That's interesting to know. How complicated are the protocols? Would you have to actually get a hold of hardware components with embedded software on the "receiving" side to get a complete set for reverse-engineering, if you didn't want to reverse the protocol from the client code?... Realtek has factories in China, and chinese "spies" would certainly be able to prochure whatever they needed from Chinese factories if I've understood the situation correctly.
It's meant to be tounge-in-cheek. It's a part of the conference circuit for 'Security Professionals' doing 'Penetration Testing'. Yes. We are all 'Security Professionals' here, never commited what is technically a federal crime in our lives, nossir.
This is awesome. A major 0day? They stole the signing key from realtek? And it's not like you can instantly invalidate those keys without major hassle. I wonder how many other such "cert" keys have been stolen over they years. Besides that, why code an interface specifically for Siemens SCADA? One question you'd have to ask is, does that system have marketshare for the control systems of any specific type of thing, or is it generally just popular in industrial automation? I can't find anything specific online, besides advertising writeups about factory control.
So, you could make a flesh-eating virus that only made the non-essential (or at least non-instant-death) parts of the body slough off? "Skiiiiinn... Graaghl!" *shuffle shuffle*
Where does this stuff come from? I've seen gear like this on sale on Russian underground sites, together with custom trojans etc..., but if it comes from inside the states couldn't you just nab the problem at the source?
For a period of time I was in a "lighter and softer" type of mental institution for evaluation. The sheer amount of medication and counter-medication some of these poor people where on shocked me a bit. On the other hand, they where quite unwell.
Completely true. I scoured the psych publications for similar cases of "SSRI induced apathy syndrome", and in one case presented there was this old man who was at the end of his life. He had the same "side effect" as me, but was quite happy with it. "Before, I used to get really mad at those kids who played outside at my lawn. Now, I don't give a crap."
It was a she. And nope, nothing wrong with my heart, healthy as a horse. The shrinks still seemed skeptical. "Maybe... you just have that sort of personality?" -.-
I have little anxiety in my natural state - the state I am in now - but when I was on SSRI, I felt *nothing*. It's like the difference between feeling no pain, and having no sense of touch. Apparently people react wildly differently to these kinds of meds, but if you suffer from anxiety or sensory/emotional overload I suppose you should contact a psychologist to see if it is fix-able.
I know some people with anxiety problems that have expressed terror at how happy and carefree "benzo" makes them feel - and how rapidly they build up tolerance to it. I haven't tried it, because I have no anxiety problems; it's supposedly effective against aggression problems and "hyper-vigilance" as well, working much like alcohol I imagine, but the tolerance issues freak me out. Not to mention trying to convince a shrink you've got aggression problems with a clean record and next to no affective display - when I tried to convince them my sudden jump to 120 in pulse at rest was just from my ordinary fight-or-flight rush (which I've learned to tolerate; even if I'm so high I'm shaking and the burning in my blood is almost painful I think clearly and feel nothing in particular aside from a sort of dead, throbbing blood-thirst in the back of my head), they sent me to a heart specialist.
All the bullies I have dealt with where such because they simply had no morals. Some of them had abusive childhoods, but no normal person turns into a sociopath because of abuse. Aggressive, yes, but not amoral.
Precisely. People think I'm a social phobic, right until I shock them by calmly starting up a conversation with them, or ask them about something. It seems that fear is the only reason they can dream up for choosing to be alone.
When the shrinks put me on SSRI to alleviate OCD, the reverse happened: I lost *all* motivation. I could not get up in the morning, and could easily lie 48 hours in bed without eating or drinking, on the edge of sleep. I felt like one of those Buddhist monks who go bury themselves alive in a cave, and self-mummify. I felt no negative emotions whatsoever; I knew the consequences of my behavior but didn't have any drive to stop. Needless to say, this was not good for my studies. They removed it a month ago. I still feel glad whenever I feel any form of anxiety, however faint. Apparently, this side-effect is quite rare.
Fascist. You're denying your child access to something valuable you'd never deny yourself. Free access to ideas and information, however horrible, is not going to turn your child into a retard. Are you controlling what books your child reads as well?
With a normal mouse, I can keep my hand and arm in a resting state. When clicking a button I only need to push downwards once, and the spring-loaded button pushes my finger back up when I relax it. When I keep my hand on the mouse, I can push it around in a relatively frictionless manner without having to lift my hand. None of the solutions I have seen beats this. I guess you could attach sensors to the facial muscles or something.
For me, this is simply something that I do not experience - I am as creative off the drug as on it. The dead calm singularity of focus is something I find absolutely wonderful.
Ritalin isn't behaviour adjusting - it's thought adjusting. I'm not "normal" aside from my ADD, but I guess for some people actually being able to think coherently could be a nasty experience. People on slashdot often complain about "idiots" with mercurial emotions and attention spans like alcoholized chimps - turning around and saying that "fixing" people's brains so that they can actually contemplate things more complicated than who's most bitchy on american idol (My little kid has gotten so serious and introverted recently, the drugs are turning him into a zombie!) is extremely hypocritical.
You're full of it. Methylphenidate does nothing to rob you of creativity - have you actually tried it? It does "clear your head", but you can still access your creativity - it just that you're not up to your neck in mental refuse. Why learn to swim in a septic tank, when you could simply drain it?
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That's interesting to know. How complicated are the protocols? Would you have to actually get a hold of hardware components with embedded software on the "receiving" side to get a complete set for reverse-engineering, if you didn't want to reverse the protocol from the client code? ...
Realtek has factories in China, and chinese "spies" would certainly be able to prochure whatever they needed from Chinese factories if I've understood the situation correctly.
It's meant to be tounge-in-cheek. It's a part of the conference circuit for 'Security Professionals' doing 'Penetration Testing'. Yes. We are all 'Security Professionals' here, never commited what is technically a federal crime in our lives, nossir.
This is awesome. A major 0day? They stole the signing key from realtek? And it's not like you can instantly invalidate those keys without major hassle. I wonder how many other such "cert" keys have been stolen over they years.
Besides that, why code an interface specifically for Siemens SCADA? One question you'd have to ask is, does that system have marketshare for the control systems of any specific type of thing, or is it generally just popular in industrial automation? I can't find anything specific online, besides advertising writeups about factory control.
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"The wine dark sea", now that's actually a very beautiful name.
So, you could make a flesh-eating virus that only made the non-essential (or at least non-instant-death) parts of the body slough off?
"Skiiiiinn... Graaghl!" *shuffle shuffle*
They're shrimp-onauts, going boldly where no shrimp has dared go before. ^___^
Where does this stuff come from? I've seen gear like this on sale on Russian underground sites, together with custom trojans etc..., but if it comes from inside the states couldn't you just nab the problem at the source?
Actually, I lie - I still felt aggression, but more dryly and distant. That was largely the only feeling I had left.
For a period of time I was in a "lighter and softer" type of mental institution for evaluation. The sheer amount of medication and counter-medication some of these poor people where on shocked me a bit. On the other hand, they where quite unwell.
Completely true. I scoured the psych publications for similar cases of "SSRI induced apathy syndrome", and in one case presented there was this old man who was at the end of his life. He had the same "side effect" as me, but was quite happy with it.
"Before, I used to get really mad at those kids who played outside at my lawn. Now, I don't give a crap."
It was a she. And nope, nothing wrong with my heart, healthy as a horse. The shrinks still seemed skeptical.
"Maybe... you just have that sort of personality?"
-.-
I have little anxiety in my natural state - the state I am in now - but when I was on SSRI, I felt *nothing*. It's like the difference between feeling no pain, and having no sense of touch. Apparently people react wildly differently to these kinds of meds, but if you suffer from anxiety or sensory/emotional overload I suppose you should contact a psychologist to see if it is fix-able.
I know some people with anxiety problems that have expressed terror at how happy and carefree "benzo" makes them feel - and how rapidly they build up tolerance to it. I haven't tried it, because I have no anxiety problems; it's supposedly effective against aggression problems and "hyper-vigilance" as well, working much like alcohol I imagine, but the tolerance issues freak me out.
Not to mention trying to convince a shrink you've got aggression problems with a clean record and next to no affective display - when I tried to convince them my sudden jump to 120 in pulse at rest was just from my ordinary fight-or-flight rush (which I've learned to tolerate; even if I'm so high I'm shaking and the burning in my blood is almost painful I think clearly and feel nothing in particular aside from a sort of dead, throbbing blood-thirst in the back of my head), they sent me to a heart specialist.
All the bullies I have dealt with where such because they simply had no morals. Some of them had abusive childhoods, but no normal person turns into a sociopath because of abuse. Aggressive, yes, but not amoral.
Exactly. A lot of people like this don't understand that a lot of people are simply born evil. Is it really such a difficult concept to grasp?
Precisely. People think I'm a social phobic, right until I shock them by calmly starting up a conversation with them, or ask them about something. It seems that fear is the only reason they can dream up for choosing to be alone.
Actually, credibly threatening someone with violence is a complicated affair involving a lot of social and emotional cues.
When the shrinks put me on SSRI to alleviate OCD, the reverse happened: I lost *all* motivation. I could not get up in the morning, and could easily lie 48 hours in bed without eating or drinking, on the edge of sleep. I felt like one of those Buddhist monks who go bury themselves alive in a cave, and self-mummify. I felt no negative emotions whatsoever; I knew the consequences of my behavior but didn't have any drive to stop. Needless to say, this was not good for my studies.
They removed it a month ago. I still feel glad whenever I feel any form of anxiety, however faint. Apparently, this side-effect is quite rare.
Jack Chick was right about the music industry, just not in the way he thought he was.
Fascist. You're denying your child access to something valuable you'd never deny yourself. Free access to ideas and information, however horrible, is not going to turn your child into a retard. Are you controlling what books your child reads as well?
With a normal mouse, I can keep my hand and arm in a resting state. When clicking a button I only need to push downwards once, and the spring-loaded button pushes my finger back up when I relax it. When I keep my hand on the mouse, I can push it around in a relatively frictionless manner without having to lift my hand. None of the solutions I have seen beats this.
I guess you could attach sensors to the facial muscles or something.
For me, this is simply something that I do not experience - I am as creative off the drug as on it. The dead calm singularity of focus is something I find absolutely wonderful.
Ritalin isn't behaviour adjusting - it's thought adjusting. I'm not "normal" aside from my ADD, but I guess for some people actually being able to think coherently could be a nasty experience. People on slashdot often complain about "idiots" with mercurial emotions and attention spans like alcoholized chimps - turning around and saying that "fixing" people's brains so that they can actually contemplate things more complicated than who's most bitchy on american idol (My little kid has gotten so serious and introverted recently, the drugs are turning him into a zombie!) is extremely hypocritical.
You're full of it. Methylphenidate does nothing to rob you of creativity - have you actually tried it? It does "clear your head", but you can still access your creativity - it just that you're not up to your neck in mental refuse. Why learn to swim in a septic tank, when you could simply drain it?