This is totally new information to me anyway. What's really bizarre about this is the fact that supposedly they just slap a solaris install on these CLEA things. The SUN FTP server in solaris 8 for example has a flaw that can get you root in about 2 minutes, I know because one of my boxes got rooted this way just a few weeks ago when my firewall went down and I had accidentaly left FTP up in inetd (yes, yes, bad oversight).
In any case, have these law enforcement people heard of SSH or SCP or whatever? There is a repository of recordings and data and some Fed IT guy is FTPing it across the internet back to HQ for analysis?? Does that freak anyone else out?
Considering people scan the net for vulnerable FTP servers, I wouldn't be surprised if many of those boxes are rooted right now. Probably running an IRC bot or running attacks on other hosts.
I refuse to believe it's unsecured but my gut tells me it's probably true, knowing most IT people and knowing most developers. You'd think they would put a firewall in front of these boxes and treat them as highly secure boxes and then maybe VPN in and retrieve the information via a secured protocol.
Actually, you mean Lake Washington Area, lake Union is the smaller lake just north of downtown. It's not too limited at all, it's a device for the Seattle area and that means that there are 5 major arteries that are of concern. Those are: 1) I-5, 2) I-5 Express Lanes, 3) 520 Bridge, 4) I-90 Bridge and 405.
That way a person can make a proper decision on whether to take the express lanes or not. Whether to take 520 or 90 bridge and also whether it makes more sense to take side streets.
So, in that it's limited to "seattle" it's limited but for the Seattle area, it's all the info you'll need.
They're not actually suing "John Doe". When you include "John Doe" in your lawsuit what you're saying is that there are un-named defendants that you hope to discover as you start your investigation.
You're the type of person that makes the lives of the rest of us a living hell. Who do you think picks up the slack when people like you doze off?
This is what I don't understand about corporate america, reward the losers. During the first round of layoffs at my company all the useless people got laid off and got 6 months severance while the rest of us got more work load.
Why not try to make your situation better , why not stand up and do a decent days work for a decent day's pay. Bastard!!!!!
If you care about the company or other fellows then you would give them plenty of notice, make sure they find a replacement and do all you can to train that replacement.
Of course, if they'd totally screwed you over you wouldn't be having these reservations about leaving, so it sounds like you respect these people.
Can't they just get rid of a bunch of the channels and leave the rest of them? For example, most people use 2-12 and then maybe up to 40. So free up 40 through 62 or whatever?
Can it be done like that or does it all have to go? I use broadcast TV in my kitchen, where it works just fine and also I use it sometimes as a means to carry the TV around on a summer day....move the TV outside, watch the game or whatever.
I think it's a terrible idea to get rid of broadcast TV but if they could slice it up, it would be good.
Unfortunately unusable on OS X with slashdot
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There's a bug that prevents awfully long slashdot pages from loading without making the browser freeze (especially when browsing -1). This makes mozilla pretty much unuseable for me since I spent a lot of time around these here parts.
I've switched to netscape 7, I hate to say, and it works great. Safari is still the leader for Java functionality, amazingly, outperforming IE and Moz and Netscape. For example, I can play yahoo games in Safari without my powerbook cpu fans firing up and load remains relatively low. With the others, cpu goes wild in java apps.
Anyway, the 'slashdot' bug with Moz sucks. I'll try 1.4 RC1 and report back. But I don't see the bug as fixed in bugzilla.
Having travelled in Paris on-and-off over the past 20 years, I always get a sense that the metro is crowded during rush hour and sort of dangerous during the really off-peak late evening hours. Might be just a perception.
Could you comment on how useable this would really be to you? Assuming you start at the beginning of the line you would have a seat, but how quickly does the train fill up and would you feel safe sitting there surfing the net and doing your work during rush hour?
Would you be concerned with corporate espionage? Someone looking over your shoulder at private documents? Would you be concerned with your personal safety?
I do it all the time, jogging and also skiing. It's got an incredible skip protection, 20 minutes. I've been beating it up like this for over 2 years, no problems. Have fun.
Keep in mind that the skip protection works because it prebuffers 20 minutes of music, so if you're constantly skipping around tracks it takes some time to read it off the disk. But if you're running I assume you're not messing with buttons and songs, you're just letting it play.
There's a huge difference between a flaw like this in the VM that microsoft ships that can be used to format your HD by viewing a web site and some bug in a library that can impact maybe a handful of people.
You have to compare the SEVERITY and NATURE of the bugs. Sure, there are bugs with whatever OS, but as to this level of Severity and of this Nature, you're just wrong, there are not that many with Linux, Apple or Solaris or whatever. Windows takes the cake.
If you think this is all overblown hogwash, your'e delluding yourself.
Actually, you make a good point, but you have no idea how things are coded at microsoft. It's not like there's one guy who is sitting there "writing windows" it's a chunked, distributed, whatever you want to call it proposition. Some guy in one cube writes something and some guy in some other building writes some other part of it and eventually it's glued together, sort of QAed and eventually released.
There are billions of lines of code in the source apparently. If they were smart, they would have done as Apple did and just thrown the whole thing away and start from scratch a long time ago.
Sure this would create problems for vendors and other developers, etc...but Apple pulled it off. If they developed their APIs and put a roadmap in place they could pull it off as well.
I got spam from seti@home encouraging me to run the client again on March 21st, but nowhere did it mention this security problem even though they knew about it back in December or Janauary.
This seems pretty irresponsible to me. Notice they say in the email, you "can" download the software, they should have really said you _should_ download it!
This is an exciting time for SETI@home.
On March 18-20 2003 we travel to the Arecibo radio telescope
to re-observe the most promising "candidates" produced by our search so far.
There is a chance that these new observations will yield
the first real evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Thanks for being part of this history-making effort!
According to our records, you have processed 44 work units,
the most recent on October 27, 1999.
Your contribution of computer time to SETI@home is greatly appreciated.
If you have taken a break from SETI@home, now is a great time
to start up again; you can download the latest software...
I couldn't agree with you more. This is just bullshit, our economy is now dependent on M$ crap. There's just so many things wrong with that I can't even begin to possibly list them. Why the hell are banks using public interent for ATM connections in the first place? Why would ALL the ATMs be effected? We need answers, answers.
If their case is as good as their flash animation it looks like a good build. It's certainly more convenient to work on than the standard PC case today.
Working on my parent's Dell for example is still a nightmare and I'm promised at least two or three cuts from unfinished metal.
I also have to admit that I got all the information I needed about the case just by looking at the flash animation. It was highly informative. So I gotta give these guys some kudos for good design both on the web and in real-life.
This is incredibly hard to prove, because of "ethical" and "privacy" reasons there is going to be no way to prove this. We don't know where the baby is born, there's no picture, there's no video tape or any other details.
So now, the cloners are allowing a freelance journalist to get together a group of scientists and they're going to take samples of DNA from the mother and the child and send them back. How much do you want to bet that they won't let the scientists take the actual samples?
For example, I could give you two samples of my own DNA and tell you I have a clone. The microchondial DNA would of course be identical.
There's going to be more to this story once these journalists and scientists get to the location.
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IP doesn't exist in other countries??? What in the world are you talking about?
I wish someone would answer this question too. I have to idea what the heck it's all about either.
This is totally new information to me anyway. What's really bizarre about this is the fact that supposedly they just slap a solaris install on these CLEA things. The SUN FTP server in solaris 8 for example has a flaw that can get you root in about 2 minutes, I know because one of my boxes got rooted this way just a few weeks ago when my firewall went down and I had accidentaly left FTP up in inetd (yes, yes, bad oversight).
In any case, have these law enforcement people heard of SSH or SCP or whatever? There is a repository of recordings and data and some Fed IT guy is FTPing it across the internet back to HQ for analysis?? Does that freak anyone else out?
Considering people scan the net for vulnerable FTP servers, I wouldn't be surprised if many of those boxes are rooted right now. Probably running an IRC bot or running attacks on other hosts.
I refuse to believe it's unsecured but my gut tells me it's probably true, knowing most IT people and knowing most developers. You'd think they would put a firewall in front of these boxes and treat them as highly secure boxes and then maybe VPN in and retrieve the information via a secured protocol.
Oh well. What a nightmare.
Actually, you mean Lake Washington Area, lake Union is the smaller lake just north of downtown. It's not too limited at all, it's a device for the Seattle area and that means that there are 5 major arteries that are of concern. Those are: 1) I-5, 2) I-5 Express Lanes, 3) 520 Bridge, 4) I-90 Bridge and 405.
That way a person can make a proper decision on whether to take the express lanes or not. Whether to take 520 or 90 bridge and also whether it makes more sense to take side streets.
So, in that it's limited to "seattle" it's limited but for the Seattle area, it's all the info you'll need.
They're not actually suing "John Doe". When you include "John Doe" in your lawsuit what you're saying is that there are un-named defendants that you hope to discover as you start your investigation.
You're the type of person that makes the lives of the rest of us a living hell. Who do you think picks up the slack when people like you doze off?
This is what I don't understand about corporate america, reward the losers. During the first round of layoffs at my company all the useless people got laid off and got 6 months severance while the rest of us got more work load.
Why not try to make your situation better , why not stand up and do a decent days work for a decent day's pay. Bastard!!!!!
If you care about the company or other fellows then you would give them plenty of notice, make sure they find a replacement and do all you can to train that replacement.
Of course, if they'd totally screwed you over you wouldn't be having these reservations about leaving, so it sounds like you respect these people.
Don't screw them by leaving them hanging.
Can't they just get rid of a bunch of the channels and leave the rest of them? For example, most people use 2-12 and then maybe up to 40. So free up 40 through 62 or whatever?
Can it be done like that or does it all have to go? I use broadcast TV in my kitchen, where it works just fine and also I use it sometimes as a means to carry the TV around on a summer day....move the TV outside, watch the game or whatever.
I think it's a terrible idea to get rid of broadcast TV but if they could slice it up, it would be good.
There's a bug that prevents awfully long slashdot pages from loading without making the browser freeze (especially when browsing -1). This makes mozilla pretty much unuseable for me since I spent a lot of time around these here parts.
I've switched to netscape 7, I hate to say, and it works great. Safari is still the leader for Java functionality, amazingly, outperforming IE and Moz and Netscape. For example, I can play yahoo games in Safari without my powerbook cpu fans firing up and load remains relatively low. With the others, cpu goes wild in java apps.
Anyway, the 'slashdot' bug with Moz sucks. I'll try 1.4 RC1 and report back. But I don't see the bug as fixed in bugzilla.
You think you can explain the difference in database and a browser to a judge!!?!?! I think not.
Yes, in fact if you log in and go to your profile, there's a link in the bottom left hand nav that says "CLOSE .NET PASSPORT ACCOUNT"
You click on that, agree to their terms and close your account right there in three clicks.
Goodluck
Having travelled in Paris on-and-off over the past 20 years, I always get a sense that the metro is crowded during rush hour and sort of dangerous during the really off-peak late evening hours. Might be just a perception.
Could you comment on how useable this would really be to you? Assuming you start at the beginning of the line you would have a seat, but how quickly does the train fill up and would you feel safe sitting there surfing the net and doing your work during rush hour?
Would you be concerned with corporate espionage? Someone looking over your shoulder at private documents? Would you be concerned with your personal safety?
I do it all the time, jogging and also skiing. It's got an incredible skip protection, 20 minutes. I've been beating it up like this for over 2 years, no problems. Have fun.
Keep in mind that the skip protection works because it prebuffers 20 minutes of music, so if you're constantly skipping around tracks it takes some time to read it off the disk. But if you're running I assume you're not messing with buttons and songs, you're just letting it play.
If you look in the readme file it says you have the ability to backup your iTunes library to DVD and also to some CDRW players.
There is backup feature there.
I bet if you're between 17 and 19 years old it gets delivered by Captain Crunch personally.
In case you missed it.
Could you go back and check the SEVERITY and NATURE of those bugs? Do any of them let a HD be wiped out just by surfing to a web page?
You're delluding yourself and you're not employing a correct analysis and comparison of the problems.
There's a huge difference between a flaw like this in the VM that microsoft ships that can be used to format your HD by viewing a web site and some bug in a library that can impact maybe a handful of people.
You have to compare the SEVERITY and NATURE of the bugs. Sure, there are bugs with whatever OS, but as to this level of Severity and of this Nature, you're just wrong, there are not that many with Linux, Apple or Solaris or whatever. Windows takes the cake.
If you think this is all overblown hogwash, your'e delluding yourself.
Actually, you make a good point, but you have no idea how things are coded at microsoft. It's not like there's one guy who is sitting there "writing windows" it's a chunked, distributed, whatever you want to call it proposition. Some guy in one cube writes something and some guy in some other building writes some other part of it and eventually it's glued together, sort of QAed and eventually released.
There are billions of lines of code in the source apparently. If they were smart, they would have done as Apple did and just thrown the whole thing away and start from scratch a long time ago.
Sure this would create problems for vendors and other developers, etc...but Apple pulled it off. If they developed their APIs and put a roadmap in place they could pull it off as well.
I got spam from seti@home encouraging me to run the client again on March 21st, but nowhere did it mention this security problem even though they knew about it back in December or Janauary.
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This seems pretty irresponsible to me. Notice they say in the email, you "can" download the software, they should have really said you _should_ download it!
This is an exciting time for SETI@home. On March 18-20 2003 we travel to the Arecibo radio telescope to re-observe the most promising "candidates" produced by our search so far. There is a chance that these new observations will yield the first real evidence of extraterrestrial life. Thanks for being part of this history-making effort! According to our records, you have processed 44 work units, the most recent on October 27, 1999. Your contribution of computer time to SETI@home is greatly appreciated. If you have taken a break from SETI@home, now is a great time to start up again; you can download the latest software
'nuf said :-)
...you'd see he says that right off the bat...
Where do you get these allegations from? Please cite some sources or previous examples.
I couldn't agree with you more. This is just bullshit, our economy is now dependent on M$ crap. There's just so many things wrong with that I can't even begin to possibly list them. Why the hell are banks using public interent for ATM connections in the first place? Why would ALL the ATMs be effected? We need answers, answers.
If their case is as good as their flash animation it looks like a good build. It's certainly more convenient to work on than the standard PC case today.
Working on my parent's Dell for example is still a nightmare and I'm promised at least two or three cuts from unfinished metal.
I also have to admit that I got all the information I needed about the case just by looking at the flash animation. It was highly informative. So I gotta give these guys some kudos for good design both on the web and in real-life.
This is incredibly hard to prove, because of "ethical" and "privacy" reasons there is going to be no way to prove this. We don't know where the baby is born, there's no picture, there's no video tape or any other details.
So now, the cloners are allowing a freelance journalist to get together a group of scientists and they're going to take samples of DNA from the mother and the child and send them back. How much do you want to bet that they won't let the scientists take the actual samples?
For example, I could give you two samples of my own DNA and tell you I have a clone. The microchondial DNA would of course be identical.
There's going to be more to this story once these journalists and scientists get to the location.