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IPv6 is Here
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You have to find and ID the block first, and that means starting all over documenting the source of rogue relays. Not something any of us would be looking forward to.
The government announced a series of additional "sport" licenses with more lenient prerequisites:
* Sport Coroner * Sport Patent Attorney * Sport CPA * Sport CIA Operative * Sport Journalist * Sport Software Engineer * Sport President
nooo nooo noooooooo!
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IPv6 is Here
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· Score: 2, Interesting
IPv6 needs to stay in the can until we can figure out a way to solve the spam problem. Right now, RBLs are the most effective method of stopping spam. If IPv6 rolls out, spammers will have exponentially more address space from which to operate and the ensuing spam problem will make what we have now look trivial.
A prerequisite for the rollout of IPv6 must be law enforcement getting off their asses and demonstrating that spammers will get busted for their illegal activities. Otherwise it will take 20+ years to ID and block IPv6 rogue IP space.
Most of the Mac users I know decorate and name their PCs. They seem to have a more romantic relationship with this piece of equipment, whereas PC users consider their computers tools. Maybe this explains why Mac people are so defensive? It's like calling their girlfriend names?
It was also against US sanctions. Whatever you may think of the Iraq war, I think it's safe to say that there was no US law explicitly forbidding it.
Take a look at the Constitution and the War Powers Act. Think again.
Technically speaking, the president is not granted the authority to declare "war" and Congress does not have the ability to arbitrarily give such authority to the executive branch. Bush's "war" was definitely un-Constitutional, and likely illegal.
Re:Give the Poor Guy a Rest (not Arrest)
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Bobby Fischer Found
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There's a difference between being intelligent related to government issues, and being an absolute conspiracy nutjob who people, apparently like you, think is intelligent about government instead of just being an autistic chess wiz who thinks the Jews made up the Holocaust to make money.
Need I remind you, half the country, as well as our president seems to be comparably intellectually misguided with respect to the connection of Iraq to 911 and Saddam Hussein having WMDs.
The whole world has gone mad. Bobby Fischer doesn't seem that weird anymore.
speaking of ebay auctions, check this out - I submitted it as a story to Slashdot (and "surprise" it was rejected), which means it will be rejected about 4 times before someone approves it... but it's the ultimate nerd auction.
The last console I bought was the N64. There were a few games introduced on that console that were light years ahead of everything else available at the time (Wave Race, Super Mario World, etc.) Then came a barrage of horrible, often-unplayable titles that made the prospect of buying/trying new games more of a gamble than a fun experience.
I respect how Sony has maintained backwards compatibility, whereas, with the exception of Game Boy, Nintendo has not. I suspect Nintento's "Apple->Macintosh" strategy has cost them market share. I believe any game manufacturer who alienates their installed base will suffer the same fate.
After wasting too much money trying to find playable, original titles, I just gave up on consoles altogether. It's easier to play games on my PC.
While I might not be the target demographic for the console developers, ironically, if they could get ME to purchase a new console, that would be the litmus test IMO of the long-term success of their venture. I see no reason to jump back on that hamster wheel and wade through a sea of crappy titles, or buy the "next big thang" console, only to have 3 decent games available for it.
I sold my gameboy probably ten years ago. Ironically, I almost regret that because it has outlived many more advanced consoles. The depth of software is what really makes these platforms work IMO.
In many ways, I understand that these companies are more interested in hardware than software sales. They're compelled to produce a "next generation" console with at least one "killer app" that they use as a means to sell the hardware. Personally, I'd prefer to have them just support the existing hardware, which at this point is underexploited in the first place, and charge three times more for a "killer game" than crank out new consoles and more peripherals and subscription crap that makes the average consumer feel like the main thing they've plugged into their TV is their wallet.
"I haven't seen such ruses used in a mass mailer in a long time. This piece of code is so sloppy, it's devious," said Mircea Ciubotariu, a researcher at Romanian AV firm BitDefender.
Considering virus writers are more motivated by being devious than impressing analysts, doesn't it seem inappropriate to assume the coding was "sloppy?"
I was working on a large project where we tested platforms for Oracle. We ran two servers with similar hardware. One on Solaris+Oracle and one on NT+Oracle.
After serveral months, it became obvious there wes no comparison in performance. The Solaris-based server out-performed the NT-based box easily by a factor of 4-to-1.
More importantly, the NT system has to be routinely rebooted in order to remain stable. I actually had to schedule reboots just to keep the system from running out of resources!
That was more than four years ago. Since then, the NT server was repurposed into a workstation; the Solaris Oracle server is still running with an uptime of more than two years.
Customers to Gain from Enhanced Web Services and Increased Benefits
HERNDON, VA - January 6, 2003 - VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq:VRSN), the leading provider of digital trust services, announced today that it has re-launched the Network Solutions brand under its wholly owned subsidiary Network Solutions, Inc. to conduct its domain name, Web site and e-mail service business. Network Solutions will provide a full range of professional, customized Web services for businesses, organizations and individuals.
High quality analog processing has a very special type of warmth and compression. It may be subjective to many, but I suspect this is mainly among those that have blown their ears out listing to stuff at too high a volume.
In theory this seems reasonable as long as the update requirements don't put undue pressure on the TLD system. I can't imagine they would since technology has far surpassed what was available when these standards were introduced.
There are some obvious, immediate benefits with issues like this. Systems can more quickly route around outages and DDOS attacks.
However, I'm highly suspect that Verisign came up with this idea without some self-interest at the heart of it.
Why do I have this feeling that, any non-Verisign registrar won't get their updates reflected in the root servers as quickly as Verisign's own customers?
* Burger King announces burgers cooked on a griddle are inferior to flame broiled; increased consumption of griddle-cooked burgers will result in major job loss in "manufacturing sector"
* Head of the republican national party criticizes John Kerry
* Donald Trump names another building after himself
* GAP spokesperson lauds the success of NAFTA
* Bill O'Reilly accuses Michael Moore of being "un-American"
* Humvee automaker claims proposed fuel consumption standands are a danger to society
* Larry King interviews Martha Stewart's pool guy and asks the tough questions everyone's dying to know. Chlorine or Bromine?
* Clear Channel Communications questions the integrity of smaller radio radio stations insisting, "They don't have the resources to report news according to established journalistic standards."
* Consensus at 2004 annual meeting of Zoologists confirms: "Bears do shit in the woods."
This guy can homebrew cruise missiles, embedded electronic guidances systems, program firmware, craft things out of blocks of wood and other materials, work with fiberglass, understands chemistry, electronics, metal fabrication and various other skills, and he's claiming that unless he can build MISSILES he can't provide for his family?
I won't charge you millions of dollars like the big-boys might. I won't question your politics or religious beliefs. I simply ask that you provide me with travel to your location plus safe, warm, comfortable accommodation for the duration of the project, and employ me at an agreed rate for my services.
Somehow I suspect this guy might have some trouble travelling anywhere now....unless he can ride on his cruise missile.
If this guy has trouble finding accommodations, maybe he can share rooms with all the agents that will be tailing him.
My favorite is the guy on TV selling an information package on "How to make big bucks in real estate". Of course, he's not in the real estate business. He's in the merchandising-of-information-package business.
This reminds me of an e*trade commercial that showed a guy saying, "Want to make lots of money? Simply buy my book, 'How to get people to send you $50 for a book.'"
Get up, get down.. AARP is a joke in your town..
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419 Scam Blow-by-Blow
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f the above is true, where are the AARP-sponsored TV ads and other PSAs notifying the public?
I believe the AARP is busy running their own scams, such as the promotion of the republican "prescription drug bill" which is even more sleazy than the 419 schemes.
Since there doesn't seem to be an easy way to outlaw stupidity, this may be the closest we can come.
Even if these schemes were legitimate, the premise usually involves the victim acting unethically or illegally - i.e. helping launder money in one form or another. Enforcement bureaus employ this kind of "entrapment" all the time. IMO, If you're dumb enough to get mixed up in a scheme like this, losing your money is likely a small part of the punishment you deserve.
Slashdot Mirror
You have to find and ID the block first, and that means starting all over documenting the source of rogue relays. Not something any of us would be looking forward to.
The government announced a series of additional "sport" licenses with more lenient prerequisites:
* Sport Coroner
* Sport Patent Attorney
* Sport CPA
* Sport CIA Operative
* Sport Journalist
* Sport Software Engineer
* Sport President
IPv6 needs to stay in the can until we can figure out a way to solve the spam problem. Right now, RBLs are the most effective method of stopping spam. If IPv6 rolls out, spammers will have exponentially more address space from which to operate and the ensuing spam problem will make what we have now look trivial.
A prerequisite for the rollout of IPv6 must be law enforcement getting off their asses and demonstrating that spammers will get busted for their illegal activities. Otherwise it will take 20+ years to ID and block IPv6 rogue IP space.
Most of the Mac users I know decorate and name their PCs. They seem to have a more romantic relationship with this piece of equipment, whereas PC users consider their computers tools. Maybe this explains why Mac people are so defensive? It's like calling their girlfriend names?
It was also against US sanctions. Whatever you may think of the Iraq war, I think it's safe to say that there was no US law explicitly forbidding it.
Take a look at the Constitution and the War Powers Act. Think again.
Technically speaking, the president is not granted the authority to declare "war" and Congress does not have the ability to arbitrarily give such authority to the executive branch. Bush's "war" was definitely un-Constitutional, and likely illegal.
There's a difference between being intelligent related to government issues, and being an absolute conspiracy nutjob who people, apparently like you, think is intelligent about government instead of just being an autistic chess wiz who thinks the Jews made up the Holocaust to make money.
Need I remind you, half the country, as well as our president seems to be comparably intellectually misguided with respect to the connection of Iraq to 911 and Saddam Hussein having WMDs.
The whole world has gone mad. Bobby Fischer doesn't seem that weird anymore.
speaking of ebay auctions, check this out - I submitted it as a story to Slashdot (and "surprise" it was rejected), which means it will be rejected about 4 times before someone approves it... but it's the ultimate nerd auction.
The last console I bought was the N64. There were a few games introduced on that console that were light years ahead of everything else available at the time (Wave Race, Super Mario World, etc.) Then came a barrage of horrible, often-unplayable titles that made the prospect of buying/trying new games more of a gamble than a fun experience.
I respect how Sony has maintained backwards compatibility, whereas, with the exception of Game Boy, Nintendo has not. I suspect Nintento's "Apple->Macintosh" strategy has cost them market share. I believe any game manufacturer who alienates their installed base will suffer the same fate.
After wasting too much money trying to find playable, original titles, I just gave up on consoles altogether. It's easier to play games on my PC.
While I might not be the target demographic for the console developers, ironically, if they could get ME to purchase a new console, that would be the litmus test IMO of the long-term success of their venture. I see no reason to jump back on that hamster wheel and wade through a sea of crappy titles, or buy the "next big thang" console, only to have 3 decent games available for it.
I sold my gameboy probably ten years ago. Ironically, I almost regret that because it has outlived many more advanced consoles. The depth of software is what really makes these platforms work IMO.
In many ways, I understand that these companies are more interested in hardware than software sales. They're compelled to produce a "next generation" console with at least one "killer app" that they use as a means to sell the hardware. Personally, I'd prefer to have them just support the existing hardware, which at this point is underexploited in the first place, and charge three times more for a "killer game" than crank out new consoles and more peripherals and subscription crap that makes the average consumer feel like the main thing they've plugged into their TV is their wallet.
"I haven't seen such ruses used in a mass mailer in a long time. This piece of code is so sloppy, it's devious," said Mircea Ciubotariu, a researcher at Romanian AV firm BitDefender.
Considering virus writers are more motivated by being devious than impressing analysts, doesn't it seem inappropriate to assume the coding was "sloppy?"
I am under the impression this vulnerability only affects Apache 2.x? So 1.3.x tree is safe?
Are there PHP config options to address this scenario?
I was working on a large project where we tested platforms for Oracle. We ran two servers with similar hardware. One on Solaris+Oracle and one on NT+Oracle.
After serveral months, it became obvious there wes no comparison in performance. The Solaris-based server out-performed the NT-based box easily by a factor of 4-to-1.
More importantly, the NT system has to be routinely rebooted in order to remain stable. I actually had to schedule reboots just to keep the system from running out of resources!
That was more than four years ago. Since then, the NT server was repurposed into a workstation; the Solaris Oracle server is still running with an uptime of more than two years.
symlinks will be available in Windows Enhanced NT Server 2010
VeriSign Re-Launches Network Solutions Brand
Customers to Gain from Enhanced Web Services and Increased Benefits
HERNDON, VA - January 6, 2003 - VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq:VRSN), the leading provider of digital trust services, announced today that it has re-launched the Network Solutions brand under its wholly owned subsidiary Network Solutions, Inc. to conduct its domain name, Web site and e-mail service business. Network Solutions will provide a full range of professional, customized Web services for businesses, organizations and individuals.
Isn't Network Solutions a Verisign company?
Mountain Dew strikes again!
High quality analog processing has a very special type of warmth and compression. It may be subjective to many, but I suspect this is mainly among those that have blown their ears out listing to stuff at too high a volume.
In theory this seems reasonable as long as the update requirements don't put undue pressure on the TLD system. I can't imagine they would since technology has far surpassed what was available when these standards were introduced.
There are some obvious, immediate benefits with issues like this. Systems can more quickly route around outages and DDOS attacks.
However, I'm highly suspect that Verisign came up with this idea without some self-interest at the heart of it.
Why do I have this feeling that, any non-Verisign registrar won't get their updates reflected in the root servers as quickly as Verisign's own customers?
* Burger King announces burgers cooked on a griddle are inferior to flame broiled; increased consumption of griddle-cooked burgers will result in major job loss in "manufacturing sector"
* Head of the republican national party criticizes John Kerry
* Donald Trump names another building after himself
* GAP spokesperson lauds the success of NAFTA
* Bill O'Reilly accuses Michael Moore of being "un-American"
* Humvee automaker claims proposed fuel consumption standands are a danger to society
* Larry King interviews Martha Stewart's pool guy and asks the tough questions everyone's dying to know. Chlorine or Bromine?
* Clear Channel Communications questions the integrity of smaller radio radio stations insisting, "They don't have the resources to report news according to established journalistic standards."
* Consensus at 2004 annual meeting of Zoologists confirms: "Bears do shit in the woods."
While Jane's at work, her best friend takes her 1981 Toyota Camry and gets it a fresh flame job, 15" rims, and a cruise missile attached to the roof!
Let me see if I can get this straight...
This guy can homebrew cruise missiles, embedded electronic guidances systems, program firmware, craft things out of blocks of wood and other materials, work with fiberglass, understands chemistry, electronics, metal fabrication and various other skills, and he's claiming that unless he can build MISSILES he can't provide for his family?
I won't charge you millions of dollars like the big-boys might. I won't question your politics or religious beliefs. I simply ask that you provide me with travel to your location plus safe, warm, comfortable accommodation for the duration of the project, and employ me at an agreed rate for my services.
Somehow I suspect this guy might have some trouble travelling anywhere now....unless he can ride on his cruise missile.
If this guy has trouble finding accommodations, maybe he can share rooms with all the agents that will be tailing him.
My favorite is the guy on TV selling an information package on "How to make big bucks in real estate". Of course, he's not in the real estate business. He's in the merchandising-of-information-package business.
This reminds me of an e*trade commercial that showed a guy saying, "Want to make lots of money? Simply buy my book, 'How to get people to send you $50 for a book.'"
f the above is true, where are the AARP-sponsored TV ads and other PSAs notifying the public?
I believe the AARP is busy running their own scams, such as the promotion of the republican "prescription drug bill" which is even more sleazy than the 419 schemes.
Since there doesn't seem to be an easy way to outlaw stupidity, this may be the closest we can come.
Even if these schemes were legitimate, the premise usually involves the victim acting unethically or illegally - i.e. helping launder money in one form or another. Enforcement bureaus employ this kind of "entrapment" all the time. IMO, If you're dumb enough to get mixed up in a scheme like this, losing your money is likely a small part of the punishment you deserve.
Intel would never cripple the functionality of their products to spurn sales of other products. Nope. NO way.
AMD Rules.