Is it just me, or does the word "offer" in the article title sound biased?
"Piracy forces upon heavy metal a new business model" might be closer to the truth. At this point the fact is that the music industry must adjust its practices and find revenues outside the sale of physical media. They can turn to live tours, merchandise or whatever else, but calling this an "offer" is just as much a misnomer as "piracy".
You step out of your car, leaving your keys in the ignition. Someone comes up to you and tells you that the area is crawling with pychotic people, and there is a likelihood that one of them will be taking your car and hitting someone with it. You say it's not your problem and you leave the keys anyway. It is my understanding that Spamhaus is suggesting that you should be fined for that. We can argue that makes sense or not, but can we please agree that this is not about free speech?
I would prefer a non-car analogy please. It's been a while since the last good one.
In any case, if the event you described did happen, I would feel VERY bad about it, and would be very careful not to leave the keys in the car again. If one of my servers was hijacked to do bad things, be it DDOS or spamming, I would feel bad about that also.
This is just a guess, because it has never happened to me before. However, I imagine that after being on a receiving end of a massive DDOS I would no longer think of not patching your servers as a form of free speech. Instead, I would think of it as negligence.
You are merely lucky. I run 3 small mail servers, all very similar in setup. 1 also receives no spam whatsoever, the other two are flooded by it. I need to use Spamhaus's XBL, SPF and graylisting to stem the tide. If I removed either of the three, SPAM volume would exceed regular mail volume about 20x. (This is not because of a lack of regular mail.)
To the lovely people who have moderated this "Insightful" instead of "Funny"... I seriously hope that you have missed the point.
This reminds me of the discredited parable that breaking a window is good for the 'conomy, because it generates business for the repairman, who then buys new shoes from the cobbler, who then bla bla bla. The real economy in the meantime registers the net loss of a window.
You're correct. I had to look this piece of information up in Wikipedia. Oh, PHP.. And to think that I had some interest in the framework a moment earlier...
It you think hotmail is bad for receiving messages, try sending e-mail to a hotmail box as a small independent mail server or website.
What you will find is that hotmail randomly drops your messages. No bounce message, no error, it's not even put in the freaking junk mail folder, it's just plain gone. Have they even heard of RFC 821?? (And yes, you have jumped through all the hoops: you have proper HELO, rdns, spf...)
Then you try to complain to the standard postmaster account, as is a standard and required practice. OK, haha, you didn't really think that would work, did you? Instead, you have to go through customer service, with support drones who ask more and more information from you FOR WEEKS, and never resolve your issue. Infuriating.
I created a HTML5 game using canvas and some other technologies. Naturally it requires a modern browser (meaning, anything but Internet Explorer).
The game is called Cities of Apocalypse and it is a relatively simple game that is somewhere between turn-based and real-time. You can have a look and try it out at http://citiesofap.game-host.org/ (please be gentle with my server:)
I hit a few snags while developing the game, such as Firefox 3.0 not having text rendering for canvas, or Opera having a surprisingly slow javascript engine (don't flame me, route calculations take 5x as long with Opera!). All in all, it was an interesting project that I might get back to someday.
On a related note, haven't we recently seen the pattern of blaming drivers and applications, done by a certain megacorporation, as a way of explaining the failure of a recent operating system? Don't they have a patent or something on doing this?
Some basic functionality form the canvas API (text rendering functions) is still missing. Oh, and it doesn't alpha blend on drawImage, doing alpha testing instead. The result is kind of painful to look at.
The other problem I have with Opera is the slow javascript engine (my webapp does some lifting on the client side, Opera performs it the second slowest, Internet Explorer being the only worse browser in this area.)
I have noticed brute force attempts for years now. I have a simple script that adds hosts with a number of failed attempts to/etc/hosts.deny automatically. If a host logs in successfully, all its past "mistakes" are forgiven.
This has helped cut down on the invalid login attempts by >90%. This is by no means a perfect defense, since each botnet slave has three "shots" at guessing my passwords, but it still helps mitigate the problem.
To use my script, you need to add this to your sshd_config:
Ubuntu, maybe. But not Debian! I've upgraded my server to Etch via ssh. The upgrade was seamless, I didn't even have to log out and log in again. I was very impressed by how much work debian has put into the smooth upgrade. If you don't trust the system, you might want to "test run" the upgrade by running it on a local machine first.
On the whole we would be better off without most of it. Let's put that statement to the test, ok? For one week, avoid ad-supported sites completely. That means: no news sites (that includes slashdot), no search engines (especially google, since they run their ad service, just to annoy you!), no webcomics, youtube, free blogs, etc.
After a week, please check back on us, and tell us how much better off you were. Your input will be appreciated.
Try this for a week: don't visit sites that are supported by ads (like this one). Clearly, operators of these sites are the people you don't care about, and their fine content is for stupid people who tolerate and (how horrible!) occasionally CLICK ON ads!
So, no google, no slashdot, no news sites, no youtube, etc. for a week. Try it for a week. I think you'll save a lot of time for yourself, not surfing all that crap. Instead, you will enjoy the wonderful sites with rich content that are supported by wonderful, magical business models that make money off your interest in occult ways.
Actually it's MULTIplayer only. And it's quite a bit of work that you have to do before you can play as yourself, but it works. See the Character_HOWTO.
The submitter didn't ask us to dictate his methodology for him. He asked for advice for how to enforce a methodology that he has already chosen. You're just not being helpful here.
The trouble with change is people with your attitude: if you refuse to understand the rationale behind certain practices, you will either ignore them, or comply at a bare minimum level at which they are not useful. My advice to maiden_taiwan: try to reason with people. Explain to them WHY you want them to do what you want them to do. Do this at as personal a level as possible, so they can ask questions.
Obviously, with 100+ people, there's going to be some who will be completely unwilling to listen or to compromise. You have to be prepared to let them go.
This is exactly what I do. Both my public wikis append a section with bogus e-mail addresses, prefixed with a "Guestbook" heading. Google picks these up like candy, and lots of bots use search engines now to find sites that contain many addresses. Normal users don't see these addresses as they are hidden with CSS.
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Is it just me, or does the word "offer" in the article title sound biased?
"Piracy forces upon heavy metal a new business model" might be closer to the truth. At this point the fact is that the music industry must adjust its practices and find revenues outside the sale of physical media. They can turn to live tours, merchandise or whatever else, but calling this an "offer" is just as much a misnomer as "piracy".
Oh my. Did I touch a nerve?
OK, let's go with the car analogy.
You step out of your car, leaving your keys in the ignition. Someone comes up to you and tells you that the area is crawling with pychotic people, and there is a likelihood that one of them will be taking your car and hitting someone with it. You say it's not your problem and you leave the keys anyway. It is my understanding that Spamhaus is suggesting that you should be fined for that. We can argue that makes sense or not, but can we please agree that this is not about free speech?
I would prefer a non-car analogy please. It's been a while since the last good one.
In any case, if the event you described did happen, I would feel VERY bad about it, and would be very careful not to leave the keys in the car again. If one of my servers was hijacked to do bad things, be it DDOS or spamming, I would feel bad about that also.
Let me guess: you call your operation "marketing", right?
Hypocrisy...
This is just a guess, because it has never happened to me before. However, I imagine that after being on a receiving end of a massive DDOS I would no longer think of not patching your servers as a form of free speech. Instead, I would think of it as negligence.
You are merely lucky. I run 3 small mail servers, all very similar in setup. 1 also receives no spam whatsoever, the other two are flooded by it. I need to use Spamhaus's XBL, SPF and graylisting to stem the tide. If I removed either of the three, SPAM volume would exceed regular mail volume about 20x. (This is not because of a lack of regular mail.)
To the lovely people who have moderated this "Insightful" instead of "Funny"... I seriously hope that you have missed the point.
This reminds me of the discredited parable that breaking a window is good for the 'conomy, because it generates business for the repairman, who then buys new shoes from the cobbler, who then bla bla bla. The real economy in the meantime registers the net loss of a window.
You're correct. I had to look this piece of information up in Wikipedia. Oh, PHP.. And to think that I had some interest in the framework a moment earlier...
It you think hotmail is bad for receiving messages, try sending e-mail to a hotmail box as a small independent mail server or website.
What you will find is that hotmail randomly drops your messages. No bounce message, no error, it's not even put in the freaking junk mail folder, it's just plain gone. Have they even heard of RFC 821?? (And yes, you have jumped through all the hoops: you have proper HELO, rdns, spf...)
Then you try to complain to the standard postmaster account, as is a standard and required practice. OK, haha, you didn't really think that would work, did you? Instead, you have to go through customer service, with support drones who ask more and more information from you FOR WEEKS, and never resolve your issue. Infuriating.
Prices are still high, but not as much as they were at the peak last November. Instead of 80-190% above the pre-flood prices, they are now 60-90% up.
This probably should've been part of the article summary.
I created a HTML5 game using canvas and some other technologies. Naturally it requires a modern browser (meaning, anything but Internet Explorer).
The game is called Cities of Apocalypse and it is a relatively simple game that is somewhere between turn-based and real-time. You can have a look and try it out at http://citiesofap.game-host.org/ (please be gentle with my server :)
I hit a few snags while developing the game, such as Firefox 3.0 not having text rendering for canvas, or Opera having a surprisingly slow javascript engine (don't flame me, route calculations take 5x as long with Opera!). All in all, it was an interesting project that I might get back to someday.
On a related note, haven't we recently seen the pattern of blaming drivers and applications, done by a certain megacorporation, as a way of explaining the failure of a recent operating system? Don't they have a patent or something on doing this?
The unscaled photo is here:
http://insidescience.org/polopoly_fs/1.918!image/671260397.jpg
Some basic functionality form the canvas API (text rendering functions) is still missing. Oh, and it doesn't alpha blend on drawImage, doing alpha testing instead. The result is kind of painful to look at.
The other problem I have with Opera is the slow javascript engine (my webapp does some lifting on the client side, Opera performs it the second slowest, Internet Explorer being the only worse browser in this area.)
Because the rest of the world doesn't want to be nuked.
Parent was moderated insightful, why?
I have noticed brute force attempts for years now. I have a simple script that adds hosts with a number of failed attempts to /etc/hosts.deny automatically. If a host logs in successfully, all its past "mistakes" are forgiven.
This has helped cut down on the invalid login attempts by >90%. This is by no means a perfect defense, since each botnet slave has three "shots" at guessing my passwords, but it still helps mitigate the problem.
To use my script, you need to add this to your sshd_config:
MaxAuthTries 3
And this to your root cronjob:
@reboot tail -F /var/log/auth.log | ~/bin/AutoDenyAttacker.pl &
(Replace the path for AutoDenyAttacker to fit your needs). You can download the script here: http://apocalypse.rulez.org/~upi/AutoDenyAttacker.txt (This is a perl script -- rename it to .pl after you download.)
This script works well for debian etch and lenny, and I expect it would work on other systems too, perhaps with a bit of tweaking.
Regards,
UPi.
Ubuntu, maybe. But not Debian! I've upgraded my server to Etch via ssh. The upgrade was seamless, I didn't even have to log out and log in again. I was very impressed by how much work debian has put into the smooth upgrade. If you don't trust the system, you might want to "test run" the upgrade by running it on a local machine first.
After a week, please check back on us, and tell us how much better off you were. Your input will be appreciated.
Try this for a week: don't visit sites that are supported by ads (like this one). Clearly, operators of these sites are the people you don't care about, and their fine content is for stupid people who tolerate and (how horrible!) occasionally CLICK ON ads!
So, no google, no slashdot, no news sites, no youtube, etc. for a week. Try it for a week. I think you'll save a lot of time for yourself, not surfing all that crap. Instead, you will enjoy the wonderful sites with rich content that are supported by wonderful, magical business models that make money off your interest in occult ways.
Easier, perhaps... But not as much fun as doing it yourself! :)
Actually it's MULTIplayer only. And it's quite a bit of work that you have to do before you can play as yourself, but it works. See the Character_HOWTO.
The submitter didn't ask us to dictate his methodology for him. He asked for advice for how to enforce a methodology that he has already chosen. You're just not being helpful here.
The trouble with change is people with your attitude: if you refuse to understand the rationale behind certain practices, you will either ignore them, or comply at a bare minimum level at which they are not useful. My advice to maiden_taiwan: try to reason with people. Explain to them WHY you want them to do what you want them to do. Do this at as personal a level as possible, so they can ask questions.
Obviously, with 100+ people, there's going to be some who will be completely unwilling to listen or to compromise. You have to be prepared to let them go.
This is exactly what I do. Both my public wikis append a section with bogus e-mail addresses, prefixed with a "Guestbook" heading. Google picks these up like candy, and lots of bots use search engines now to find sites that contain many addresses. Normal users don't see these addresses as they are hidden with CSS.
/ SpambotPoison
If you want to add this feature to your wiki, check this out:
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiPatches
Sollog, is that you? :)