From the article: "This to me is no different than hacking," said Jon Asdourian, a computer forensics examiner with Stroz-Friedberg. "They're obviously using resources that would not normally be available. Using someone else's resources without their knowledge is abhorrent to us."
Thats just crap - if somebody leaves a proxy-server open to the world, they can hardly complain when *gasp* somebody uses it as a proxy server . ..
And as somebody mentioned earlier, port scanning itself is not inherently wrong. Its people putting the information gained from port scanning to ill use that is wrong.
It strikes me that there's some analogy to gun control here - port scanning doesn't root computers, hax0rs root computers . . .
it has about the same point as any kind of LED display, or even/var/log/messages being tailed to a spare console - its an easy way to see at a glance just whats going on for those not permanently attached to a computer. Hooking it up to a stock portfolio might be dumb, but you could have it doing any one of a number of things. One that springs to mind is scanning your inbox and alerting you to particulalry important emails etc etc.
I fully agree that spending $200 on one of these is a stupid waste of money for anyone not earning fuck-off money, and I'd even go so far as to agree its not incredibly practical or useful. But if I could make one at a low cost, if would be pretty cool for the geek-factor alone
If you read the post, you'll see the whole point of this was to avoid spending the $200. Instead he wants to spend a few dollars on LEDs and a few more on resin and cables. I'd imagine this costing somewhere less than $30.
Now if you were offering to be a hummer for $29.99, that would be a different story . . .
In order to enforce this, I understand its standard practise for telephone companies to insert bogus entries into their phone books so that they can catch (and prove) that someone has simply copied their compilation, rather than going out and making their own.
Map makers do much the same thing by inserting non-existant side-roads onto their maps.
heh although none of my friends were into dungeons and dragons we all loved this show. however, we never got to see the end of it because it and thundercats were deemed to be of ill-influence on our tender little (kiwi) minds and thus were cancelled half-way through. boy was i pissed. but now its playing again in the states, and i still don't get to see the end of the series *sigh* its things like this make one want to move . . .
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nah, it just locks up at the boot up screen - i've tried selecting a few different os's and some get a little further than others but none seem to make it.
I do recall reading somewhere on vmware's site that they are planning on supporting beos as a guest os, just not as a host os.
personally, I'd rather they spent their time developing a better directx implementation, but thats just my opinion . . .
yeah, like if i had paid out cash for any dvd player, and found it could play all regions, i'd return it. i really would. honest. heh. how the hell can sony expect them to be returned? the only way i could see any being returned at all would be if they refused any right of warranty and/or support to those who didn't return them. even then though, i'd rather take my chances and keep my machine . . .
This is probably slightly off topic, but what ever happened to quake3 for linux? The linux demo was released at almost the same timeas the mac and win32 demo's. I recall thinking at the time, Yeah, finally some decent games are coming out for linux on time, rather than being ported 3 years laters. I may be mistaken, but 3 months after Q3A was released, all linux users have is that demo, leaving unable to join in the fragging. Whats up with this?
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"This to me is no different than hacking," said Jon Asdourian, a computer forensics examiner with Stroz-Friedberg. "They're obviously using resources that would not normally be available. Using someone else's resources without their knowledge is abhorrent to us."
Thats just crap - if somebody leaves a proxy-server open to the world, they can hardly complain when *gasp* somebody uses it as a proxy server . .
And as somebody mentioned earlier, port scanning itself is not inherently wrong. Its people putting the information gained from port scanning to ill use that is wrong.
It strikes me that there's some analogy to gun control here - port scanning doesn't root computers, hax0rs root computers . . .
what software are you using to control this? I have something similar, but have not been able to find anything able to do anything with it . . .
it has about the same point as any kind of LED display, or even /var/log/messages being tailed to a spare console - its an easy way to see at a glance just whats going on for those not permanently attached to a computer.
Hooking it up to a stock portfolio might be dumb, but you could have it doing any one of a number of things. One that springs to mind is scanning your inbox and alerting you to particulalry important emails etc etc.
I fully agree that spending $200 on one of these is a stupid waste of money for anyone not earning fuck-off money, and I'd even go so far as to agree its not incredibly practical or useful. But if I could make one at a low cost, if would be pretty cool for the geek-factor alone
If you read the post, you'll see the whole point of this was to avoid spending the $200.
Instead he wants to spend a few dollars on LEDs and a few more on resin and cables. I'd imagine this costing somewhere less than $30.
Now if you were offering to be a hummer for $29.99, that would be a different story . . .
In order to enforce this, I understand its standard practise for telephone companies to insert bogus entries into their phone books so that they can catch (and prove) that someone has simply copied their compilation, rather than going out and making their own.
Map makers do much the same thing by inserting non-existant side-roads onto their maps.
just out of curiosity, what chess program for the ipaq are you using? I'm using PocketChess and even on easiest I've only ever beaten it twice . . .
heh although none of my friends were into dungeons and dragons we all loved this show. however, we never got to see the end of it because it and thundercats were deemed to be of ill-influence on our tender little (kiwi) minds and thus were cancelled half-way through. boy was i pissed. but now its playing again in the states, and i still don't get to see the end of the series *sigh* its things like this make one want to move . . .
I do recall reading somewhere on vmware's site that they are planning on supporting beos as a guest os, just not as a host os.
personally, I'd rather they spent their time developing a better directx implementation, but thats just my opinion . . .
yeah, like if i had paid out cash for any dvd player, and found it could play all regions, i'd return it. i really would. honest. heh. how the hell can sony expect them to be returned? the only way i could see any being returned at all would be if they refused any right of warranty and/or support to those who didn't return them. even then though, i'd rather take my chances and keep my machine . . .
This is probably slightly off topic, but what ever happened to quake3 for linux? The linux demo was released at almost the same timeas the mac and win32 demo's. I recall thinking at the time, Yeah, finally some decent games are coming out for linux on time, rather than being ported 3 years laters. I may be mistaken, but 3 months after Q3A was released, all linux users have is that demo, leaving unable to join in the fragging. Whats up with this?