in fact, the very first computer language interpreter ever was a Lisp interpreter, written in a Lisp-like language as something of a mathematical exercise, by John McCarthy around 1958
Close, but no cigar. The first Lisp interpreter was written in Lisp. Before that, humans used to take Lisp code and convert it into machine code. Then McCarthy put out an exercise for his students to write a Lisp interpreter in Lisp itself. Then, one of the "human compilers" compiled this piece of Lisp code, and voila! You now had the ability to compile Lisp code.
donating the money to support the victims of the 911 attacks? Or, donate money to charities that are helping the children in Afghanistan?
Just a thought....
I trust the US government will not even consider using a nuclear device. That would make them far worse than the terrorists thay are after.
Most of these guys are holed up in caves which were built with US funding to withstand Soviet carpet bombing, and everything under a nuke.
So, the only way to flush them out might be tactical nukes on these hardened shelters.
It's time for Sheriff Uncle Sam to get some fucking serious about destroying the terrorist groups and those who
support them
The problem is, there are many in the US establishment who have supported such people in the past.
The US has a history of creating a monster to destroy another, only to end up with their creation becoming a bigger pain in the ass.
For example: Saddam Hussein. Was propped up by the US to fight Iran. Today, is a much bigger problem than Iran.
Another example: Taliban. Yes, the same Taliban who are harboring Osama Bin Laden today. They were created by the CIA and the Pakistani Intelligence to fight the Soviets. The Soviets are gone, but the Taliban are the main enemy now.
I could go on.
The US has often turned a blind eye to such criminals, because in the short term these guys were helping take out some other bad guys.
Take the state of Pakistan. If you look at the geography of Afghanistan, you will realise that the only way in/out of Afghanistan is through Pakistan. If tomorrow the Pakistanis were to stop supplying the Taliban with oil, money, weapons, food, etc. then the Taliban would roll over in no time. But the Pakistani military is all cosy with the Taliban, and doesn't want to sour the friendship (not to mention the heroin trade).
If you want to take out this scourge, you have to take out all of the roots also. This includes taking out the supporters of Bin Laden, like Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The above and a slew of other posts assume that this is some form of Islamic attack, likely under Bin Laden. I have heard no evidence to this effect.
Maybe because you haven't been listening? The intelligence agencies have intercepted messages from some in the Al-Qaeda organization (OBL's gang) reporting success. Given the modus operandi, it is very likely that OBL was behind this.
Of course the Taleban will "condemn" this. The people who are to blame for this incident are (in order of responsibility):
Osama Bin Laden: only he has the kind of terrorist muscle to pull such a stunt off
Taleban "Government": by harboring OBL, they are protecting him and his ilk
Government of Pakistan: they keep Taleban in power; they circumvent UN resolutions and keep pumping arms and money into Afghanistan
The US should bomb the Taleban beyond the stone age (they are already in the stone age there). Next, the US should arrest and try the dictator of Pakistan, General Musharraf, for the Taleban are his brainchild.
If the chip makers were serious, they would start helping Linux out today. Case in point: gcc. Why don't the chip makers hand over their internal compilers to the GCC developers, so that GCC can produce optimal code for their processor? The SPEC marks for Intel CPUs are always achieved on some internal Intel compiler, that is sometimes available as a module for MSVC++. Why not release the same for Linux? I know Intel is working on it now, but what took them so long? And the same applies to AMD.
Amazingly, astonishingly, this is not true. It is one of the wonders of human history, and perhaps more than a little accidental, but the United States (in
theory) recognizes the freedoms of humanity regardless of nationality.
Amazingly, astonishingly, your statement is not true.
Case in point: 100s of illegal aliens are in jail in the US beyond their jail time (for the crimes they committed) because their own governments won't take them back. (Of course, no government wants to take in hardened graduates of the US penal system)
Case in point: an American citizen can not be convicted based on secret evidence. But non-citizens can and have been convicted.
Do they install a local proxy and filter the pages before they reach the browser?
Or are these plugins in IE, and mess up the pages after its been loaded?
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The "MSG" string used in the URL above looks familiar. The number after the "MSG" is actually the time when the message was received, in the Unix standard "number of non-leap seconds since 01/01/1970" format.
So, if you know roughly when your target got an email message, your search is significantly narrowed.
Ob. disclaimer: the above information if for informational purposes only:-):-)
Just saw this on Wired (scroll to "Franve v. Yahoo") section. Basically, American business organizations (like the US Chamber of Commerce) are jumping to the defence of Yahoo, which is being sued in France. They've filed an amicus brief; here's a quote:
"The uniquely global nature of the Internet makes the hazard of inconsistent laws and regulations particularly threatening to American individuals, organizations and companies," the brief says.
Remember, a good encryption algorithm will render its output indistinguishable from random bits. So, his techniques will work only as long as the data is not encrypted. Once the baddies(?) start encrypting data and putting it in there, he won't be able to detect the presence using statistical techniques.
I know, there's the problem of key distribution. But you could include the key itself as plain text in the first x number of bytes of your payload, followed by the actual data encrypted using DES/AES/TwoFish. Unless the decoder knows the length and the location of the key (something you can decide on beforehand), s/he won't be able to decode it.
If I were this Dutch "hacker", I would have posted anonymously the technique to Slashdot, along with a digital signature that would have, at a later date, identified it as being mine if I wanted to reveal myself.
Information yearns to be free.
Most of the advantages being quoted are "ease of use", "rapid development", etc. Fine. But what about runtime? How does Ruby compare with Perl in running efficiency? Are there any benchmarks out there?
OK, who can write a perl CGI script that will, on connection from an infected host, send the appropriate commands to root.exe; download the tool; and run it?
For extra credit: reboot twice, as Micro$oft recommends.
For a straight A: fix the problem forever by replacing NT with Linux...
Say from California to New York. . . . When a packet arrives at a MPLS router (head end router) in New York the router encapsulates it...... Finally the router at the end of the LSP (in New York in our example) removes the MPLS encapsulation
This MPLS thing looks impressive: it can send packets safely from New York to New York without getting mugged. Where can I get one?
I think the idea is to make an attemp at "meta-learning". In all of the games that you've mentioned, the programmer knows the rules in advance, and the challenge is to see how best to build a system that navigates through those rules. In this contest, the idea is to see how you can capture the "programmers' thinking".
It is a crime in many middle-eastern countries to view/possess pornography. Many "luminaries" of the US tech industry have a hand in the creation of the WWW; people like Andreessen, Gates, Vint Cerf, etc. Any prosecuter in those countries can claim that their products are breaking the law in their country and arrest them. How would the US feel in that case?
Secondly: how come it is legal to sell guns, which kill thousands of people per year? Easy: the NRA says that guns don't kill people, people do. Similarly, Sklyarov's programs don't by themselves break any copyright laws, people who use these programs do.
Maybe we should enlist the NRA's help in this case...
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in fact, the very first computer language interpreter ever was a Lisp interpreter, written in a Lisp-like language as something of a mathematical exercise, by John McCarthy around 1958
Close, but no cigar. The first Lisp interpreter was written in Lisp. Before that, humans used to take Lisp code and convert it into machine code. Then McCarthy put out an exercise for his students to write a Lisp interpreter in Lisp itself. Then, one of the "human compilers" compiled this piece of Lisp code, and voila! You now had the ability to compile Lisp code.
donating the money to support the victims of the 911 attacks? Or, donate money to charities that are helping the children in Afghanistan?
Just a thought....
When can I buy a palmtop with a 640x480 camera and a wireless modem which can be used together?
I trust the US government will not even consider using a nuclear device. That would make them far worse than the terrorists thay are after.
Most of these guys are holed up in caves which were built with US funding to withstand Soviet carpet bombing, and everything under a nuke.
So, the only way to flush them out might be tactical nukes on these hardened shelters.
Where's the source, Luke?
I, for one, don't want to download and run a binary from an unknown site.
It's time for Sheriff Uncle Sam to get some fucking serious about destroying the terrorist groups and those who
support them
The problem is, there are many in the US establishment who have supported such people in the past.
The US has a history of creating a monster to destroy another, only to end up with their creation becoming a bigger pain in the ass.
For example: Saddam Hussein. Was propped up by the US to fight Iran. Today, is a much bigger problem than Iran.
Another example: Taliban. Yes, the same Taliban who are harboring Osama Bin Laden today. They were created by the CIA and the Pakistani Intelligence to fight the Soviets. The Soviets are gone, but the Taliban are the main enemy now.
I could go on.
The US has often turned a blind eye to such criminals, because in the short term these guys were helping take out some other bad guys.
Take the state of Pakistan. If you look at the geography of Afghanistan, you will realise that the only way in/out of Afghanistan is through Pakistan. If tomorrow the Pakistanis were to stop supplying the Taliban with oil, money, weapons, food, etc. then the Taliban would roll over in no time. But the Pakistani military is all cosy with the Taliban, and doesn't want to sour the friendship (not to mention the heroin trade).
If you want to take out this scourge, you have to take out all of the roots also. This includes taking out the supporters of Bin Laden, like Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The above and a slew of other posts assume that this is some form of Islamic attack, likely under Bin Laden. I have heard no evidence to this effect.
Maybe because you haven't been listening? The intelligence agencies have intercepted messages from some in the Al-Qaeda organization (OBL's gang) reporting success. Given the modus operandi, it is very likely that OBL was behind this.
The US should bomb the Taleban beyond the stone age (they are already in the stone age there). Next, the US should arrest and try the dictator of Pakistan, General Musharraf, for the Taleban are his brainchild.
If the chip makers were serious, they would start helping Linux out today. Case in point: gcc. Why don't the chip makers hand over their internal compilers to the GCC developers, so that GCC can produce optimal code for their processor? The SPEC marks for Intel CPUs are always achieved on some internal Intel compiler, that is sometimes available as a module for MSVC++. Why not release the same for Linux? I know Intel is working on it now, but what took them so long? And the same applies to AMD.
Amazingly, astonishingly, this is not true. It is one of the wonders of human history, and perhaps more than a little accidental, but the United States (in theory) recognizes the freedoms of humanity regardless of nationality.
Amazingly, astonishingly, your statement is not true.
Case in point: 100s of illegal aliens are in jail in the US beyond their jail time (for the crimes they committed) because their own governments won't take them back. (Of course, no government wants to take in hardened graduates of the US penal system)
Case in point: an American citizen can not be convicted based on secret evidence. But non-citizens can and have been convicted.
Do they install a local proxy and filter the pages before they reach the browser?
Or are these plugins in IE, and mess up the pages after its been loaded?
The "MSG" string used in the URL above looks familiar. The number after the "MSG" is actually the time when the message was received, in the Unix standard "number of non-leap seconds since 01/01/1970" format. :-) :-)
So, if you know roughly when your target got an email message, your search is significantly narrowed.
Ob. disclaimer: the above information if for informational purposes only
Maybe the Debian/HURD project will bear fruit, but as far as I know, HURD is still one of those 'research exercises'.
:-)
You mean, GNU/Debian/HURD now, don't you?
If Bill Gates can grab DOS and call it MS-DOS, why can't RMS grab Linux and call it GNU/Linux?
It's been done before.
I bet Sklyarov would agree!
Remember, a good encryption algorithm will render its output indistinguishable from random bits. So, his techniques will work only as long as the data is not encrypted. Once the baddies(?) start encrypting data and putting it in there, he won't be able to detect the presence using statistical techniques.
I know, there's the problem of key distribution. But you could include the key itself as plain text in the first x number of bytes of your payload, followed by the actual data encrypted using DES/AES/TwoFish. Unless the decoder knows the length and the location of the key (something you can decide on beforehand), s/he won't be able to decode it.
If I were this Dutch "hacker", I would have posted anonymously the technique to Slashdot, along with a digital signature that would have, at a later date, identified it as being mine if I wanted to reveal myself.
Information yearns to be free.
If JXTA is a P2p "framework", what stopping someone from writing a Gnutella client using JXTA? Or am I missing something?
Most of the advantages being quoted are "ease of use", "rapid development", etc. Fine. But what about runtime? How does Ruby compare with Perl in running efficiency? Are there any benchmarks out there?
OK, who can write a perl CGI script that will, on connection from an infected host, send the appropriate commands to root.exe; download the tool; and run it?
For extra credit: reboot twice, as Micro$oft recommends.
For a straight A: fix the problem forever by replacing NT with Linux...
If my washer talked to my clothes, it would promptly shut the door and lock itself in...
Say from California to New York. . . . When a packet arrives at a MPLS router (head end router) in New York the router encapsulates it...... Finally the router at the end of the LSP (in New York in our example) removes the MPLS encapsulation
This MPLS thing looks impressive: it can send packets safely from New York to New York without getting mugged. Where can I get one?
MPLS is not ISO layer >= 3 but it is a "layer 2.5" technology.
Dude, " >= 3" is the same as " > 2"; and "2.5 > 2" also. You are nitpicking here.
I think the idea is to make an attemp at "meta-learning". In all of the games that you've mentioned, the programmer knows the rules in advance, and the challenge is to see how best to build a system that navigates through those rules. In this contest, the idea is to see how you can capture the "programmers' thinking".
It is a crime in many middle-eastern countries to view/possess pornography. Many "luminaries" of the US tech industry have a hand in the creation of the WWW; people like Andreessen, Gates, Vint Cerf, etc. Any prosecuter in those countries can claim that their products are breaking the law in their country and arrest them. How would the US feel in that case?
Secondly: how come it is legal to sell guns, which kill thousands of people per year? Easy: the NRA says that guns don't kill people, people do. Similarly, Sklyarov's programs don't by themselves break any copyright laws, people who use these programs do.
Maybe we should enlist the NRA's help in this case...