Not everyone needs 10Gbps ethernet. or giant LCD screens. or 7.1 channel (or 5.1 channel even) sound.
What's your fucking point? They're a Hardware review site. Their job is to review the latest and greatest, so that people who are in the market know what their options are. Their VGA Charts are great, I refer to them all the time.
Just because YOU don't care about the latest video card, doesn't mean SOMEONE ELSE doesn't care about 10GBps ethernet, SATA or 7.1 channel sound.
Here's my theory: I think that there are actually two different types of "spammers" out there that get lumped together.
The first are the technological kind, that set-up crawlers to look EVERYWHERE for e-mail addresses. Websites, Newsgroups, perhaps even other places. These people then create giant lists of e-mails that they sell to a second group, the people who actually send out these e-mails. This second group is what people like Ralsky fall into.. they find companies that want to "Advertise", and fire these ads off to the millions that have been harvested.
My prediction is that in a week or so, you should start getting something... out of curiosity though how much spam does chris.slashdot@opticdesign.com get? You use that address only here right?
Anyway, I've bookmarked your journal, await results:)
If your e-mail is anywhere on any webpage in any corner of the web where you think nobody goes, the spammers will find it.
Speaking as someone who's e-mail address is associated with multiple projects (all of which have webpages), and who has never given his real e-mail address to any pr0n site, I can safely say your theory is bullshit.
I think we've finally come up with a use for DDOS!
What if we started a massive DDOS on the P2P monitoring fuckers?
No need to torjan people's computers, I'm sure some would install an attack program, and do it quite willingfully (especially those who have been bitten in the ass by ISPs that shit their pants when they see a letter like above).
If we could get... 10,000 computers. Especially at univertisies... and then just unleash a massive onslaught on the likes of MediaForce, Overpeer, and the rest of them, we wouldn't have anything to worry about anymore!:)
So you expect joe average AOL accouting/tech support worker to not have an internet connection? Working for an ISP?
Exactly how do you propose usernames and login passwords be on a physically seperate network? These things need to be validated millions of times a day to allow people to log in, don't they?
Granted, there are solutions.. Firewalls, VPNs, SSH clients, different forms of physical security like those secureid cards that are supposed to be required to gain access to the Merlin system... (neat things, a friend who worked at Xerox had one.. it's a credit-card sized but 3 or 4 cards height thing with an LCD showing an access code on it that changes every 60 seconds).
Thinking about it, I doubt this attack even took place, I think it was just used as a stepping stone to write an article showing that outsourcing all your tech support to India may not be such a great idea (social hacking has never been more effective:)
They tricked/convinced/conspiderd with AOL employees (those hooked to internal, and external networks at once) into accepting and running a trojan, that would act as a gateway between AOL's systems and the outside world while idling on IRC..
This is how most DDOS bots work, I guess they just took it one step further.
Disclamier: I could be wrong, IANAAH (I Am Not An AOL Hacker), this is just what I got out of reading the article.
It means as one thing goes up, the other goes down proportionately.. so "an inverse relationship between the IQ of an individual and the age at which they first engaged in sexual activity" means that as "the age at which they first engaged in sexual activity" goes up, "the IQ of an individual" goes down.
This was a website, meta-searching another website without their permission.
I used to run a large MP3 meta-search, and I made damned sure I had permission from every search engine I meta'd, and that their ads were put into my rotation to compensate for the extra traffic.
I also added measures such as search caching (so when people searched for "britney spears" 500 times a day, I wouldn't actually send 500 queries, I'd only send 8, at 3 hour intervals).
The perl module in question here allows an easy way to extract information from a website, and of course provides the capability to meta-search another site.. but that doesn't mean you have the right to do it without their permission! This is exactly what the Judge ruled:
"Even if (Bidders Edge's) searches use only a small amount of eBay's computer system capacity, Bidders Edge has nonetheless deprived eBay of the ability to use that portion of its personal property for its own purposes"
They used eBay's system resources, without making a deal, and without compensation.. This is just-plain-wrong (tm).
Technology is not the problem here, it's that some people are just jackasses and want to profit from other's work.. this shouldn't be allowed. And I don't mean not allowed by law. Technology does wonders for blocking othertechnology.. if the two websites in question have half a brain they'll either
a) change their business model b) find a way to block these bots (embedding tiny images in their pages for example? I'm sure I could come up with many more, if someone wants to pay me:)
I just tried this under Win2000, and I have to scroll up/down like a MANIAC to get it to hit 90% CPU Usage (this is on a XP1800+ running at 1.15Ghz, need better RAM) with a full-screen IE5.5 on a CPU that's barely half as powerful as the one in these beasts. Scrolling in Outlook Express however (so basically IE5.5 in a smaller window) seems to max the CPU out at 40%, no matter how hard I try.
As an interesting note, scrolling in other programs, such as Total Commander, Notepad or even WordPad (opened a large file, changed a bunch of fonts around randomly, still nothing), does not take any noticable CPU time... Hmm, this CPU-hogging seems to be an IE issue, maybe they're using IE to display the guide?
The article also notes that the slow down does not happen when scrolling sideways in the guide (through time), only up/down (through channels)... go figure.
The guide is easy to navigate through and scroll speed is quite fast. The one thing that is worth noting that even on the HP's default Pentium 4 2.53GHz, CPU utilization can reach very high levels while scrolling through the list. Sometimes scrolling through the guide can cause the TV encoding process to stutter which is definitely unfortunate as stuttering isn't nearly this common with set-top PVRs. The problem here seems to be an issue with prioritizing threads, as the TV encode/decode threads should take absolute priority over any other threads contending for CPU time - especially those required to scroll through the program guide.....
The first time the guide starts up, resource usage also pikes which will sometimes cause the TV encoding process to stutter as well. What you may find yourself doing is making sure you don't start up the guide while you're recording anything important as the stutters will be recorded to disk.
So, a 2.53 Ghz P4 can't handle opening the guide and scrolling through it? I have to make sure I'm not recording anything important while using the guide? Can M$ possibly get any more inefficient? Don't forget, this is with HARDWARE MPEG2! I wondered at first why cards without hardware MPEG2 codecs weren't supported.. now I understand.
My native tongue is Russian. English is -FAR- easier to learn then the hundreds of rules (and exceptions, and things that are said one way, and written a totally different way) in Russian. I'm not saying everyone actually knows all the rules, or that they're all required to speak, but a good chunk are necessary...
And what about learning the thousands of letters in the Oriental alphabets? (I don't know which ones specifically, don't flame me...)
So give me a fucking break... English is NOT a hard language to learn, most of the immigrants just don't care enough to try.
Enough already with the "Everything running windows is automatically shit" philosophy. Where does it say this runs Windows XP? Or that it HAS a Start menu?
Oh wait, it doesn't. It runs "Microsoft Windows CE.NET v4.1 with a custom user interface".
Look at the pics. There is no Start menu, it's replaced with (what appears to be) a very small, white cross, with a little up arrow above it. It uses up no screen space at all.
A few months ago my linux box [Evergreen Technologoies (aka AMD) K5-100] decided to die. (Old Compaq, far, far past it's time.. the BIOS seems to have corrupted itself, it would no longer give a readable VGA font, and upon booting linux, the kernel seemed to panic and reboot).
I took out the HD, Video, NIC, plopped it into a P200, hit the power switch, and everything resumed as it should. No reconfiguring, it just worked.
I'm not chemist (but I am taking some chem classes), but would that not make Chlorine GAS?
2Na(s) + Cl 2(g) -> 2NaCl(s)
I assume you want to do that reaction backwards, are you so sure that's a good idea? Chlorine gas is nasty stuff.. it's why Blech has so many warnings on it (it decomposes, giving off Cl 2).
Yep, the WSH (Windows Scripting Host) is a framework that allows you to use any language you like to script windows events.. windows comes bundled with VBScript and JScript (kinda like JavaScript, just more prorietary), but there are other addons available, such as Perl and Python.
Keep in mind WSH is not by default installed on all machines (I believe Win95 does not have it, some Win98 Installs do, and anything after 2K comes bundled with it), so you may need to grab the installer from here.
What does working on Windows have to do with anything? You sound like one of the thousands of mindless Slashdot anti-microsoft spokesmen.. Sure, lets make fun of windows and the people who wrote it, but my question to you is, can YOU DO BETTER?
Can YOU make an OS that will run on hardware created by thousands of companies? Support most common devices, right out of the box? Point-and-click driver installation?
Don't get me wrong, I love linux, and it's running on my gateway/firewall/samba/apache server sitting in my basement, but it doesn't mean that I'd like to use it for my desktop.. I tried once, and it just isn't ready. Not until it has the backing of many more hardware manufacturers, and more standards (the X clipboard springs to mind).
If whoever wrote windows was high at the time, power to them, they created the operating system that turned computers into household items.
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Not everyone needs 10Gbps ethernet.
or giant LCD screens.
or 7.1 channel (or 5.1 channel even) sound.
What's your fucking point?
They're a Hardware review site. Their job is to review the latest and greatest, so that people who are in the market know what their options are. Their VGA Charts are great, I refer to them all the time.
Just because YOU don't care about the latest video card, doesn't mean SOMEONE ELSE doesn't care about 10GBps ethernet, SATA or 7.1 channel sound.
Ever heard of Bittorrent?
They put up new [fucking huge] SVCDs all the time, and I've gotten very respectable transfer rates from the BT network (250k/sec or so).
Grabbing it now, albeit at about 15k/sec .. hopefully a few people with the complete file wouldn't mind sharing a bit of bandwidth..
Here's my theory: I think that there are actually two different types of "spammers" out there that get lumped together.
The first are the technological kind, that set-up crawlers to look EVERYWHERE for e-mail addresses. Websites, Newsgroups, perhaps even other places. These people then create giant lists of e-mails that they sell to a second group, the people who actually send out these e-mails. This second group is what people like Ralsky fall into.. they find companies that want to "Advertise", and fire these ads off to the millions that have been harvested.
Good idea!
:)
My prediction is that in a week or so, you should start getting something... out of curiosity though how much spam does chris.slashdot@opticdesign.com get? You use that address only here right?
Anyway, I've bookmarked your journal, await results
You're an idiot.
If your e-mail is anywhere on any webpage in any corner of the web where you think nobody goes, the spammers will find it.
Speaking as someone who's e-mail address is associated with multiple projects (all of which have webpages), and who has never given his real e-mail address to any pr0n site, I can safely say your theory is bullshit.
I think we've finally come up with a use for DDOS!
:)
What if we started a massive DDOS on the P2P monitoring fuckers?
No need to torjan people's computers, I'm sure some would install an attack program, and do it quite willingfully (especially those who have been bitten in the ass by ISPs that shit their pants when they see a letter like above).
If we could get... 10,000 computers. Especially at univertisies... and then just unleash a massive onslaught on the likes of MediaForce, Overpeer, and the rest of them, we wouldn't have anything to worry about anymore!
Then again, what do I know, I love in Canada...
So you expect joe average AOL accouting/tech support worker to not have an internet connection? Working for an ISP?
:)
Exactly how do you propose usernames and login passwords be on a physically seperate network? These things need to be validated millions of times a day to allow people to log in, don't they?
Granted, there are solutions.. Firewalls, VPNs, SSH clients, different forms of physical security like those secureid cards that are supposed to be required to gain access to the Merlin system... (neat things, a friend who worked at Xerox had one.. it's a credit-card sized but 3 or 4 cards height thing with an LCD showing an access code on it that changes every 60 seconds).
Thinking about it, I doubt this attack even took place, I think it was just used as a stepping stone to write an article showing that outsourcing all your tech support to India may not be such a great idea (social hacking has never been more effective
Did you read the article?
They tricked/convinced/conspiderd with AOL employees (those hooked to internal, and external networks at once) into accepting and running a trojan, that would act as a gateway between AOL's systems and the outside world while idling on IRC..
This is how most DDOS bots work, I guess they just took it one step further.
Disclamier: I could be wrong, IANAAH (I Am Not An AOL Hacker), this is just what I got out of reading the article.
Do you know what an inverse relationship means?
It means as one thing goes up, the other goes down proportionately.. so "an inverse relationship between the IQ of an individual and the age at which they first engaged in sexual activity" means that as "the age at which they first engaged in sexual activity" goes up, "the IQ of an individual" goes down.
You have it backwards.
No, no, this is NOT the same thing.
:)
This was a website, meta-searching another website without their permission.
I used to run a large MP3 meta-search, and I made damned sure I had permission from every search engine I meta'd, and that their ads were put into my rotation to compensate for the extra traffic.
I also added measures such as search caching (so when people searched for "britney spears" 500 times a day, I wouldn't actually send 500 queries, I'd only send 8, at 3 hour intervals).
The perl module in question here allows an easy way to extract information from a website, and of course provides the capability to meta-search another site.. but that doesn't mean you have the right to do it without their permission! This is exactly what the Judge ruled:
"Even if (Bidders Edge's) searches use only a small amount of eBay's computer system capacity, Bidders Edge has nonetheless deprived eBay of the ability to use that portion of its personal property for its own purposes"
They used eBay's system resources, without making a deal, and without compensation.. This is just-plain-wrong (tm).
Technology is not the problem here, it's that some people are just jackasses and want to profit from other's work.. this shouldn't be allowed. And I don't mean not allowed by law. Technology does wonders for blocking othertechnology.. if the two websites in question have half a brain they'll either
a) change their business model
b) find a way to block these bots (embedding tiny images in their pages for example? I'm sure I could come up with many more, if someone wants to pay me
and not try to fight progress with congress.
OMG!
:)
New York: Slippers are not to be worn after 10:00 P.M.
Florida: It is considered an offense to shower naked
Florida: You may not fart in a public place after 6 P.M. on Thursdays.
The more corrupt a country, the more numerous it's laws I guess
I just tried this under Win2000, and I have to scroll up/down like a MANIAC to get it to hit 90% CPU Usage (this is on a XP1800+ running at 1.15Ghz, need better RAM) with a full-screen IE5.5 on a CPU that's barely half as powerful as the one in these beasts. Scrolling in Outlook Express however (so basically IE5.5 in a smaller window) seems to max the CPU out at 40%, no matter how hard I try.
... go figure.
As an interesting note, scrolling in other programs, such as Total Commander, Notepad or even WordPad (opened a large file, changed a bunch of fonts around randomly, still nothing), does not take any noticable CPU time... Hmm, this CPU-hogging seems to be an IE issue, maybe they're using IE to display the guide?
The article also notes that the slow down does not happen when scrolling sideways in the guide (through time), only up/down (through channels)
So, a 2.53 Ghz P4 can't handle opening the guide and scrolling through it? I have to make sure I'm not recording anything important while using the guide? Can M$ possibly get any more inefficient? Don't forget, this is with HARDWARE MPEG2! I wondered at first why cards without hardware MPEG2 codecs weren't supported.. now I understand.
English is a hard language? As compared to what?
My native tongue is Russian. English is -FAR- easier to learn then the hundreds of rules (and exceptions, and things that are said one way, and written a totally different way) in Russian. I'm not saying everyone actually knows all the rules, or that they're all required to speak, but a good chunk are necessary...
And what about learning the thousands of letters in the Oriental alphabets? (I don't know which ones specifically, don't flame me...)
So give me a fucking break... English is NOT a hard language to learn, most of the immigrants just don't care enough to try.
Qouth the forums:
"Operating parameters:
Operating up to 10 hours for games/mp3 (Radio in standby), Talk time 4 hours and standby time up to 250 hours. "
Useful time on the Trio is about 6 hours.
Enough already with the "Everything running windows is automatically shit" philosophy. Where does it say this runs Windows XP? Or that it HAS a Start menu?
Oh wait, it doesn't. It runs "Microsoft Windows CE.NET v4.1 with a custom user interface".
Look at the pics. There is no Start menu, it's replaced with (what appears to be) a very small, white cross, with a little up arrow above it. It uses up no screen space at all.
Speak for yourself.... :)
the girl I knew when I was a kid followed through
Amen to that.
A few months ago my linux box [Evergreen Technologoies (aka AMD) K5-100] decided to die. (Old Compaq, far, far past it's time.. the BIOS seems to have corrupted itself, it would no longer give a readable VGA font, and upon booting linux, the kernel seemed to panic and reboot).
I took out the HD, Video, NIC, plopped it into a P200, hit the power switch, and everything resumed as it should. No reconfiguring, it just worked.
I love linux.
I'm not chemist (but I am taking some chem classes), but would that not make Chlorine GAS?
2Na(s) + Cl 2(g) -> 2NaCl(s)
I assume you want to do that reaction backwards, are you so sure that's a good idea? Chlorine gas is nasty stuff.. it's why Blech has so many warnings on it (it decomposes, giving off Cl 2).
I could have SWORN I saw this here a few days ago.. oh wait.. I did..
Yep, the WSH (Windows Scripting Host) is a framework that allows you to use any language you like to script windows events.. windows comes bundled with VBScript and JScript (kinda like JavaScript, just more prorietary), but there are other addons available, such as Perl and Python.
Keep in mind WSH is not by default installed on all machines (I believe Win95 does not have it, some Win98 Installs do, and anything after 2K comes bundled with it), so you may need to grab the installer from here.
What does working on Windows have to do with anything? You sound like one of the thousands of mindless Slashdot anti-microsoft spokesmen.. Sure, lets make fun of windows and the people who wrote it, but my question to you is, can YOU DO BETTER?
Can YOU make an OS that will run on hardware created by thousands of companies? Support most common devices, right out of the box? Point-and-click driver installation?
Don't get me wrong, I love linux, and it's running on my gateway/firewall/samba/apache server sitting in my basement, but it doesn't mean that I'd like to use it for my desktop.. I tried once, and it just isn't ready. Not until it has the backing of many more hardware manufacturers, and more standards (the X clipboard springs to mind).
If whoever wrote windows was high at the time, power to them, they created the operating system that turned computers into household items.
Emulators there are not..
but ISO images, there definitely are...
I do some of my best coding after smoking a little pot.. it doesn't turn everyone into a lazy piece of shit, regardless of what you've been told.
It enhances creativity, and (at least for me) makes it easier to think and make connections between things in your head.
Admitedly, it does make you hungry, and there's no denying that...