It's a nice MS bash submission. I'm very surprised it wasn't posted as is. But what you fail to realize is Bethesda is setting the price for the mod. They are charging PC folks $2.50 for the 'mod' as well. Theres plenty of FREE content in the XBOX Live Marketplace. This has nothing to do with MS any more than Valve has to do with my Red Orchestra buy via Steam.
MS is the conduit. I have no doubt they get some part of the sale when a sale is made, after all it's their bandwidth and servers. Sentiment like this
Not picking on you, Bethesda, we love you guys!!!)
deflects the blame from the company that is actually pissing off it's customers.
Now, what happens when a company pisses off it's customers? Especially 'RPG' folk. Well, I think we'll see a Slashback article on this in about a month from now. They'll offer something for free.
And that's how the market is supposed to work. Too expensive? Don't buy. Vote with your dollars, or points. Hundreds of us on Slashdot have been saying this to people like you for years, but in the end you envision some utopia where someone should craft something for a day or two and you're prepared to tell them they deserve no compensation for their time or skill.
Or just, you know, look at the fact that the Turk will, by default, display the name and address you've given to Amazon as your contact info, and conclude that yeah, it's an Amazon property
I agree this site is legit, but that is a flawed test to postulate. If I was to make an Amazon phishing site, I would have my backend proxy username/password to the Amazon APIs. Or if the API's didn't provide what I needed, I would screen scrape/parse out what I needed from http://amazon.com/ directly (your e-mail info, address, shipping prefs..etc). I'd even yell at you if your password was wrong.
Sure there would be a delay, but I doubt anyones spidy sense would tingle.
Truth is, this was dangerous of Amazon to not place this site on their root domain. Even though mturk.amazon.com exists, redirecting to www.mtrurk.com proves nothing as those of us who have been on this net long enough have seen DNS cache poisoning work with catrosphic effect.
This is moderated insightful, so i'm trying hard to see the insight. How is Blizzard like the Department Of Motor Vehicles exactly? What does offensive content and filters have to do with the DMV?
Are you fucking kidding me? If that's how you feel you really don't understand this site. What would you have said if you were around back then. I wonder.
Many people bitch about/. not being like a normal news site. About editoral control not being what it would/could be at CNN. Guess what, that's the point. This site still has character. It's still personable. And as much as I disagree with all the OSS crap, I still read it after years and years _because_ of it's quirky personality and distinct viewpoints from it's readers.
The fact that Taco can get up on his little soap box and say "what do you guys think?" is the reason most people read/. ten times a day.
This is exactly what blowhards like Jack Thompson deserve: to be publicly lampooned for their ridiculous actions.
No, this is exactly what he wants. All this 'public lampooning' feeds the beast. There is no bad publicity for this guy. Like that cheesy Merlin mini-seires from 1998, the only way to destroy the evil witch is to FORGET JACK THOMPSON. Turn your backs. Ignore him. If he wasn't controversial, producers wouldn't be seeking him out an putting him on news shows. The game news media attraction to him, and the gamers attraction to mocking him gives him power
Having said that, I recognize it's impossibly difficult to stop the "I hate Jack Thompson" landslide, mostly because younger people are far more prone to reaction based on emotion than logic. But right or wrong, by keeping his voice alive in the media, a percentage of adults are going to pick out his soundbites and use it to reinforce their already negative image of some games.
No matter how many psychologist you parade on TV, or game execs, or 'kid next door' interviews that are frank and honest about violence in game and the lack of attribution towards violence in real life.... it wont make a difference. They'll hear what they want to hear, and because the target demographic of 85% of products is 18-30 years of age, us being upset about this guy gives a button to push that makes us turn to watch, or read, or care.
Jack Thompson is a griefer. He's the MyG0t of Attorneys. And the best way to make a MyG0t'er leave a server (assuming you can't kick/ban) is for everyone to ignore him.
After all, if it was true DRM, switching to another player wouldn't make a damn bit of difference. If the content was locked and encoded with DRM technology.
Nope, instead the parent post is most certainly right. WMP9/10 will not prevent you via any DRM mechanism from watching a DVD. The DRM technology is for downloaded and locked content. Examples of such content? I don't really know of any. It's one of those things they spent a lot of money to build but no market for it yet.
The error message you are getting, and the fact you get the same message via WMP and RealPlayer is likely because they both are using the same CODEC for DVD data. The CODEC has expired. Remeber, by default Windows out of the box (Excluding Plus+ Pack) can't play DVDs. So you had to install something to make it work (unless the OEM pre-installed something) and that something appears to have been a trial only.
But, it is funny how well trained you are to immediately think DRM/MS conspiracy to prevent you from playing your legitimatly own DVDs. Shows the OpenSource FUD is working.
It wont be long now until Microsoft^h^h^h^$oft is groveling at the feet of the supreme GNU council begging for a seat at the table...
Most major SCSI card/storage array vendors have SCSI cluster support. The easy big names being Compaq/HP and Dell.
Most the time they are used in Hot/Cold clusters. It's easiest to manage. Hot/Hot is possible, but you need to make sure your applications know how to handle it properly.
It works by each of your servers having a SCSI/RAID controller card. They connect to a shared backplane in some sorta storage array (like a PowerVault). Make sure your backplane isn't set to 'split' mode, in which case each server would only see half the drives and negate the 'cluste' capability.
When configured properly each card can see the same set of devices in the array. Some cards can save the RAID configuration to the storage device. This is nice because after configurign the array, you can bring up your 2nd box and the 2nd RAID card can read the settings the first one configured. They both need to presume the same RAID configuration. The virtual devices can differ in the OS level, but the logical RAID configuration obviously much match.
If you go that route, save yourself an enormous hassle and make sure each server has their own two local drives mirrored for the boot drive. Don't go through the hassle of booting off the array in a shared array configuration. It's technically possible, but managing those extra partions on the shared array is a pain.
It looks like he initially lied to the police and said the the reason the IDS detected it as a hack, was because he was using Lynx. That is the first story that went around the net. He was on Solaris, using Lynx, made a credit card payment, and the IDS picked it up as a hack.
In the end, despite his initial lie, all he did was try a directory traversal 'attack' (the../ trick to try and break out of the root web directory). Not so much as an attack, as a query. Basically he was trying to answer: "Is this site vulnerable to this easily exploited flaw, and if so, I better call them or my Credit Card number is going to make it's waya round the russian mafia sites in no time".
I don't doubt he was secretly hoping the flaw existed so he could get some fame saving a disaster relief web site.
I guess then technically, if you click the following link, their IDS should flag it as a 'hack' and if you live in jolly ol'england expect a boot at your door: Don't click me or you go to Jail!
If you try it out, let me know how fast their response time is.
Cable modem users and DSL users are unaffected (unless Cogent is their provider's only upstream, and I haven't heard of any that are in that situation). They can use the vast majority of interesting services on the 'net just fine. The vast majority of high-traffic web sites are on multi-homed connectivity. There *are* popular sites on cruddy connectivity, but they'll learn quick with this, as they should. Never keep all your eggs in one basket. That lesson is as old as the commercialized Internet
Listen, You seem to keep responding while ignoring what I'm actually saying, so i'm going to spell it out to you.
Customers of some ISPs that have routes out both to the L3 side and Cognent side CAN NOT access any Cognent controlled networks (AS174). In some cases it has to do with not knowing another route to that network. In other cases it has to do with Cognent blocking a path they just don't want used. Case A is Level3's issue, Case B is Cognents. Either way, the downstream guy is screwed.
Look. Here's me trying to get to Level3 side:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 9 ms 7 ms 8 ms 10.33.0.1
3 13 ms 15 ms 8 ms pos0-0-nycmnyb-rtr1.nyc.rr.com [24.29.97.93]
4 9 ms 8 ms 9 ms 24.29.97.25
5 9 ms 9 ms 10 ms so-6-1.car2.Weehawken1.Level3.net [63.208.104.5]
6 12 ms 9 ms 9 ms ge-7-0-0.mp2.Weehawken1.Level3.net [4.68.125.141]
7 14 ms 14 ms 18 ms as-3-0.bbr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.68.128.206]
8 22 ms 14 ms 13 ms ae-22-54.car2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.68.121.115]
9 24 ms 16 ms 14 ms 4.79.228.26
10 14 ms 14 ms 17 ms 66.249.95.123
11 15 ms 16 ms 15 ms 64.233.174.130
12 18 ms 16 ms 16 ms 216.239.48.110
13 15 ms 16 ms 15 ms 216.239.37.99
And here's me trying to get to something on the Cognent side:
Tracing route to vpn.google.com [66.28.250.25] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 8 ms 9 ms 10 ms 10.33.0.1
3 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms pos0-0-nycmnyb-rtr1.nyc.rr.com [24.29.97.93]
4 9 ms 10 ms 9 ms 24.29.97.25
5 8 ms 8 ms 9 ms pos2-0-nycmnya-rtr2.nyc.rr.com [24.29.101.253]
6 9 ms 9 ms 10 ms pop2-nye-P13-3.atdn.net [66.185.141.37]
7 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms bb2-nye-P1-0.atdn.net [66.185.151.66]
8 9 ms 10 ms 9 ms pop1-nye-P1-0.atdn.net [66.185.151.51]
9 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms Verio.atdn.net [66.185.139.150]
10 9 ms 11 ms 10 ms p16-0-1-3.r21.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.3.48]
11 21 ms 16 ms 15 ms p16-1-2-2.r21.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.4.27]
12 * * * Request timed out.
The fact that RoadRunner is sending my packets via ATDN via Verio to get to AS174 shows me that the pinned route RR previously had (ie, all traffice for cognent side, haul via Verio which Cognent bought) is still up, but Cognent is actively blocking the traffic. If they didn't block it, we wouldn't know they were depeered and this would be a non-story. Now, I can't tell you that previously the data was backhauled via the AS3356 (Level3) network, but this is my guess. I just don't have any tracerts from then.
Show Level 3 (New York, NY) BGP routes for 38.9.51.20 No matching routes found for 38.9.51.20.
And from what I read on NANOG they are filtering advertisments of the AS174 routes from reaching anyone on their side. So even if you could route through L3 to Sprint to get to Cognent, you wouldn't know.
As for the home users who are whining about this, y'all need to get a life and just g
What you fail to realize in your jest, is it would work. The biggest problem between Cognent and L3 right now, is the Cognent is leaving old routes up that say they can still route to L3, when they can't. And they are actively filtering out alternative paths to L3 networks so their sub-tiers don't see the new routes. L3 is simple doing the active filter. Either way, very large multi-homed clients would have to hand-fix the routes and tie them to specific gateways.
If a nuke took out the original peer points, there's a chance software would fix the rest. (though, i'm not certain, the configs been written at this point. But if a nuke was the source of this problem, we'd mostly likely not have noticied the down time, only the large flash and radiation).
Your missing the point that a very large amount of home users via cable modems and DSL are affected. I understand you are not, and that's great, but put yourself in the shoes of 10s if not 100s of thousands of home users that can't hit sites they check on daily. Or can't VPN to their work/clients (I can't hit 3 of my clients). Should I be required to bear the cost of an extra DSL line on top of my business cable line? The cable provider promised me access to the internet, the whole internet. What L3 is doing by filtering out all the route advertisements for alternate paths is preventing many setups from even routing around the break. That's uncalled for.
The fact this effects 95% of NYC cable modems is going to piss off a lot of execs at many different companies and bring more light to this situation then L3 or Cognent can imagine. I've gotten calls from lots of clients who want to know if they should be calling Time Warner board members because they can't VPN into their office from home.
Having to explain to them it's not really a Time Warned RR issue and who's 'isssue' it is should not be any of ours job. This should not happen. Dirty pool is being played and it's crippling the Internet for a large number of users.
And there's not a damn thing* anyone can do about it.
(* actually, i saw a suggestion by someone to download the Google WiFi beta VPN client, and use it to add a second route to your home PC, via the Google datacenter pathways to the fractured side of the net. That this is the only recourse is very scary)
It's more complicated that you make it out to be. Even if you connect to a large ISP (like NYC Time Warned Road Runner) you are shit out of luck right now. Not because they don't have a way of routing around the break, but beacuse they aren't prepared to implement such a drastic change. It's not all automatically controlled like people think. Most companies, like Time Warner RR would need to modify and reload hundreds of routers to effectively use some other connection point to get around the current 'block'.
And it's been about 8 hours and they still haven't.
At this stage, you'd be better off with a smaller ISP, because they have fewer connection points to update with the new routing table rows.
What you fail to realize, is it has already happened. At this point in time, I can't access http://www.cogentco.com/ and numerous other sites. I'm coming from Time Warners NY Road Runner network. The internet, for me and 10s of thousands of others, is partioned.
That either network corporation allowed this to occur is without pardon.
What I'm afraid of, is when this is all over and people realize how singificant it was, the solution to mangers will be "buy service to each, so we never have to worry about being partioned". Which is exactly what both companies would like to see.
Tracing route to cogentco.com [38.9.51.20] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 192.168.4.1
2 20 ms 61 ms 14 ms 10.33.8.1
3 10 ms 14 ms 13 ms pos0-0-nycmnyb-rtr1.nyc.rr.com [24.29.97.93]
4 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms 24.29.97.25
5 9 ms 15 ms 17 ms pos2-0-nycmnya-rtr2.nyc.rr.com [24.29.101.253]
6 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms pop2-nye-P13-3.atdn.net [66.185.141.37]
7 22 ms 201 ms 222 ms bb2-nye-P1-0.atdn.net [66.185.151.66]
8 13 ms 13 ms 14 ms pop1-nye-P1-0.atdn.net [66.185.151.51]
9 17 ms 19 ms 20 ms Verio.atdn.net [66.185.139.150]
10 20 ms 12 ms 13 ms p16-0-1-3.r21.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.3.48]
11 25 ms 26 ms 25 ms p16-1-2-2.r21.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.4.27]
12 * * * Request timed out.
(Is Serenity a metaphor for our own country -- a falling-apart vehicle that we love to bits and steer as well as we can, desperately trying to protect it from the creeps who don't even understand how to drive it, much less understand how it actually works?)
Wow, Salon.com can't even keep it out of sci-fi movie reviews.
He's built a few generations of self-propelled ballistic miss...^R^R^R^ errr.. spacecraft.
The fact that for 50k dollars, most anyone with enough garage space and basic eletronics/metal working can build a small rock with GPS guidance, makes me glad places like the Pentagon and the Capital Building randomly fuck with civilan GPS channels.
Question is, if the Russians were not in a war with us, and using smart-munitions which used our GPS system, by not disabling it are we in fact aiding them and there for allied with them in the eyes of thier foe?
Well, while Amtrak is not a government agency, it is wholly owned ( 100% of it's stock is owned by the Federal government ) so I'm going to call BS on this story. It would have taken two phone calls MAX from a Lousianna Senator to allow Amtrak trains to be commendeered for evacutation.
My guess is, they didn't feel the need for it. As they knew the capactity of the Superdome + the nine orther emergency locations would not be exceeded. In fact, in the end, only about 10k went to the Superdome. It can hold 80k for an event.
That may turn out to be a bad decision, but not because people couldn't get Amtrak to play ball. The board is federally controlled, and they require the US Federal Governemnt to approve their budget each year. The US Govt has Amtrak by the balls, for better or worse.
Louisiana has 65% of their national guard troops at home. Only half of those will be activated for the relief effort (~3,500). The fact is, we're set up to handle two simulataneous wars at the same time and a natural disaster. No states national guard troop level is below 60% even witht he war in Iraq (and it's not just Iraq, troops are in 40 countries).
But bitch away anyhow, it's surely helping the situation.
(and Alabama has 70% available, Mississippi has 65% available. Far more than will ever be called upon).
A: i think it is really important to emphasize especially for the folks in this chat room that we did not design the core system around you guys. similar to the shuffle, the boxter, the 4:3 tv, the 1mpix camera, we designed the core system as a way to get folks to come into the family at a cheaper prices and decide if an how they scale the system. the great thing about our approach unlike these examples is that the core owner can upgrade the system and match the capabilities of the premium system when the time is right for them.
Far as I understand, the NLRB is for relations between labor management (Unions) and companies. This rulling is directed at union solictiation/events after work and in company uniform.
There are well defined procedures for starting a pro-union vote. Strict rules, and lots of foul play. This group is around to rule which side screwed up that delicate dance.
This has no affect on individual employees after ours and out of uniform. Unless they are having drinks at a bar with the local union rep and their entire department. Then god knows the rules and laws that have to be followed.
The concern (towards both parties) is bribes and kickbacks to a select group of workers to get or not get in place a union.
Move along people, nothing to see here. Nothing 'chilling' about this. No slope, and nothing slippery about it.
You can put in as many NVIDIA 6600 PCI cards as you have slots. Each of those can drive two panels. I've got clients with 6 panel desktops.
You can mix AGP and PCI, but depending on BIOS/MB you may have issues. I've seen mix mode work and not work. Seemed to work fine on Dells.
Often time, the built in MB GPU can not be enabled if you're also using an AGP card (because the mboard on-board GPU is using the AGP bus). So be mindfull of that if you go down that path.
...are exactly why I stopped reading those annoying Trade Rags... i mean mags.
This isn't _just_ a rant, it's a poorly articulated rant. Atleast come up with some verifiable facts about what you couldn't do in/on winttel, your hypothesis for how Apple will correct this, and then maybe we can see a valid 'switch' experiment take place.
As it stands now, it sounds like you had some things go really wrong in your wintel world and your blaming the OS/Architecture and running for another. Who's to say the problem won't follow you?
And what is with this:
I live on the 'Net. I do not want my browser to eat up all of my memory. In the WinTel world I need an assortment of third-party tools to try to keep my PC alive. That's just crazy.
If his browser is eating up all his memory, and he needs third-party tools to keep his PC alive, he has other issues. That or he's running WFWG 3.11 with IE 0.9b8
Am I the only one who's had little or no issues in the last four years or so with the windows platform. And by issues I mean 'out of memory' or random 'blue screens'..etc..etc. And server side I've had nothing but 'good luck' i suppose, for the past six years. Since 1999 or 98 i've been runing NT4 or win2k or 2k3 and the shit just runs. The only annoyance has been security changes which break code. Which, I can live with. And yeah, switching to Active Directory was painfull intitall, but well worth it in the long run.
Maybe a lot of this is repressed anger from the mid to late 90s when running windows networks took a _lot_ of work (frickin WINS and NetBEUI). And blue screens were way to common (from such critical systems as RAID Drivers, SCSIS drivers and even some Intel chips had flaws that would BSOD certain motherboards).
I think pretty sunny days are here for wintel. I'm sure spend more time in the sun then working on sys-admin issues.
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MS is the conduit. I have no doubt they get some part of the sale when a sale is made, after all it's their bandwidth and servers. Sentiment like this deflects the blame from the company that is actually pissing off it's customers.
Now, what happens when a company pisses off it's customers? Especially 'RPG' folk. Well, I think we'll see a Slashback article on this in about a month from now. They'll offer something for free.
And that's how the market is supposed to work. Too expensive? Don't buy. Vote with your dollars, or points. Hundreds of us on Slashdot have been saying this to people like you for years, but in the end you envision some utopia where someone should craft something for a day or two and you're prepared to tell them they deserve no compensation for their time or skill.
I agree this site is legit, but that is a flawed test to postulate. If I was to make an Amazon phishing site, I would have my backend proxy username/password to the Amazon APIs. Or if the API's didn't provide what I needed, I would screen scrape/parse out what I needed from http://amazon.com/ directly (your e-mail info, address, shipping prefs..etc). I'd even yell at you if your password was wrong.
Sure there would be a delay, but I doubt anyones spidy sense would tingle.
Truth is, this was dangerous of Amazon to not place this site on their root domain. Even though mturk.amazon.com exists, redirecting to www.mtrurk.com proves nothing as those of us who have been on this net long enough have seen DNS cache poisoning work with catrosphic effect.
This is moderated insightful, so i'm trying hard to see the insight. How is Blizzard like the Department Of Motor Vehicles exactly? What does offensive content and filters have to do with the DMV?
Someone throw me a friggin bone here.
Are you fucking kidding me? If that's how you feel you really don't understand this site. What would you have said if you were around back then. I wonder.
/. not being like a normal news site. About editoral control not being what it would/could be at CNN. Guess what, that's the point. This site still has character. It's still personable. And as much as I disagree with all the OSS crap, I still read it after years and years _because_ of it's quirky personality and distinct viewpoints from it's readers.
/. ten times a day.
Many people bitch about
The fact that Taco can get up on his little soap box and say "what do you guys think?" is the reason most people read
No, this is exactly what he wants. All this 'public lampooning' feeds the beast. There is no bad publicity for this guy. Like that cheesy Merlin mini-seires from 1998, the only way to destroy the evil witch is to FORGET JACK THOMPSON. Turn your backs. Ignore him. If he wasn't controversial, producers wouldn't be seeking him out an putting him on news shows. The game news media attraction to him, and the gamers attraction to mocking him gives him power
Having said that, I recognize it's impossibly difficult to stop the "I hate Jack Thompson" landslide, mostly because younger people are far more prone to reaction based on emotion than logic. But right or wrong, by keeping his voice alive in the media, a percentage of adults are going to pick out his soundbites and use it to reinforce their already negative image of some games.
No matter how many psychologist you parade on TV, or game execs, or 'kid next door' interviews that are frank and honest about violence in game and the lack of attribution towards violence in real life.... it wont make a difference. They'll hear what they want to hear, and because the target demographic of 85% of products is 18-30 years of age, us being upset about this guy gives a button to push that makes us turn to watch, or read, or care.
Jack Thompson is a griefer. He's the MyG0t of Attorneys. And the best way to make a MyG0t'er leave a server (assuming you can't kick/ban) is for everyone to ignore him.
After all, if it was true DRM, switching to another player wouldn't make a damn bit of difference. If the content was locked and encoded with DRM technology.
Nope, instead the parent post is most certainly right. WMP9/10 will not prevent you via any DRM mechanism from watching a DVD. The DRM technology is for downloaded and locked content. Examples of such content? I don't really know of any. It's one of those things they spent a lot of money to build but no market for it yet.
The error message you are getting, and the fact you get the same message via WMP and RealPlayer is likely because they both are using the same CODEC for DVD data. The CODEC has expired. Remeber, by default Windows out of the box (Excluding Plus+ Pack) can't play DVDs. So you had to install something to make it work (unless the OEM pre-installed something) and that something appears to have been a trial only.
But, it is funny how well trained you are to immediately think DRM/MS conspiracy to prevent you from playing your legitimatly own DVDs. Shows the OpenSource FUD is working.
It wont be long now until Microsoft^h^h^h^$oft is groveling at the feet of the supreme GNU council begging for a seat at the table...
Oh how they'll pay....
Most major SCSI card/storage array vendors have SCSI cluster support. The easy big names being Compaq/HP and Dell.
Most the time they are used in Hot/Cold clusters. It's easiest to manage. Hot/Hot is possible, but you need to make sure your applications know how to handle it properly.
It works by each of your servers having a SCSI/RAID controller card. They connect to a shared backplane in some sorta storage array (like a PowerVault). Make sure your backplane isn't set to 'split' mode, in which case each server would only see half the drives and negate the 'cluste' capability.
When configured properly each card can see the same set of devices in the array. Some cards can save the RAID configuration to the storage device. This is nice because after configurign the array, you can bring up your 2nd box and the 2nd RAID card can read the settings the first one configured. They both need to presume the same RAID configuration. The virtual devices can differ in the OS level, but the logical RAID configuration obviously much match.
If you go that route, save yourself an enormous hassle and make sure each server has their own two local drives mirrored for the boot drive. Don't go through the hassle of booting off the array in a shared array configuration. It's technically possible, but managing those extra partions on the shared array is a pain.
It looks like he initially lied to the police and said the the reason the IDS detected it as a hack, was because he was using Lynx. That is the first story that went around the net. He was on Solaris, using Lynx, made a credit card payment, and the IDS picked it up as a hack.
s ing_a_n.htmln ami_cha.html
../ trick to try and break out of the root web directory). Not so much as an attack, as a query.
Here's the original BoingBoig: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/27/jailed_for_u
and then: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/11/supposed_tsu
In the end, despite his initial lie, all he did was try a directory traversal 'attack' (the
Basically he was trying to answer: "Is this site vulnerable to this easily exploited flaw, and if so, I better call them or my Credit Card number is going to make it's waya round the russian mafia sites in no time".
I don't doubt he was secretly hoping the flaw existed so he could get some fame saving a disaster relief web site.
I guess then technically, if you click the following link, their IDS should flag it as a 'hack' and if you live in jolly ol'england expect a boot at your door: Don't click me or you go to Jail!
If you try it out, let me know how fast their response time is.
Listen, You seem to keep responding while ignoring what I'm actually saying, so i'm going to spell it out to you.
Customers of some ISPs that have routes out both to the L3 side and Cognent side CAN NOT access any Cognent controlled networks (AS174). In some cases it has to do with not knowing another route to that network. In other cases it has to do with Cognent blocking a path they just don't want used. Case A is Level3's issue, Case B is Cognents. Either way, the downstream guy is screwed.
Look. Here's me trying to get to Level3 side:
And here's me trying to get to something on the Cognent side:
The fact that RoadRunner is sending my packets via ATDN via Verio to get to AS174 shows me that the pinned route RR previously had (ie, all traffice for cognent side, haul via Verio which Cognent bought) is still up, but Cognent is actively blocking the traffic. If they didn't block it, we wouldn't know they were depeered and this would be a non-story. Now, I can't tell you that previously the data was backhauled via the AS3356 (Level3) network, but this is my guess. I just don't have any tracerts from then.
:
But not that Cognent is the only bad guy in this, Level3 has no advertised routes to AS174. Check http://www.level3.com/LookingGlass/
And from what I read on NANOG they are filtering advertisments of the AS174 routes from reaching anyone on their side. So even if you could route through L3 to Sprint to get to Cognent, you wouldn't know.
What you fail to realize in your jest, is it would work. The biggest problem between Cognent and L3 right now, is the Cognent is leaving old routes up that say they can still route to L3, when they can't. And they are actively filtering out alternative paths to L3 networks so their sub-tiers don't see the new routes. L3 is simple doing the active filter. Either way, very large multi-homed clients would have to hand-fix the routes and tie them to specific gateways.
If a nuke took out the original peer points, there's a chance software would fix the rest. (though, i'm not certain, the configs been written at this point. But if a nuke was the source of this problem, we'd mostly likely not have noticied the down time, only the large flash and radiation).
Your missing the point that a very large amount of home users via cable modems and DSL are affected. I understand you are not, and that's great, but put yourself in the shoes of 10s if not 100s of thousands of home users that can't hit sites they check on daily. Or can't VPN to their work/clients (I can't hit 3 of my clients). Should I be required to bear the cost of an extra DSL line on top of my business cable line? The cable provider promised me access to the internet, the whole internet. What L3 is doing by filtering out all the route advertisements for alternate paths is preventing many setups from even routing around the break. That's uncalled for.
The fact this effects 95% of NYC cable modems is going to piss off a lot of execs at many different companies and bring more light to this situation then L3 or Cognent can imagine. I've gotten calls from lots of clients who want to know if they should be calling Time Warner board members because they can't VPN into their office from home.
Having to explain to them it's not really a Time Warned RR issue and who's 'isssue' it is should not be any of ours job. This should not happen. Dirty pool is being played and it's crippling the Internet for a large number of users.
And there's not a damn thing* anyone can do about it.
(* actually, i saw a suggestion by someone to download the Google WiFi beta VPN client, and use it to add a second route to your home PC, via the Google datacenter pathways to the fractured side of the net. That this is the only recourse is very scary)
It's more complicated that you make it out to be. Even if you connect to a large ISP (like NYC Time Warned Road Runner) you are shit out of luck right now. Not because they don't have a way of routing around the break, but beacuse they aren't prepared to implement such a drastic change. It's not all automatically controlled like people think. Most companies, like Time Warner RR would need to modify and reload hundreds of routers to effectively use some other connection point to get around the current 'block'.
And it's been about 8 hours and they still haven't.
At this stage, you'd be better off with a smaller ISP, because they have fewer connection points to update with the new routing table rows.
That either network corporation allowed this to occur is without pardon.
What I'm afraid of, is when this is all over and people realize how singificant it was, the solution to mangers will be "buy service to each, so we never have to worry about being partioned". Which is exactly what both companies would like to see.
Wow, Salon.com can't even keep it out of sci-fi movie reviews.
Sad.
... to a guided missle.
He's built a few generations of self-propelled ballistic miss...^R^R^R^ errr.. spacecraft.
The fact that for 50k dollars, most anyone with enough garage space and basic eletronics/metal working can build a small rock with GPS guidance, makes me glad places like the Pentagon and the Capital Building randomly fuck with civilan GPS channels.
Question is, if the Russians were not in a war with us, and using smart-munitions which used our GPS system, by not disabling it are we in fact aiding them and there for allied with them in the eyes of thier foe?
Well, while Amtrak is not a government agency, it is wholly owned ( 100% of it's stock is owned by the Federal government ) so I'm going to call BS on this story. It would have taken two phone calls MAX from a Lousianna Senator to allow Amtrak trains to be commendeered for evacutation.
My guess is, they didn't feel the need for it. As they knew the capactity of the Superdome + the nine orther emergency locations would not be exceeded. In fact, in the end, only about 10k went to the Superdome. It can hold 80k for an event.
That may turn out to be a bad decision, but not because people couldn't get Amtrak to play ball. The board is federally controlled, and they require the US Federal Governemnt to approve their budget each year. The US Govt has Amtrak by the balls, for better or worse.
Louisiana has 65% of their national guard troops at home. Only half of those will be activated for the relief effort (~3,500). The fact is, we're set up to handle two simulataneous wars at the same time and a natural disaster. No states national guard troop level is below 60% even witht he war in Iraq (and it's not just Iraq, troops are in 40 countries).
But bitch away anyhow, it's surely helping the situation.
(and Alabama has 70% available, Mississippi has 65% available. Far more than will ever be called upon).
was that from Diamond Age? The book isn't in the same state as me so I can't check, but it's driving me mad.
On a story like this, you have to reference the quintessential MMORPG PK mugging/loot event:
You Stole My Cloudsong
Not safe for work unless you have headphones. You can hear the tears in his hoarse voice. God thats awesome.
Far as I understand, the NLRB is for relations between labor management (Unions) and companies. This rulling is directed at union solictiation/events after work and in company uniform.
There are well defined procedures for starting a pro-union vote. Strict rules, and lots of foul play. This group is around to rule which side screwed up that delicate dance.
This has no affect on individual employees after ours and out of uniform. Unless they are having drinks at a bar with the local union rep and their entire department. Then god knows the rules and laws that have to be followed.
The concern (towards both parties) is bribes and kickbacks to a select group of workers to get or not get in place a union.
Move along people, nothing to see here. Nothing 'chilling' about this. No slope, and nothing slippery about it.
but just add another graphics card.
You can put in as many NVIDIA 6600 PCI cards as you have slots. Each of those can drive two panels. I've got clients with 6 panel desktops.
You can mix AGP and PCI, but depending on BIOS/MB you may have issues. I've seen mix mode work and not work. Seemed to work fine on Dells.
Often time, the built in MB GPU can not be enabled if you're also using an AGP card (because the mboard on-board GPU is using the AGP bus). So be mindfull of that if you go down that path.
Further discussion on this topic and slashdot will feel the power and wrath of De Beers.
Prepare for 503 errors if you continue to discuss alternatives to natural diamonds.
You have been warned.
-De Beers NOC
This isn't _just_ a rant, it's a poorly articulated rant. Atleast come up with some verifiable facts about what you couldn't do in/on winttel, your hypothesis for how Apple will correct this, and then maybe we can see a valid 'switch' experiment take place.
As it stands now, it sounds like you had some things go really wrong in your wintel world and your blaming the OS/Architecture and running for another. Who's to say the problem won't follow you?
And what is with this:
If his browser is eating up all his memory, and he needs third-party tools to keep his PC alive, he has other issues. That or he's running WFWG 3.11 with IE 0.9b8
Am I the only one who's had little or no issues in the last four years or so with the windows platform. And by issues I mean 'out of memory' or random 'blue screens'
Maybe a lot of this is repressed anger from the mid to late 90s when running windows networks took a _lot_ of work (frickin WINS and NetBEUI). And blue screens were way to common (from such critical systems as RAID Drivers, SCSIS drivers and even some Intel chips had flaws that would BSOD certain motherboards).
I think pretty sunny days are here for wintel. I'm sure spend more time in the sun then working on sys-admin issues.
That's J Allard's gamertag. Vice President of XBOX and Chief XNA Architect. And a lucky son of a bitch.