SCO Exec's = Railians (HTF do you spell that name?)
Think about all the paralells to the claim of cloning a human that was done... They never did show us the kid, and have disappeared off the face of the earth as far as the global conciousness is concerned...
I suddenly have an idea for a parody site that I just don't have time to do, www.SCOlians.org! I now place this idea under a simple license, use of that domain or a similar domain is allowed by anyone as long as they actually use the site to mock SCO...
Thou I agree when it comes to those who actually have a job that requires dealing with this... Hell just having a job would be good right now... oh well...
Yeah, I actually thought just after I hit post that I should have put a BSD in there too, I just don't use BSD for firewall purposes, thou I could with no problems... oh well.
Off to grep my logs for port 4444 and 135 to find some systems to play with, I mean laugh at...
Ok, I run a site, have plans for it that could make me some money in the future, but the site was started after the bust and my main reasons for creating it were to learn something new and to replace a site that had decided to charge subscription fees for basic usage... rather annoyingly too...
It costs me $30/month to run it, I think I can deal with that... One of these days I'll call it reasonably complete and actually go looking for customers too... Ah well... I got other sites to write...
I just noted something I liked from the article... Just to make things more fun they suspect that it also starts a synflood attack on windowsupdate.com, meaning it is a worm that tries to make it hard to get the patch to fix things... I find that funny, almost as good as the suggestion for a virus/worm to actually _do someting_ damaging to a system to convince people this is not a joke.
Don't look at me! Grade 11 was a long time ago, I can't remember Pascal at all, I don't even bother to put it on my resume... If you asked me to code something in Pascal it would take me at least 2 hours to get back up to speed... no thank you, I'll code in something a little more fun thank you...
Not too bad, what was real fun was coding with my best friend, way back in grade 11 with pascal... He has an easier time working with var names that are not descriptive but just plaid different and can be logical units in your head. It was small code so we could bacially keep track of everything in our heads... but having lines of code that read:
if ( pig > cow ) then horse;
makes for fun codeing.. and a global search and replace right before handing it in makes for good marks... heh(that and the fact that we taught more of the class then the teacher, but she still did a good job with the other students, it's just that there were more of us then her)
I suspect multiple spellings of the same word would have the opposite effect, and i have had issues with it just lately while working with some toolkits that don't use standardized spellings...
I like the solution some have thou, just define the function twice with the same name! If you got the mem for that, it solves a few problems...
I know some people like to setup some weird things to go out wardriving, but this is overkill. I have a wardriving setup, it uses an iPAQ handheld, with a single pccard wireless(Prism based) card and GPS throu the serial adapter... The thing fits in my pocket to keep it hidden, plays a chime every time it finds a new network, logs the locations in a standard log format and plays mp3's to keep me happy while I wander around downtown(I hate government towns, too many locked down nets... but wandering my apartment is easy to find free bandwidth, heh)... Sorry, but in a government town, I would be suspicious of anyone, even a lone construction worker wandering around the whole area with a Dewalt case! Sorta beggin for a officer to ask what it is...
If the big business did it directly, you would have an easy target and could hit them pretty hard and fast to stop it. This way they have a large number of layers of seperation(deniability) available. As the one company in the article said, they canned the account of the person who spammed to get the lead, but that person was probably already signed up under 15 other names and loses accounts once or twice a week. But that company has deniability, and can claim they took action, knowing that it was worthless...
I filled it out with a custom e-mail address, only ever entered on their site at that message. If I get any spam from that address, well we know where they stand from there... heh.
Cool, something interesting to do with my osciliscope... Picked it up for free from my university, they were going to trash it, works great. I currently use it most of the time to display whatever is going to my speakers, but now I have an urge to slap together an interface that will allow me to do this... This could be fun... I wonder if I could do it with my sound card? Hmmmm We will see...
Spaceward Ho! I play it on my macs, on my windows boxes and it runs in wine or BasiliskII on my linux boxes... And the network play just needs a file share somewhere that all the platforms can reach, so one linux box can share the savefile.
Up here in Canada we went throu a period where everyone who used more then about 5Gig a month( a lot of people, easy to do ) on DSL provided by Bell moved to other providers when Bell capped people. (Apparently they have taken off the cap now that all the major downloaders are off their network...) And I can understand why... Looking at my usage graphs on my router shows that I have a 30 day max both ways of about 6.25GB and for the past week I have averaged around 5.5GB both ways, with most being more than 3GB/day outgoing...
They want to cap you because bandwidth, while cheap, still costs money, and money is what every business is about. If they can find a way to reduce their costs without significantly reducing their income, they will. Convince a few people to download or upload less and they save money, but usually the customer is still paying the same amount. Some will leave, but that probably saves the company more money to a point. And they can live with the loss of a customer.
Keep a knoppix disk handy, helps to determine if it a software or hardware issue. If it fails in windows and works in knoppix, it is most likely software, but if it fails in knoppix too, it startes too look a lot like hardware. That is usually the most annoying thing to figure out in a lot of cases. Knoppix just has the advantage of not doing any damage to the tested system and will put it throu the paces quite well.
I literally just bought that today... I'm not joking... I have started to do some code in Python and had found other Nutshell books usefull in the past.. And Python in a nutshell is living up to the expectations...
I grew up in the middle of BF nowhere, you learn these things, I have purchased 2 boxes of KD in the last year, one was given to a food drive that stopped by, the other is still on my shelf, I don't eat it, my ex-gf bought it for some reason... I do know how to survive over 2 weeks alone in the woods, even without shelter in the summer... Such is my life.
Ya know, if I mixed that with a cheap folding bike, and a larget backpack, I could literally go anywhere up here in the dotCA. I could disappear for weeks at a time in the northern wilderness and not have transportation issues at all... I want.
Folding bike to cary on your back while rock climbing or rapelling, amphibious addition to the bike for river crossing and a larger backpack to carry the stuff in that I need to gather food and sleep.(I don't use a tent when camping, a blanket and an emergency tarp for rainy nights... even winter camping. I do have camping photos, just none of my sleeping arangement)
Folding bike $200USD(look em up) + pontoons (unknown price?) + random camping junk ~$200 = around $500 for a good get away from it all. Alot less then $850000 and more fun.
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The only thing is that most countries actually have something near sensible laws(ok, not close, but better then the US). You cannot get the precedent set on the case like was dont with Verizon because you would actually have to talk with a lawyer to get the going, not some random clerk that gives you a form to fill. The DMCA appears to allow them to do this. Up here in the dotCA it appears that they would have to get a search warrant from a lawyer before they could demand the info from a ISP... A little harder for them, they have to actually do some work, and the judge may tell them to mess off... I'm pretty sure it could happen in most civilized countries out there.
I'm sure that most people want to know what is happening with respect to the DMCA and the RIAA being annoying to all of us... But what is the RIAA or equivalents doing in the rest of the world along the same vein? I live in Canada and use random P2P utilities often. What are they going to try up here?
And that leads to another issue, if they don't bother people in other countries, what happens when people figure out how to use locations in other countries to hide their actions? Hackers do it, I've seen that plenty, what happens when the P2P downloaders figure out how to do it and automate it. Or create zombie programs that basically turn any infected computer into a P2P forwarder, like the spam virii that are out there these days?
And then there will be the day when something like waste or freenet will be common... what do they do then? I may chose to let the software and network store a certain amount of information on my system, but I don't know what is in there, and cannot find out. Will I still be liable?
This random collection of (possibly badly placed) lawsuits will definatly lead to people just finding a way to stop the lawsuits. Lawsuits are annoying, and people find ways to avoid things that annoy them.
As I said about BT, if someone started to get a good setup that used Freenet to get the.torrent file out and dealt with the central tracker issue, finding people becomes that much harder... Is the person unknowingly distributing the information, or do they do it on purpose... It puts an interesting twist on the questions. It's like in the article where they traced a IP to a room, but they don't know which machine was using it, so Oooops! my hard drive had a catastrophic failure that involved my trading it with a friend and losing it somewhere... Now who do you sue?
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SCO Exec's = Railians (HTF do you spell that name?)
Think about all the paralells to the claim of cloning a human that was done... They never did show us the kid, and have disappeared off the face of the earth as far as the global conciousness is concerned...
I suddenly have an idea for a parody site that I just don't have time to do, www.SCOlians.org! I now place this idea under a simple license, use of that domain or a similar domain is allowed by anyone as long as they actually use the site to mock SCO...
I AM the only one inside my firewall...
Thou I agree when it comes to those who actually have a job that requires dealing with this... Hell just having a job would be good right now... oh well...
Yeah, I actually thought just after I hit post that I should have put a BSD in there too, I just don't use BSD for firewall purposes, thou I could with no problems... oh well.
Off to grep my logs for port 4444 and 135 to find some systems to play with, I mean laugh at...
Ok, I run a site, have plans for it that could make me some money in the future, but the site was started after the bust and my main reasons for creating it were to learn something new and to replace a site that had decided to charge subscription fees for basic usage... rather annoyingly too...
It costs me $30/month to run it, I think I can deal with that... One of these days I'll call it reasonably complete and actually go looking for customers too... Ah well... I got other sites to write...
I just noted something I liked from the article... Just to make things more fun they suspect that it also starts a synflood attack on windowsupdate.com, meaning it is a worm that tries to make it hard to get the patch to fix things... I find that funny, almost as good as the suggestion for a virus/worm to actually _do someting_ damaging to a system to convince people this is not a joke.
Anyway
Incoming!!!! Oh, wait a second...
This thing runs using the DCOM-RPC protocol right? I got that port blocked at the firewall, any attempt to touch the port is just ignored.
Of course the patch will help if somehow it gets inside, but still...
I don't trust microsoft for my windows security when on the net... I trust linux.
Don't look at me! Grade 11 was a long time ago, I can't remember Pascal at all, I don't even bother to put it on my resume... If you asked me to code something in Pascal it would take me at least 2 hours to get back up to speed... no thank you, I'll code in something a little more fun thank you...
Not too bad, what was real fun was coding with my best friend, way back in grade 11 with pascal... He has an easier time working with var names that are not descriptive but just plaid different and can be logical units in your head. It was small code so we could bacially keep track of everything in our heads... but having lines of code that read:
if ( pig > cow ) then horse;
makes for fun codeing.. and a global search and replace right before handing it in makes for good marks... heh(that and the fact that we taught more of the class then the teacher, but she still did a good job with the other students, it's just that there were more of us then her)
I suspect multiple spellings of the same word would have the opposite effect, and i have had issues with it just lately while working with some toolkits that don't use standardized spellings...
I like the solution some have thou, just define the function twice with the same name! If you got the mem for that, it solves a few problems...
Anyway, enough of my ranting...
Hey, I just borrow a ride with nic to get driving, or the bus....
I'm not old, and makes sense to me...
I know some people like to setup some weird things to go out wardriving, but this is overkill. I have a wardriving setup, it uses an iPAQ handheld, with a single pccard wireless(Prism based) card and GPS throu the serial adapter... The thing fits in my pocket to keep it hidden, plays a chime every time it finds a new network, logs the locations in a standard log format and plays mp3's to keep me happy while I wander around downtown(I hate government towns, too many locked down nets... but wandering my apartment is easy to find free bandwidth, heh)... Sorry, but in a government town, I would be suspicious of anyone, even a lone construction worker wandering around the whole area with a Dewalt case! Sorta beggin for a officer to ask what it is...
Anyway
If the big business did it directly, you would have an easy target and could hit them pretty hard and fast to stop it. This way they have a large number of layers of seperation(deniability) available. As the one company in the article said, they canned the account of the person who spammed to get the lead, but that person was probably already signed up under 15 other names and loses accounts once or twice a week. But that company has deniability, and can claim they took action, knowing that it was worthless...
I filled it out with a custom e-mail address, only ever entered on their site at that message. If I get any spam from that address, well we know where they stand from there... heh.
Cool, something interesting to do with my osciliscope... Picked it up for free from my university, they were going to trash it, works great. I currently use it most of the time to display whatever is going to my speakers, but now I have an urge to slap together an interface that will allow me to do this... This could be fun... I wonder if I could do it with my sound card? Hmmmm We will see...
what do you mean bumped? I used them up till they capped and I got 1.5, and still do with IGS up here in ottawa...
Spaceward Ho! I play it on my macs, on my windows boxes and it runs in wine or BasiliskII on my linux boxes... And the network play just needs a file share somewhere that all the platforms can reach, so one linux box can share the savefile.
Up here in Canada we went throu a period where everyone who used more then about 5Gig a month( a lot of people, easy to do ) on DSL provided by Bell moved to other providers when Bell capped people. (Apparently they have taken off the cap now that all the major downloaders are off their network...) And I can understand why... Looking at my usage graphs on my router shows that I have a 30 day max both ways of about 6.25GB and for the past week I have averaged around 5.5GB both ways, with most being more than 3GB/day outgoing...
They want to cap you because bandwidth, while cheap, still costs money, and money is what every business is about. If they can find a way to reduce their costs without significantly reducing their income, they will. Convince a few people to download or upload less and they save money, but usually the customer is still paying the same amount. Some will leave, but that probably saves the company more money to a point. And they can live with the loss of a customer.
Anyway...
I'd totally forgotten about that program, how's it working these days?
Keep a knoppix disk handy, helps to determine if it a software or hardware issue. If it fails in windows and works in knoppix, it is most likely software, but if it fails in knoppix too, it startes too look a lot like hardware. That is usually the most annoying thing to figure out in a lot of cases. Knoppix just has the advantage of not doing any damage to the tested system and will put it throu the paces quite well.
Other options for inclusion are to taste.
What are you people running on? My compiles take about 3 days for X sure, but I am using a 500mhz system? WTF is up... ah well Debian rocks.
I literally just bought that today... I'm not joking... I have started to do some code in Python and had found other Nutshell books usefull in the past.. And Python in a nutshell is living up to the expectations...
I grew up in the middle of BF nowhere, you learn these things, I have purchased 2 boxes of KD in the last year, one was given to a food drive that stopped by, the other is still on my shelf, I don't eat it, my ex-gf bought it for some reason... I do know how to survive over 2 weeks alone in the woods, even without shelter in the summer... Such is my life.
Ya know, if I mixed that with a cheap folding bike, and a larget backpack, I could literally go anywhere up here in the dotCA. I could disappear for weeks at a time in the northern wilderness and not have transportation issues at all... I want.
Folding bike to cary on your back while rock climbing or rapelling, amphibious addition to the bike for river crossing and a larger backpack to carry the stuff in that I need to gather food and sleep.(I don't use a tent when camping, a blanket and an emergency tarp for rainy nights... even winter camping. I do have camping photos, just none of my sleeping arangement)
Folding bike $200USD(look em up) + pontoons (unknown price?) + random camping junk ~$200 = around $500 for a good get away from it all. Alot less then $850000 and more fun.
The only thing is that most countries actually have something near sensible laws(ok, not close, but better then the US). You cannot get the precedent set on the case like was dont with Verizon because you would actually have to talk with a lawyer to get the going, not some random clerk that gives you a form to fill. The DMCA appears to allow them to do this. Up here in the dotCA it appears that they would have to get a search warrant from a lawyer before they could demand the info from a ISP... A little harder for them, they have to actually do some work, and the judge may tell them to mess off... I'm pretty sure it could happen in most civilized countries out there.
So what about the rest of reality?
.torrent file out and dealt with the central tracker issue, finding people becomes that much harder... Is the person unknowingly distributing the information, or do they do it on purpose... It puts an interesting twist on the questions. It's like in the article where they traced a IP to a room, but they don't know which machine was using it, so Oooops! my hard drive had a catastrophic failure that involved my trading it with a friend and losing it somewhere... Now who do you sue?
I'm sure that most people want to know what is happening with respect to the DMCA and the RIAA being annoying to all of us... But what is the RIAA or equivalents doing in the rest of the world along the same vein? I live in Canada and use random P2P utilities often. What are they going to try up here?
And that leads to another issue, if they don't bother people in other countries, what happens when people figure out how to use locations in other countries to hide their actions? Hackers do it, I've seen that plenty, what happens when the P2P downloaders figure out how to do it and automate it. Or create zombie programs that basically turn any infected computer into a P2P forwarder, like the spam virii that are out there these days?
And then there will be the day when something like waste or freenet will be common... what do they do then? I may chose to let the software and network store a certain amount of information on my system, but I don't know what is in there, and cannot find out. Will I still be liable?
This random collection of (possibly badly placed) lawsuits will definatly lead to people just finding a way to stop the lawsuits. Lawsuits are annoying, and people find ways to avoid things that annoy them.
As I said about BT, if someone started to get a good setup that used Freenet to get the
Anyway, just my thoughts...