Manufacturers produce the fastest disks on the planet on SCSI interfaces only
Actually, SSA is rated at 180Mbps, whilst SCSI 3 is 160Mbps. Technically, the fastest drives are RAM drives. DATARAM used to make boxes (8 or 12 U, as I remember) of nothing but static ram. Blazing speed, sky high prices.
I don't worry about moderation anymore. I post to/. not for karma, but because I wish to join in discussions. Like anything else, someone somewhere is going to misinterpert or just plain disagree with an idea.
My office was hit with 1300 of them yesterday, and over 400 were from the same RR customer.
We blocked the RR account, even though we have an e-mail virus scanner, because of the number of connections this virus infected computer was consuming.
Over all, we've identified over 15,000 virus infected e-mails on an average traffic of 11,500 per day. This doesn't count the 70 or so mutations that our scanner did not catch in a two day period. Turned out the broken mime header prevented effective scanning of the attachment.
Can I send the bill for 14 techs to MicroCrap for this?
I've been somewhat ignored when I keep bringing up physical security. I keep pointing out the problems and weak areas of our plant, and nothing is done. I point out the insecurity of our security, but proceedures don't change. I keep pointing out that if you can put your hands on the server, all the fancy firewalls and IDS systems in the world won't keep people out of the server, or keep the server up.
Despite this, all the cool technocrap that comes along gets sent to me and other for review, but the simple things like removing windows, chaning some alarm proceedures, and making entry into the server farm a two token process never get addressed. Instead, they keep pushing the flash stuff, and never do anything about the simple things.
I'll print out the story, and maybe, just possibilly, someone will see that physical security is slightly more important than we've been treating it to date.
And interesting to see if more of them are programmed correctly than the traditional firewalls. Some traditional firewalls leak a bit. Something I find interesting is to see how many web servers are inside a firewall vs. outside. Since many attacks are focused on port 80, putting a web server inside (or in a DMZ) may be counterproductive. Depends on the layout.
"It is not the Chinese government's policy to disrupt the computer system of any other country," said Larry Wu, an official in the embassy's science and technology section.
No need to see your ID. This is not the Viagra spam you are looking for.:P
I find it interesting that others have back brain gibber like this. Maybe I'm not nuts. Hitting the trifecta indeed. Just hapenstance. Not planned at all.
Riiiiiighhhhtt.
The number of "computer people" needed will be falling dramatically over the next decade
Hmm. I still remember hearing fifteen-eighteen years ago that in five years programmers would no longer be needed, the user would be able to do all the programming by using a "smart" program generator in an "interview" process.
Well, I don't see programs being written by programs very often, and there are still quite a few programmers around. Even many with (whisper it) jobs. Powerful systems are flexable systems, and flexable systems are not simple. There will always be a growing need for "computer people". We can argue the curve, but it will always increase, not decrease, and the job will get harder, not easier. Just my.02 worth.
In the US and most other western countries, you have the legal right to copy portions of copywrited work for certain purposes.
nitpick: it's copyright, not copywrite
Your rights to copy are not limited, but you must not profit by such a copy. In other words, I can copy the whole work, as long as I don't use it (or don't use the original) and don't loan it out.
Since the process of getting around this is "circumventing a encryption device", I could get prosecuited under 1201 of the DMCA for telling you the easy way around this problem. I do wonder what the "LINE IN" jack on the audio card and the "LINE OUT" of the player is for...
Went in at 7am on Sat, got out 2AM on Sunday. If you are playing games at work, I really, really hate you. The closest I come is checking/., el Reg, and a few others. Normally to see if there are any new virii that haven't hit CERT yet.
Instead they create a license designed to make the competitor incompatible, by legal fiat.
Just as an aside to your comment, (which I whole heartedly agree), if I ever get busted for something, I want to be treated like M$: I want to be able to meet with the prosecutor and tell them what punishment I'd like.
Now that everyone is freaking over the license, can I ask a really stupid question? Can't we tackle this from the other way around? For instance, write a client for Windows to use Unix, instead of writing a Unix program to work with Windows built in clients? Or am I being really stupid?
No matter how deep RIAA and MPAA pockets are, no matter how many judges and elected officials they own, no matter how they try, there is one simple thing we can do to stop this.
Don't buy it.
Turn off cable, DirecTV, XFM. Don't rent tapes/DVDs. Don't buy CD's. Trade around amoung your friends if you feel the need.
Remember, Intellectual Property isn't like paying rent, or eating. You can live without if for a while. I flat gar-en-tee that if you and two of your friends were to stop buying IP for even a month, Jack and Hillery would sing a very different tune.
Why don't we have the great Intellectual Property Black out? Why not pick a month, say one where all the new movies come out, and just turn off cable, direcTV and XFM, don't buy CD's, rent any tapes, or buy any kind of IP?
Look, we can do something. Insted of being arrested (like in the 60's) we can protest by keeping our hard earned in our pocket. If you slip, buy an indulgance from EFF with a like donation, or even just 10% of what you gave to Jack and Hillery to rip off your rights. Invest in a little to keep 'em.
No, what'll happen is that the whiners don't want to do anything at all about it but sit in their pitty pot and expect someone else to protect their rights. Grow up. It's time you did something to protect your rights for yourself.
The letter clearly shows the Verisign trade mark.
If I got one of these, I'd know right off what was going on. If I didn't know what was up, then I shouldn't be the domain contact because I'm too clueless.
People that have domain names should be somewhat cluefull, or have a consultant that is. I do think that Verisign is gonna get it's little fingies wacked over this. I hope that it's a very firm, costly wack for them.
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It seems that some fscking idiot on one of the IPs in CA (my server is in MN) spammed and spews will BH all class C's of the owner no matter where.
Look at the assignments from Road Runner vs. SW Bell. Bell lists the individual blocks assigned, Road Runner doesn't. How the heck can I effectivly block a spammer, when I don't know his netblock assignments? I can guess, assuming I have time. I really don't have time.
OTOH, I'd be a bit red in the face if I was lumped in with spammers too.
From a previous post about spam, we are now blocking all 202, 203, 210, 211 IP ranges, and most of 218 too. 200.128 - 200.255 is next.
Actually, I have ISDN, which I WAS going to throw out in favor of Cable. Now I won't, or if I do, it will cost an extra $15.00 a month for EFF (I'd already ordered a/30). I'll put my money where my mouth is, if I deal with the Cable Empire. And yes, you can get data without a TV signal in my area for 150.00 a month.
From the bnetd.org site:
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This site has been disabled as requested by Blizzard Entertainment and it will remain closed as we have no legal recourse other than to fight a long protracted lawsuit against a large corporation. This is due to 17 USC Section 512(c)(1)(C) (AKA DMCA, supposedly required to be passed by WIPO treaties). Blizzard claims bnetd is in violation of 17 USC Section 1201(b), though we do not agree with their interpretation. Blizzard refused to specify a specific list of files on this site so the whole thing must be blocked. We are very sorry for the inconvenience but there is nothing we can do.
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Enjoy your victory. I will never again by any product from Vivendi Universal, including games, music, software or television signals. I've canceled my Cable and DTV.
I intend to make my position clear to my elected officials that my support for their campaign will be subject to a simple litmus test: The DMCA has got to go.
Yes, Vivendi Universal deserves compensation for works they license from artists. Yes, the artist needs to be paid. No, you don't get to run roughshod over every one in the world in the name of "Intellectual Property". The above example and the fact you did not state the files in question clearly indicate that you have no intention whatever of honestly challenging the content provided, and do not wish to honestly engage in protecting your legitimate interests. This was, in my opinion, strictly a move to shutdown speech you do not like.
Since this asinine behavior doesn't seem to be limited to Vivendi Universal, I am boycotting all MPAA/RIAA members. Those that can create are few. Those that wish to push off substandard swill and non-confrontational news reporting on a dumbed down populace can watch my tiny trickle of revenue go to other pursuits. I'm voting with my feet and pocketbook. I'm sure you will never miss my tiny trickle of money. It is my hope that with this public letter, others will decide as I have and vote with their feet. May that tiny trickle turn into a tsunami of adverse public opinion and bury you.
I am challenging my peers to a very simple action: For every dollar they spend on an MPAA or RIAA member's products, donate ten cents to The Electronic Frontier Foundation, join EFF as a dues paying member, and in addition, find one member of the general public each month and explain just how Sony, AOL/TIME WARNER/CNN, Vivendi, and the other MPAA/RIAA members are eroding the rights and privileges of a free society. I urge all to check www.opensecrets.org and see just how much money lobbyist spend to further the causes of the giant IP owners, who gets that money, and call the official on it and make them accountable to those that cast the votes, not those that cast the dollars.
I sincerely hope that MPAA/RIAA members will re-think their position on the DMCA, and come to realize that the Nazi Copyright Police have no place in a community that wishes to further the free exchange of ideas, and to do otherwise is un-American, anti-freedom, shameful and dishonest.
And that is the bad part. I've a few folks I'd like to hear from, but if they are in RR ip space, then I'll have to 1) ignore them or 2) set up the ACL's to allow them.
1) isn't a great answer to the problem
2) is a pain in the neck.
Do I really want to block half the world? Not if I was getting mail that I wanted to keep. But really, I don't want to see HOT TEEN SEX!!!! or the like. Really, I don't. (At least, not at work.) Since this constitues about 1200 e-mails a day over about 7000 boxes, that is a signifigant signal to noise ratio. I'm looking to improve it. (And since 90% goes to the same boxes, and the big wheels boxes at that, I'm motivated!)
I turned in a complaint to hinet.cn, I think it was, about a system with Code Red banging away at one of my web servers. I included a snip of the web server log, along with a note that my servers are NTP sync'ed.
The response was "without full e-mail headers, we can't do anything."
Hmmm. It's not e-mail.
I am discussing with my employer the option of blocking all 202/8 203/8 210/8 211/8, all of Road Runner but the MX'es, *.cn, *.tw, *.ru, *.pl, and *.mx domains too. I don't know the ip range assigned to the domains, so if you do, post a follow up! (I have Road Runner netblocks, there are just too many to put them here.)
Since only a moron would want to be a telemarketer
Since he didn't say if it was inbound or outbound TM, you might be premature on that rant. Sure, outbound (where they call you) sucks, but what's wrong with inbound (where you call them)?
As for being a moron if he was going for an outbound job, let me say that if it comes down to feeding my family or not, I'm going to feed them. If this means I have to take an outbound TM job, well, I'll just have to do it.
As much as I hate the Telemarketing business model, remember that the person on the other end of the phone (99 times out of 100) is just trying to make an honest living. I'm (mostly) polite to the TM's that call, and ask to be put on the "do not call" list. That works, except for some chairities that won't leave you alone until you are dead 5 years.
The long and the short of it is -- lighten up, 'cause life's too short to blow a fuse over a phone call.
Or simply configure your MTA to reject hotmail.com, with a message to get a Yahoo account to mail your domain. That'd work too.
Of course, MS will scream if you are a moderate to large ISP.
Seems I read that Michael Powell was the son of Colin, the Sec. of State. That's for what it's worth.
Now, to defuse the right/left thread here, according to Open Secrets the telco equipment and services companies gave more money to the left than the right, so on the face of it blaiming Michael Powell for repaying political contributions might be just a bit, far fetched. Then again, the telcos DID give a bunch of money to the right, more than to the left.
The problem is that the FCC deals with so many different facets of the internet it's hard to really tell anything. I mean, Electronic/Communications industries gave more than 343,000,000.00 US dollars since 1990. That includes such players as SBC, Microsoft, Global Crossing, and more.
My head hurts. All I know is that there is too much money from business going to political coffers to let me be comfortable. So, I didn't defuse anything here. Made myself think for once...
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Actually, SSA is rated at 180Mbps, whilst SCSI 3 is 160Mbps. Technically, the fastest drives are RAM drives. DATARAM used to make boxes (8 or 12 U, as I remember) of nothing but static ram. Blazing speed, sky high prices.
OK, I'm nit picking here.
I don't worry about moderation anymore. I post to /. not for karma, but because I wish to join in discussions. Like anything else, someone somewhere is going to misinterpert or just plain disagree with an idea.
Over all, we've identified over 15,000 virus infected e-mails on an average traffic of 11,500 per day. This doesn't count the 70 or so mutations that our scanner did not catch in a two day period. Turned out the broken mime header prevented effective scanning of the attachment.
Can I send the bill for 14 techs to MicroCrap for this?
Despite this, all the cool technocrap that comes along gets sent to me and other for review, but the simple things like removing windows, chaning some alarm proceedures, and making entry into the server farm a two token process never get addressed. Instead, they keep pushing the flash stuff, and never do anything about the simple things.
I'll print out the story, and maybe, just possibilly, someone will see that physical security is slightly more important than we've been treating it to date.
If Ms. Rosen wants to punish those that dimisish the valuse of IP, she should start at home. ;P
And interesting to see if more of them are programmed correctly than the traditional firewalls. Some traditional firewalls leak a bit. Something I find interesting is to see how many web servers are inside a firewall vs. outside. Since many attacks are focused on port 80, putting a web server inside (or in a DMZ) may be counterproductive. Depends on the layout.
No need to see your ID. This is not the Viagra spam you are looking for.:P
I find it interesting that others have back brain gibber like this. Maybe I'm not nuts. Hitting the trifecta indeed. Just hapenstance. Not planned at all.
Riiiiiighhhhtt.
Hmm. I still remember hearing fifteen-eighteen years ago that in five years programmers would no longer be needed, the user would be able to do all the programming by using a "smart" program generator in an "interview" process.
Well, I don't see programs being written by programs very often, and there are still quite a few programmers around. Even many with (whisper it) jobs. Powerful systems are flexable systems, and flexable systems are not simple. There will always be a growing need for "computer people". We can argue the curve, but it will always increase, not decrease, and the job will get harder, not easier. Just my .02 worth.
nitpick: it's copyright, not copywrite
Your rights to copy are not limited, but you must not profit by such a copy. In other words, I can copy the whole work, as long as I don't use it (or don't use the original) and don't loan it out.
IANAL
Since the process of getting around this is "circumventing a encryption device", I could get prosecuited under 1201 of the DMCA for telling you the easy way around this problem. I do wonder what the "LINE IN" jack on the audio card and the "LINE OUT" of the player is for...
Just my back brain gibber...
Just as an aside to your comment, (which I whole heartedly agree), if I ever get busted for something, I want to be treated like M$: I want to be able to meet with the prosecutor and tell them what punishment I'd like.
Now that everyone is freaking over the license, can I ask a really stupid question? Can't we tackle this from the other way around? For instance, write a client for Windows to use Unix, instead of writing a Unix program to work with Windows built in clients? Or am I being really stupid?
Don't buy it.
Turn off cable, DirecTV, XFM. Don't rent tapes/DVDs. Don't buy CD's. Trade around amoung your friends if you feel the need.
Remember, Intellectual Property isn't like paying rent, or eating. You can live without if for a while. I flat gar-en-tee that if you and two of your friends were to stop buying IP for even a month, Jack and Hillery would sing a very different tune.
Why don't we have the great Intellectual Property Black out? Why not pick a month, say one where all the new movies come out, and just turn off cable, direcTV and XFM, don't buy CD's, rent any tapes, or buy any kind of IP?
Look, we can do something. Insted of being arrested (like in the 60's) we can protest by keeping our hard earned in our pocket. If you slip, buy an indulgance from EFF with a like donation, or even just 10% of what you gave to Jack and Hillery to rip off your rights. Invest in a little to keep 'em.
No, what'll happen is that the whiners don't want to do anything at all about it but sit in their pitty pot and expect someone else to protect their rights. Grow up. It's time you did something to protect your rights for yourself.
People that have domain names should be somewhat cluefull, or have a consultant that is. I do think that Verisign is gonna get it's little fingies wacked over this. I hope that it's a very firm, costly wack for them.
Look at the assignments from Road Runner vs. SW Bell. Bell lists the individual blocks assigned, Road Runner doesn't. How the heck can I effectivly block a spammer, when I don't know his netblock assignments? I can guess, assuming I have time. I really don't have time.
OTOH, I'd be a bit red in the face if I was lumped in with spammers too.
From a previous post about spam, we are now blocking all 202, 203, 210, 211 IP ranges, and most of 218 too. 200.128 - 200.255 is next.
Also, I think ICANN is a California Non-profit. As such, it's records are also public record to some extext, are they not? IANAL.
Actually, I have ISDN, which I WAS going to throw out in favor of Cable. Now I won't, or if I do, it will cost an extra $15.00 a month for EFF (I'd already ordered a /30). I'll put my money where my mouth is, if I deal with the Cable Empire. And yes, you can get data without a TV signal in my area for 150.00 a month.
DTV for the chans. with one iota of IQ, cable for local stuff, public access, and the like.
===>QUOTE
This site has been disabled as requested by Blizzard Entertainment and it will remain closed as we have no legal recourse other than to fight a long protracted lawsuit against a large corporation. This is due to 17 USC Section 512(c)(1)(C) (AKA DMCA, supposedly required to be passed by WIPO treaties). Blizzard claims bnetd is in violation of 17 USC Section 1201(b), though we do not agree with their interpretation. Blizzard refused to specify a specific list of files on this site so the whole thing must be blocked. We are very sorry for the inconvenience but there is nothing we can do.
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Enjoy your victory. I will never again by any product from Vivendi Universal, including games, music, software or television signals. I've canceled my Cable and DTV.
I intend to make my position clear to my elected officials that my support for their campaign will be subject to a simple litmus test: The DMCA has got to go.
Yes, Vivendi Universal deserves compensation for works they license from artists. Yes, the artist needs to be paid. No, you don't get to run roughshod over every one in the world in the name of "Intellectual Property". The above example and the fact you did not state the files in question clearly indicate that you have no intention whatever of honestly challenging the content provided, and do not wish to honestly engage in protecting your legitimate interests. This was, in my opinion, strictly a move to shutdown speech you do not like.
Since this asinine behavior doesn't seem to be limited to Vivendi Universal, I am boycotting all MPAA/RIAA members. Those that can create are few. Those that wish to push off substandard swill and non-confrontational news reporting on a dumbed down populace can watch my tiny trickle of revenue go to other pursuits. I'm voting with my feet and pocketbook. I'm sure you will never miss my tiny trickle of money. It is my hope that with this public letter, others will decide as I have and vote with their feet. May that tiny trickle turn into a tsunami of adverse public opinion and bury you.
I am challenging my peers to a very simple action: For every dollar they spend on an MPAA or RIAA member's products, donate ten cents to The Electronic Frontier Foundation, join EFF as a dues paying member, and in addition, find one member of the general public each month and explain just how Sony, AOL/TIME WARNER/CNN, Vivendi, and the other MPAA/RIAA members are eroding the rights and privileges of a free society. I urge all to check www.opensecrets.org and see just how much money lobbyist spend to further the causes of the giant IP owners, who gets that money, and call the official on it and make them accountable to those that cast the votes, not those that cast the dollars.
I sincerely hope that MPAA/RIAA members will re-think their position on the DMCA, and come to realize that the Nazi Copyright Police have no place in a community that wishes to further the free exchange of ideas, and to do otherwise is un-American, anti-freedom, shameful and dishonest.
1) isn't a great answer to the problem
2) is a pain in the neck.
Do I really want to block half the world? Not if I was getting mail that I wanted to keep. But really, I don't want to see HOT TEEN SEX!!!! or the like. Really, I don't. (At least, not at work.) Since this constitues about 1200 e-mails a day over about 7000 boxes, that is a signifigant signal to noise ratio. I'm looking to improve it. (And since 90% goes to the same boxes, and the big wheels boxes at that, I'm motivated!)
The response was "without full e-mail headers, we can't do anything."
Hmmm. It's not e-mail.
I am discussing with my employer the option of blocking all 202/8 203/8 210/8 211/8, all of Road Runner but the MX'es, *.cn, *.tw, *.ru, *.pl, and *.mx domains too. I don't know the ip range assigned to the domains, so if you do, post a follow up! (I have Road Runner netblocks, there are just too many to put them here.)
Since he didn't say if it was inbound or outbound TM, you might be premature on that rant. Sure, outbound (where they call you) sucks, but what's wrong with inbound (where you call them)?
As for being a moron if he was going for an outbound job, let me say that if it comes down to feeding my family or not, I'm going to feed them. If this means I have to take an outbound TM job, well, I'll just have to do it.
As much as I hate the Telemarketing business model, remember that the person on the other end of the phone (99 times out of 100) is just trying to make an honest living. I'm (mostly) polite to the TM's that call, and ask to be put on the "do not call" list. That works, except for some chairities that won't leave you alone until you are dead 5 years.
The long and the short of it is -- lighten up, 'cause life's too short to blow a fuse over a phone call.
Or simply configure your MTA to reject hotmail.com, with a message to get a Yahoo account to mail your domain. That'd work too. Of course, MS will scream if you are a moderate to large ISP.
Now, to defuse the right/left thread here, according to Open Secrets the telco equipment and services companies gave more money to the left than the right, so on the face of it blaiming Michael Powell for repaying political contributions might be just a bit, far fetched. Then again, the telcos DID give a bunch of money to the right, more than to the left.
The problem is that the FCC deals with so many different facets of the internet it's hard to really tell anything. I mean, Electronic/Communications industries gave more than 343,000,000.00 US dollars since 1990. That includes such players as SBC, Microsoft, Global Crossing, and more.
My head hurts. All I know is that there is too much money from business going to political coffers to let me be comfortable. So, I didn't defuse anything here. Made myself think for once...