Don't just open the ports on which remote clients are to knock. Open a whole range of ports--say, a couple thousand. Then an attacker won't (easily) be able to try all the possible knock sequences.
I have sshd running on my machine, but on a high port number. Even if someone found it was open, they wouldn't know it was ssh without some further investigation. So this scheme is fine, but at the end it shouldn't open ssh on 22, but on some other pre-arranged port.
I suppose Bush could probably open an email, but do you really think he could read it? This is the guy who can't even use a teleprompter--he gets his speeches read to him, phrase by phrase, through an earpiece.
Depriving civilians of heat and energy really is terrorism, whether it is perpertrated by the US or anybody else.
No, it's not. Terrorism is something done by people without direct state sponsorship. Terrorism is something done to disrupt civilian life by making people afraid to go about their daily lives. When one state blows up a pipeline in another state, that's an act of war.
As an American, I find your comment to be generally accurate. (There is something of a safety net, depending on where you live, but these days it's not much.) All I ask is that you remember that not all Americans share the values you describe. I know that our current administration and our corporate-driven culture don't do anything to dispel that view, but remember that many Americans dislike both of those things. Some of us do want to bring developed-world socialism to the US (though we can't call it that here), but it's a hard fight. So yes, many (even most) Americans do have an obsession with money as the ultimate source of value (for a country, or a person), but there are plenty of us who see beyond that.
That said, Patriots by two TDs from their previous Super Bowl experience and pedigree from a much stronger conference.
I'm not sure I disagree, but I do want to nitpick: the other 3 teams in the AFC East had 22 combined wins. The other 3 teams in the NFC South had 20 combined wins. (One of those was Atlanta, which went from very bad to very good when Vick returned late in the season--to beat the Panthers.) In contrast, the Pats only conference loss was to a much weaker Buffalo team, albeit on the first weekend of the season and quite a bit separated from their current streak. So who had the tougher conference? I'd say Pats, but not by much.
Then again, I'm not a fan of either team and I don't have money on the game, so don't take my word for anything.
So I read the article about the 4 different games they tested with. The problem is that the games really weren't reflective of the real life teams. For example, in two of the games the Panthers were a passing team. Then they somehow conclude the Panthers are a lock? I don't think so. Video games may try to predict football games, but I still trust the predictions from Vegas much more.
#!/usr/bin/lynx
<html> <head> <title>You're Infected!</title> </head> <body> You have the HTML worm. </body> </html>
Save that as worm.html. Then: $ chmod +x worm.html $./worm.html
So all you Linux weenies can shut up now, because on Linux you make executable HTML files too! Throw in the goatse image and you have malicious code just like Windows users have to deal with.
(I've tested this and it actually works, assuming the path to lynx is correct. I was unable to prevent lynx from displaying the she-bang line, but oh well.)
Actually this bug works in the opposite order--the first string is the one that's displayed. Then again, maybe your meant that: after all, it's not inconceivable that people would be more willing to give their credit card number over to the goatse guy than to Microsoft...
This is hilarious. There's a bug in IE that's being exploited to steal credit card information. MS evidently hasn't figured out how to fix it so they'll remove support for a whole feature of HTTP.
I'm starting to see a pattern here. IE has standards-compliance issues and MS doesn't seem to be making any moves to increase standards support or support additional standards. The IE rendering engine hasn't really changed in years now and there aren't any plans on the horizon either. A bug that should be simple to fix hasn't been fixed in weeks (months?) and before they release a fix, they're releasing a workaround to one of the (several) problems that the bug is causing.
My conclusion? The IE code base is a mess. Like Netscape 4, it's grown too fast and with too little control from competent engineers. Forget things like proper CSS2 support: the IE team can't even wrestle the code to fix a simple bug. I wouldn't be surprised if MS has for some time now been in the process of rewriting IE (or substantial parts of it) from scratch. After all, it worked for the Mozilla Project.
By the user who sees the image. That's why the proper solution to bandwidth theft (via image srcing) is not to require a referer from your own site. This is an inconvenience for UAs that don't send the referer. Rather, reject the request if a referer is present and not from your own site.
The beauty of this is that it works because a majority of users do send honest referers. If I try to steal bandwidth from your site and you're using this restriction, most of my viewers won't see the image. That provides me with enough incentive to host the image myself, or ask your permission, or whatnot. Yes, the image will still display correctly for a few people who don't send the referer at all, but who wants a majority of their viewers to see a broken image? The scheme I propose is just as simple as requiring that all image requests have your referer, and just as effective, but is much more accommodating of privacy-conscious users.
THIS IS, BY THE WAY, A PERFECT WAY TO FOIL SPAMMERS AND TO STILL GET YOUR PORN -- since the porn site doesn't, in fact, know what the catchup is supposed to be and is only using you, enter a wrong one.
Uh, if the spammers are smart, they'll actually use the word you give them to submit the form, and if it doesn't work they'll make you enter another one. some of them are hiring smart people. Maybe if there weren't so many out-of-work programmers in the world...
Not everyone's clock is set correctly. There are probably about 3 virus-infested boxes already executing the DDoS against SCO. This should actually be good news for SCO's sysadmins: those machines will also stop early.
If Lieberman does well in NH, it will be because of right-leaning independents and Republicans voting in the Democratic primary. They like him because (a) he's about as close to their positions as you can be and still call yourself a Democrat and (b) as a mini-Republican, he has no chance of beating Bush. The Democrats, especially in NH, aren't going out to vote for Lieberman.
My prediction: if the Democrats lose the presidential election, he'll do a Zell Miller, whine about how much his party sucks, and retire. To which I say: good riddance.
Don't give me that crap about how much better the US economy performs than the EU. The median standard of living in the EU is higher than in the US. The US economy is great at producing wealth at the top, but conservative Americans have an aversion to using the economy to solve social problems ("communism! class war!"). I think this is a major reason why Europeans view the US as "backwards". Yes, both the US and the EU have economies that have solved the problems of food, shelter, and medicine. But the US has not seen to distributing those solutions to the people.
Many Americans have an ingrained sense that the only job of the economy is to grow. Things like social nets and environmental protections interfere with the ability of the (total) economy to grow at the fastest rate possible, so they must be inherently bad. This is the unifying economic philosophy of the conservative Republicans: government itself is inherently bad precisely because it siphons money (taxes) away from investment and consumption. If you believe in Reaganomics ("a rising tide lifts all boats") this makes some sense. But in the real world, it leads to a morally bankrupt society obsessed with money.
More importantly, an architecture whose registers are 32-bits wide is far less efficient when it comes to dealing with values that require more than 32 bits to express. Many floating point values use 64 bits and being able to directly manipulate these in a single register is a lot more efficient than doing voodoo to combine two 32-bit registers.
Most architectures have separate (64-bit or wider) floating point registers. (For example, IA-32 has 80-bit FP registers.) They never have to use use their general purpose (integer) registers for FP values. So a 64-bit architecture does nothing for FP. It's only important for manipulating 64-bit integer values. You may say "no one will ever need to count beyond 4294967295" but (a) someone does and (b) pointers are integers, and 64-bit pointers are one of the great advantages of a 64-bit architecture. Previously you needed (as you say) voodoo to combine two 32-bit registers and odds are the architecture didn't really have any support for addressing memory that way. Now with a 64-bit architecture you can stick it in a register and do normal operations with it.
Because it takes fewer CPU cycles when compiling or scanning source code.
In US ASCII, converting a letter to a given case requires a single logical operation. Make the canonical form either lowercase or uppercase, and the CPU issue becomes completely trivial on a modern computer. Now, if you want to program in another language, it could be slightly more complicated. Still, I don't think compiler speed is a serious concern.
Not that I think case-insensitive languages should be allowed to exist, mind you, but...
That site is a hoax, like Landover but subtle enough that most people don't figure it out. I can't find it anymore but on their "4KIDZ" page they had a peppered moth teaching about creationism. No real creationists would ever mention the peppered moth, unless they were trying to discredit the evidence. There are lots of other things that are just a bit too ridiculous to be real. That's not to say that real creationists aren't ridiculous, but they don't explicitly point out the hilarious consequences of their beliefs, like kangaroos in the Middle East. If you don't know any of these people it's easy to think this site represents their views, but it's just a little bit over the top.
Apache 2 already runs natively quite nicely on NT-kerneled Windows. No one would want to run a server through an emulation layer like SFU or Cygwin--the performance would suck. And MS has no reason to push Apache; IIS is one of their flagship server products.
The restaurant was at the end of the universe in time, not space. IIRC, it was a place where you could get a good meal while you watched the universe end--over and over again. So if it were to be on that map, it would have to be within our light horizon, which means the end of the universe would have already happened here. The good news: the restaurant might be out there beyond our vision. The bad news: we might see it one day.:)
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Don't just open the ports on which remote clients are to knock. Open a whole range of ports--say, a couple thousand. Then an attacker won't (easily) be able to try all the possible knock sequences.
I have sshd running on my machine, but on a high port number. Even if someone found it was open, they wouldn't know it was ssh without some further investigation. So this scheme is fine, but at the end it shouldn't open ssh on 22, but on some other pre-arranged port.
I suppose Bush could probably open an email, but do you really think he could read it? This is the guy who can't even use a teleprompter--he gets his speeches read to him, phrase by phrase, through an earpiece.
No, it's not. Terrorism is something done by people without direct state sponsorship. Terrorism is something done to disrupt civilian life by making people afraid to go about their daily lives. When one state blows up a pipeline in another state, that's an act of war.
As an American, I find your comment to be generally accurate. (There is something of a safety net, depending on where you live, but these days it's not much.) All I ask is that you remember that not all Americans share the values you describe. I know that our current administration and our corporate-driven culture don't do anything to dispel that view, but remember that many Americans dislike both of those things. Some of us do want to bring developed-world socialism to the US (though we can't call it that here), but it's a hard fight. So yes, many (even most) Americans do have an obsession with money as the ultimate source of value (for a country, or a person), but there are plenty of us who see beyond that.
So that means they might actually find this element in Iraq. Maybe they bought it from Niger?
I'm not sure I disagree, but I do want to nitpick: the other 3 teams in the AFC East had 22 combined wins. The other 3 teams in the NFC South had 20 combined wins. (One of those was Atlanta, which went from very bad to very good when Vick returned late in the season--to beat the Panthers.) In contrast, the Pats only conference loss was to a much weaker Buffalo team, albeit on the first weekend of the season and quite a bit separated from their current streak. So who had the tougher conference? I'd say Pats, but not by much.
Then again, I'm not a fan of either team and I don't have money on the game, so don't take my word for anything.
Oh, so the Pentagon is now doing the whole "bidding for contracts" thing?
So I read the article about the 4 different games they tested with. The problem is that the games really weren't reflective of the real life teams. For example, in two of the games the Panthers were a passing team. Then they somehow conclude the Panthers are a lock? I don't think so. Video games may try to predict football games, but I still trust the predictions from Vegas much more.
#!/usr/bin/lynx
<html> <head> <title>You're Infected!</title> </head> <body> You have the HTML worm. </body> </html>
Save that as worm.html. Then: ./worm.html
$ chmod +x worm.html
$
So all you Linux weenies can shut up now, because on Linux you make executable HTML files too! Throw in the goatse image and you have malicious code just like Windows users have to deal with.
(I've tested this and it actually works, assuming the path to lynx is correct. I was unable to prevent lynx from displaying the she-bang line, but oh well.)
Actually this bug works in the opposite order--the first string is the one that's displayed. Then again, maybe your meant that: after all, it's not inconceivable that people would be more willing to give their credit card number over to the goatse guy than to Microsoft...
This is hilarious. There's a bug in IE that's being exploited to steal credit card information. MS evidently hasn't figured out how to fix it so they'll remove support for a whole feature of HTTP.
I'm starting to see a pattern here. IE has standards-compliance issues and MS doesn't seem to be making any moves to increase standards support or support additional standards. The IE rendering engine hasn't really changed in years now and there aren't any plans on the horizon either. A bug that should be simple to fix hasn't been fixed in weeks (months?) and before they release a fix, they're releasing a workaround to one of the (several) problems that the bug is causing.
My conclusion? The IE code base is a mess. Like Netscape 4, it's grown too fast and with too little control from competent engineers. Forget things like proper CSS2 support: the IE team can't even wrestle the code to fix a simple bug. I wouldn't be surprised if MS has for some time now been in the process of rewriting IE (or substantial parts of it) from scratch. After all, it worked for the Mozilla Project.
By the user who sees the image. That's why the proper solution to bandwidth theft (via image srcing) is not to require a referer from your own site. This is an inconvenience for UAs that don't send the referer. Rather, reject the request if a referer is present and not from your own site .
The beauty of this is that it works because a majority of users do send honest referers. If I try to steal bandwidth from your site and you're using this restriction, most of my viewers won't see the image. That provides me with enough incentive to host the image myself, or ask your permission, or whatnot. Yes, the image will still display correctly for a few people who don't send the referer at all, but who wants a majority of their viewers to see a broken image? The scheme I propose is just as simple as requiring that all image requests have your referer, and just as effective, but is much more accommodating of privacy-conscious users.
Uh, if the spammers are smart, they'll actually use the word you give them to submit the form, and if it doesn't work they'll make you enter another one. some of them are hiring smart people. Maybe if there weren't so many out-of-work programmers in the world...
Not everyone's clock is set correctly. There are probably about 3 virus-infested boxes already executing the DDoS against SCO. This should actually be good news for SCO's sysadmins: those machines will also stop early.
If Lieberman does well in NH, it will be because of right-leaning independents and Republicans voting in the Democratic primary. They like him because (a) he's about as close to their positions as you can be and still call yourself a Democrat and (b) as a mini-Republican, he has no chance of beating Bush. The Democrats, especially in NH, aren't going out to vote for Lieberman.
My prediction: if the Democrats lose the presidential election, he'll do a Zell Miller, whine about how much his party sucks, and retire. To which I say: good riddance.
Don't give me that crap about how much better the US economy performs than the EU. The median standard of living in the EU is higher than in the US. The US economy is great at producing wealth at the top, but conservative Americans have an aversion to using the economy to solve social problems ("communism! class war!"). I think this is a major reason why Europeans view the US as "backwards". Yes, both the US and the EU have economies that have solved the problems of food, shelter, and medicine. But the US has not seen to distributing those solutions to the people.
Many Americans have an ingrained sense that the only job of the economy is to grow. Things like social nets and environmental protections interfere with the ability of the (total) economy to grow at the fastest rate possible, so they must be inherently bad. This is the unifying economic philosophy of the conservative Republicans: government itself is inherently bad precisely because it siphons money (taxes) away from investment and consumption. If you believe in Reaganomics ("a rising tide lifts all boats") this makes some sense. But in the real world, it leads to a morally bankrupt society obsessed with money.
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So in conclusion, there are 36 inches in a yard.
Wow, the 941-pin socket must be really something!
:)
Cheers,
Most architectures have separate (64-bit or wider) floating point registers. (For example, IA-32 has 80-bit FP registers.) They never have to use use their general purpose (integer) registers for FP values. So a 64-bit architecture does nothing for FP. It's only important for manipulating 64-bit integer values. You may say "no one will ever need to count beyond 4294967295" but (a) someone does and (b) pointers are integers, and 64-bit pointers are one of the great advantages of a 64-bit architecture. Previously you needed (as you say) voodoo to combine two 32-bit registers and odds are the architecture didn't really have any support for addressing memory that way. Now with a 64-bit architecture you can stick it in a register and do normal operations with it.
In US ASCII, converting a letter to a given case requires a single logical operation. Make the canonical form either lowercase or uppercase, and the CPU issue becomes completely trivial on a modern computer. Now, if you want to program in another language, it could be slightly more complicated. Still, I don't think compiler speed is a serious concern.
Not that I think case-insensitive languages should be allowed to exist, mind you, but...
Those are the Saudis in general. Let's not assume every Saudi agrees with that. I imagine many of them don't, in fact.
How would you like it if they said "let's remember that every American likes to invade Arab countries and believes the Second Coming is at hand"?
That site is a hoax, like Landover but subtle enough that most people don't figure it out. I can't find it anymore but on their "4KIDZ" page they had a peppered moth teaching about creationism. No real creationists would ever mention the peppered moth, unless they were trying to discredit the evidence. There are lots of other things that are just a bit too ridiculous to be real. That's not to say that real creationists aren't ridiculous, but they don't explicitly point out the hilarious consequences of their beliefs, like kangaroos in the Middle East. If you don't know any of these people it's easy to think this site represents their views, but it's just a little bit over the top.
Apache 2 already runs natively quite nicely on NT-kerneled Windows. No one would want to run a server through an emulation layer like SFU or Cygwin--the performance would suck. And MS has no reason to push Apache; IIS is one of their flagship server products.
The restaurant was at the end of the universe in time, not space. IIRC, it was a place where you could get a good meal while you watched the universe end--over and over again. So if it were to be on that map, it would have to be within our light horizon, which means the end of the universe would have already happened here. The good news: the restaurant might be out there beyond our vision. The bad news: we might see it one day. :)
Yeah, but Bush won't have a plan for getting him back.