quite true. I was thinking the key pair was more for "authenticating" the server rather than the sender address. That way, if the server starts behaving badly, it can be cut off before more bandwidth is wasted transfering the files to the clients. LAN vs WAN preference I suppose.
A spam typically comes from a server rather than a single email which is why the server should be under scrutiny, and having the client check would verifiy that the address is live.
Processing time would be an issue here for servers who send / receive a large number of emails. Of course, if it was a very small key that would probably be a good idea. You could rotate keys over time, as most mail gets to the receipient's server within a matter of hours. . . so if someone did crack the key, by the time they did it, the mail server would of have moved onto a different key.
I'm not sure what kind of KP would take ~2 days to crack using a reasonable (define later, but I really doubt spammers have supercomputers, say something like 20 of the top of the line computers) amount of computers, but I'm sure the processing power to verifiy that the key would be minimal. (sure, challenge / response is an idea, but perhaps a system like this could be faster than having a large C/R lookup table, I could see issues if hotmail sends out x million mails a day, the table could be kinda big, keeping that in ram would not be a good idea.)
This would somewhat shift the processing onto the recipient's server, as all the sending server would have to do is serve the public key a la something like ntp / quote of the day. You are kind of wanting the exchange to take as little time / cycles as possible, so my elaboration is based on that.
yeah, that little x doesn't close the program, found that out while begining to program for it. WMP does suck incredibly, but I do know a 300k text file will take about 2 minutes to load and quite literally bring the unit to it's knees, though I suppose that is more of a pocket word thing than the unit itself. I'm just amazed how much bloat can be possible.
A point I'd like to make is that most people print black and white the majority of the time - or print "color" where they really don't care about the color (i.e. webpage ads). A BW laser will save people tons of money, and they tend to be more reliable too. Of course, things are changing now, but I have a pre-carly laserjet 3p which still works like a charm. It getting close to 10 years old. . .. Anyways, you can actually get a 4550 for a lot cheaper now - about ~$600 or so, which is easier to justify than $1500 for a home user. Another benefit is that you don't have to use $1 a sheet paper in a laser to make it look good.
and sure, lets follow that up and even cap the ports that _can_ be used for file sharing (i.e. everything besides port 80. this includes ftp, et al. ) to something like a 56k modem. I only say this because once the penny pinchers see they can save $1000 a month on bandwidth, that is ALWAYS the next step. I know a couple people who go to several schools like this. Forget about sending a movie home, it is quite literally faster to burn it onto cd and mail it. Even a 1mb jpg takes quite literally 10 -20 minutes. I'm not going to go into the fact that universities that force freshmen to live in dorms regularly charge prices over and above the market value of similar rooms - often by 25% or even more. The extra money surely doesn't go into any addditional "services".
I traded out a palm m105 for a toshiba pocket pc - e335 - it is 300mhz, but the palm beat it hands down in most things - opening documents, opening the address book etc. The toshiba can barely play mp3s without skipping. I have to ask, why is the performance of most pocket pcs so cruddy?
sadly, nor will being drawn and quartered. Soon hopefully . .. Besides, we can always start inflicting pain and death on the spammers where the authorities don't really care about the problem. . .
yes, this assumes that the grid is not already running at close to capacity. . . As we know, it is pretty rare to start up another power plant if there is no need for it. .. So the "savings" is kind of like the recording industry's / BSA's claims of "losses", a great way to get rid of nuts though. Has anyone seen "Equilibrium" by the way?;)
Granted, it beats burning coal or the many other alternatives, but I suppose gold plating it makes the 3 mill a lot easier to swallow.
assuming, of course, that lazy ILECs even want to roll out new DSL service. My neigborhood - the dslam is full and no plans for expansion until 2008. What can I say, people want it, but it just isn't available. Cable just came into the neigborhood, so I got it. Faster downstream AND upstream (verizon will give you 15k and nothing more in my area, paying more wont help here). . . People want it, verizon says, sorry, we can't help you. . . .
it was meant as a joke, and if you are using something other than your home dsl line it will probably be ok. OTOH, I know a bunch of fax machines have issues sending stuff over ip based services like net2phone. . .
Newspaper print is generally the worst in terms of DPI for printed material, and even it exceeds 2400 DPI
eh? 2400 dpi?!?!?!? Perhaps the plates, but the actual paper output certainly isn't worthy of being considered anything near 2400dpi. Magazines, etc might be a bit higher, but . ..
I drove up from Portland w/ a friend to attend - and we attempted the first ground to air to air to ground link - the intent was to get alki connected with the air craft, which would link to the heli which would link to magnolia. The two are a good distance apart - and were eventually connected using a couple ground based antennas.
Best part was when we got clearance to circle right in Boing Field's takeoff path. ATC was diverting 737s, etc around us. t'was great.
However, laptop batteries and equipment died and the idea with it. It was really fun, we learned quite a bit and have ideas to make it work the next time. We had taped an omni to the step of the airplane, and that was pretty interesting, worked surprisingly well.
I'd post pics as I was flying in the front passenger's seat, but I like my upstream bandwidth, thank you very much. I'm sure someone will provide a host eventually.
ok, time for bed
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I read that as "it is time to clean the taint of sco" yup. bedtime. I swear I haven't been watching porno.
Thats why the ability to override the patch should not be available. I'm not reccomending an update thru windows update or some "official ms" server either. The patch needs to be distributed via the security hole itself - in a viral manner. The thing is, if there is an exploit that gets full root, it really doesn't matter what the consequences of applying the patch are - it is better than getting your data wiped or even worse corrupted / stolen.
For what it is worth, MS and others should do something like this _EVERY_ time a full root vunerability is exploited by a released worm, virus etc. So it may stop an app from working, etc. At least a virus didn't fdisk your hdd. Minor patches be dammned, vunerabilities that give the attacker root or equivalent access NEED to be taken care of ASAP.
If the dumbass sysadmin didn't decide to patch his system, the writer of the software (note I don't think this should be limited to MS) should take it upon themselves to fix it.
If not immediately ater, then a couple days. Now. I understand that ms hotfixes tend (AHAHAHAHAHHAHAAH, tend) to screw stuff up. A simple flag in the registry / file in the filesystem could tell the "viral exploit patch", not to patch the system, but send the administrator a message / put a link on the desktop for the patch. Of course, the next worm could just set that flag after infection, so this idea kinda sucks, and which is why I'd reccomend the radical option of no way of overriding the "viral exploit patch".
Yeah, flame me and mod me down, but it is just plain fucking stupid and irresponsible to leave a system in a vunerable state. When exploits begin to affect infrastructure (whether it be 411 or whatever), they NEED to be taken care of. There are plenty of IT morons who leave critical systems (ok, define critical) open, and it is just a matter of time before something happens and many people actually get hurt.
And to be completely honest - if the "viral exploit patch" hits your internal network, the destructive one could of have just as easily gotten in, that isn't an arguement.
Reporting back to a central server would be cool, although how it would differenciate between many internal networks, the code would need to be optimized to minimize disruption, etc.
Personally, I think whoever wrote blaster was doing the community a favor, some skript kiddie would eventually write their own version that did something far worse. Sure, I'm kind of bitter, but crap like this pisses me off - if gives the IT industry and computers in general a bad image. If it turns out that some hick in ohio forgot to patch his servers - servers that were rebooting when they were supposed to be sending out warnings to other power stations . ..
Soooo. . . who think's I'm going to have an ulcer in 10 years;)
ghetto upstream caps and lag tend to limit the actual usefulness of voip from home, but with a "real" connection, it is much better. Don't forget that ISDN is still used to video conferencing
And as for upstream "video" on dialup - I'm sure a few highly compressed 640x480 jpegs (or something similar) could be exchanged every second - not quite full motion video, but nothing too shabby for what you have to work with.
And how exactly is stifiling competition
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I (sorta, because I use trillian) am pissed that none of the networks work together - it reminds me of small children fighting over a glass of orange juice and spilling it in the process.
At the same time I think deliberately crippling a product like this isn't going to help the average user - if you really want competition between the im makers, let them compete - add features in this case. Tit for tat, and soon somebody is paid by ??? to research a new streaming codec and comes out with something that kicks ass. Software doesn't get better if there is no push (from customers / marketing / management, etc) for it.
yeah, lol, spoke too soon. "upgraded" my video drivers right after a 2k3 re-install, the drivers plain didn't work, I had to dig thru cdrs for the older version. 3 cheers for ati. Still, people with the newer cards (9x00) series have told me they actually work - yeah, probably until ati releases a new series . . .
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quite true.
I was thinking the key pair was more for "authenticating" the server rather than the sender address. That way, if the server starts behaving badly, it can be cut off before more bandwidth is wasted transfering the files to the clients. LAN vs WAN preference I suppose.
A spam typically comes from a server rather than a single email which is why the server should be under scrutiny, and having the client check would verifiy that the address is live.
Processing time would be an issue here for servers who send / receive a large number of emails.
Of course, if it was a very small key that would probably be a good idea.
You could rotate keys over time, as most mail gets to the receipient's server within a matter of hours. . . so if someone did crack the key, by the time they did it, the mail server would of have moved onto a different key.
I'm not sure what kind of KP would take ~2 days to crack using a reasonable (define later, but I really doubt spammers have supercomputers, say something like 20 of the top of the line computers) amount of computers, but I'm sure the processing power to verifiy that the key would be minimal.
(sure, challenge / response is an idea, but perhaps a system like this could be faster than having a large C/R lookup table, I could see issues if hotmail sends out x million mails a day, the table could be kinda big, keeping that in ram would not be a good idea.)
This would somewhat shift the processing onto the recipient's server, as all the sending server would have to do is serve the public key a la something like ntp / quote of the day. You are kind of wanting the exchange to take as little time / cycles as possible, so my elaboration is based on that.
yeah, that little x doesn't close the program, found that out while begining to program for it.
WMP does suck incredibly, but I do know a 300k text file will take about 2 minutes to load and quite literally bring the unit to it's knees, though I suppose that is more of a pocket word thing than the unit itself. I'm just amazed how much bloat can be possible.
A point I'd like to make is that most people print black and white the majority of the time - or print "color" where they really don't care about the color (i.e. webpage ads). A BW laser will save people tons of money, and they tend to be more reliable too. Of course, things are changing now, but I have a pre-carly laserjet 3p which still works like a charm. It getting close to 10 years old. . . .
Anyways, you can actually get a 4550 for a lot cheaper now - about ~$600 or so, which is easier to justify than $1500 for a home user. Another benefit is that you don't have to use $1 a sheet paper in a laser to make it look good.
the bill had the Chinese shaking in their boots.
and sure, lets follow that up and even cap the ports that _can_ be used for file sharing (i.e. everything besides port 80. this includes ftp, et al. ) to something like a 56k modem. I only say this because once the penny pinchers see they can save $1000 a month on bandwidth, that is ALWAYS the next step.
I know a couple people who go to several schools like this. Forget about sending a movie home, it is quite literally faster to burn it onto cd and mail it. Even a 1mb jpg takes quite literally 10 -20 minutes.
I'm not going to go into the fact that universities that force freshmen to live in dorms regularly charge prices over and above the market value of similar rooms - often by 25% or even more. The extra money surely doesn't go into any addditional "services".
I traded out a palm m105 for a toshiba pocket pc - e335 - it is 300mhz, but the palm beat it hands down in most things - opening documents, opening the address book etc.
The toshiba can barely play mp3s without skipping. I have to ask, why is the performance of most pocket pcs so cruddy?
sadly, nor will being drawn and quartered. .
Soon hopefully . .
Besides, we can always start inflicting pain and death on the spammers where the authorities don't really care about the problem. . .
yes, this assumes that the grid is not already running at close to capacity. . . As we know, it is pretty rare to start up another power plant if there is no need for it. . . ;)
So the "savings" is kind of like the recording industry's / BSA's claims of "losses", a great way to get rid of nuts though. Has anyone seen "Equilibrium" by the way?
Granted, it beats burning coal or the many other alternatives, but I suppose gold plating it makes the 3 mill a lot easier to swallow.
well shit. . . I'm impressed. ;)
Karma whore or not, thanks
Say, how does bittorent scale thru a slashdotting?
assuming, of course, that lazy ILECs even want to roll out new DSL service. My neigborhood - the dslam is full and no plans for expansion until 2008. What can I say, people want it, but it just isn't available. Cable just came into the neigborhood, so I got it. Faster downstream AND upstream (verizon will give you 15k and nothing more in my area, paying more wont help here). . . People want it, verizon says, sorry, we can't help you. . . .
it was meant as a joke, and if you are using something other than your home dsl line it will probably be ok. OTOH, I know a bunch of fax machines have issues sending stuff over ip based services like net2phone. . .
I . . . loveusin. . . gIPtelephony. . . . Lagis . . . notreallyanissue.
Unless you are one of the poor suckers, er, I mean System Admins who has to maintain some Winboxes.
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yeah, especially those who have those things called "jobs" . .
Newspaper print is generally the worst in terms of DPI for printed material, and even it exceeds 2400 DPI
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eh? 2400 dpi?!?!?!? Perhaps the plates, but the actual paper output certainly isn't worthy of being considered anything near 2400dpi. Magazines, etc might be a bit higher, but . .
There has to be at least 1 mentally unbalanced person with a rifle who gets one of these lawsuits . . .
Maybe next round then.
I drove up from Portland w/ a friend to attend - and we attempted the first ground to air to air to ground link - the intent was to get alki connected with the air craft, which would link to the heli which would link to magnolia. The two are a good distance apart - and were eventually connected using a couple ground based antennas.
Best part was when we got clearance to circle right in Boing Field's takeoff path. ATC was diverting 737s, etc around us. t'was great.
However, laptop batteries and equipment died and the idea with it. It was really fun, we learned quite a bit and have ideas to make it work the next time. We had taped an omni to the step of the airplane, and that was pretty interesting, worked surprisingly well.
I'd post pics as I was flying in the front passenger's seat, but I like my upstream bandwidth, thank you very much. I'm sure someone will provide a host eventually.
I read that as "it is time to clean the taint of sco"
yup. bedtime. I swear I haven't been watching porno.
Thats why the ability to override the patch should not be available.
I'm not reccomending an update thru windows update or some "official ms" server either. The patch needs to be distributed via the security hole itself - in a viral manner. The thing is, if there is an exploit that gets full root, it really doesn't matter what the consequences of applying the patch are - it is better than getting your data wiped or even worse corrupted / stolen.
For what it is worth, MS and others should do something like this _EVERY_ time a full root vunerability is exploited by a released worm, virus etc. So it may stop an app from working, etc. At least a virus didn't fdisk your hdd. Minor patches be dammned, vunerabilities that give the attacker root or equivalent access NEED to be taken care of ASAP.
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If the dumbass sysadmin didn't decide to patch his system, the writer of the software (note I don't think this should be limited to MS) should take it upon themselves to fix it.
If not immediately ater, then a couple days.
Now. I understand that ms hotfixes tend (AHAHAHAHAHHAHAAH, tend) to screw stuff up. A simple flag in the registry / file in the filesystem could tell the "viral exploit patch", not to patch the system, but send the administrator a message / put a link on the desktop for the patch. Of course, the next worm could just set that flag after infection, so this idea kinda sucks, and which is why I'd reccomend the radical option of no way of overriding the "viral exploit patch".
Yeah, flame me and mod me down, but it is just plain fucking stupid and irresponsible to leave a system in a vunerable state. When exploits begin to affect infrastructure (whether it be 411 or whatever), they NEED to be taken care of. There are plenty of IT morons who leave critical systems (ok, define critical) open, and it is just a matter of time before something happens and many people actually get hurt.
And to be completely honest - if the "viral exploit patch" hits your internal network, the destructive one could of have just as easily gotten in, that isn't an arguement.
Reporting back to a central server would be cool, although how it would differenciate between many internal networks, the code would need to be optimized to minimize disruption, etc.
Personally, I think whoever wrote blaster was doing the community a favor, some skript kiddie would eventually write their own version that did something far worse.
Sure, I'm kind of bitter, but crap like this pisses me off - if gives the IT industry and computers in general a bad image. If it turns out that some hick in ohio forgot to patch his servers - servers that were rebooting when they were supposed to be sending out warnings to other power stations . .
Soooo. . . who think's I'm going to have an ulcer in 10 years
I'm not sure, but I would assume that the CDC kept a record of "regular" folks diagnosed as HIV+, or other contagious diseases (TB, etc)
seriously, what the fuck is so funny about the above statement?
ghetto upstream caps and lag tend to limit the actual usefulness of voip from home, but with a "real" connection, it is much better. Don't forget that ISDN is still used to video conferencing
And as for upstream "video" on dialup - I'm sure a few highly compressed 640x480 jpegs (or something similar) could be exchanged every second - not quite full motion video, but nothing too shabby for what you have to work with.
I (sorta, because I use trillian) am pissed that none of the networks work together - it reminds me of small children fighting over a glass of orange juice and spilling it in the process.
At the same time I think deliberately crippling a product like this isn't going to help the average user - if you really want competition between the im makers, let them compete - add features in this case. Tit for tat, and soon somebody is paid by ??? to research a new streaming codec and comes out with something that kicks ass.
Software doesn't get better if there is no push (from customers / marketing / management, etc) for it.
yeah, lol, spoke too soon. "upgraded" my video drivers right after a 2k3 re-install, the drivers plain didn't work, I had to dig thru cdrs for the older version. 3 cheers for ati. Still, people with the newer cards (9x00) series have told me they actually work - yeah, probably until ati releases a new series . . .