This is why, when setting up spam filters, I have very few system wide bans (mostly on single machines, or coloated IP blocks) but have installed filters that rate each e-mail and give it a score (yeah spamassasin) I then let the end user decide how to filter
About updateing the TOS, I co-wrote a TOS at a small web-hosting company, and one clause there is about updating. It comes into effect as soon as we post it on the web-site, but we are required to inform you via our e-mail list that includes all customers.
This is why I have all of China blocked at the fire-wall level. Well, that and most of the scipt-kiddy attacks I've seen against my servers have been from China. What I do, is I go back to my mail server logs, which logs where the connection actually came from. Being abuse@mydomain has it's priveleges, including blocking major spam-sources
You and me both, They're blocked, with a "550 This attempt has been logged, Go Away" Message, but they still kept trying. However, I've found that if you e-mail their high honcho e-mail address saying "cut it out you creeps" they do stop.
What's really annoying though is that they try to guess names, and if they aren't there one day, they try the same set of names again the next day.
I want to find whoever sold them my domain name, and hang them slowly, by their toenails.
Funny thing, their website seems to be down right now too.
This sounds like a nice idea, I wonder, can I build an electromagnetic mount for my mountain bike now? or would I have to pay royalties?
But seriously, how much power is that going to draw? escpecially once they have a whole bank of them? and what's going to happen to the already, electricity strapped california when they start putting in banks of them?
hrmmm... are they going to give me a nice large Hard Drive to store them on? if not, I'll store them ad infinitum, in/dev/null, either that or configure logrotate to run every minute, and rotate them to |sendmail logs@fbi.gov
Yes, I know, I'm being a pain, I need more sleep, I need more beer
"You cant have the freedoms granted by the government (laughable as they may be at times) without also following whatever rules make those freedoms a reality.
Hrmmm... I thought that the way the US gubbernment ran, it was, "We give them these rights, everything else (freedoms etc) we keep for ourselves"
Remind me of a good joke... An American, A Soviet Russian, and an Austrian (No kangaroos) were talking at a bar... The Russian says, "Where I come from, we have a good law system, If it isn't allowed, it is forbidden" To which the american Responds, "No no no, That's backwards, where I come from it's much better, If it isn't forbidden, it's allowed" but the Austrian, after putting down his beer, shakes his head, "No, Where I com from it is even better, If it is forbidden, it is allowed"
My question is then, Depending on how the subpoena is served, what if it is not physically possible for you to stop said hypothetical Cron Job. Say, you run your own business, 20 minutes by car away, and you are at home, with no net access, and the cron job is due to run in 10 minutes? and nobody with priveleges to stop said cron-job was on hand at the office?
... It is even more important that we realize: We have changed the way we live, our day to day workings have changed WE HAVE LET "THEM" WIN!!!
Terrorists don't always care about getting a specific message across, they care about changing the way their targets live and work. In short, They've won! we're now running scared, ready to believe anything "The Man" tells us, as long as it's about "terrists" (which damn-it has 3, count them 3, sylables), or has to do with "Homeland Security" It's McCarthyism all over again, and almost nobody seems to see it (s/[reds|communist]/terrorist/g)
Also I think it's stupid to think that you can keep research under wraps forever. Think about it, The laws of physics/chemestry/etc work just the same at the univeristy of southern north dakota at hoople, as they do at the Yazd Insitute of technology (both fictional schools of course) or even the Baghdad Underground top secret "You talk about it, we shoot you first, then ask questions" research bunker.
Also, Imageing China/Pakistan/North Korea... Try this, imagine the US without it, would we be a world super-power? probably not. What gives the US of A the right to police the world as it sees fit. What makes the US a better world super power than say, Poland would be? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! something which most people around here seem to have forgotten... For crying out loud, FDR must be rolling over in his grave, The US doesn't even appear to give a flying rat's ass about the UN, which he helped start so many years ago. We don't even care enough to pay our dues, and we feel that it is our right to strong-arm it into going along with whatever we want.
Once again. enough ranting for now. go back to your regularly scheduled madness
foreign students, eh... Hrmmm... Let's see Most of the forign students I know end up living and working here in the US after college. Also, Technically you could say that I, while being a natural born American, am a forign student becuase I grew up oversees (I'm a UN Brat, okay?)
If I wanted to join a project where I needed security clearance, odds are, I couldn't becuase I spent over 18 years abroad.
Also some of the brightest brains, at least at my school, are the forign kids.
The real irony is that, and correct me if I'm wrong in this, to get certain types of fedreal funding, the school has to accept X% forign students. And now the Government wants to prevent these students from working on certain research projects.
No you've got it wrong... your computer will be telling you "No, You're not in the mood, you have a headache... Why don't you go take some asprin, maybe then I'll let you connect to the yahoo chat groups"
that's right, please make gentoo ebuild files available, so that us who like things to be optimized for our system can just "emerge foo"
and HEY! it's "./configure" "make" "sudo make install" every geek knows that (and you get better compression with bzip2 anyways, but that's another argument)
seriously, though, realize that without the source code, nothing happens, I Believe that the tared,[b|g]ziped source code should always be the primary format for any open source project (not to be confused with free software), but that package manager formats should also be available.
Honestly, I've only found one package manager that I've liked, namely the gentoo portage system, though I will confess I haven't tried Debian's apt-get system. but Redhat's RPM system IMHO blows chunks, trying to upgrade a package can be a major pain, escpecially if the old dependancies supply different than expected files, From what I've seen the./configure route sorts that out, and gentoo's system does that automatically.
Gotta Love the "Low Building" as they are now calling the tallest building on campus... and if you look at it, the stairwell only goes 8 stories.
My favorite is from the "Poly" Incident Blotter 8:30am Larceny: Mini-fridge stolen from 8th floor lounge and right below it 8:45am Destruction of property: Mini-fridge found smashed at bottom of stairwell
Do ya thunk public saftey put 2 and 2 together? nahhh...
Gotta Love the 'tute... Ya Know... Maybe I should bring the dropsquad back:-)
Ummm... Okay... It does come with FAT32 and NTFS and samba/scp/ftp... I've been using now for quite a while pulling data off of "unbootable" windows boxes, so far with 100% success.
mount/dev/hda1/mnt/rw/winblows -o ro mount -t smbfs//backup-machine/backup/mnt/rw/backup -o username=my username, password=bollocks tar -cvjf/mnt/rw/backup/user.tar.bz/mnt/rw/windows
Your logging into NYtimes to read an article - your IP and browser and all that were logged
Interesting, but what if I spread my NYTIMES username and PWord out, so that other people can use it, thus swamping their logs with records of "Me" logging in from all over the place... and the e-mail address they have doesn't even point to me any more:-)
It still does, and when I tried to talk to their Tech support people about registry changes made in the install process, they were clueless, and refuesed to help me. I endedup having to burn a clients data to CDs (10 of them) and wipeing/reloading to get the ethernet connection working becuase it had screwed up the TCP/IP stack so badly.
I don't know about 8.0, but 6.0 would not just use their own TCP/IP stack, but appeared to overwrite the windows stack
AOL does not introduce people to the Internet, it dumbs down the Internet, thereby hurting the users in the process. 90% of the AOL users I've had to deal with think their Web Browser is the "Internet". And after years of thinking this, it is almost impossible to get them to understand the truth.
[AOLamer]You mean there's more out there than my internet[/AOLamer]
the call to tech support "My Internet isn't working"... or "I hear that there's Porn on my internet"... or "What can I do to keep other people off of my computer while I'm using my internet"
No I don't work for AOL, but I do do Tech support, and I have gotten all of those calls, interestingly enough, mostly from AOL users
READ THE DAMN PATENT!
(yes, I know that you'll need to copy the patent number into the seach box, becuase the link is wrong, or just Use the link provided here)
Now also, they aren't pattenting the use of regexps in searching logs, they're pattenting the use of Regexps in conjunction with logical operations in **Generating** alerts. What i'd be interested in seeing is how this impacts of what snort is doing, and has been doing for quite some time now.
Oh look, a website has to have Real Workd contact information. Funny that, isn't that what WHOIS information is for?
Now my site (no shameless advertising here) needs to have that information on the page too? (not that it doesn't already)
I think the big issue here is the deffinition of "Commercial Website" something where the only revenue is 0.00002 dollars per banner viewed, IMHO shouldn't count as a comercial site, but If I read the artice, it does
This is why you have both a regular battery and a fuel Cell. (don't tell me your laptop can't have 2 batteries in it), and you set it to run off the regular battery first (easily chargeable) and the Fuel cell second, thus saving you recharges on the fuel cell
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This is why, when setting up spam filters, I have very few system wide bans (mostly on single machines, or coloated IP blocks) but have installed filters that rate each e-mail and give it a score (yeah spamassasin) I then let the end user decide how to filter
About updateing the TOS, I co-wrote a TOS at a small web-hosting company, and one clause there is about updating. It comes into effect as soon as we post it on the web-site, but we are required to inform you via our e-mail list that includes all customers.
This is why I have all of China blocked at the fire-wall level. Well, that and most of the scipt-kiddy attacks I've seen against my servers have been from China. What I do, is I go back to my mail server logs, which logs where the connection actually came from. Being abuse@mydomain has it's priveleges, including blocking major spam-sources
You and me both, They're blocked, with a "550 This attempt has been logged, Go Away" Message, but they still kept trying. However, I've found that if you e-mail their high honcho e-mail address saying "cut it out you creeps" they do stop.
What's really annoying though is that they try to guess names, and if they aren't there one day, they try the same set of names again the next day.
I want to find whoever sold them my domain name, and hang them slowly, by their toenails.
Funny thing, their website seems to be down right now too.
This sounds like a nice idea, I wonder, can I build an electromagnetic mount for my mountain bike now? or would I have to pay royalties?
But seriously, how much power is that going to draw? escpecially once they have a whole bank of them? and what's going to happen to the already, electricity strapped california when they start putting in banks of them?
What's wrong here???? I see a new article, with 5 comments, and not one of them is a "First Post"
/., It's a first, a no first post article.
Quick somebody submit an article to
hrmmm... are they going to give me a nice large Hard Drive to store them on? if not, I'll store them ad infinitum, in /dev/null, either that or configure logrotate to run every minute, and rotate them to |sendmail logs@fbi.gov
Yes, I know, I'm being a pain, I need more sleep, I need more beer
"You cant have the freedoms granted by the government (laughable as they may be at times) without also following whatever rules make those freedoms a reality.
Hrmmm... I thought that the way the US gubbernment ran, it was, "We give them these rights, everything else (freedoms etc) we keep for ourselves"
Remind me of a good joke...
An American, A Soviet Russian, and an Austrian (No kangaroos) were talking at a bar... The Russian says, "Where I come from, we have a good law system, If it isn't allowed, it is forbidden" To which the american Responds, "No no no, That's backwards, where I come from it's much better, If it isn't forbidden, it's allowed" but the Austrian, after putting down his beer, shakes his head, "No, Where I com from it is even better, If it is forbidden, it is allowed"
My question is then, Depending on how the subpoena is served, what if it is not physically possible for you to stop said hypothetical Cron Job. Say, you run your own business, 20 minutes by car away, and you are at home, with no net access, and the cron job is due to run in 10 minutes? and nobody with priveleges to stop said cron-job was on hand at the office?
... It is even more important that we realize: We have changed the way we live, our day to day workings have changed WE HAVE LET "THEM" WIN!!!
Terrorists don't always care about getting a specific message across, they care about changing the way their targets live and work. In short, They've won! we're now running scared, ready to believe anything "The Man" tells us, as long as it's about "terrists" (which damn-it has 3, count them 3, sylables), or has to do with "Homeland Security" It's McCarthyism all over again, and almost nobody seems to see it (s/[reds|communist]/terrorist/g)
Also I think it's stupid to think that you can keep research under wraps forever. Think about it, The laws of physics/chemestry/etc work just the same at the univeristy of southern north dakota at hoople, as they do at the Yazd Insitute of technology (both fictional schools of course) or even the Baghdad Underground top secret "You talk about it, we shoot you first, then ask questions" research bunker.
Also, Imageing China/Pakistan/North Korea... Try this, imagine the US without it, would we be a world super-power? probably not. What gives the US of A the right to police the world as it sees fit. What makes the US a better world super power than say, Poland would be? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! something which most people around here seem to have forgotten... For crying out loud, FDR must be rolling over in his grave, The US doesn't even appear to give a flying rat's ass about the UN, which he helped start so many years ago. We don't even care enough to pay our dues, and we feel that it is our right to strong-arm it into going along with whatever we want.
Once again. enough ranting for now. go back to your regularly scheduled madness
foreign students, eh... Hrmmm... Let's see Most of the forign students I know end up living and working here in the US after college. Also, Technically you could say that I, while being a natural born American, am a forign student becuase I grew up oversees (I'm a UN Brat, okay?)
If I wanted to join a project where I needed security clearance, odds are, I couldn't becuase I spent over 18 years abroad.
Also some of the brightest brains, at least at my school, are the forign kids.
The real irony is that, and correct me if I'm wrong in this, to get certain types of fedreal funding, the school has to accept X% forign students. And now the Government wants to prevent these students from working on certain research projects.
Okay, I'm done ranting
No you've got it wrong... your computer will be telling you "No, You're not in the mood, you have a headache... Why don't you go take some asprin, maybe then I'll let you connect to the yahoo chat groups"
that's right, please make gentoo ebuild files available, so that us who like things to be optimized for our system can just "emerge foo"
./configure route sorts that out, and gentoo's system does that automatically.
and HEY! it's "./configure" "make" "sudo make install" every geek knows that (and you get better compression with bzip2 anyways, but that's another argument)
seriously, though, realize that without the source code, nothing happens, I Believe that the tared,[b|g]ziped source code should always be the primary format for any open source project (not to be confused with free software), but that package manager formats should also be available.
Honestly, I've only found one package manager that I've liked, namely the gentoo portage system, though I will confess I haven't tried Debian's apt-get system. but Redhat's RPM system IMHO blows chunks, trying to upgrade a package can be a major pain, escpecially if the old dependancies supply different than expected files, From what I've seen the
Gotta Love the "Low Building" as they are now calling the tallest building on campus... and if you look at it, the stairwell only goes 8 stories.
:-)
My favorite is from the "Poly" Incident Blotter
8:30am Larceny: Mini-fridge stolen from 8th floor lounge
and right below it
8:45am Destruction of property: Mini-fridge found smashed at bottom of stairwell
Do ya thunk public saftey put 2 and 2 together? nahhh...
Gotta Love the 'tute... Ya Know... Maybe I should bring the dropsquad back
oh, and while I don't carry it in my wallet... it's on a 210MB Pocket CD-R that goes everywhere with me, just in case I need to do a data recovery
Ummm... Okay... It does come with FAT32 and NTFS and samba/scp/ftp... I've been using now for quite a while pulling data off of "unbootable" windows boxes, so far with 100% success.
/dev/hda1 /mnt/rw/winblows -o ro //backup-machine/backup /mnt/rw/backup -o username=my username, password=bollocks /mnt/rw/backup/user.tar.bz /mnt/rw/windows
mount
mount -t smbfs
tar -cvjf
works every time
Your logging into NYtimes to read an article - your IP and browser and all that were logged
:-)
Interesting, but what if I spread my NYTIMES username and PWord out, so that other people can use it, thus swamping their logs with records of "Me" logging in from all over the place... and the e-mail address they have doesn't even point to me any more
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Enjoy
It still does, and when I tried to talk to their Tech support people about registry changes made in the install process, they were clueless, and refuesed to help me.
I endedup having to burn a clients data to CDs (10 of them) and wipeing/reloading to get the ethernet connection working becuase it had screwed up the TCP/IP stack so badly.
I don't know about 8.0, but 6.0 would not just use their own TCP/IP stack, but appeared to overwrite the windows stack
AOL does not introduce people to the Internet, it dumbs down the Internet, thereby hurting the users in the process. 90% of the AOL users I've had to deal with think their Web Browser is the "Internet". And after years of thinking this, it is almost impossible to get them to understand the truth.
[AOLamer]You mean there's more out there than my internet[/AOLamer]
the call to tech support "My Internet isn't working"... or "I hear that there's Porn on my internet"... or "What can I do to keep other people off of my computer while I'm using my internet"
No I don't work for AOL, but I do do Tech support, and I have gotten all of those calls, interestingly enough, mostly from AOL users
I'm arresting you for the future murder of...
...
leading to
I'm arresting you for thinking about perhaps murdering
leading to
I'm arresting you for thinking bad thoughts
leading to
you are non-person becuase of doubleplusungood thoughtcrime
READ THE DAMN PATENT!
(yes, I know that you'll need to copy the patent number into the seach box, becuase the link is wrong, or just Use the link provided here)
Now also, they aren't pattenting the use of regexps in searching logs, they're pattenting the use of Regexps in conjunction with logical operations in **Generating** alerts. What i'd be interested in seeing is how this impacts of what snort is doing, and has been doing for quite some time now.
Oh look, a website has to have Real Workd contact information. Funny that, isn't that what WHOIS information is for?
Now my site (no shameless advertising here) needs to have that information on the page too? (not that it doesn't already)
I think the big issue here is the deffinition of "Commercial Website" something where the only revenue is 0.00002 dollars per banner viewed, IMHO shouldn't count as a comercial site, but If I read the artice, it does
This is why you have both a regular battery and a fuel Cell. (don't tell me your laptop can't have 2 batteries in it), and you set it to run off the regular battery first (easily chargeable) and the Fuel cell second, thus saving you recharges on the fuel cell
What does this tell you? that all Chinese are smart becuase they distrust their government?
Alrighty... That's odd, Mozilla displayed that page fine on my system...
Maybe if the IE Team want's people to be happier, they should stop inventing their own standards, and use the existing ones