Sex is certanly one of the ones I would suggest, of course, it is a little difficult without a partner.;-) But, it is a form of exercise that stresses your abdominal muscles, and that is good. In fact, one of the things that can help your back is beefing up your abs.
I used to suffer from crippling back pain, even as far back as elementary school. Some days I could not walk. 7 years ago I took up Kung Fu, and I have found that as long as I make the conditioning classes (many crunches in those) I never have back pain. Now, I go to the Gym as well as Kung Fu, and, seeing as it is summer, I spend 3-4 days a week Whitewater Kayaking.
Personally, I beleive that there is no better excercise than Whitewater Kayaking for your core muscles. (Of course, I played so hard yesterday, I am having trouble sitting straight today!:)
It all comes down to complementing your muscle groups. If your back is hurting there is a good chance that your abs are weak and thus your posture is off - hurting your back. Excercising opposite muscles to the pain is always a good idea.
If sex (with someone other than yourself!) gives you a good ab workout (it should!), it will help your back, and hey, who ISN'T relaxed after the orgasm?
So, there is my take on the situation. I use all of the above. (Well, except the sex part recently, but I do have a date on Tuesday. No really! A/. geek actually got a *DATE*. That alone should be a story on/.)
So in summary. EXCERCISE! Find something you enjoy, that also stresses your core muscle groups. (Just be aware that some stretches can worsen back pain, such as "touching your toes" check with someone who knows.
When I was in high school the computers there were dusty to a level you cannot believe (unless you are a tried and true geek, then I suppose you could...)
I had a 286 begin to smoke, and spark, then it died, all because of the dust inside.
Worse, a IBM PC Junior I was using caught fire because of the amount of dust in it. Suffice it to say that system did not survive either. (I unplugged it, not that that helped stop it from burning, it went out on its own once the dust was consumed.)
To this day whenever a computer crashes anywhere within my vicinity my friends still refer to my "EMP" field that I generate...
(Yes this supposed "field" has crashed *nix boxen too, but not as often as other OS's)
In a game like Quake II, the ability to see through walls would hardly give you any advantage, because it comes down to your ability to move fast and aim accurately.
I must disagree on this point, as a long time deathmatcher (I have won a few local tournaments, and been a top ranked player in Half Life Op For) I must say that cheats such as this *DO* make a difference.
I have experimented once or twice with cheating, as I wish to know what my opponents are using, if they are cheaters. I do not however use cheating when I am in online play: With the exception that I once used a variation of the see-through technique in Half Life for about a week - Under a different play name.
The cheat was a simple FOV hack, that let you move to third person view, this skewed you view and made some walls see through when you pressed a key. It did not work for all walls. I can say that this cheat was devastating. One could duck behind a corner or some other kind of game brush, and see if the person persuing you was continuing pursuit, or holding back, or what have you. There is a huge advantage in being able to step around a corner and have your cross hairs leveled at your opponed where they will do the most damage. It comes down to (like you said) reaction time. Being able to see through walls gives you an advantage in reaction time because you know exactly where your opponent is, and you are obscured to them.
I would say that the only cheat worse than seeing through walls is an aimbot.
The whole irony to this is that I have spent a grand total of 1 week cheating online. I am regularly kicked off of servers for "cheating". So, I am a pretty good player. (Read, until I picked up Whitewater Kayaking, I had no life outside of deathmatching... =) )
So to your comment here:
Never the less, cheating in any form in a multiplayer game is not only rude and unfair, but you _will_ be found out, and when that happens, you are immediatly discredited. Just try to use a cheat patch or auto-aiming script for more than one round before someone yells "[your name here] is a BOT!!!". Then, hopefully someone in the room has administrative privlidges, and can ban the cheater. Or there could be a voting system in place to kick the cheater (like there is in CS). This is really the only way to stop cheating. It is impossible to prevent, but easy to stop with the right methods.
I must disagree with this. I would reccomend Punkbuster for Counter Strike. However, I have been banned from a number of CS servers for cheating. Indeed, with the quake games we play here at work, a number of my co-workers were certain I was a cheater. I finally proved that I was not when I sat down at a "clean" PC (built by them), and they watched me deathmatch.
There ARE good players out there. Not all of us cheat. Have I cheated? Yes, as I mentioned. For one week of online play. I stopped because not only was it lame, but I found it boring.
Take that as you will.
Yes, sorry, my bad, a knee-jerk reaction on my part. I agree, Mike could use a dose of the Advocacy How-To, but then that was the point of my post.:)
I suspect that the "standard" Microsoft Bashing on Slashdot is par for the course though. Hell, in my first post to Slashdot (which ironically was a "first post") I flamed Microsoft.
The hordes of Slashdotters flamed me back, and although a good quantity were of the "You suck!" Variety, some actually too the time to produce cohesive arguments, and yes, one pointed me to the Advocacy How-To. I had not read it before. Prior to reading it I was a "Pro-Linux Raving Slashdot Lunatic", and I was hardly open to the idea of using Microsoft Products for anything.
Now? Well, currently I am typing this in Windows 2000 (Because the Diablo II Beta test for Lord of Destruction won't work under Linux...) and I am no longer the zealot I once was.
Maybe we can, by the force of calculated persuasion, do this for Michael too.
Myself, I didn't get the job, but I found the response to Bruce Perens from one of the developers at HP, shall we say, interesting.
Interesting point. I will not argue Bruce's skill, but I hear (although in all honesty I have never talked to him) that his personality can be much like Theo De Ratt (of OpenBSD) at times, and thus, abrasive to be around. You can have all the smarts in the world, but in business, politics always comes into play. (I personally hate politics.)
Of course, HP's printers are still shipping with Windows-only drivers... and Windows-only configuration tools... and described as "Linux-compatible" in their advertisements.
While this is true, HP has pledged support for ALL its printers, heck, Bruce even works for HP now. The fact that the printers are being advertised as Linux-compatible is a big bonus - it gets the name "Linux" out to the public at large. This is called branding.
We have waited a long time (at least I have) for things like this to come about. Cut HP some slack. They are a big company, it will take them time to change their packaging and processing to include Linux drivers on the discs that ship with the printers.
I am more of the position: "Hey HP! Thanks for doing this, I am going to support your company because you support my favoured OS!"
(Maybe I am just over-reacting here, or maybe I have become jaded by the number of unjust flames I have seen originating from slashdot...)
Would'nt it be funny if Neo or someone else had to hack on a *nix box of some type in the movie, and *nix was prominantly displayed as an OS. Imagine if MS had to create a "hacking" portion of the game that involved using *nix.
(I doubt that this will happen because I would bet that this game is an action title like Quake or Oni, and not like say, System Shock 2 or Deus Ex.)
On a side note, was BSD used for some of the effects in the Matrix 1?
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what's so great about spare livers/hearts etc? Clones are every bit as human as you are, what if you were the one who lived your entire goddamn life in a vat, so that one day someone can walk up to you, kill you, and rip your liver out to give to the "human" you were "cloned" from?
You are assuming of course that you grow just an entire clone for a few spare parts, as opposed to growing only the parts you need. (I.E. A liver or a heart alone.)
I see nothing wrong with cloning parts. It is the grey matter (nervous system/tissue/brain) that I take issue with.
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You've fallen into the TV Clone trap. You know the one where we grow clones in incubators and make them into adults before they get to get out and do anything.
I am aware of how clones would develop (and the inherant problems with shortened telomeres as well), but what I imagine are "clone camps" where the clones are raised to be slaves from the start. Remember it was not all that long ago that a similar setup (or rather class system) was in effect in North America. (Indeed, it still continues throughout the world.)
From the perspective of the law it is as unlikely that anybody but your doctor would know that you are cloned, much as you don't know who around you is a test tube baby.
This depends on how you define a clone. If you cloned an ordinary human, sure, it would be difficult to tell (and if the telomeres were intact, I doubt if a doctor could tell.)
What is more worrysome is a simple manipulation of the gene code. Let's say that clones all have different coloured eyes and skin. (Sound familiar?) You could easially engineer a "race" that appeared signifigantly different from "normal" humans, and would be instantly recognizable as a clone (or, perhaps, slave is a far more accurate term.)
Hopefully with overpopulation as it currently stands we wont have to worry about a genetically created race of subordinates.
(I realize that some of my above remarks could be taken as inflamatory by some readers, if they offend you, tough. You are obviously missing my point. =)
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``There is no need for this technology to ever be used with humans,'' said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.
Three Years Later:
Doctor: Well, Sen. Brownback, your liver and heart are failing. There is some great cloning technology in China that would let you live for an extra 10-15 years. I guess we can't use that on you here though. It's not legal here, sorry.
What? No, you can't go to China and have that procedure. If you did you would not be allowed back in the US. No clones in the US remember?
Now I am not too familiar with American politics (I am Canadian) but:
``The scientists who created Dolly had over 200 attempts before Dolly was born,'' said Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Fla., a physician. ``The prior attempts resulted in malformed, sickly creatures that had to be euthanized.
``We cannot allow this scenario to play out with humans,'' said Weldon, who is co-sponsoring the House bill with Bart Stupak, D-Mich.
Is this a contraditcion in terms with what the Republicans are trying to to with abortion in the US (or do they see it as a continuation of the same issue?)
Although I am arguing on a slippery slope here, if cloning *DOES* get approved somewhere for humans, what rights would a clone have?
You can't abort "natural" fetuses, but cloned ones? Thats ok!!
Ah yes, the new slave trade. Come down to Wal-Mart and buy yourself a new Chinese-Engineered clone, if you are unsatified with their performance, remeber you can just not feed them, and throw them in the trash!
(Here I am picking China as a leader in Bio-tech, but maybe I should have picked Cuba, I understand that they are very advanced on this front...)
Apr 22 06:17:20 mayday portsentry[9235]: attackalert: Host 211.205.178.64 has been blocked via dropped route using command: "/etc/portsentry/portsentry.bash 211.205.178.64 111"
The nice thing about portsentry is that you can have it issue a command in response to an attack. In this case instead of using the default portsentry settings, it executes a custom built script using the IP as an argument. If you trigger portsentry, you can still see port 80, and 443, but nothing else.
I get hit with about 10-15 of these a day:
Apr 22 06:17:20 mayday portsentry[9235]: attackalert: Connect from host: 211.205.178.64/211.205.178.64 to TCP port: 111
Apr 22 06:17:20 mayday portsentry[9235]: attackalert: Host 211.205.178.64 has been blocked via dropped route using command: "/etc/portsentry/portsentry.bash 211.205.178.64 111"
I know what the port 111 exploit is, but I have never used it, yet I get many hits from this exploit a day on my servers. This is just one hit. I know how to stop it (portsentry/ipchains is a wonderful thing) and as you can see it is logged.
There are many more attacks coming in, this is just one example. Sure, I can read on how they are performed, but that only makes me book-smart. I need to be able to see in real-time (or playback) exactly what a black-hat is going to do with my systems.
Honeypots/nets also give crackers a chance to practice their skills -- which can then be used against real targets -- with little repercussion.
Perhaps you should read this. It shows you the "proper" way to setup a honeypot so that it cannot be used as a jump-point. I don't want to be just book-smart when it comes to my network. I want to know how they get in and what they do. Yes, I have secured my network (as best as you can that is) but that is not the point. Eventually *SOMEONE* is going to get in, somehow. I am going to be the one picking up the pieces when it happens. I would love to say that I am "good enough" that no one will crack my network, but I don't believe anyone is.
What I expect to learn from crackers hitting my honeypot is an overall "pattern". I expect to learn how to become a black hat, because it will make me a better white hat.
How much more can we really learn from the drooling 13-year-old script kiddies of the world?
Not all crackers fit that description I am guessing. Hopefully a honeypot will help me find this out for certain.
Will you people listen to yourselves? You're buying more than one copy of the same game to try and keep a company alive. And in the same breath you talk about the Linux Revolution. What gives?
I am currently posting this from Windows 2000. I use Win 2K at work because I need Windows do do my job. Sure, much of what I do is on a number of Linux servers across the country, but our main product staple is Windows based. For this reason I use Windows, it is the best tool for the job.
Having said that, I am a gamer, and I like games as do members of our LUG. Linux, like Windows is just a tool to do a job, in some instances it is the better tool. Currently for gaming, Linux is not that tool, Windows is. As you can tell however, I like Linux (and Unix's in general) and I believe in supporting it. There is a catch 22 here. Without more Linux software there will be fewer Linux users.
Do I think that Loki should be able to survive on it's own merits? Of course I do. Still, if I am given the option of buying the game for full price, or buying TWO copies for the same price, which should I pick?
You can reference my previous comment on this matter.
So, in conclusion I would like to commend you on an excellent trolling. I am just supporting something I believe in. I don't see anything wrong with that. Do you?
Our LUG solug.org is doing this. We don't really have enough members for 10 copies (or rather we do, but not all members are gamers) So there are 5 of us who want the game, and of those 5 we were going to buy the game anyways, so it looks like we will end up with 2 copies each. I can live with that, so can they.
In the example for UT the binaries are avalible for download, I am not going to buy Deus Ex for Linux because I have already finished it, there is no replay value in it for me. (I finished it a few times already.)
I have considered purchasing the game a second time however. What I *DO* do is wait to buy a game if there is an announcement that there will be a Linux version. If this is the case, I will wait. If not, and I want the game? I buy it. (And do the reg-card thing)
I pre-bought Quake 3 For Linux, and I had to wait some time for it too because Loki was shipping to US customers first (I am Canadian). I recieved it some time after the Windows version was in stores, it also cost me almost twice as much as the Windows version.
I am not going to bitch about that though, I bought the Linux version because I believe in supporting Linux.
When I purchased Unreal Tournament, there was no official Linux version. I sent my registration card back to Epic, and scrawled across the top in bright red ink were the words: "PURCHASED FOR USE WITH LINUX", lo and behold, there is official support from Loki for UT now.
I bought Deus Ex the instant it hit the shelves (I own anything and everything to do with Warren Spector), I did the same with this, sending the registration card to Edios with the same words on it.
Next thing I know there is a announcement about Deus Ex for Linux. Unfortunatly I had already finished Deus Ex. =( I would have waited had I known.
I knew Tribes 2 was coming out for Linux. That is why I did not buy the Windows version. I knew the Linux version would eventually come. My friend went into EB World and asked about the Linux version of Tribes 2, and he got a scoff from the sales person, "Linux? Who uses that? No, we don't carry any Linux software." My friend bought the Windows version (and now has a Linux server running) and the salesperson said "Heh, still gonna buy the Windows version eh?"
My friend responded "Yeah, I guess I don't have a CHOICE."
Just to be a bastard (Yeah, I have read the Advocacy how-to) I went into that EB World, picked up Tribes 2, and said "Cool! Tribes 2!" (With the same sales person next to me) I made a pretense of looking at the side of the box and then said, "Hmmm, it mentions the Linux server here on the side of the box, but nothing about the Linux client." He got smug again and said "Nah, we don't carry and Linux games."
I said "Oh, too bad, guess I will have to buy my games off of the internet then... bye." (Most of the local LUG is going to go do this to EB World...:)
Probably not the best solution, I don't know if I would reccomend that one...
So, yes, I buy Linux versions of software whenever it is avalible, and I make it known that I want more Linux software avaliable. My friend Todd who purchased Tribes 2 at EB World will probably play the game under both Windows and Linux, and certanly run the server on Linux, but he won't wait for the Linux versions of games, and he certanly won't pay more for them.
I can't say as I blame him really. It is not fair that we have to wait longer, its even less fair that the same software should cost more for Linux. So, if you can't be bothered to actually buy a Linux version of a game, fill out the registration card (Marketers for software companies take these *VERY* seriously, I know the ones at my work do!) and write in big bold letters "PURCHASED FOR USE WITH LINUX."
If you can't vote with your dollars (which is the best idea) then vote with the registration cards. It makes a huge difference.
Of course I can't think of many games that would know how to take advantage of the 2nd monitor.
I can. Multiheaded gaming is not all that uncommon. It's quite neat, but to be honest I would prefer it over THREE monitors as opposed to two. The reason I say this is that in Quake 3 the crosshair is divided evenly between monitors, and that is a pain for railgun use.
There is no slump in sex sites, says Robert P. Libbon of American Demographics Magazine. He cites a report from sextracker.com that the number of free adult Web sites grew from 22,100 in l997 to 280,300 last year.
I suspect that the trolls of slashdot have increased the "popularity" of one infamous site. I had never heard of goatse.cx before (No, I am not going to provide a hyperlink, you really DONT want to go there) come to think of it, I never wanted to hear of the site.
Eeesh. What frightens me is that somehow someone could probably make money off of that site through the trolling on Slashdot. Recently some people who had seen the link forwared it to me via ICQ. Thanks to slashdot I already knew what it was and did not open the link...
I just thanked slashdot for educating me about goatse.cx...
In fact, they're creating the biggest repository of cracker data in the Web!! If they get compromised, everybody using their services will be painted in red as potential targets.
1)...your account information is stored separately from the IDS logs you submit for analysis...
2)...You always have the choice of how much information you wish to send. You may decide to strip address information when cleaning logs in ARIS extractor...
Also, they only know who you are if you choose to tell them, and, even so, that information is stored separately from the attacks on your system.
Disclamer, I am a Canadian. It's the NSA's job to spy on ME because I am in a foreign country.
Due to the nature of open source, having the NSA slip a "Back Door" in is VERY VERY VERY unlikely. About the only ways I can consider this is similar to the techniques in Cracking DES and including an encryption/transmission scheme that seems secure just like DES did. (For more information, read the book.)
However, the NSA wants to keep citizens in the U.S. secure because its their job to spy on other countries. The NSA probably wants American businesses to be secure!!! Especially if foreign countrys are developing more secure solutions faster than the U.S. you better believe that the NSA is concerned!!
Anyhow, the NSA does not so much care about breaking in to a system as they do intercepting transmissions between systems. They are after information in foreign countrys, they are not out for scoring points like:
From the article: However, any attacker looking to exploit this vulnerability would likely have a hard time, security experts say. Not only is it inordinately difficult to identify machines that are vulnerable, but the attacks themselves are quite hard to execute.
And because the flaw has been known for so long, it's unlikely that there are many TCP implementations that are still vulnerable to such attacks.
Isn't this just standard TCP/IP number sequencing for the packets? IIRC there was a problem with Free BSD sometime back in that the TCP/IP stack had a bug where the sequence numbers were not truly random and could be spoofed quite easially. Again, IIRC, OpenBSD's stack uses some of the best random numbers (as shown by nmap when it tries to predict the OS of the target.) and predicting and spoofing those packets is nigh impossible.
Is this just the same old hole or am I missing something here?
The former poster is correct. We can manufacture plastics from basic elements, it is simply cheaper to pump oil out of the ground. As for making gasoline from raw elements, it is currently not (nor do I believe it ever will be) practical.
At the current time there are genetically engineered bacteria that can create basic plastics. You can grow these bacteria and have plastic as a by-product. Merely refine the plastic and alter it to your purpose.
Now, someone is going to argue that we don't have that technology yet or some such. I am willing to bet that we most likely do, but again, it makes no economic sense to do so with oil being cheaper from the ground.
This will rock when it finally goes live. I remember reading the older/. article about a Linux bios (using VIA chipset I believe?) and the problem that they encountered was the system booted to fast for the drives to come online.
It would be nice though to have all my newer computers boot as fast as my 286.
Its wierd really, my 286 will boot into DOS faster than any of my newer computers will boot Linux, Windows, or BSD. What the hell is that?
(Yes yes, I know its all about hardware detection loading daemons, etc etc etc. It still feels like a throwback when a 286 and an IBM PS/2 boot faster than anything else modern.)
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Sex is certanly one of the ones I would suggest, of course, it is a little difficult without a partner. ;-) But, it is a form of exercise that stresses your abdominal muscles, and that is good. In fact, one of the things that can help your back is beefing up your abs.
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/. geek actually got a *DATE*. That alone should be a story on /.)
I used to suffer from crippling back pain, even as far back as elementary school. Some days I could not walk. 7 years ago I took up Kung Fu, and I have found that as long as I make the conditioning classes (many crunches in those) I never have back pain. Now, I go to the Gym as well as Kung Fu, and, seeing as it is summer, I spend 3-4 days a week Whitewater Kayaking.
Personally, I beleive that there is no better excercise than Whitewater Kayaking for your core muscles. (Of course, I played so hard yesterday, I am having trouble sitting straight today!
It all comes down to complementing your muscle groups. If your back is hurting there is a good chance that your abs are weak and thus your posture is off - hurting your back. Excercising opposite muscles to the pain is always a good idea.
If sex (with someone other than yourself!) gives you a good ab workout (it should!), it will help your back, and hey, who ISN'T relaxed after the orgasm?
So, there is my take on the situation. I use all of the above. (Well, except the sex part recently, but I do have a date on Tuesday. No really! A
So in summary. EXCERCISE! Find something you enjoy, that also stresses your core muscle groups. (Just be aware that some stretches can worsen back pain, such as "touching your toes" check with someone who knows.
When I was in high school the computers there were dusty to a level you cannot believe (unless you are a tried and true geek, then I suppose you could...)
I had a 286 begin to smoke, and spark, then it died, all because of the dust inside.
Worse, a IBM PC Junior I was using caught fire because of the amount of dust in it. Suffice it to say that system did not survive either. (I unplugged it, not that that helped stop it from burning, it went out on its own once the dust was consumed.)
To this day whenever a computer crashes anywhere within my vicinity my friends still refer to my "EMP" field that I generate...
(Yes this supposed "field" has crashed *nix boxen too, but not as often as other OS's)
In a game like Quake II, the ability to see through walls would hardly give you any advantage, because it comes down to your ability to move fast and aim accurately. I must disagree on this point, as a long time deathmatcher (I have won a few local tournaments, and been a top ranked player in Half Life Op For) I must say that cheats such as this *DO* make a difference. I have experimented once or twice with cheating, as I wish to know what my opponents are using, if they are cheaters. I do not however use cheating when I am in online play: With the exception that I once used a variation of the see-through technique in Half Life for about a week - Under a different play name. The cheat was a simple FOV hack, that let you move to third person view, this skewed you view and made some walls see through when you pressed a key. It did not work for all walls. I can say that this cheat was devastating. One could duck behind a corner or some other kind of game brush, and see if the person persuing you was continuing pursuit, or holding back, or what have you. There is a huge advantage in being able to step around a corner and have your cross hairs leveled at your opponed where they will do the most damage. It comes down to (like you said) reaction time. Being able to see through walls gives you an advantage in reaction time because you know exactly where your opponent is, and you are obscured to them. I would say that the only cheat worse than seeing through walls is an aimbot. The whole irony to this is that I have spent a grand total of 1 week cheating online. I am regularly kicked off of servers for "cheating". So, I am a pretty good player. (Read, until I picked up Whitewater Kayaking, I had no life outside of deathmatching... =) ) So to your comment here: Never the less, cheating in any form in a multiplayer game is not only rude and unfair, but you _will_ be found out, and when that happens, you are immediatly discredited. Just try to use a cheat patch or auto-aiming script for more than one round before someone yells "[your name here] is a BOT!!!". Then, hopefully someone in the room has administrative privlidges, and can ban the cheater. Or there could be a voting system in place to kick the cheater (like there is in CS). This is really the only way to stop cheating. It is impossible to prevent, but easy to stop with the right methods. I must disagree with this. I would reccomend Punkbuster for Counter Strike. However, I have been banned from a number of CS servers for cheating. Indeed, with the quake games we play here at work, a number of my co-workers were certain I was a cheater. I finally proved that I was not when I sat down at a "clean" PC (built by them), and they watched me deathmatch. There ARE good players out there. Not all of us cheat. Have I cheated? Yes, as I mentioned. For one week of online play. I stopped because not only was it lame, but I found it boring. Take that as you will.
You mean "originating from Michael".
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Yes, sorry, my bad, a knee-jerk reaction on my part. I agree, Mike could use a dose of the Advocacy How-To, but then that was the point of my post.
I suspect that the "standard" Microsoft Bashing on Slashdot is par for the course though. Hell, in my first post to Slashdot (which ironically was a "first post") I flamed Microsoft.
The hordes of Slashdotters flamed me back, and although a good quantity were of the "You suck!" Variety, some actually too the time to produce cohesive arguments, and yes, one pointed me to the Advocacy How-To. I had not read it before. Prior to reading it I was a "Pro-Linux Raving Slashdot Lunatic", and I was hardly open to the idea of using Microsoft Products for anything.
Now? Well, currently I am typing this in Windows 2000 (Because the Diablo II Beta test for Lord of Destruction won't work under Linux...) and I am no longer the zealot I once was.
Maybe we can, by the force of calculated persuasion, do this for Michael too.
Myself, I didn't get the job, but I found the response to Bruce Perens from one of the developers at HP, shall we say, interesting.
Interesting point. I will not argue Bruce's skill, but I hear (although in all honesty I have never talked to him) that his personality can be much like Theo De Ratt (of OpenBSD) at times, and thus, abrasive to be around. You can have all the smarts in the world, but in business, politics always comes into play. (I personally hate politics.)
Of course, HP's printers are still shipping with Windows-only drivers... and Windows-only configuration tools... and described as "Linux-compatible" in their advertisements.
While this is true, HP has pledged support for ALL its printers, heck, Bruce even works for HP now. The fact that the printers are being advertised as Linux-compatible is a big bonus - it gets the name "Linux" out to the public at large. This is called branding.
We have waited a long time (at least I have) for things like this to come about. Cut HP some slack. They are a big company, it will take them time to change their packaging and processing to include Linux drivers on the discs that ship with the printers.
I am more of the position: "Hey HP! Thanks for doing this, I am going to support your company because you support my favoured OS!"
(Maybe I am just over-reacting here, or maybe I have become jaded by the number of unjust flames I have seen originating from slashdot...)
Would'nt it be funny if Neo or someone else had to hack on a *nix box of some type in the movie, and *nix was prominantly displayed as an OS. Imagine if MS had to create a "hacking" portion of the game that involved using *nix.
(I doubt that this will happen because I would bet that this game is an action title like Quake or Oni, and not like say, System Shock 2 or Deus Ex.)
On a side note, was BSD used for some of the effects in the Matrix 1?
what's so great about spare livers/hearts etc? Clones are every bit as human as you are, what if you were the one who lived your entire goddamn life in a vat, so that one day someone can walk up to you, kill you, and rip your liver out to give to the "human" you were "cloned" from?
You are assuming of course that you grow just an entire clone for a few spare parts, as opposed to growing only the parts you need. (I.E. A liver or a heart alone.)
I see nothing wrong with cloning parts. It is the grey matter (nervous system/tissue/brain) that I take issue with.
No, I am not confusing Medicare with Biotech.
You've fallen into the TV Clone trap. You know the one where we grow clones in incubators and make them into adults before they get to get out and do anything.
I am aware of how clones would develop (and the inherant problems with shortened telomeres as well), but what I imagine are "clone camps" where the clones are raised to be slaves from the start. Remember it was not all that long ago that a similar setup (or rather class system) was in effect in North America. (Indeed, it still continues throughout the world.)
From the perspective of the law it is as unlikely that anybody but your doctor would know that you are cloned, much as you don't know who around you is a test tube baby.
This depends on how you define a clone. If you cloned an ordinary human, sure, it would be difficult to tell (and if the telomeres were intact, I doubt if a doctor could tell.)
What is more worrysome is a simple manipulation of the gene code. Let's say that clones all have different coloured eyes and skin. (Sound familiar?) You could easially engineer a "race" that appeared signifigantly different from "normal" humans, and would be instantly recognizable as a clone (or, perhaps, slave is a far more accurate term.)
Hopefully with overpopulation as it currently stands we wont have to worry about a genetically created race of subordinates.
(I realize that some of my above remarks could be taken as inflamatory by some readers, if they offend you, tough. You are obviously missing my point. =)
``There is no need for this technology to ever be used with humans,'' said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.
Three Years Later:
Doctor: Well, Sen. Brownback, your liver and heart are failing. There is some great cloning technology in China that would let you live for an extra 10-15 years. I guess we can't use that on you here though. It's not legal here, sorry.
What? No, you can't go to China and have that procedure. If you did you would not be allowed back in the US. No clones in the US remember?
Now I am not too familiar with American politics (I am Canadian) but:
``The scientists who created Dolly had over 200 attempts before Dolly was born,'' said Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Fla., a physician. ``The prior attempts resulted in malformed, sickly creatures that had to be euthanized.
``We cannot allow this scenario to play out with humans,'' said Weldon, who is co-sponsoring the House bill with Bart Stupak, D-Mich.
Is this a contraditcion in terms with what the Republicans are trying to to with abortion in the US (or do they see it as a continuation of the same issue?)
Although I am arguing on a slippery slope here, if cloning *DOES* get approved somewhere for humans, what rights would a clone have?
You can't abort "natural" fetuses, but cloned ones? Thats ok!!
Ah yes, the new slave trade. Come down to Wal-Mart and buy yourself a new Chinese-Engineered clone, if you are unsatified with their performance, remeber you can just not feed them, and throw them in the trash!
(Here I am picking China as a leader in Bio-tech, but maybe I should have picked Cuba, I understand that they are very advanced on this front...)
Apr 22 06:17:20 mayday portsentry[9235]: attackalert: Host 211.205.178.64 has been blocked via dropped route using command: "/etc/portsentry/portsentry.bash 211.205.178.64 111"
The nice thing about portsentry is that you can have it issue a command in response to an attack. In this case instead of using the default portsentry settings, it executes a custom built script using the IP as an argument. If you trigger portsentry, you can still see port 80, and 443, but nothing else.
I get hit with about 10-15 of these a day:
Apr 22 06:17:20 mayday portsentry[9235]: attackalert: Connect from host: 211.205.178.64/211.205.178.64 to TCP port: 111
Apr 22 06:17:20 mayday portsentry[9235]: attackalert: Host 211.205.178.64 has been blocked via dropped route using command: "/etc/portsentry/portsentry.bash 211.205.178.64 111"
I know what the port 111 exploit is, but I have never used it, yet I get many hits from this exploit a day on my servers. This is just one hit. I know how to stop it (portsentry/ipchains is a wonderful thing) and as you can see it is logged.
There are many more attacks coming in, this is just one example. Sure, I can read on how they are performed, but that only makes me book-smart. I need to be able to see in real-time (or playback) exactly what a black-hat is going to do with my systems.
Honeypots/nets also give crackers a chance to practice their skills -- which can then be used against real targets -- with little repercussion.
Perhaps you should read this. It shows you the "proper" way to setup a honeypot so that it cannot be used as a jump-point. I don't want to be just book-smart when it comes to my network. I want to know how they get in and what they do. Yes, I have secured my network (as best as you can that is) but that is not the point. Eventually *SOMEONE* is going to get in, somehow. I am going to be the one picking up the pieces when it happens. I would love to say that I am "good enough" that no one will crack my network, but I don't believe anyone is.
What I expect to learn from crackers hitting my honeypot is an overall "pattern". I expect to learn how to become a black hat, because it will make me a better white hat.
How much more can we really learn from the drooling 13-year-old script kiddies of the world?
Not all crackers fit that description I am guessing. Hopefully a honeypot will help me find this out for certain.
Will you people listen to yourselves? You're buying more than one copy of the same game to try and keep a company alive. And in the same breath you talk about the Linux Revolution. What gives?
I am currently posting this from Windows 2000. I use Win 2K at work because I need Windows do do my job. Sure, much of what I do is on a number of Linux servers across the country, but our main product staple is Windows based. For this reason I use Windows, it is the best tool for the job.
Having said that, I am a gamer, and I like games as do members of our LUG. Linux, like Windows is just a tool to do a job, in some instances it is the better tool. Currently for gaming, Linux is not that tool, Windows is. As you can tell however, I like Linux (and Unix's in general) and I believe in supporting it. There is a catch 22 here. Without more Linux software there will be fewer Linux users.
Do I think that Loki should be able to survive on it's own merits? Of course I do. Still, if I am given the option of buying the game for full price, or buying TWO copies for the same price, which should I pick?
You can reference my previous comment on this matter.
So, in conclusion I would like to commend you on an excellent trolling. I am just supporting something I believe in. I don't see anything wrong with that. Do you?
Our LUG solug.org is doing this. We don't really have enough members for 10 copies (or rather we do, but not all members are gamers) So there are 5 of us who want the game, and of those 5 we were going to buy the game anyways, so it looks like we will end up with 2 copies each. I can live with that, so can they.
And it boosts sales of the linux version too.
No. I do not pirate it.
In the example for UT the binaries are avalible for download, I am not going to buy Deus Ex for Linux because I have already finished it, there is no replay value in it for me. (I finished it a few times already.)
I have considered purchasing the game a second time however. What I *DO* do is wait to buy a game if there is an announcement that there will be a Linux version. If this is the case, I will wait. If not, and I want the game? I buy it. (And do the reg-card thing)
I pre-bought Quake 3 For Linux, and I had to wait some time for it too because Loki was shipping to US customers first (I am Canadian). I recieved it some time after the Windows version was in stores, it also cost me almost twice as much as the Windows version.
:)
I am not going to bitch about that though, I bought the Linux version because I believe in supporting Linux.
When I purchased Unreal Tournament, there was no official Linux version. I sent my registration card back to Epic, and scrawled across the top in bright red ink were the words: "PURCHASED FOR USE WITH LINUX", lo and behold, there is official support from Loki for UT now.
I bought Deus Ex the instant it hit the shelves (I own anything and everything to do with Warren Spector), I did the same with this, sending the registration card to Edios with the same words on it.
Next thing I know there is a announcement about Deus Ex for Linux. Unfortunatly I had already finished Deus Ex. =( I would have waited had I known.
I knew Tribes 2 was coming out for Linux. That is why I did not buy the Windows version. I knew the Linux version would eventually come. My friend went into EB World and asked about the Linux version of Tribes 2, and he got a scoff from the sales person, "Linux? Who uses that? No, we don't carry any Linux software." My friend bought the Windows version (and now has a Linux server running) and the salesperson said "Heh, still gonna buy the Windows version eh?"
My friend responded "Yeah, I guess I don't have a CHOICE."
Just to be a bastard (Yeah, I have read the Advocacy how-to) I went into that EB World, picked up Tribes 2, and said "Cool! Tribes 2!" (With the same sales person next to me) I made a pretense of looking at the side of the box and then said, "Hmmm, it mentions the Linux server here on the side of the box, but nothing about the Linux client." He got smug again and said "Nah, we don't carry and Linux games."
I said "Oh, too bad, guess I will have to buy my games off of the internet then... bye." (Most of the local LUG is going to go do this to EB World...
Probably not the best solution, I don't know if I would reccomend that one...
So, yes, I buy Linux versions of software whenever it is avalible, and I make it known that I want more Linux software avaliable. My friend Todd who purchased Tribes 2 at EB World will probably play the game under both Windows and Linux, and certanly run the server on Linux, but he won't wait for the Linux versions of games, and he certanly won't pay more for them.
I can't say as I blame him really. It is not fair that we have to wait longer, its even less fair that the same software should cost more for Linux. So, if you can't be bothered to actually buy a Linux version of a game, fill out the registration card (Marketers for software companies take these *VERY* seriously, I know the ones at my work do!) and write in big bold letters "PURCHASED FOR USE WITH LINUX."
If you can't vote with your dollars (which is the best idea) then vote with the registration cards. It makes a huge difference.
Of course I can't think of many games that would know how to take advantage of the 2nd monitor.
I can. Multiheaded gaming is not all that uncommon. It's quite neat, but to be honest I would prefer it over THREE monitors as opposed to two. The reason I say this is that in Quake 3 the crosshair is divided evenly between monitors, and that is a pain for railgun use.
There is no slump in sex sites, says Robert P. Libbon of American Demographics Magazine. He cites a report from sextracker.com that the number of free adult Web sites grew from 22,100 in l997 to 280,300 last year.
I suspect that the trolls of slashdot have increased the "popularity" of one infamous site. I had never heard of goatse.cx before (No, I am not going to provide a hyperlink, you really DONT want to go there) come to think of it, I never wanted to hear of the site.
Eeesh. What frightens me is that somehow someone could probably make money off of that site through the trolling on Slashdot. Recently some people who had seen the link forwared it to me via ICQ. Thanks to slashdot I already knew what it was and did not open the link...
I just thanked slashdot for educating me about goatse.cx...
Eeeww.
In fact, they're creating the biggest repository of cracker data in the Web!! If they get compromised, everybody using their services will be painted in red as potential targets.
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...your account information is stored separately from the IDS logs you submit for analysis...
...You always have the choice of how much information you wish to send. You may decide to strip address information when cleaning logs in ARIS extractor...
As it says in their FAQ
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Also, they only know who you are if you choose to tell them, and, even so, that information is stored separately from the attacks on your system.
but you can't be too careful... Amen to that.
Why would someone want to do this?
(I accept the fact that you are most likely an old style troll, but I shall bite.)
1) Mobile. It makes your system really easy to move around (ever been to a LAN party?)
2) Can't complain about air circulation/cooling.
3) You get dust bunnies in your system? Me too. Now, the dust bunnies are in the right place from the start!
4) "Uh, Sure dear, I would love to vacuum the house, but I am using it to play Quake right now..."
5) Its wholesome geeky fun.
(Sure, people say that this Mac sucks, well, I will have to build a PC with Windows into a large fan, then you could say my system blows.)
Disclamer, I am a Canadian. It's the NSA's job to spy on ME because I am in a foreign country.
Due to the nature of open source, having the NSA slip a "Back Door" in is VERY VERY VERY unlikely. About the only ways I can consider this is similar to the techniques in Cracking DES and including an encryption/transmission scheme that seems secure just like DES did. (For more information, read the book.)
However, the NSA wants to keep citizens in the U.S. secure because its their job to spy on other countries. The NSA probably wants American businesses to be secure!!! Especially if foreign countrys are developing more secure solutions faster than the U.S. you better believe that the NSA is concerned!!
Anyhow, the NSA does not so much care about breaking in to a system as they do intercepting transmissions between systems. They are after information in foreign countrys, they are not out for scoring points like:
"31337 Jo3 r00t3d j00! H4R!!! 3Y3 w3rk 4 th3 NSA h4r h4r h4r!!!!"
As long as they can obtain the data that they need, and can crack/analyze it, they just don't *CARE* about owning anyone, it's not their job.
From the article: However, any attacker looking to exploit this vulnerability would likely have a hard time, security experts say. Not only is it inordinately difficult to identify machines that are vulnerable, but the attacks themselves are quite hard to execute.
And because the flaw has been known for so long, it's unlikely that there are many TCP implementations that are still vulnerable to such attacks.
Isn't this just standard TCP/IP number sequencing for the packets? IIRC there was a problem with Free BSD sometime back in that the TCP/IP stack had a bug where the sequence numbers were not truly random and could be spoofed quite easially. Again, IIRC, OpenBSD's stack uses some of the best random numbers (as shown by nmap when it tries to predict the OS of the target.) and predicting and spoofing those packets is nigh impossible.
Is this just the same old hole or am I missing something here?
Nice troll.
The former poster is correct. We can manufacture plastics from basic elements, it is simply cheaper to pump oil out of the ground. As for making gasoline from raw elements, it is currently not (nor do I believe it ever will be) practical.
At the current time there are genetically engineered bacteria that can create basic plastics. You can grow these bacteria and have plastic as a by-product. Merely refine the plastic and alter it to your purpose.
Now, someone is going to argue that we don't have that technology yet or some such. I am willing to bet that we most likely do, but again, it makes no economic sense to do so with oil being cheaper from the ground.
This will rock when it finally goes live. I remember reading the older /. article about a Linux bios (using VIA chipset I believe?) and the problem that they encountered was the system booted to fast for the drives to come online.
It would be nice though to have all my newer computers boot as fast as my 286.
Its wierd really, my 286 will boot into DOS faster than any of my newer computers will boot Linux, Windows, or BSD. What the hell is that?
(Yes yes, I know its all about hardware detection loading daemons, etc etc etc. It still feels like a throwback when a 286 and an IBM PS/2 boot faster than anything else modern.)