It depends on what kind of information is being passed, if any, through an IRC channel. The worms could have easily made DCC (Direct Client-to-Client) connections to other worms. DCC only requires a server connection to initiate. If the server dies, the DCC connection continues to stay alive.
So you have a P2P worm, that communicates DCC.. that's fine, you still will know the listener port and can reverse engineer the communication protocol with the amount of packets you'd receive.
If the ports mutate to a schedule, you can definitely figure out what the schedule is. The DCC route would make it harder to trace, but still I wouldn't think it's anything that would be such a daunting task for the FBI... if so I think I may go into a career as a black hat because they would be incompotent retards.
Check here, scroll down for the MS support. Ironically, for the Mac it works flawlessly. IE for Windows should support them ok, just alpha is completely borked. We use pngs on my sites as long as they aren't transparent.
When IE gets alpha fixed, I think I'll die of shock.
Steve Russell -- created first digital computer video game.
Nolan Bushnell -- created first video game business.
Ralph Baer -- created pong.
Parent: Not quite.
The first interactive game was made on an oscilliscope by Higinbotham. The idea for an interactive game to be played by people at home on a TV was pong, written by Ralph Baer. Please see pong-story.com, and browse around.
Sorry, what did he miss? He got all the "first-timers"...
So this is the person that is to blame for my wasted childhood - days on end sitting in front of the TV, emanciated and dehydrated, trying to wrap the Asteroids score around...
I had all sorts of witty comments to make on this, but I just deleted them because it's all too pathetic.
I definitely had at leats one flippant remark per paragraph. Who has the idea to write Shane Harris an email explaining that this article just made him, and everyone (with possibly the exception of Jupina, who actually did something productive) look like a complete incompotent ass.
I'm sorry, but how hard is it to track a worm that goes into an IRC channel. The part that really cracked me up is this:
The Leaves code was a jumbled mess. It was encrypted and compressed--data had been squeezed together to save space.
Apparently the FBI needs to learn what a compiled binary is, it must have been really hard for them to understand what all those funny characters were.
Don't they have hidden charges? Bigzoo.com charges 75 cents per month to new customers.
All orders under $40 have a $2 service charge I think, but other than that there aren't any hidden fees. There isn't a connection fee on the Hello [Country] cards usually, which are the ones I use.
Bigzoo.com: 2.9 cents per minute inside the U.S., 4.4 cents per minute to France from the U.S. Sound quality perfect. Honest company.
Nobelcom.com has phone cards I use to call to Japan (very frequently) at 3.9 cents a minute. Their rates to France: 2.9 cents a minute.
Good sound quality, never any echos. More expensive to call to cell phones, I don't know why more people don't use them. I've purchased about 6 cards from them now, and will likely never buy another phone card from another company.
Are you trying to say that I'm just a dumb blonde? I hope not! You know, I'm studying Germanic philology at university (www.ucl.ac.be) and I master not less than 5 languages. And as far as computers (sorry Linux) are concerned, I'm not a newbie either;)
Oh no, quite the opposite in fact. I was saying because you are educated and intelligent you will be that much more attractive. BTW, that tux photo you posted.. that's just.. damn. I'm not sure what else I can say about that.
Sorry you are getting moderated down, Welcome to Slashdot...
Yes, I created an account in order to answer to some comments on here! Then, I thanked you because you said that I'm prettier than Ellen Feiss... That was all...
Ah, well, you are welcome then. I think the quality that will woo geeks the most is your literacy rate. I wish you luck with your new found stardom:)
And she is visibly more literate than Ellen Feiss. Now I'll stop posting pictures before Jonita kicks my ass.
Jonita, you've been on slashdot and you are prettier than Ellen Feiss. I should apologize for subjecting you to geek-fantasy love, but you will be petrified shortly, and you won't care.
Clearly, it doesn't work for the consumer, but it works well for the producer. If the pizza is only half size eat two to get stuffed. In the result you will just spend more money to get what you need. With cigarets it also means, you consume more toxines to get the same amount of nicotine.
Well, I would say that's almost true, but smokers are rabidly aware of how many packs a day they smoke. It's so they can bitch about how expensive it is. Go around and ask the smokers you know how many packs a day they smoke. Most of them probably didn't increase one bit after switching to ultra lights, or if they did it was temporary.
If you watch smokers, they get into smoking cycles. They will want to smoke at the same time every day. It's an internal alarm clock that rarely fails. You can get people in 3 different departments that smoke together 3 times a day, every day, without talking because they get on each others cycle. Nicotine isn't as strong of an addiction as they would like you to think, the true addiction with cigarettes is the psychological habit, and the strong nicotine addiction has allowed people a crutch.
If you don't smoke for the nicotine but want to have something to play with, use a straw!
High nicotine cigarettes "taste" better to the smoker, and low nicotine cigarettes "taste" much worse to the smoker. Whether these smokes will buck the trend remains to be seen, but it is very likely that the habituated smoker will perceive them as tasting extremely poor in comparison with their preferred brand.
Then explain why ultra lights are becoming a huge market? Also, explain why, in say, Japan, the most common cigarettes are so light you wont be able to buy them in the US. They have 0.1mg - 0.5mg commonly, but finding a 1mg is rather difficult.
If Marlboro were to sell nic-free cigarettes, and that caused people to lose their addiction, therefore causing probably a good number of them to quit, wouldn't that be a hit to the bottom line?
No, and here's a bit more antaganism for you, you are wrong, and apparently an illiterate idiot. Do you like to link to pages that really don't support your claim what so ever? I sure do!
Here's directly quoted from your link:
Critics say that method is flawed because people don't smoke the way the machines do. Last year, the National Cancer Institute published a report that said light and low-tar cigarettes offer no health advantages because smokers just inhale them more deeply or take more puffs to compensate for the lower nicotine.
If you do smoke like a normal smoker, smoking an ultra-light, you get less nicotine and tar. If you choose to smoke more deeply, than of course you get more and they even say that now. Stop trying to start wars, you can take an ultra-light and cut the filter off and suck it down in one drag and still say you smoke ultra-lights, it's more involved with the technique in which you smoke than the type. But, from the default smoking point of view, they do contain less.
In other words, there's no real reason you'd choose this cigarette over one with nicotine.
Well, wrong. People who want to quit, they'll buy them. People who want the social habit of smoking, without the nicotine or the physical addiction... those are real reasons.
I guess, maybe, that the deal is that you can try to wean yourself off the nicotine by smoking ciggies with no nicotine in them. But taste is really important to smokers, so unless they have Nicotine-free Marlboros and Camels and American Spirits, I can't see that working too well. You'll try one pack of these things and go back to your favorite brand.
The reason why they have the distinct Marlboro flavor (or Camel flavor, or whatever) is because of the tabacco they grow. Discount tobacco makes discount cigarettes. They're paying twice the normal cost of tobacco, so my guess is they definitely are using premium tobacco as a base. You shouldn't be able to taste a difference.
Ultra lights have been an increasingly popular cigarette because of the low amount of nicotine, I suspect this will definitely increase Vectors market share.
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How much further do you feel cheating can advance? In Counter-Strike, you can get cheats that will auto-aim on someone's head and fire for you. I really don't see what you would want more than that.
Best Counter Strike scene I've witnessed was somebody going idle to go eat. He tells everyone he is going away but forgets to turn his aimbot off. For a half hour he was completely idle and managed to get about 25 kills.
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I was thinking something more like this:
Luigi: How many servers you got here, Colonel? Colonel: Oh, er... seven hundred workstations, two hundred Linux servers, and er, two dozen Sun servers. Luigi:Sun servers, Dino. Dino:Be a shame if someone was to set fire to them. Colonel: Set fire to them? Luigi: Fires happen, Colonel. Dino: Things burn.
"MSN was total messed up, I couldn't even log on to the net last night it said that my user name and passworded was invalid so I call them up and the tech guy says wow that's weird I can't ether."
I went down to visit my brother on Saturday, and he just received his brand-new Microsoft Intellimodem along with his MSN Broadband. He goes through the setup and it keeps saying his password wasn't correct, same thing as above.
He calls MSN Support, the guy was honest enough to admit the Slammer problem, and was also rather blunt about how shitty his day was going because of it. Their computer systems were completely down, they couldn't log into their call tracking system, or look at accounts.
But I'm curious what the hell "passworded" means. That's a Chronicles of George statement.
On my calculations, I was taking: hack a building into something that can be used as a school: $200k. Hire 10 decent but motivated teachers at $30k for the year, $300k. Hire a head for the school, and a part-time secretary or two, let's say $120k for the year. Bam, you still have $380k to spend on books, computers and other fixtures, and a school that will be able to take something around a hundred students through the school year.
No offense, but this is really completely and totally wrong. You really, really, need to go take a business course at your local community college or something. First, if you pay your teachers $30K a piece, account for $50K a year. You have benefits, tax, payroll expenses, and other miscellaneous things. So that is $500k. If you think you could adapt any building to be a public school for $200K you have never remodeled a house. Your average 3 bedroom home that will be completely remodeled will be no less than $60K. An entire public school, you'd be looking at a healthy $1-$2M price tag just to get it setup properly. You also have a hard time adjusting an existing property to a school, with playgrounds, or if it's a high school parking lots, football fields, and all the necessary "school activities"
If you are a charter school you get $6-$9K a year per student just to cover their expenses. That means that the burn rate of most schools (lets say public high schools, have enrollments >1K students) operate on a budget close to $1M a year -- without any construction or purchasing new school books.
An obvious troll, but hey its by someone famous so it must be worth the read. I could have done without reading that crap.
It's not a troll because he was just writing about what he found. His experiences. His experiences aren't a troll, it's what he experienced. It's slashdots fault for a) not explaining who JWZ is and b) posting this in the first place.
If I wrote something (granted, I'm not famous in any circle) and slashdot posted it and said I reviewed it I'd be pretty pissed off. It's no wonder he feels certain ways.
Slashdot Mirror
My favorite: omphaloskepsis.
It depends on what kind of information is being passed, if any, through an IRC channel. The worms could have easily made DCC (Direct Client-to-Client) connections to other worms. DCC only requires a server connection to initiate. If the server dies, the DCC connection continues to stay alive.
So you have a P2P worm, that communicates DCC.. that's fine, you still will know the listener port and can reverse engineer the communication protocol with the amount of packets you'd receive.
If the ports mutate to a schedule, you can definitely figure out what the schedule is. The DCC route would make it harder to trace, but still I wouldn't think it's anything that would be such a daunting task for the FBI... if so I think I may go into a career as a black hat because they would be incompotent retards.
God i hate PNG - it never shows up in MSIE - though i hear it should be able to do that, anybody know how?
;)
Install Mozilla?
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngapbr.html
Check here, scroll down for the MS support. Ironically, for the Mac it works flawlessly. IE for Windows should support them ok, just alpha is completely borked. We use pngs on my sites as long as they aren't transparent.
When IE gets alpha fixed, I think I'll die of shock.
Parent:
Not quite.
The first interactive game was made on an oscilliscope by Higinbotham. The idea for an interactive game to be played by people at home on a TV was pong, written by Ralph Baer. Please see pong-story.com, and browse around.
Sorry, what did he miss? He got all the "first-timers"...
So this is the person that is to blame for my wasted childhood - days on end sitting in front of the TV, emanciated and dehydrated, trying to wrap the Asteroids score around...
You are Nolan's bastard son.
...gameplay emphasised over flashy graphics, T&A...
I dunno, I enjoy a certain amount of T&A in my games. Like Dead or Alive, with the Age setting to 99.
I definitely had at leats one flippant remark per paragraph. Who has the idea to write Shane Harris an email explaining that this article just made him, and everyone (with possibly the exception of Jupina, who actually did something productive) look like a complete incompotent ass.
I'm sorry, but how hard is it to track a worm that goes into an IRC channel. The part that really cracked me up is this:
Apparently the FBI needs to learn what a compiled binary is, it must have been really hard for them to understand what all those funny characters were.
That's one shot I can't resist making.
Don't they have hidden charges? Bigzoo.com charges 75 cents per month to new customers.
All orders under $40 have a $2 service charge I think, but other than that there aren't any hidden fees. There isn't a connection fee on the Hello [Country] cards usually, which are the ones I use.
Bigzoo.com: 2.9 cents per minute inside the U.S., 4.4 cents per minute to France from the U.S. Sound quality perfect. Honest company.
Nobelcom.com has phone cards I use to call to Japan (very frequently) at 3.9 cents a minute. Their rates to France: 2.9 cents a minute.
Good sound quality, never any echos. More expensive to call to cell phones, I don't know why more people don't use them. I've purchased about 6 cards from them now, and will likely never buy another phone card from another company.
Are you trying to say that I'm just a dumb blonde? I hope not! You know, I'm studying Germanic philology at university (www.ucl.ac.be) and I master not less than 5 languages. And as far as computers (sorry Linux) are concerned, I'm not a newbie either ;)
Oh no, quite the opposite in fact. I was saying because you are educated and intelligent you will be that much more attractive. BTW, that tux photo you posted.. that's just.. damn. I'm not sure what else I can say about that.
Sorry you are getting moderated down, Welcome to Slashdot...
Yes, I created an account in order to answer to some comments on here! Then, I thanked you because you said that I'm prettier than Ellen Feiss... That was all...
:)
Ah, well, you are welcome then. I think the quality that will woo geeks the most is your literacy rate. I wish you luck with your new found stardom
hehe, thanks :)
:)
I'm not sure if you are thanking me for apologizing, subjecting you to it, or posting your pictures.
Or if you are really jonita. I can't imagine someone creating an account just to respond with "thanks" though.
It should mean that it available for many other systems than just Linux, I would claim my first comment to still be 100% true.
Welcome to learning the difference between a codec, library, and a driver.
GnomeMeeting, which is the libraries and the application, will compile on all those platforms.
The codec, is windows only, so you need hardware.
The device driver, is a Quicknet Linux device, is.. well.. a Linux device. You can read about it at linuxjack.com.
I have been rated down a lot now, and I am no longer sure who acually did read on their web-page.
Awww, did the karma whore lose some points? Next time posting relevant not "Linux is a kernel!" posts, sheep.
Here's some links:
And she is visibly more literate than Ellen Feiss. Now I'll stop posting pictures before Jonita kicks my ass.
Jonita, you've been on slashdot and you are prettier than Ellen Feiss. I should apologize for subjecting you to geek-fantasy love, but you will be petrified shortly, and you won't care.
Clearly, it doesn't work for the consumer, but it works well for the producer. If the pizza is only half size eat two to get stuffed. In the result you will just spend more money to get what you need. With cigarets it also means, you consume more toxines to get the same amount of nicotine.
;)
Well, I would say that's almost true, but smokers are rabidly aware of how many packs a day they smoke. It's so they can bitch about how expensive it is. Go around and ask the smokers you know how many packs a day they smoke. Most of them probably didn't increase one bit after switching to ultra lights, or if they did it was temporary.
If you watch smokers, they get into smoking cycles. They will want to smoke at the same time every day. It's an internal alarm clock that rarely fails. You can get people in 3 different departments that smoke together 3 times a day, every day, without talking because they get on each others cycle. Nicotine isn't as strong of an addiction as they would like you to think, the true addiction with cigarettes is the psychological habit, and the strong nicotine addiction has allowed people a crutch.
If you don't smoke for the nicotine but want to have something to play with, use a straw!
Can't blow smoke rings with a straw
What would be worrisome would be a crop of some plant other than tobacco, genetically modified to produce nicotine.
I'm thinking that if someone where to do this, they'd find other plants to produce some other chemicals.. like THC.
No officer, it really is oregano I'm smoking!
High nicotine cigarettes "taste" better to the smoker, and low nicotine cigarettes "taste" much worse to the smoker. Whether these smokes will buck the trend remains to be seen, but it is very likely that the habituated smoker will perceive them as tasting extremely poor in comparison with their preferred brand.
Then explain why ultra lights are becoming a huge market? Also, explain why, in say, Japan, the most common cigarettes are so light you wont be able to buy them in the US. They have 0.1mg - 0.5mg commonly, but finding a 1mg is rather difficult.
Marlboro Ultra Lights start at what, 0.5mg?
If Marlboro were to sell nic-free cigarettes, and that caused people to lose their addiction, therefore causing probably a good number of them to quit, wouldn't that be a hit to the bottom line?
How often is a fool born?
No, and here's a bit more antaganism for you, you are wrong, and apparently an illiterate idiot. Do you like to link to pages that really don't support your claim what so ever? I sure do!
Here's directly quoted from your link:
If you do smoke like a normal smoker, smoking an ultra-light, you get less nicotine and tar. If you choose to smoke more deeply, than of course you get more and they even say that now. Stop trying to start wars, you can take an ultra-light and cut the filter off and suck it down in one drag and still say you smoke ultra-lights, it's more involved with the technique in which you smoke than the type. But, from the default smoking point of view, they do contain less.
In other words, there's no real reason you'd choose this cigarette over one with nicotine.
Well, wrong. People who want to quit, they'll buy them. People who want the social habit of smoking, without the nicotine or the physical addiction... those are real reasons.
I guess, maybe, that the deal is that you can try to wean yourself off the nicotine by smoking ciggies with no nicotine in them. But taste is really important to smokers, so unless they have Nicotine-free Marlboros and Camels and American Spirits, I can't see that working too well. You'll try one pack of these things and go back to your favorite brand.
The reason why they have the distinct Marlboro flavor (or Camel flavor, or whatever) is because of the tabacco they grow. Discount tobacco makes discount cigarettes. They're paying twice the normal cost of tobacco, so my guess is they definitely are using premium tobacco as a base. You shouldn't be able to taste a difference.
Ultra lights have been an increasingly popular cigarette because of the low amount of nicotine, I suspect this will definitely increase Vectors market share.
How much further do you feel cheating can advance? In Counter-Strike, you can get cheats that will auto-aim on someone's head and fire for you. I really don't see what you would want more than that.
Best Counter Strike scene I've witnessed was somebody going idle to go eat. He tells everyone he is going away but forgets to turn his aimbot off. For a half hour he was completely idle and managed to get about 25 kills.
I was thinking something more like this:
... seven hundred workstations, two hundred Linux servers, and er, two dozen Sun servers.
Luigi: How many servers you got here, Colonel?
Colonel: Oh, er
Luigi:Sun servers, Dino.
Dino:Be a shame if someone was to set fire to them.
Colonel: Set fire to them?
Luigi: Fires happen, Colonel.
Dino: Things burn.
"MSN was total messed up, I couldn't even log on to the net last night it said that my user name and passworded was invalid so I call them up and the tech guy says wow that's weird I can't ether."
I went down to visit my brother on Saturday, and he just received his brand-new Microsoft Intellimodem along with his MSN Broadband. He goes through the setup and it keeps saying his password wasn't correct, same thing as above.
He calls MSN Support, the guy was honest enough to admit the Slammer problem, and was also rather blunt about how shitty his day was going because of it. Their computer systems were completely down, they couldn't log into their call tracking system, or look at accounts.
But I'm curious what the hell "passworded" means. That's a Chronicles of George statement.
On my calculations, I was taking: hack a building into something that can be used as a school: $200k. Hire 10 decent but motivated teachers at $30k for the year, $300k. Hire a head for the school, and a part-time secretary or two, let's say $120k for the year. Bam, you still have $380k to spend on books, computers and other fixtures, and a school that will be able to take something around a hundred students through the school year.
No offense, but this is really completely and totally wrong. You really, really, need to go take a business course at your local community college or something. First, if you pay your teachers $30K a piece, account for $50K a year. You have benefits, tax, payroll expenses, and other miscellaneous things. So that is $500k. If you think you could adapt any building to be a public school for $200K you have never remodeled a house. Your average 3 bedroom home that will be completely remodeled will be no less than $60K. An entire public school, you'd be looking at a healthy $1-$2M price tag just to get it setup properly. You also have a hard time adjusting an existing property to a school, with playgrounds, or if it's a high school parking lots, football fields, and all the necessary "school activities"
If you are a charter school you get $6-$9K a year per student just to cover their expenses. That means that the burn rate of most schools (lets say public high schools, have enrollments >1K students) operate on a budget close to $1M a year -- without any construction or purchasing new school books.
An obvious troll, but hey its by someone famous so it must be worth the read. I could have done without reading that crap.
It's not a troll because he was just writing about what he found. His experiences. His experiences aren't a troll, it's what he experienced. It's slashdots fault for a) not explaining who JWZ is and b) posting this in the first place.
If I wrote something (granted, I'm not famous in any circle) and slashdot posted it and said I reviewed it I'd be pretty pissed off. It's no wonder he feels certain ways.