Did Greasel discover that diesel engines will run on cooking oil? No. The first diesel engines (invented by Rudolf Diesel in the late 1800's) were actually designed to run on plant oils. Immediately after Rudolf's untimely demise, his colleagues (who were just then tapping the resources of petro-based fuel sources) swept his veggie ideas under the rug and actually converted his design to run on petro-based 'diesel' fuel (which they were nice enough to name after him).
"Some kids were running miniature Napsters," said the academy official, referring to the now-defunct music-sharing site. "They had enormous drives - multigigabite drives - and they were on all the time. They became little Web sites."
Just goes to show how educated some naval personell are about computer technology. I mean MULTIgigabyte drives?!? Holy shit man, that's a lot of storage!!!
The same is true now with ATTBI. They don't offer anything other than their basic residential package (1.5mbit down/128k up). When the companies first switched, we tried to get a higher bandwidth package, and they simply would not offer it.
"Business Class" broadband lines are usually in a completely different ip block than the equivalent residential lines.
For example, back when attbi used to be excite@home, you could get business class cable which offered twice the bandwidth for about twice the cost. We had this service for a while, and the ip was in the 206.207.0.0/16 range, rather than the 24.0.0.0/8 range that was ubiquitous with cable modems at the time.
Of course, this isn't always the case, which is why this story is so relevant, because such blanket measures will always inadvertantly cause more harm than good. Who knows how many legit small businesses/home businesses host their services from a static ip on a broadband connection that shares the same ip range.
I get the feeling that the implications of this will come back and bite AOL in the ass, bigtime.
Not to mention that having an open mail relay on a WLAN is no different than having an open mail relay on the internet.
I, for one, am not fooled by their conclusions. Any open, exploitable service that is reachable publically will be abused, regardless of the transmission medium.
It seems now they are going after the easier target of "local" p2p networks, rather than internet-wide. It makes sense too...why try and track down the big fish in a sea of millions when you could just go after a few students on a college campus?
It's nice to see the president of MTU standing up for his students, and better yet, publicly stating his disapproval of the RIAA's actions. I think more and more people are starting to catch on.
If that is true then how exactly is this news? The RIAA went after the RA for my floor my Sophomore year for running a pub ftp...this is nothing new.
I think they have been sending individual cease-and-decist orders when they deem it worthwhile, but going after the admins for their inability to control thousands of music-greedy kids is pushing it.
It seems like nailing the network admins for the (mis)behaviour of the students is a bit of a broad move to make.
They have an AUP I'm sure, but at the bigger schools, it becomes tough to enforce. The inability to control what the students do (at some level) somehow makes the admins responsible? I don't agree with that, but that's just me.
If you have more than one nic, you can disable it on the nic facing the internet, if you only have one nic, and are directly connected to the internet (ie a cable modem), you should probably have this disabled anyways.
Granted, with only one nic, its the same thing as disabling filesharing, but the general procedure works for both so I didn't make that distinction in my original post.
I agree 100% with the NAT+Firewall comments....but your average home user isn't going to go to that extra trouble to protect themselves are they? Probably not.
Unbind network sharing from your external tcp/ip settings.
This should be done by default (but of course, it isn't), and I'm sure 90% of home users don't even realize their network shares are available on the internet. A lot of them probably don't even realize that they have network shares enabled in the first place.
And let's not forget the default hidden shares under win2k....if your admin password is blank, then blamo - full access to your machine.
Have you tried beating it in hard mode? In under x hours? With 100%
The thing I like about MP, that I liked about Super Metroid, is that you can beat it, or you can beat it
You will probably need to go through the game several times before you come close to even mastering it (or remembering where all the items are).
For the longest time I was dissapointed that they didnt release a Metroid for the N64, but now that I've played MP, I'm glad they waited. The game is truly stunning in looks, gameplay, and immersion.
This is exactly how Spam Assassin works. If they are concerned about this, they should be using a spam filter that only tags incoming messages (that individuals can sort out in their repsective inboxes), rather than fully blocking them.
No spam filter is 100% accurate, so completely blocking any incoming messages seems like a rather foolish thing to do in the first place.
Seems like it would be a lot easier just to use a popup stopper instead. This is what I did with IE until I installed mozilla.
Panicware has a good one that's freely downloadable. I still have it installed at home but just leave it disabled now (since Mozilla catches them all).
I think his original point is that not everyone has a TV with rca and/or svideo inputs (myself included).
There's no big sticker on the dvdplayer box that says "you can't plug this into a vcr." This, to a lot of consumers (especially the technically inept ones) is considered deceiving.
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From the FAQ:
Did Greasel discover that diesel engines will run on cooking oil?
No. The first diesel engines (invented by Rudolf Diesel in the late 1800's) were actually designed to run on plant oils. Immediately after Rudolf's untimely demise, his colleagues (who were just then tapping the resources of petro-based fuel sources) swept his veggie ideas under the rug and actually converted his design to run on petro-based 'diesel' fuel (which they were nice enough to name after him).
(Emphasis mine)
If you encrypt everything yourself, there's not much they can do about it, now is there?
But the fact that it is used across the country is why they patented it in the first place.
Don't forget the chewbacca defense!
- end Obligatory South Park reference
"Some kids were running miniature Napsters," said the academy official, referring to the now-defunct music-sharing site. "They had enormous drives - multigigabite drives - and they were on all the time. They became little Web sites."
Just goes to show how educated some naval personell are about computer technology. I mean MULTIgigabyte drives?!? Holy shit man, that's a lot of storage!!!
*note sarcasm above*
Seems like it wouldn't be heavy enough to do anything besides mildly tickle you. (A good massage usually involves a fair amount of pressure).
I guess that's why they call it "The Tickler"
The same is true now with ATTBI. They don't offer anything other than their basic residential package (1.5mbit down/128k up). When the companies first switched, we tried to get a higher bandwidth package, and they simply would not offer it.
"Business Class" broadband lines are usually in a completely different ip block than the equivalent residential lines.
For example, back when attbi used to be excite@home, you could get business class cable which offered twice the bandwidth for about twice the cost. We had this service for a while, and the ip was in the 206.207.0.0/16 range, rather than the 24.0.0.0/8 range that was ubiquitous with cable modems at the time.
Of course, this isn't always the case, which is why this story is so relevant, because such blanket measures will always inadvertantly cause more harm than good. Who knows how many legit small businesses/home businesses host their services from a static ip on a broadband connection that shares the same ip range.
I get the feeling that the implications of this will come back and bite AOL in the ass, bigtime.
Not to mention that having an open mail relay on a WLAN is no different than having an open mail relay on the internet.
I, for one, am not fooled by their conclusions. Any open, exploitable service that is reachable publically will be abused, regardless of the transmission medium.
It seems now they are going after the easier target of "local" p2p networks, rather than internet-wide. It makes sense too...why try and track down the big fish in a sea of millions when you could just go after a few students on a college campus?
It's nice to see the president of MTU standing up for his students, and better yet, publicly stating his disapproval of the RIAA's actions. I think more and more people are starting to catch on.
When people ask...my official title is sysadmin. But when they want to know what I actually do, I usually just say "general computer geekery"
Pretty accurate, I think.
If that is true then how exactly is this news? The RIAA went after the RA for my floor my Sophomore year for running a pub ftp...this is nothing new.
I think they have been sending individual cease-and-decist orders when they deem it worthwhile, but going after the admins for their inability to control thousands of music-greedy kids is pushing it.
It seems like nailing the network admins for the (mis)behaviour of the students is a bit of a broad move to make.
They have an AUP I'm sure, but at the bigger schools, it becomes tough to enforce. The inability to control what the students do (at some level) somehow makes the admins responsible? I don't agree with that, but that's just me.
I wonder if they used stock photography again this time?
More like "every day that ends in -day"
One word: IPv6
I've sold porn filters to Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, and Brockway, and it sure put them on the map!
Not necessarily....
If you have more than one nic, you can disable it on the nic facing the internet, if you only have one nic, and are directly connected to the internet (ie a cable modem), you should probably have this disabled anyways.
Granted, with only one nic, its the same thing as disabling filesharing, but the general procedure works for both so I didn't make that distinction in my original post.
I agree 100% with the NAT+Firewall comments....but your average home user isn't going to go to that extra trouble to protect themselves are they? Probably not.
Unbind network sharing from your external tcp/ip settings.
This should be done by default (but of course, it isn't), and I'm sure 90% of home users don't even realize their network shares are available on the internet. A lot of them probably don't even realize that they have network shares enabled in the first place.
And let's not forget the default hidden shares under win2k....if your admin password is blank, then blamo - full access to your machine.
Have you tried beating it in hard mode? In under x hours? With 100%
The thing I like about MP, that I liked about Super Metroid, is that you can beat it, or you can beat it
You will probably need to go through the game several times before you come close to even mastering it (or remembering where all the items are).
For the longest time I was dissapointed that they didnt release a Metroid for the N64, but now that I've played MP, I'm glad they waited. The game is truly stunning in looks, gameplay, and immersion.
Marge, try to understand. There are two kinds of college students: jocks and nerds. As a jock, it is my duty to give nerds a hard time.
I AM THE LIZARD QUEEN!
This is exactly how Spam Assassin works. If they are concerned about this, they should be using a spam filter that only tags incoming messages (that individuals can sort out in their repsective inboxes), rather than fully blocking them.
No spam filter is 100% accurate, so completely blocking any incoming messages seems like a rather foolish thing to do in the first place.
Seems like it would be a lot easier just to use a popup stopper instead. This is what I did with IE until I installed mozilla.
Panicware has a good one that's freely downloadable. I still have it installed at home but just leave it disabled now (since Mozilla catches them all).
I think his original point is that not everyone has a TV with rca and/or svideo inputs (myself included).
There's no big sticker on the dvdplayer box that says "you can't plug this into a vcr." This, to a lot of consumers (especially the technically inept ones) is considered deceiving.