Do you want to get in a cat & mouse game with someone(s) who has the potential to take down your site/services, or do you want to ignore them & get on with your day?
If you draw the ire of a cracker or script kiddie, you're better off having him fuxor around with a machine that can cause no real harm to you than you are getting ddosed by his 250 compromised zombies.
I have serious reservations regarding whether or not all courts will accept this as evidence or if non-technical juries are able to understand the legitimacy of it as evidence.
True enough about the admissability is a very valid concern, but even a non-technical jury can understand the concept of an IP address if you put it in simple enough terms. Tracking incoming traffic by IP could be presented like saving caller id information when you get an obscene telephone call. Sure WE know that caller ID can be faked too, but we're talking about non-technical jurors. For them, that comparison would be enough.
I agree with you, but it's all a question of degree. This posting prompted me to check through my logs. There were all kinds of attempts to log into my machine via root/test/guest/admin and they all appeared to be single attempts. I'm not going to take the time to email 50 different admins to tell them that some loser tried a well known exploit on my box. If I was logging a lot of ICMP traffic or numerous attempts from the same IP range to log into my machine, THEN I would report it. Otherwise, it's not worth the time and effort I'd have to put into making it work.
In the summary it says that about 1/3 of the new jobs will be in North America. I suppose they could mean Mexico or Canada, but I think that the meaning is clear enough.
He literally coked them up in his whorehouse, before sending these, most likely, children out to kill on demand.
No, he didn't coke them up. He couldn't have. Cocaine wasn't available in the middle east at that time.
If you read beyond the first paragraph in the wiki that you pointed to you would have seen this little gem
"However, the "hashshashin" (often anglicized "hashishim") name was likely given to the Assassins by their enemies, and there is little hard evidence that the Assassins used drugs for this or any other purpose."
I don't think I can make the connection between terrorism and drugs any clearer!
I can't see why we also need marijuana to have fun,
There is no need for it. I don't even smoke it myself. I stopped smoking weed a long time ago. However, if you want to, that should be your right.
anyway they just think "drugs" are more OK and go more extreme on other drugs, which also as suggested supports terrorists?
All of the lies that drug prohibitionists spread about marijuana cause people to be more curious about harder drugs. At one time they actually taught kids that if they smoked marijuana once, it was an automatic conclusion that they'd become heroin addicts. This blatent lie no doubt caused a lot of kids to try heroin and cocaine.
The laws are there for a reason,
That reason is because rich and influential people lobbied hard to get them. A lot of people think that it's illegal to grow hemp because it's related to marijuana, the reality is that marijuana is illegal because it's related to hemp.
Laws are there not necessarily because they're right, but because they were passed.
Do you want your doctor, your taxi-driver, your kebab maker etc to be slow, addicted or otherwise less performing?
If you're right about people performing less well, then they'll stand out and we can avoid them.
If we can't tell that someone is a pothead, then your argument falls apart.
Do you have any idea how much pr0n I have in jpeg?
Excluding the files that I have not checked or catagorized and stored in my repository, I have 103533 jpeg files (7704.57 MB) on my hard drive at the moment.
I doubt that any of the infected systems could be re-installed from floppy.
As long as you boot from floppy it shouldn't be a problem.
At one time I had a newer version of Win95 on floppy than I had on CD so time and time again I would install from floppy because 95 Rev B was so much better than what I would have had otherwise.
I don't want to be on this luser's side, but at the same time the punishment should fit the crime. People shouldn't be forced to pay damages that they didn't cause.
the time is approaching when you will have no say at all regarding what an individual other than yourself or your child does with their body.
This time is approaching when you will have no say at all regarding what your child does with his or her body. Activist judges are already working towards making parental notification for abortion unnecessary.
You completely missed the point of my statement. I was talking about the erosion of free speech rights. 30 years ago one of our current presidential candidates was an anti-war protestor. Today protestors are restricted to "free speech" zones. Following that trend, it's not unreasonable to think that in another 30 years the goverment could arrest people for publicly disagreeing with public policy.
The fact that the mods didn't need me to explain this all to them is why my previous comment was modded Insightful.
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Let me quote his post
For that much money, I'd rather build one myself.
He specifically named the money as his issue.
LK
How much is YOUR time worth?
LK
does it run Lin...
Oh, nevermind.
LK
Do you want to get in a cat & mouse game with someone(s) who has the potential to take down your site/services, or do you want to ignore them & get on with your day?
If you draw the ire of a cracker or script kiddie, you're better off having him fuxor around with a machine that can cause no real harm to you than you are getting ddosed by his 250 compromised zombies.
I have serious reservations regarding whether or not all courts will accept this as evidence or if non-technical juries are able to understand the legitimacy of it as evidence.
True enough about the admissability is a very valid concern, but even a non-technical jury can understand the concept of an IP address if you put it in simple enough terms. Tracking incoming traffic by IP could be presented like saving caller id information when you get an obscene telephone call. Sure WE know that caller ID can be faked too, but we're talking about non-technical jurors. For them, that comparison would be enough.
LK
I agree with you, but it's all a question of degree. This posting prompted me to check through my logs. There were all kinds of attempts to log into my machine via root/test/guest/admin and they all appeared to be single attempts. I'm not going to take the time to email 50 different admins to tell them that some loser tried a well known exploit on my box. If I was logging a lot of ICMP traffic or numerous attempts from the same IP range to log into my machine, THEN I would report it. Otherwise, it's not worth the time and effort I'd have to put into making it work.
LK
Only if you are of arabic race or have an arabic name.
Arabic isn't a race. Arabs, technically, are caucasians. They're just curly haired, tanned white people. Not entirely unlike Italians.
LK
I decided to check the logs on my main linux machine, I have ALL KINDS of attempts to log in as test/admin/user/guest most recently 2 days ago.
I'm suddenly tempted to enable guest but make the shell DOSEMU. Imagine a script kiddy's frustration at that turn of events.
LK
Think about it - it's a slap in the face to the would-be hacker.. It's like you're leading him on, then saying "Ner Ner!" when he breaks into the pot.
Crackers understand that it's all a part of the game. Move and counter move. If you're careful enough, having a honeypot would be harmless.
LK
That's a good idea. Can I copyright logging into my machines?
If so, that's the way to go.
LK
In the summary it says that about 1/3 of the new jobs will be in North America. I suppose they could mean Mexico or Canada, but I think that the meaning is clear enough.
LK
He literally coked them up in his whorehouse, before sending these, most likely, children out to kill on demand.
No, he didn't coke them up. He couldn't have. Cocaine wasn't available in the middle east at that time.
If you read beyond the first paragraph in the wiki that you pointed to you would have seen this little gem
"However, the "hashshashin" (often anglicized "hashishim") name was likely given to the Assassins by their enemies, and there is little hard evidence that the Assassins used drugs for this or any other purpose."
I don't think I can make the connection between terrorism and drugs any clearer!
By not lying and misrepresenting information.
LK
Really? Let's see you reinstall Win2K or XP from floppies. I don't think they're sold on anything except CD.
Well, let's go back to the post that started the sub-thread...
Jeez your generous, how about the twenty odd floppys that came with 95, now that would be a true punishment.
We were talking about installing Windows 95.
LK
I can't see why we also need marijuana to have fun,
There is no need for it. I don't even smoke it myself. I stopped smoking weed a long time ago. However, if you want to, that should be your right.
anyway they just think "drugs" are more OK and go more extreme on other drugs, which also as suggested supports terrorists?
All of the lies that drug prohibitionists spread about marijuana cause people to be more curious about harder drugs. At one time they actually taught kids that if they smoked marijuana once, it was an automatic conclusion that they'd become heroin addicts. This blatent lie no doubt caused a lot of kids to try heroin and cocaine.
The laws are there for a reason,
That reason is because rich and influential people lobbied hard to get them. A lot of people think that it's illegal to grow hemp because it's related to marijuana, the reality is that marijuana is illegal because it's related to hemp.
Laws are there not necessarily because they're right, but because they were passed.
Do you want your doctor, your taxi-driver, your kebab maker etc to be slow, addicted or otherwise less performing?
If you're right about people performing less well, then they'll stand out and we can avoid them.
If we can't tell that someone is a pothead, then your argument falls apart.
LK
8GB in jpeg. That doesn't include gif, bmp or all of the movies.
LK
Do you have any idea how much pr0n I have in jpeg?
Excluding the files that I have not checked or catagorized and stored in my repository, I have 103533 jpeg files (7704.57 MB) on my hard drive at the moment.
That's a lot of converting.
LK
They totally shut down Afganistan's heroine business, and Bush rewarded them with $43,000,000.
I guess no one can say that there isn't one upside to Islamic fundamentalism.
LK
I doubt that any of the infected systems could be re-installed from floppy.
As long as you boot from floppy it shouldn't be a problem.
At one time I had a newer version of Win95 on floppy than I had on CD so time and time again I would install from floppy because 95 Rev B was so much better than what I would have had otherwise.
LK
I don't want to be on this luser's side, but at the same time the punishment should fit the crime. People shouldn't be forced to pay damages that they didn't cause.
LK
the time is approaching when you will have no say at all regarding what an individual other than yourself or your child does with their body.
This time is approaching when you will have no say at all regarding what your child does with his or her body. Activist judges are already working towards making parental notification for abortion unnecessary.
LK
You completely missed the point of my statement. I was talking about the erosion of free speech rights. 30 years ago one of our current presidential candidates was an anti-war protestor. Today protestors are restricted to "free speech" zones. Following that trend, it's not unreasonable to think that in another 30 years the goverment could arrest people for publicly disagreeing with public policy.
The fact that the mods didn't need me to explain this all to them is why my previous comment was modded Insightful.
LK
Well if you use drugs you are funding terrorist organizations, that much is for sure.
People have been getting high for much longer than there have been terrorists.
One of the wisest things Bush ever said was "The day you stop doing drugs, is the day you join the War against Terror."
They day we legalize marijuana is the day that all of the illicit profit disappears.
To favor drug prohibition is to support terrorism.
LK
Give it 30 years, the War on Drugs will be thought of as a really bad idea like prohibition.
Except that if you say it outloud, you'll be arrested for being a terrorist.
LK
How about a picture of the weasel getting the shit beat out of him because snitches are bitches and deserve to get stitches.
LK
I'm using Opera and Norton AV 2003 with up to date definitions.
Thanks for the heads up.
LK
If we didn't have open source code to spend our free time on, we'd all be surfing your most excellent website instead.
I just bookmarked his site. It's great, and I just happen to be working on coding a database at the same time!
LK