readily avaiable at the hackers web site http://www.networksolutions.com. With the powerful IE or Netscape as the hackers have coined them, anyone with little or know computer knowlege can use these programs to DIRECTLY ACCESS OTHER COMPUTER SYSTEMS ON THE INTERNET WITH ANY LOGIN OR PASSWORD.
I asked Mr. Anderson if there was anything the average consumer could do to protect themselves "Well, if you don't have any information you want to give out, don't install any web server on your machine. If you do have a web page, you can password protect it with htaccess, there are other methods, but it is a little deep for average consumers, if you are running a web server you must be a system admin or web master, in that case there is a ton of resources out there. The web server is one of the more easier service to secure, they are quite robust."
You heard it hear first, at the slash daily post, there is nothing you can do to protect yourself from malice hackers expect pay massive amounts of money to your goverment.
For the record, IMHO is that even the community level should NOT be in charge of what your kid see's or doesn't see. I think if an person is under 18 years of age his legal guardian should decide or they should decided together what material can and should not be view by the person under age.
It is the parents or legal guardians responsiable to raise their kid and not the federal, schools, communities job. The parent or legal guardian needs to own up to their rights and responiables and do the work needed to properly raise thier kid as they see fit. The federal, state or other goverment or community entiy should not get involved in this.
Oh yea, if the goverment does decide to do this, guess who money they are spending for this project? Yours and mine tax dollars, maybe we should just keep are money and buy software filters, food or other things we see proper for our kid to have, instead of letting the goverment decide what our kid should or shouldn't have. That would say alot of time and effort and generate better results.
The above post is not advocating that the community should be involved in implenting software filters, the above post is just stating a differant way a community could handle a community problem. Software filters are not a community problem. It was more intended as a "Do we need a fire department, the town square has been on fire for 2 weeks staight". Since community voting came up, I though I would throw in my 1 cent, hey I am cheap
Also in a "perfect world", all local choices could be voted and debated in a town hall meeting of sorts. I forget what they are called.
In medival times, when the village wanted to do something that effected the entire village, anyone could show up at the meet and _everyone_ could be aloted X amount of time to state their point why it is a good thing, bad thing, ugly thing or other.
Once everyone had there time to present their view point to the other village members, a vote would be cast. Everyone that showed up receive exactly one vote. The votes where tallied and the majority won. Then they would accept or reject the idea or plan based on what the majority ruling was.
This works really well in small communities, but on a large level or federal level it would quickly be to much "talk time" and would take forever. But villages in medival time where rather small and it worked out well and I consider it a more democary than what we have now (referring to US, don't know about other countries).
Today this won't work well in larger communities. Try getting what 11 million (?) New Yorkers in one spot and give them each 4 minutes to present there case, HAHA that would take a ton of room and WAY to much time.
What I was thinking, maybe have a web site, where everyone is allowed 2-3 post ala slashdot sytle. Open up the forum about 1-2 months before the issuse is to be voted on, each person that is a resident of that community gets to post there view point to the forum. Any memeber of the community could read an amount of post they wished. Once the issuse came up, vote on it though the site, and then get the results.
This would be more of the "medivel town vote" gone high tech and time and space requirements would no longer be a problem.
The only problem I could see are these:
1) It would be hard to proof who lived and who didn't live in that "community", maybe require registion at the DMV or something? Securing valid posters and voters would be the first big problem.
2) Who would pay for the server/bandwidth? local community tax to pay for it? Non-profit donations?
3) Not everyone has access to the internet. This could be sloved by a listing of places that offer "free" internet access, like libaries and schools, where citizens of the community could go and though proof of citizen-ship use the computers to post there views and/or vote. Having places like ISP, cyber cafes, etc get a local tax break if they allow "citizens" free access to post/vote.
Also have a snail address where users can send in paper copies of there view and/or vote and have some one enter them in the system. I think this method might work best for citizen without computer gear and/or computer knowledge. Get volunteers to manually type in the info to the forum, etc..
I think this would work good, raising the funds and getting a secure method of filter how is and isn't a citizen of the "community". I think this would even be scaleable upto the federal level if you had a really secure method of doing it and enough hardware to handle the load.
Hey baby, guess how many gigs are in my pants.
or
I got the entire libary of congress in my jean pocket, want to see?
I think the ONLY REAL use of cool techonlgy is to be used to come up with better pick up lines.
I don't think it's unreasonable to give parents a little help in keeping tabs on what's going on in their homes.
I think it is VERY UNREASONABLE to ban or limit material like video games from kids. It is the PARENTS job, not the goverment job to RAISE THEIR CHILDERN.
If the are incable or disabled in some way of spending time raising their kids properly, they should NOT have or had kids.
If they have kids, it is THEIR responiablity to take care of those kids and to raise them into well adjusted members of society. This is NOT the goverments job, this isn't the department store's job, this isn't video game companies jobs, this is THEIR job.
I wish this country would get off it's lazy ass and own up to our indivaul rights and responiablies as humans instead of looking for a lacky to pawn all our duties off on to.
If you can't take the time to properly raise childern, then do NOT have kids. If you have kids and don't have the time or knowledge to properly raise them, you better own up to yourself and learn really fucking quick.
This is not a job for the goverment, they should be busing themselves with their own responiablies (defensive and protection against hostile enties) and not playing parent because the parents of this country don't want to own up to their responiablies.
It also makes for "easy (or easier) parenting".
Either the parent can take the time to objective look at the material their child wants to play, read, watch, listen to, etc. or the parent can just "trust" that "the man" will inform them (the parent) as what is good, non-good and bad.
Also it is not only deciding what is acceptable and non-acceptable for their child, the parent now can also take a "relaxed" appoach to enforcing the access or lack of access to good, non-good and bad material that has been pre-decided by "the man"
A parent can slack off and play the "good guy" in the game of parenting. "Sorry hon, I wish you could watch or listen to this music, but the man says it is unacceptable for your age, if It where MY choice I would let you", when in reality, it IS the parents choice, but they choice not to decide or take a firm stand with their childern.
That is what makes me so fucking sick about this country and society. We are willing to GIVE UP FREEDOM for the sake of a less "demanding" life. We are so willing to give up freedom because we as a society are so fucked up in the head that we can't make simple choices for our selves and for the people we are resposiable for.
THOUSAND if not millions of people have DIED for the pursuit of FREEDOM in this country, and for the most part they did not die in vain. Though their blood, sweet and even deaths, a large amount of freedom was obtained, for further generations, for us right now, they gave us freedom.
What do we do with this freedom? The freedom that cost so many fucking lives?
We piss it away because we lack the back bone as a soceity and as a parent to say "No Bobby you can't buy that video game, the volient is to gory for your age, wait till you are older"
People bitch and complain that "The Goverment and `the man` has to much power". You want to know why the Goverment has so much fucking power? Did they take it forcefully, did they use mind control on the masses, did they kill all the "non-beilviers"?
No. It is because we GAVE THEM THE POWER willfully, and in some cases actucally WANTED them to have the power.
It basically comes down to this
"Uh excuse me Mr. Goverment, I am a US citizen, but you know what I am so fucked in the head that I can't run my own live or make my own choices, let alone raise these childern, kid thingies, how bout you help me out a little"
"Umm, the Federal Goverment isn't here to run your life, we are here to provide protection and defense against hostile forgein countries, but hey listen, give me controll over EVERY aspect of your life and I will see what I can do"
"Oh golly thanks Mr. Goverment, I will do what ever you say, just don't make me think for myself, it hurts my head to much"
Please read the consitution (sp) and tell me where the GOVERMENT has power of what I eat, what I put in my body, what my hobbies are, what I post to usenet and/or restication on movies and video games I choice or choice not to watch and/or play. Please show me that part of the constition (sp) and I will stop ranting.
I know the Nazi during WW2 used to imploy methamphines (don't know how to spell), ie. crank or meth to keep there soliders more alert and to reduce the time needed for them to rest (compared to the allies).
The first 2-4 hours of "normal working day" is boring anyway, ussually spent loading up on coffee and checking servers/email, it could use some "excitement"
Moderators and crack, what is the connection?
the above post got a +2 insightfully. It links to slash and geek porn, instresting yes, insightfully no.
I am fantizing about having a fanasty of a casual discussion of dreaming about dreaming of having a girlfreind.
In an awkward way, fantizing about have a fanasty of this turns me on.
Weird.
You lucky bastard, you must be mentallity "stable" or something.
1. I wonder, if you say sleep 16 hours, during the end does the REM sleep last roughly 90 or more?
We know REM sleep is connected to long term memory, so if the statement 1. is true, then: more sleep == better memory or better learning ability ??
Like if you read a book for 16 hours, just read it, not really study it, then sleep for 16 hours would you rememeber more than if you read it for 16 hours and then sleep for 8 ??
Interting question. I wonder if this could be tested in a scientific way to prove or disprove it. Any pysch students out there looking for a cool little project? I would willing donate my self/time to this study.
Have you ever came in contact with a man know as "Agent Williams"?
The truth is out there, Accipiter. It's looking for you and it will find you, if you want it to.
One intersting thing, is if you are deprivated of sleep for an extended amount of time (ie. more than a couple days), when you finally do get to sleep, your REM will come in shorter terms, last longer and be of higher "quality".
Also in your term of sleep deprevation (when you are wake and deprivated of sleep), you mind will "know" it needs REM sleep to clear your inbox, so it tries to "trick" you into it, this is why you hear or see things that aren't real after a couple days sleep deprivation.
This things you hear or see that aren't real are nothing more than "hard drive files" loading into "RAM" so your "CPU" can cross-reference and determine where to "store" your current "cache" onto "disk". When you are loading, writting files, you have to open them, during this time you may expeirence so "unwanted" effects.
Basically this unreal voices and visions are REALLY _REAL_, they are nothing but REAL memory "blocks" coming into the current mind. They aren't real to everyone else, but they are REAL in the sense they are REAL memories.
That is why, you will never see anyone you don't know in your dreams. If you do see someone you don't know, you did see them and your mind did store it, but you where aware of it. Like if you look into a 1000 person crowd, you see "all" of them, but your "current" aware mind doesn't bring the current image of everyone to your "stack".