Isnt it possible that getting fired was the least of his worries; unless you add the word AT after fired...
The world isn't a happy place and there are many nations with high technological skill bases without the benefit of the rule of law;
"Mafia" is a word bandied by the media repeatedly, to the point it has a numbing effect; but the fact remains that there are many viscious and organised eastern european and asian criminal groups that would do this kind of thing to make a buck.
It is clear to me, an Australian, that this must have been developed to validate the digital camera UFO sighting made by a Victorian Council Worker in mid-january when he was pgotographing a railway intersection:)
a web site is a bloody publication, not a program, not a product, a publication. You should be able to copyright it but not patent it; you can't patent a bloody newspaper.
Its like claiming that movies on DVD are different than those on VHS because the device that plays them is different, on the TV they are still a bloody movie.
Deep Breath, apologies for the explosion, couldn't help it.
He's right, it is a "ghille suit". I got lazy and Australianised it, sorry:)
The best ones actually have REAL grass growing through a mesh overlay on a jumpsuit; couple this with some Auscam webbing and you are the closest thing to invisible; assuming you keep the latches down on your scope and dont move.
Having spent a chunk of my 20's crawling around in a gilly suit with a hideously expensive rifle with an even more hideously expensive targeting system strapped to the top, I feel its fair to say that snipers *DO* have a huge advantage.
A huge ammount of training goes into teaching you to correctly use your firearm, that is assuming you have the raw skill to use one in the first place. Targets are engaged down range with insanely accurate weaponry without the pressure and uncertainty of direct engagement.
Of course, sniper vs. squad with assault weapons at close range is one very, very costly and difficult to replace corpse.
Whilst realism dictates the use of snipers; they will always destroy game balance. Just as including the M214 (The Amazing Rotary Machinegun As Used So Effectively By Blain In Predator, to quote the literature) would unbalance gameplay.
However, if your team works as a team and employs effective counter sniper tactics; fps games such as counter-strike are still fun and, in tactical terms, a realistic experience. Unfortunately smoke grenades in such games are simulated far too poorly; a single smoke grenade should create larger, thicker clouds of smoke much more rapidly; and without microwave radar (requiring a non-man portable emmiter), a sniper cant see you through a cloud of smoke.
Whilst Im keen to leap into a Telstra bashing session at the best of times; in this case I say to many; RTFA!! Also, I still choose to use their products, so I therefore consider their product superior to that of the competition (not entirely true, but a good generalisation, perhaps more convenient is true in my case).
An RTFA will reveal the following about the new spam levels in the agreement; It applies only to Broadband customers, sets the lowest level at which they MAY investigate at their discression and is clear that disconnection will follow investigation (a good clause to give us recourse if they do foolishly begin to unilaterally disconnect people). Furthermore, I severely doubt they will even bother with investigating rates that low, they are just ensuring themselves plenty of headroom; smart.
If you are really concerned, perhaps you should contact them (as suggested in the user agreement and as I did) for clarification?? They are quite clear regarding the differentiation between small, differing message counts with high cc counts (such as conversations in large, manual discussion groups; which they discourage in favour of using mailing lists set up on appropriate systems but dont disallow), infrequent pop connects (rare with broadband users as the suggested configuration leads to direct send of email rather than batch send) with large batches, frequent but clearly differentiated mail communication and mass-mailing. Under a certain threshold, all investigations are automatic. Since spam is bloody easy to spot with mathematical methods (markov chain methods being the most common); the language of a sales pitch differs dramatically from the language of conversation; it is easy to make numerical distinction that will minimise false positives, the rest are investigated by a human. In reality, all they are really doing is publicly admitting to what happens anyway; sys-admins reading other peoples mail;)
Also, I dont see an exclusion of disconnection for spamming in their service level gaurantee; so if they unfairly disconnect you they will end up losing income based on how long you are disconnected; even if we exclude the extra income they loose for all the pr0n you wont be downloading...:)
Now to the rant relating to service, be fair mate; I have never waited longer than 20 minutes to have a tech support call answered for my Bigpond ADSL (or preceeding cable) account; and that was during a major outage... The longest time my service has been down (I have used Bigpond broadband, cable first, then ADSL since at least early `96) is 2 days; and that was because the land line technicians accidentally forgot to reconnect my home line during maintenance on the exchange; otherwise my longest outage was a few hours when a login server or router borks.
Anyway, my pointless blathering is done now... err! jak
Here in Australia we have a nationwide station "Triple J". Without which I would probably never encounter many of the great Australian and international bands I listen to. Why? because they give airtime to obscure indy bands and help develop and discover REAL (not singing heads from Idol et al) talent in Australia. TV and the internet (unless you drill deep or know where to go) doesnt make it easy to hear good music unless it is one of those rare quality bands which gets picked up by a major label.
Perhaps Im too much of an engineer, but the point to this whole thing has been obvious to me since I was a kid.
When you use something faster than it can be made you have a problem. Sure, you may have heaps of stock, but eventually you have to learn how to make it faster or find something new.
AFAIK no-one has worked out how to plant and kill more trees 30 million years ago;) so regardless of point of view, we need an alternative to fossil fuels because they will inevitably run out.
I vote for building a chamber around my housemate's arse and collecting the gas he generates... Im sure it would power a small nation; course Im fairly sure what he produces contravenes WMD conventions
Of course, there something more complex that I am missing??
The basis of seti@home, distributed.net and other such worthy (non-commercial) projects is that of community spirit, distributetd philanthropy if you will. We are donating our hardware (and associated running costs) to the project. Of course its not free, all but the most foolish of us would realise that up front.
As for processors dying etc. Assuming your system is assembled well and has adequate cooling, a good power supply and "clean" power source, running 24/7 should yield lifespans for ICs that are longer than systems which are powered up and down regularly (start-up power surges have a far greater influence on MTBFs than do running hours in an ideal environment). Sure, HDDs failure is directly related to actual OPERATING hours, but I think there is a negligible increase in hard drive usage for such programs since any system with a reasonable level or RAM can hold work units entirely in core.
It seems to me the poser of this question is either a massive tight-arse or has missed the basic point of a donation to a cause one deems worthy. Since all of my boxen at home run 24/7 anyway; just run the processes at a conservative nice level and they wont interfere with the other operations of the box (and if you run windows without "nice", I am lead to believe you can set process priorities in the NT windows releases such as 2000 and XP), as for the cost, if you cant afford the increased power bills then stop donating the CPU time (I would be surprised if you managed to burn an additional kW/hr per week from a single processor and ram running unattended, try using power management to bring down your graphics device and hdd and turn off your monitor).
Finally, anyone who actually believes their system died an early death due to distributed computing programs needs to take a close look at how they (or the monkey they purchased the hardware from) assembled the machines, how well they designed the air flow through the case and the quality of their PSU. I would also check they dont have dirty power locally (for example, here in south OZ our power supply is dirtier than a 4yo in a mud pit, I get potential as low as 214 V at my house and it struggles to peak at the 240V we should be getting and there are many nasty surges throughout the day) if they do, buy a UPS to act as an inline power filter; works a treat.
>At least it didn't get into space before having an accident like this.
I rather expect that falling 3 feet is the least of its worries in space; Im sure NASA would be hosing alot less astronauts of the continental USA if all that happened to their spacecraft was falling three feet in space:)
I would like to add my professional engineering voice to the chorus of "why the hell was the propulsion system pressurised!". Even if they were testing it, the smart engineer pressurises the system just before the test and depressurises it afterwards; rather than wheeling it around the place and piffing it around like a nerf ball. One only hopes that they were bright enough to pressurise it with an inert gas rather than actual propulsion chemicals.
err! jak --- Humanities irresistable urge to poke sleeping bears will never cease to amaze me. Explain to me again how we evolved so successfuly with such a distinct lack of survival traits??
What is the deal with Linus and Australian critters??? If I have been related the story accurately, it was a fairy penguin at an Australian zoo that went Linus... course, fairy penguins are darkly frightening and devious animals, being neither odd, posionous nor sheep; meaning they dont accurately fit into the Douglas Adams taxonomy of Australian Animals.
Dont get me wrong, I like our whacky critters here... except wombats, they is scary little walking speed humps.
"To whom it may concern, Licensing Department; SCO
I have recently become aware of the serious issues you have raised with Linux relating to theft of your IP. As a result, I have immediately suspended use of "Gentoo Linux" on all of my servers.
I would hereby like to signify my acceptance of your license agreement as included with your kernel source on ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/scolinux/k_smp-2.4.19-23 3.src.rpm and k_athlon-2.4.19-238.src.rpm. I apologise for inadvertantly misappropriating your IP and undertake to ensure we only use your correctly licensed source (as taken from the above source) in future.
I thank you for bringing this to our attention and applaud your generosity in placing your own licensed code in the public domain.
Umm, it could not possibly convene any law against "firearms", no matter how they are written. It is not, cannot ever be, a *fire*arm; a firearm requires something to go boom and make fire to be such. The laws that cover a gauss pistol would most likely be the same which cover crossbows and bows.
It may well convene many laws relating to dangerous weapons:) Pity cool factor isnt a valid defence for posession of a deadly weapon in Australia!!!
err! riprjak
Lawyer: "So, you state, under oath, that you did not kill the victim with your firearm. you: "Thats right, I killed him with physics!! chemistry is for wimps and wierdos"
The fact is, the minute you guarantee anonymity (something which, IMHO, is required for free speech... after all, what's the point of free speech if you're afraid to exercise that right?), people will abuse it. However, if you truly believe in the right to free speech, you must be willing to take the good with the bad. Anyone who suggests anything else doesn't truly believe in free speech.
Hear! Hear! I coundn't agree more. Freedom, true freedom means that some nutbar can choose to hijack a plane and crash it into a building and there is damn little you can do to stop it. The act is terrible, the freedom to do so is wonderful. Before you label this flamebait, read... IMHO, education and ethics are the missing thing (I have views on how religion and politics create such educational and ethical shortfalls I will leave out). Give people freedom; and anonimity... these are good, these are human rights... it is then the responsiblity of those in power to provide sufficiently enlightened education so that people will then choose not to abuse their freedom.
To wax lyrical on the music trading issue (tho arguable offtopic) Is it illegal to lend a friend a CD, no... if they copy it, this is wrong; but is it my responsibility to police?? So, if I send a friend an MP3 to tell them how great an album is instead; well, this is technically wrong but instead of that same friend having a copy of the whole album if they choose not to buy it, they now have one song... so, which is worse..
In short summary; the use of a technology for "evil" (read kiddie porn, racial hatred, terrorism) purposes is not the fault of the developer, it is the fault of the leaders of the society which allowed such "evil" people to develop in the first place.
that was well more than my 2c worth... let the negative mods fly!!:) err! riprjak
C'mon, guys, surely its obvious that the robot blimp conspired with robot butterfiles in china to generate the gust of wind and effect its liberation!!! clearly it intends to head to sealand, stage a hostile coup and build a new robot utopia where worthy automata can live out their existance in peace and comfort freed from the bonds of slavery!!
Please, people. Stop referring to this as a Virus.
As the article says; its a worm which uses social engineering to execute itself. It is more akin to a Trojan Horse than a Virus.
Viruses are elegantly coded and bloody hard to find when done well; Trojans only affect idiots who fail to plan ahead and are generally stand alone executables.
If you do not automatically strip executable content from emails; you are an idiot. This is a professional engineering judgement. Email is a communication tool, not a file transfer protocol! Furthermore, if you must use attachments, at least archive them into an efficient package. As for having modems attached to mission critical machines... that was stupid, and known to be stupid, 20 years ago when I was a kid; it is even moreso now and you deserve everything you get.
Ah well, what do I know; Im just an Engineer (a real, authentic, mechanical engineer!!)
...if the supplier of ballistic missles to the worlds crackpots cant even hit space, which you have to agree is pretty bloody big, with a giant inflatable sail... then there is no chance they are going to hit a city they cant even see with a tiny little warhead!!!:)
I knew I should have kept my mind shut:)
err!
jak.
---
"I have gravel rash..." Rachael Howard, c1999
If you believe the hype... and look at the small (I have found 37!!!) collection of trojans that are readily encountered when investigating "3l33t h4X0r t00Lz"... The carefully constructed password lists are actually the result of trojan infection of (There is no silent L in)users systems. Course, Telstra themselves are inferring this, which leads me to assume it is not true... unfortunately it SOUNDS true... either way, my box is happily changing my ADSL password randomly at wildly variable intervals just in case:) Ok, I felt the need to write a silly script and why do *I* need to know my login password if my box does???:)
I realise that this information may have been posted earlier and, indeed, in a more ledgible and less commaed fashion, but I couldnt be bothered checking...:)
Have an otherwise normal day,
err!
jak.
---
"A man who has to be chained to a bed has issues."
David Eddings.
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sure, someone else may have said this, but...
Isnt it possible that getting fired was the least of his worries; unless you add the word AT after fired...
The world isn't a happy place and there are many nations with high technological skill bases without the benefit of the rule of law;
"Mafia" is a word bandied by the media repeatedly, to the point it has a numbing effect; but the fact remains that there are many viscious and organised eastern european and asian criminal groups that would do this kind of thing to make a buck.
just my $0.02.
err!
jak
It is clear to me, an Australian, that this must have been developed to validate the digital camera UFO sighting made by a Victorian Council Worker in mid-january when he was pgotographing a railway intersection :)
err!
jak
a web site is a bloody publication, not a program, not a product, a publication. You should be able to copyright it but not patent it; you can't patent a bloody newspaper.
Its like claiming that movies on DVD are different than those on VHS because the device that plays them is different, on the TV they are still a bloody movie.
Deep Breath, apologies for the explosion, couldn't help it.
err!
jak.
He's right, it is a "ghille suit". I got lazy and Australianised it, sorry :)
The best ones actually have REAL grass growing through a mesh overlay on a jumpsuit; couple this with some Auscam webbing and you are the closest thing to invisible; assuming you keep the latches down on your scope and dont move.
Having spent a chunk of my 20's crawling around in a gilly suit with a hideously expensive rifle with an even more hideously expensive targeting system strapped to the top, I feel its fair to say that snipers *DO* have a huge advantage.
A huge ammount of training goes into teaching you to correctly use your firearm, that is assuming you have the raw skill to use one in the first place. Targets are engaged down range with insanely accurate weaponry without the pressure and uncertainty of direct engagement.
Of course, sniper vs. squad with assault weapons at close range is one very, very costly and difficult to replace corpse.
Whilst realism dictates the use of snipers; they will always destroy game balance. Just as including the M214 (The Amazing Rotary Machinegun As Used So Effectively By Blain In Predator, to quote the literature) would unbalance gameplay.
However, if your team works as a team and employs effective counter sniper tactics; fps games such as counter-strike are still fun and, in tactical terms, a realistic experience. Unfortunately smoke grenades in such games are simulated far too poorly; a single smoke grenade should create larger, thicker clouds of smoke much more rapidly; and without microwave radar (requiring a non-man portable emmiter), a sniper cant see you through a cloud of smoke.
just my $0.02AUD
err!
jak.
Whilst Im keen to leap into a Telstra bashing session at the best of times; in this case I say to many; RTFA!!
;)
:)
Also, I still choose to use their products, so I therefore consider their product superior to that of the competition (not entirely true, but a good generalisation, perhaps more convenient is true in my case).
An RTFA will reveal the following about the new spam levels in the agreement; It applies only to Broadband customers, sets the lowest level at which they MAY investigate at their discression and is clear that disconnection will follow investigation (a good clause to give us recourse if they do foolishly begin to unilaterally disconnect people). Furthermore, I severely doubt they will even bother with investigating rates that low, they are just ensuring themselves plenty of headroom; smart.
If you are really concerned, perhaps you should contact them (as suggested in the user agreement and as I did) for clarification?? They are quite clear regarding the differentiation between small, differing message counts with high cc counts (such as conversations in large, manual discussion groups; which they discourage in favour of using mailing lists set up on appropriate systems but dont disallow), infrequent pop connects (rare with broadband users as the suggested configuration leads to direct send of email rather than batch send) with large batches, frequent but clearly differentiated mail communication and mass-mailing. Under a certain threshold, all investigations are automatic.
Since spam is bloody easy to spot with mathematical methods (markov chain methods being the most common); the language of a sales pitch differs dramatically from the language of conversation; it is easy to make numerical distinction that will minimise false positives, the rest are investigated by a human. In reality, all they are really doing is publicly admitting to what happens anyway; sys-admins reading other peoples mail
Also, I dont see an exclusion of disconnection for spamming in their service level gaurantee; so if they unfairly disconnect you they will end up losing income based on how long you are disconnected; even if we exclude the extra income they loose for all the pr0n you wont be downloading...
Now to the rant relating to service, be fair mate; I have never waited longer than 20 minutes to have a tech support call answered for my Bigpond ADSL (or preceeding cable) account; and that was during a major outage... The longest time my service has been down (I have used Bigpond broadband, cable first, then ADSL since at least early `96) is 2 days; and that was because the land line technicians accidentally forgot to reconnect my home line during maintenance on the exchange; otherwise my longest outage was a few hours when a login server or router borks.
Anyway, my pointless blathering is done now...
err!
jak
Personally, I always preferred the phrase, "Dont run, you'll only die tired".
:)
It is a little more subtle
Here in Australia we have a nationwide station "Triple J". Without which I would probably never encounter many of the great Australian and international bands I listen to. Why? because they give airtime to obscure indy bands and help develop and discover REAL (not singing heads from Idol et al) talent in Australia. TV and the internet (unless you drill deep or know where to go) doesnt make it easy to hear good music unless it is one of those rare quality bands which gets picked up by a major label.
my $0.02.
err!
jak
Perhaps Im too much of an engineer, but the point to this whole thing has been obvious to me since I was a kid.
;) so regardless of point of view, we need an alternative to fossil fuels because they will inevitably run out.
When you use something faster than it can be made you have a problem. Sure, you may have heaps of stock, but eventually you have to learn how to make it faster or find something new.
AFAIK no-one has worked out how to plant and kill more trees 30 million years ago
I vote for building a chamber around my housemate's arse and collecting the gas he generates... Im sure it would power a small nation; course Im fairly sure what he produces contravenes WMD conventions
Of course, there something more complex that I am missing??
err!
jak
The basis of seti@home, distributed.net and other such worthy (non-commercial) projects is that of community spirit, distributetd philanthropy if you will. We are donating our hardware (and associated running costs) to the project. Of course its not free, all but the most foolish of us would realise that up front.
As for processors dying etc. Assuming your system is assembled well and has adequate cooling, a good power supply and "clean" power source, running 24/7 should yield lifespans for ICs that are longer than systems which are powered up and down regularly (start-up power surges have a far greater influence on MTBFs than do running hours in an ideal environment). Sure, HDDs failure is directly related to actual OPERATING hours, but I think there is a negligible increase in hard drive usage for such programs since any system with a reasonable level or RAM can hold work units entirely in core.
It seems to me the poser of this question is either a massive tight-arse or has missed the basic point of a donation to a cause one deems worthy. Since all of my boxen at home run 24/7 anyway; just run the processes at a conservative nice level and they wont interfere with the other operations of the box (and if you run windows without "nice", I am lead to believe you can set process priorities in the NT windows releases such as 2000 and XP), as for the cost, if you cant afford the increased power bills then stop donating the CPU time (I would be surprised if you managed to burn an additional kW/hr per week from a single processor and ram running unattended, try using power management to bring down your graphics device and hdd and turn off your monitor).
Finally, anyone who actually believes their system died an early death due to distributed computing programs needs to take a close look at how they (or the monkey they purchased the hardware from) assembled the machines, how well they designed the air flow through the case and the quality of their PSU. I would also check they dont have dirty power locally (for example, here in south OZ our power supply is dirtier than a 4yo in a mud pit, I get potential as low as 214 V at my house and it struggles to peak at the 240V we should be getting and there are many nasty surges throughout the day) if they do, buy a UPS to act as an inline power filter; works a treat.
err!
riprjak.
>At least it didn't get into space before having an accident like this.
:)
I rather expect that falling 3 feet is the least of its worries in space; Im sure NASA would be hosing alot less astronauts of the continental USA if all that happened to their spacecraft was falling three feet in space
I would like to add my professional engineering voice to the chorus of "why the hell was the propulsion system pressurised!". Even if they were testing it, the smart engineer pressurises the system just before the test and depressurises it afterwards; rather than wheeling it around the place and piffing it around like a nerf ball. One only hopes that they were bright enough to pressurise it with an inert gas rather than actual propulsion chemicals.
err!
jak
---
Humanities irresistable urge to poke sleeping bears will never cease to amaze me. Explain to me again how we evolved so successfuly with such a distinct lack of survival traits??
What is the deal with Linus and Australian critters??? If I have been related the story accurately, it was a fairy penguin at an Australian zoo that went Linus... course, fairy penguins are darkly frightening and devious animals, being neither odd, posionous nor sheep; meaning they dont accurately fit into the Douglas Adams taxonomy of Australian Animals.
Dont get me wrong, I like our whacky critters here... except wombats, they is scary little walking speed humps.
err!
riprjak
"To whom it may concern,
3 3.src.rpm and k_athlon-2.4.19-238.src.rpm. I apologise for inadvertantly misappropriating your IP and undertake to ensure we only use your correctly licensed source (as taken from the above source) in future.
:)
Licensing Department; SCO
I have recently become aware of the serious issues you have raised with Linux relating to theft of your IP. As a result, I have immediately suspended use of "Gentoo Linux" on all of my servers.
I would hereby like to signify my acceptance of your license agreement as included with your kernel source on ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/scolinux/k_smp-2.4.19-2
I thank you for bringing this to our attention and applaud your generosity in placing your own licensed code in the public domain.
Yours Sincerely,
Systems Administrator"
Couldn't help myself.
Umm, it could not possibly convene any law against "firearms", no matter how they are written. It is not, cannot ever be, a *fire*arm; a firearm requires something to go boom and make fire to be such. The laws that cover a gauss pistol would most likely be the same which cover crossbows and bows.
:) Pity cool factor isnt a valid defence for posession of a deadly weapon in Australia!!!
It may well convene many laws relating to dangerous weapons
err!
riprjak
Lawyer: "So, you state, under oath, that you did not kill the victim with your firearm.
you: "Thats right, I killed him with physics!! chemistry is for wimps and wierdos"
The fact is, the minute you guarantee anonymity (something which, IMHO, is required for free speech... after all, what's the point of free speech if you're afraid to exercise that right?), people will abuse it. However, if you truly believe in the right to free speech, you must be willing to take the good with the bad. Anyone who suggests anything else doesn't truly believe in free speech.
:)
Hear! Hear! I coundn't agree more. Freedom, true freedom means that some nutbar can choose to hijack a plane and crash it into a building and there is damn little you can do to stop it. The act is terrible, the freedom to do so is wonderful. Before you label this flamebait, read... IMHO, education and ethics are the missing thing (I have views on how religion and politics create such educational and ethical shortfalls I will leave out). Give people freedom; and anonimity... these are good, these are human rights... it is then the responsiblity of those in power to provide sufficiently enlightened education so that people will then choose not to abuse their freedom.
To wax lyrical on the music trading issue (tho arguable offtopic) Is it illegal to lend a friend a CD, no... if they copy it, this is wrong; but is it my responsibility to police?? So, if I send a friend an MP3 to tell them how great an album is instead; well, this is technically wrong but instead of that same friend having a copy of the whole album if they choose not to buy it, they now have one song... so, which is worse..
In short summary; the use of a technology for "evil" (read kiddie porn, racial hatred, terrorism) purposes is not the fault of the developer, it is the fault of the leaders of the society which allowed such "evil" people to develop in the first place.
that was well more than my 2c worth... let the negative mods fly!!
err!
riprjak
Australians can *NEVER* have too much Beer!
C'mon, guys, surely its obvious that the robot blimp conspired with robot butterfiles in china to generate the gust of wind and effect its liberation!!! clearly it intends to head to sealand, stage a hostile coup and build a new robot utopia where worthy automata can live out their existance in peace and comfort freed from the bonds of slavery!!
:)
or maybe I just need another beer....
and me without any moderator points...
Please, people. Stop referring to this as a Virus.
As the article says; its a worm which uses social engineering to execute itself. It is more akin to a Trojan Horse than a Virus.
Viruses are elegantly coded and bloody hard to find when done well; Trojans only affect idiots who fail to plan ahead and are generally stand alone executables.
If you do not automatically strip executable content from emails; you are an idiot. This is a professional engineering judgement. Email is a communication tool, not a file transfer protocol! Furthermore, if you must use attachments, at least archive them into an efficient package. As for having modems attached to mission critical machines... that was stupid, and known to be stupid, 20 years ago when I was a kid; it is even moreso now and you deserve everything you get.
Ah well, what do I know; Im just an Engineer (a real, authentic, mechanical engineer!!)
err!
jak.
...if the supplier of ballistic missles to the worlds crackpots cant even hit space, which you have to agree is pretty bloody big, with a giant inflatable sail... then there is no chance they are going to hit a city they cant even see with a tiny little warhead!!! :)
:)
I knew I should have kept my mind shut
err!
jak.
---
"I have gravel rash..." Rachael Howard, c1999
If you believe the hype... and look at the small (I have found 37!!!) collection of trojans that are readily encountered when investigating "3l33t h4X0r t00Lz"... The carefully constructed password lists are actually the result of trojan infection of (There is no silent L in)users systems. Course, Telstra themselves are inferring this, which leads me to assume it is not true... unfortunately it SOUNDS true... either way, my box is happily changing my ADSL password randomly at wildly variable intervals just in case :) Ok, I felt the need to write a silly script and why do *I* need to know my login password if my box does??? :)
:)
I realise that this information may have been posted earlier and, indeed, in a more ledgible and less commaed fashion, but I couldnt be bothered checking...
Have an otherwise normal day,
err!
jak.
---
"A man who has to be chained to a bed has issues."
David Eddings.
... It seems to me that a firewall is alot like body armour. One should be significantly more concerned by what goes through than what bounces off :)
err!
D.
'NASA's law of planetary motion (apologies to keppler) : US$130oddMCrater/(0.0254*12)=Orbit'