Really now, you have to be an idiot to think that the companies that provide encryption have absolutely _no_ means to break your encryption. Sure, they may not be able to break the encryption by brute force (nobody can really), but they are being misleading. The lie, if you were to call it such, is that anyone that can push software updates to your device, can also push malware to it. This includes software designing by governments with unlimited funds to develop such malware to steal your encryption keys, and issue warrants that order said software companies to push it down to your device. About the only defense against such attacks would be a device that has no "back door" means around authentication while the device is turned on, and one which you never put online for updates from IP addresses that are known to be used by your device, nor serial numbers that uniquely identify your device, so the manufacturers can't target you for delivery of the payload from the authorities.
Come on people, wake up and smell the coffee. Headlines only hype the "we can't break the encryption" stories so the real idiots, the criminals, think they can get away with anything they want. Hopefully the thicker skull monkeys among us actually read this enough times for it to sink in;)
While I have been using blender here and there for a few years now, the Video Sequence Editor (VSE) in Blender isn't something that I have used often, but I will say that it's not too shabby. It can deal with a decent variety of formats, and when it comes to chopping and slicing video up, it works fine. I don't know that it can demux/mux audio and video together yet, though. You also get a great node based compositing system tossed in for free.
That being, Blender seems to have a very strong community behind it, which is always a good sign of health for any OSS project. Plus you can't beat the price (free! \o/) or the ungodly number of tutorials for it out there.
It's a technology demo created by techies. And now you want a (good) plot as well? You should just be thankful it isn't about Harry Potter defeating Darth Vader!:)
heh indeed!
Actually iirc, BBB was about developing the hair system in Blender. Also, the movies aren't about just copying something existing out there already, but to give a lucky few that are interested in a particular area (directing, story boarding, concept art, musical score, etc.) a chance to wet their feet on a project and show their skills off to the world and maybe even land a job working for the "big boys" (like how Ian Hubert now works at Pixar thanks to Tears of Steel).
They could have spent the same amount of effort improving the Blender user interface, i.e. making it usable.
While I agree that 2.4x wasn't the best UI, I tend to think that Blender 2.5x and up is orders of magnitude better. Do you still find the newer versions of Blender to be that bad?
All of these replies about Novell Netware, and yet I haven't see one single mention of where Novell is today, how NDS came to be known as eDirectory, how Netware was ripped out and slapped on top of Linux under the name SuSe Enterprise Linux, which is totally free to download almost every product they ship and use on your own home network in an uncrippled fashion (so long as you don't want to security updates via a 30 day trial).
What I can't understand is how, in this day in age of GPS navigation to almost the nearest inch, computerized navigation, maps, radar, etc, that on a ship like this it is even remotely possible to still drop anchor at or near one of this fiber optic lines and cut it with an anchor. No offense, but it seems a little silly that we can't solve this issue for once and for all in 2013.
for 3d Prinitng go with Blender or 3dsmax. For your CNC machinery, use solidworks. Unfortuantley they are 2 different kettles of fish that probably require 2 different softwares to get the most benefit out of it.
Blender or 3dsmax will allow more free-form modelling techniques and diversity, and theres plenty of tutorials you can learn. Output to a 3d printer is easy. no CNC data though, these programs arent a solid modelling engine.
Solidworks is more mechanical design if you need to create CNC data for you mill which solidworks provides because of its solid modelling engine. You might be able to also output to STL from solidworks to 3d printer also, however you are then limited with a mechanical engineering application rather than a product designed 3d package if you want more organic models.
I agree with you here. Blender is getting _very_ good these days. And with the more recent changes like Cycles (for previewing "realistic" materials) and Dyntopo for sculpting, I think that blender is an amazing tool.
For real world proof, here is a ring that was made in blender (with some zbrush) and 3d printed:
I would imagine that he could have used blender dyntopo, but if you already have a nice toolset, you might as well use it. If you frequent the blenderartists forums, you will start to learn that even blender users tend to use a variety of tools.
Whats funny is tech is getting to the point where watches might contain bombs and other goodies consealed within them.
Seriously though, my guess would be that your wrist watch woulnt be able to get a "ok everythings a go, start doing X" signal from HQ which is in sync with all the planes (where X is some deadly terrorist act). Who knows what kinda of advantage net connected laptops would give them.
Come to think of it, im sure the people on slashdot could come up with several thousand ways to use internet access in terrorist acts, don't you? Perhaps thats part of the reason they scrapped the project. Whats worse, with computers the terrorists dont even need to know how to add two numbers to communicate covertly. All they need really is one single programmer/admin capable of securing and obfuscating all the messages in an apparently harmless fashion (ie: steganography, delayed packets etc).
I think I speak for all the _read between the fsckin lines_ people out there when I say:
This was probably done to prevent terrorists from using internet connections to coordinate another attack.
What? Did you think that the new snakes on a plane movie wasn't meant to scare as many people from flying close to the Sept. 11 date as possible, _just in case_?!
Please everyone, grab the nearest cluestick and rap yourself gently on the forehead. Sometimes telling people the truth causes more problems than it solves.
Hey guys, just thought that you should be warned about a possible OE issue that could be abused. As you may know, OE can disable showing you pictures when you open an email until youu agree to see them by clicking the little bar asking you to display them right? Well, theres a serious catch to this. If you decide to forward a copy of ANY email to say fraud addresses for say ebay, the government, the police, another account etc. OE will NO MATTER WHAT download AND display these images WITHOUT prompting you. I have wrote MS about the issue and recieved a reply confirming the issue. They say that it is a "design feature" and that I should switch to Outlook if I want to be prompted about showing pictures on a Forward.
THIS MESSAGE IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!!! MOD IT UP ASAP!
Yes! This is exactly the type of technology that I have been waiting for someone to release to prove a point that I have had since the invention of usb. Any rogue device plugged into the usb hub can comprimise your whole system! Wow, to think I can use the linux (and Debian!) tools I have been used to "hacking" with to snoop net traffic and watch devices like usb hard drives etc. I love you guys! Now its practically easy as pie to take over government computers with usb ports lol;) j/k
Anyways, nice device, I look forward to trying one out and replacing my 50lbs. dell poweredge 4200 with about 400 of these babies in half the space:)
I would have to advise AGAINST email contact. Remember, if their email server is compromised, chances are the person you engage in converstaion with is infact the person who is trying to break into your machine, and thus will go unreported to the people who can do something about the problem. A better solution is to do a whois on the domain name and try to get a phone number of the company involved. Also, dont phone just one contact number is multiple numbers are givin. If the admin contact is actually trying to break into your machine, they can simply play dumb and just stop attacking your machine since they now know you are on to them. You are better off also talking to the CEO or the billing contact, since this would involve two seperate people and the odds are that two people wouldnt be working togethere because of legal issues. Remember, a crime is better to commit when less people are involved since telling or approaching someone else about criminal activities puts the initial person at risk of being ratted out.
To be fair, there is a lot about this universe that we dont understand yet. Perhaps they have stumbled upon something that was right in front of us the whole time so to speak. And I am sure they understand the affects of temperature change on livings cells etc. At least way more than you and I know from biology class.
In closing, we are getting close to figuring out how the process in our brain that gives us "life" works, and this might be something to help us start testing memory saving devices. Think about it, if you can put a brain in a perfectly preserved state of suspended animation, god knows what time we would have to work on the body of the victim.
Actually, come to think of it, that might be a bad thing as humans would start being stacked into shelfs awaiting life saving measures.:)
Quick question, but isnt creating a list of "children" a really stupid idea? I mean c'mon, VISA and Mastercard etc. cant keep a few million credit card numbers secure online, and now you want a list of children's email addresses to be stored online and think you can stop it from being stolen? Whats next, include name, age, address, phone and pictures with the emails as well just in case? If you ask me, exposing a young childs identity online is a stupid idea. Besides, if they are that young, they shouldnt be online anyways, let alone have an email address. When is the last time you sent a snail mail letter to a child with their own address and not to their parents address?
Hey guys. Just thought that I would put my $0.02 in.
I am not into botnets anymore, but like most here prolly', I started my internet life on irc. And anyone else who grew up on non dalnet like servers with chan services knows that being on a network without them can be a pain. Especially when smacktards show up for the day;)
Anyways, knowing a bit about bot's and botnets, I would say that it shouldnt be too hard to take some down. Being irc based, plain text would be one problem. But if you have access to a machine infected, encryption would be pointless since you could just debug the program and find out what it 's protocol is anyways. I think one big issue that was hinted at in one of the above posts was that you should be able to use an infected machine to "take over" the botnet. Well, things dont work that way. For those of you that havent run one or used one before, I will give you a rough idea of what the ones in my day (1.1.15 or so IIRC).
A botnet is basically a shell like environment similar to say a bash shell or a dos prompt. ie: its all text commands using plain ol' ascii. Commands generally start with a ".", like ".help". The botnet also has security systems in place (ie: users with passwords etc) that define who can dcc chat the bot directly, use its !channel commands on irc etc. The eggdrop (sorry, yes, im refering to eggdrop's specifically) bot also has the ability to link multiple bots togethere to form a big "botnet". The is all of course done with special bot accounts with unique passwords.
The reason you cant just take one over (despite it probably being a modified version of this system of bot), is because the other bots are probably only allowed to "take orders" from a specific machine or user. Although for simiplicity sake, I would imagine its just a user and password combo to prevent any traceable information from being gleamed over the botnet traffic. Dont forget to that the botnet would be point to point and most of the traffic would only be coming from a single location (which you would have to find out from a comprimised machine).
In the end, I see the biggest problem in finding the zombies being, how do you tell when a machines infected if the virus tries the best it can to hide itself from non-forensic integrity checking tools. But, over the years I can see software taking a turn to being better checked for authenticity and integrity etc. Once we hit that point, botnets would probably start to disappear. Also consider that the machines themselevs will go offline and be replaced by newer ones that arent suceptable to the same malicious code. This at least forces them to keep active. And keeping them active helps you trace them.
Anyways, hope you had a fun read. Not worth previewing this one, l8r.
Actually, if you have done some reading and used tools like nmap, you might be a little shocked to know that this tool can still tell if your online unless you really know what your doing. Turns out that certain "illegal" TCP flags can trigger the OS to reveal information about the ports they are scanning. So even if you think your blocking outgoing info, chance are your only blocking "legit" outgoing stuff, and your still in fact giving out tons of information to people that know TCP well enough to scan you.
Looks like FPS geeks aren't leaving the house this weekend.
Uh, looks like I am going to have to work the whole weekend just for the cash to afford the upgrades to my system that are needed just to be able to PLAY the bf2 demo!
And you were dumb enough to click the link giving the admin of that web server permenant logs of your computers ram contents? Now we just have to hope that the ram contents of the 100000 or so/. people who clicked that link dont get comprimised and used for a botnet.
My advice to you would be to convert your archives to DVD. If keeping them in 650/700MB cd format is important, make.iso images of the CD's and save a few of them on the DVD and use something like daemon tools or alcohol 120% to mount the iso's as you need them. The conversion alone should save you at LEAST 5 times the number of disc's.
Wow, only 1million bucks to the person who cures natural death? No wonder why nobody is in a rush. You can make more money engineering bio weapons for the states.;p
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Really now, you have to be an idiot to think that the companies that provide encryption have absolutely _no_ means to break your encryption. Sure, they may not be able to break the encryption by brute force (nobody can really), but they are being misleading. The lie, if you were to call it such, is that anyone that can push software updates to your device, can also push malware to it. This includes software designing by governments with unlimited funds to develop such malware to steal your encryption keys, and issue warrants that order said software companies to push it down to your device. About the only defense against such attacks would be a device that has no "back door" means around authentication while the device is turned on, and one which you never put online for updates from IP addresses that are known to be used by your device, nor serial numbers that uniquely identify your device, so the manufacturers can't target you for delivery of the payload from the authorities.
Come on people, wake up and smell the coffee. Headlines only hype the "we can't break the encryption" stories so the real idiots, the criminals, think they can get away with anything they want. Hopefully the thicker skull monkeys among us actually read this enough times for it to sink in ;)
While I have been using blender here and there for a few years now, the Video Sequence Editor (VSE) in Blender isn't something that I have used often, but I will say that it's not too shabby. It can deal with a decent variety of formats, and when it comes to chopping and slicing video up, it works fine. I don't know that it can demux/mux audio and video together yet, though. You also get a great node based compositing system tossed in for free.
That being, Blender seems to have a very strong community behind it, which is always a good sign of health for any OSS project. Plus you can't beat the price (free! \o/) or the ungodly number of tutorials for it out there.
Well, maybe I am just a tad bias... :)
Yours truly,
THE blender.org administrator ;)
It's a technology demo created by techies. And now you want a (good) plot as well? You should just be thankful it isn't about Harry Potter defeating Darth Vader! :)
heh indeed!
Actually iirc, BBB was about developing the hair system in Blender. Also, the movies aren't about just copying something existing out there already, but to give a lucky few that are interested in a particular area (directing, story boarding, concept art, musical score, etc.) a chance to wet their feet on a project and show their skills off to the world and maybe even land a job working for the "big boys" (like how Ian Hubert now works at Pixar thanks to Tears of Steel).
They could have spent the same amount of effort improving the Blender user interface, i.e. making it usable.
While I agree that 2.4x wasn't the best UI, I tend to think that Blender 2.5x and up is orders of magnitude better. Do you still find the newer versions of Blender to be that bad?
All of these replies about Novell Netware, and yet I haven't see one single mention of where Novell is today, how NDS came to be known as eDirectory, how Netware was ripped out and slapped on top of Linux under the name SuSe Enterprise Linux, which is totally free to download almost every product they ship and use on your own home network in an uncrippled fashion (so long as you don't want to security updates via a 30 day trial).
Anyways, cheers Novell, you will be missed o/ ;|
What I can't understand is how, in this day in age of GPS navigation to almost the nearest inch, computerized navigation, maps, radar, etc, that on a ship like this it is even remotely possible to still drop anchor at or near one of this fiber optic lines and cut it with an anchor. No offense, but it seems a little silly that we can't solve this issue for once and for all in 2013.
for 3d Prinitng go with Blender or 3dsmax. For your CNC machinery, use solidworks. Unfortuantley they are 2 different kettles of fish that probably require 2 different softwares to get the most benefit out of it.
Blender or 3dsmax will allow more free-form modelling techniques and diversity, and theres plenty of tutorials you can learn. Output to a 3d printer is easy. no CNC data though, these programs arent a solid modelling engine.
Solidworks is more mechanical design if you need to create CNC data for you mill which solidworks provides because of its solid modelling engine. You might be able to also output to STL from solidworks to 3d printer also, however you are then limited with a mechanical engineering application rather than a product designed 3d package if you want more organic models.
I agree with you here. Blender is getting _very_ good these days. And with the more recent changes like Cycles (for previewing "realistic" materials) and Dyntopo for sculpting, I think that blender is an amazing tool.
For real world proof, here is a ring that was made in blender (with some zbrush) and 3d printed:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?278857-The-Ring-of-the-Monkey-Pirate-King
I would imagine that he could have used blender dyntopo, but if you already have a nice toolset, you might as well use it. If you frequent the blenderartists forums, you will start to learn that even blender users tend to use a variety of tools.
lol touche :)
Whats funny is tech is getting to the point where watches might contain bombs and other goodies consealed within them.
Seriously though, my guess would be that your wrist watch woulnt be able to get a "ok everythings a go, start doing X" signal from HQ which is in sync with all the planes (where X is some deadly terrorist act). Who knows what kinda of advantage net connected laptops would give them.
Come to think of it, im sure the people on slashdot could come up with several thousand ways to use internet access in terrorist acts, don't you? Perhaps thats part of the reason they scrapped the project. Whats worse, with computers the terrorists dont even need to know how to add two numbers to communicate covertly. All they need really is one single programmer/admin capable of securing and obfuscating all the messages in an apparently harmless fashion (ie: steganography, delayed packets etc).
I think I speak for all the _read between the fsckin lines_ people out there when I say:
This was probably done to prevent terrorists from using internet connections to coordinate another attack.
What? Did you think that the new snakes on a plane movie wasn't meant to scare as many people from flying close to the Sept. 11 date as possible, _just in case_?!
Please everyone, grab the nearest cluestick and rap yourself gently on the forehead. Sometimes telling people the truth causes more problems than it solves.
Hey guys, just thought that you should be warned about a possible OE issue that could be abused. As you may know, OE can disable showing you pictures when you open an email until youu agree to see them by clicking the little bar asking you to display them right? Well, theres a serious catch to this. If you decide to forward a copy of ANY email to say fraud addresses for say ebay, the government, the police, another account etc. OE will NO MATTER WHAT download AND display these images WITHOUT prompting you. I have wrote MS about the issue and recieved a reply confirming the issue. They say that it is a "design feature" and that I should switch to Outlook if I want to be prompted about showing pictures on a Forward.
THIS MESSAGE IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!!! MOD IT UP ASAP!
My Dell Poweredge 4200's (2 of em) both have dual 700w redundant PSU's. Kinda pushing that limit already, well, almost. :)
Well, I must admit that dupes are worth reading over again just for the funny comments! Maybe Mr. Taco was just trying to make us laugh? :)
Yes! This is exactly the type of technology that I have been waiting for someone to release to prove a point that I have had since the invention of usb. Any rogue device plugged into the usb hub can comprimise your whole system! Wow, to think I can use the linux (and Debian!) tools I have been used to "hacking" with to snoop net traffic and watch devices like usb hard drives etc. I love you guys! Now its practically easy as pie to take over government computers with usb ports lol ;) j/k
:)
Anyways, nice device, I look forward to trying one out and replacing my 50lbs. dell poweredge 4200 with about 400 of these babies in half the space
I would have to advise AGAINST email contact. Remember, if their email server is compromised, chances are the person you engage in converstaion with is infact the person who is trying to break into your machine, and thus will go unreported to the people who can do something about the problem. A better solution is to do a whois on the domain name and try to get a phone number of the company involved. Also, dont phone just one contact number is multiple numbers are givin. If the admin contact is actually trying to break into your machine, they can simply play dumb and just stop attacking your machine since they now know you are on to them. You are better off also talking to the CEO or the billing contact, since this would involve two seperate people and the odds are that two people wouldnt be working togethere because of legal issues. Remember, a crime is better to commit when less people are involved since telling or approaching someone else about criminal activities puts the initial person at risk of being ratted out.
"Still 95% compatible with Windows XP, The Windows 2000 OS still runs very well on very old hardware..."
;)
And it still costs 95% of the cost of Windows XP too!
Hey guys, a quick google revealed this:
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http://www.airespace.com/technology/technote_rffp
Thught you might be interested.
"...we keep getting hit by zombie machines taken over in the Education Department..."
Sounds like they are practicing getting "sch0013d"
To be fair, there is a lot about this universe that we dont understand yet. Perhaps they have stumbled upon something that was right in front of us the whole time so to speak. And I am sure they understand the affects of temperature change on livings cells etc. At least way more than you and I know from biology class.
:)
In closing, we are getting close to figuring out how the process in our brain that gives us "life" works, and this might be something to help us start testing memory saving devices. Think about it, if you can put a brain in a perfectly preserved state of suspended animation, god knows what time we would have to work on the body of the victim.
Actually, come to think of it, that might be a bad thing as humans would start being stacked into shelfs awaiting life saving measures.
Quick question, but isnt creating a list of "children" a really stupid idea? I mean c'mon, VISA and Mastercard etc. cant keep a few million credit card numbers secure online, and now you want a list of children's email addresses to be stored online and think you can stop it from being stolen? Whats next, include name, age, address, phone and pictures with the emails as well just in case? If you ask me, exposing a young childs identity online is a stupid idea. Besides, if they are that young, they shouldnt be online anyways, let alone have an email address. When is the last time you sent a snail mail letter to a child with their own address and not to their parents address?
Morons...
Hey guys. Just thought that I would put my $0.02 in.
;)
I am not into botnets anymore, but like most here prolly', I started my internet life on irc. And anyone else who grew up on non dalnet like servers with chan services knows that being on a network without them can be a pain. Especially when smacktards show up for the day
Anyways, knowing a bit about bot's and botnets, I would say that it shouldnt be too hard to take some down. Being irc based, plain text would be one problem. But if you have access to a machine infected, encryption would be pointless since you could just debug the program and find out what it 's protocol is anyways. I think one big issue that was hinted at in one of the above posts was that you should be able to use an infected machine to "take over" the botnet. Well, things dont work that way. For those of you that havent run one or used one before, I will give you a rough idea of what the ones in my day (1.1.15 or so IIRC).
A botnet is basically a shell like environment similar to say a bash shell or a dos prompt. ie: its all text commands using plain ol' ascii. Commands generally start with a ".", like ".help". The botnet also has security systems in place (ie: users with passwords etc) that define who can dcc chat the bot directly, use its !channel commands on irc etc. The eggdrop (sorry, yes, im refering to eggdrop's specifically) bot also has the ability to link multiple bots togethere to form a big "botnet". The is all of course done with special bot accounts with unique passwords.
The reason you cant just take one over (despite it probably being a modified version of this system of bot), is because the other bots are probably only allowed to "take orders" from a specific machine or user. Although for simiplicity sake, I would imagine its just a user and password combo to prevent any traceable information from being gleamed over the botnet traffic. Dont forget to that the botnet would be point to point and most of the traffic would only be coming from a single location (which you would have to find out from a comprimised machine).
In the end, I see the biggest problem in finding the zombies being, how do you tell when a machines infected if the virus tries the best it can to hide itself from non-forensic integrity checking tools. But, over the years I can see software taking a turn to being better checked for authenticity and integrity etc. Once we hit that point, botnets would probably start to disappear. Also consider that the machines themselevs will go offline and be replaced by newer ones that arent suceptable to the same malicious code. This at least forces them to keep active. And keeping them active helps you trace them.
Anyways, hope you had a fun read. Not worth previewing this one, l8r.
Actually, if you have done some reading and used tools like nmap, you might be a little shocked to know that this tool can still tell if your online unless you really know what your doing. Turns out that certain "illegal" TCP flags can trigger the OS to reveal information about the ports they are scanning. So even if you think your blocking outgoing info, chance are your only blocking "legit" outgoing stuff, and your still in fact giving out tons of information to people that know TCP well enough to scan you.
Looks like FPS geeks aren't leaving the house this weekend.
Uh, looks like I am going to have to work the whole weekend just for the cash to afford the upgrades to my system that are needed just to be able to PLAY the bf2 demo!
And you were dumb enough to click the link giving the admin of that web server permenant logs of your computers ram contents? Now we just have to hope that the ram contents of the 100000 or so /. people who clicked that link dont get comprimised and used for a botnet.
My advice to you would be to convert your archives to DVD. If keeping them in 650/700MB cd format is important, make .iso images of the CD's and save a few of them on the DVD and use something like daemon tools or alcohol 120% to mount the iso's as you need them. The conversion alone should save you at LEAST 5 times the number of disc's.
Wow, only 1million bucks to the person who cures natural death? No wonder why nobody is in a rush. You can make more money engineering bio weapons for the states. ;p