No, No, No. You never cut the cable, as the book "Blind mans Bluff" points out: You attempt to tap it at first, sabatoge it at second, cut it only as a last desperate resort.
Well since you brought it up that is exactly what I was going to say next, Simply dig up the fiber optic cable nearest to you, shine a halogen flashlight on it and run. Instant Dos.
I guess the cat is out of the bag, lets see what/. comes up with.
I have to say this technology is really subject to Dos style attacks. Simply overwhelm the server with false keys very much like an alphabet attack, and for those of you that scoff because of the huge numbers involved, realize the computer power of a large zombie army with todays excessive computer power.
I don't want to say anymore because I am freaking myself out just thinking about it.
I admit I did not read all of the replys in this thread, but since this is a hot button topic for me I felt the need to point out a couple of things.
First off Norton software has a really bad track record with me because when Win95 launched Microsoft gave Symantic enough hooks in the code to make a partnership worthwhile. Things have changed between the two companys since then. Symantic has been embraced and extended by Microsoft and is pretty desperate right now. I saw copys of Systemworks for free via rebate at Fries.
Also I can attest that Symantic software aimed at joe six-pack user is absolute crap. I have seen more systems compromised by this bloatware than I have ever seen helped.
On the ad blocking issue: Banner ads are fine. Any other bullshit flash or those really annoying three inch box ads get blocked and I sleep comfortable at night because I am a/. subscriber.
Sounds like you grew up in the same type of environment I did. All I can say is I miss the nuts and bolts aspect, But I am way happy with modern computer power, I recently purchased a Barton 2.5 Gig with an Nforce2 MB and I have not looked back since. Now I just have to play the waiting game with the Athlon64, I figure Doom III is going to be the make or break. Speaking of Doom, I connected two 386's up with postage stamp size and it was playable.
Don't they realise that these tactics are about as fruitful as SCO's efforts? I mean a sword has a double edge. History teaches us that the sword will indeed swing the other way and I hope it chops the head off of these several snakes.
No Hydra references allowed, These bastards are indeed a contemporary threat that will suffer the fate of the TWX industry. (They used to be the best in the business)
I submitted the story and linkage to the powers that be where I work.
Stunned silence from the media professionals.
They just don't know where to go with this because they are so afraid of law enforcement.
I might add I was privilaged to run audio on a nationaly syndicated show that was critical of the IRS.
Sure as shit, the executive producer was audited and several intimidation tactics were employed by our heavy handed government to silence any dissent aired by the program.
The ironic thing is that people wanted dubs of that show over and over again, Even though I admit the sound quality was crap. (Hey, I was just learning my craft. Cut me a little slack, OK?)
Just a reminder from the 90's that big brother can indeed touch you whoever you are.
Where I live if you expect people to respect a red light you are mistaken. I am a very cautious driver and here is a reason why: I am sitting next to this impatient dude with a car full of people blaring the radio loud and obviously impatient sitting next to me in the front row in a double left turn lane. The speed limit for the cross traffic is 35. The light turns green. I wait to look off the possible approaches while Mr. Impatient hit the gas rather than look around. Guess what? MI did not see the red light runner that clipped the front bumper off of his car because somebody thought they could make the yellow-red.
My spin is that if you look at the article you will notice that it changes the light immedietly.
Having witnessed such a light change in person I noted it also cuts the yellow down to half a second.
I cannot believe the majority of the reviews I am reading here. I thought this was Slashdot. Home of the cynics. What I got reading through fifty percent of the comments was "Oh, what a great piece of code Apple has crafted"
Well. I am here to tell you the real truth.
FU. You Apple elegance lovers.
I was cynical from the start and was not dissapointed loading this buggy DRM filled chunk of code from Apple trying to run a secure service on my creaky win2k box.
Apple insists that you update to the latest Quicktime build. Ok I don't have a problem updating the latest build of spyware. I do this and discover that not only does Itunes have a poor security policy but it actually changes your policy behind your back like enabling shares to the fullest extent you have ever allowed. After a security audit I uninstalled the software and am just waiting for the security alerts to roll in. Apple has never had much of a friend in Microsoft. This axiom is very evident in this software. I trust Apple OK, but trusting Microsoft to treat Apple fairly is a big Issue. Don't be surprised if you see major hacks within I-tunes within the next ten days or so.
I found I-tunes to be a creaky tower built on a creaky platform, and I predict no good will come of it.
Just a quick note, Grove echoing my sentiments today makes me feel validated. The USA is indeed starting to wake up to the problems that we face. And woe to the elected leader that thinks his job is secure. (I love the "woe" thing, straight out of the bible) I have always loved the idea of being a prophet, since I cannot change what I write here and hopefully/. is under a reasonably good stewardship. Hey you people at OSDN, trust cuts both ways. Do not allow/. archives to vanish. (The DVD's should sent to Mars via the next most convenient vehicle. Thank you!) You might just discover that the community has a veto.
This is an example of corporate greed squashing talent.
Who am I to tell Robert Altman that he cannot give away copies of his work for generating a word of mouth campaign. I guess I am Jack Valenti, Defender of the old school and opposer of any new innovation.
Well, Guess what mister asshole. The people are slowly but most certainly wising up to you and the evil spite that you continue to spew.
The members can and will recall you. Rosen is a very smart woman, she saw the handwriting on the wall and stepped down.
When will you at least show the class Grey Davis showed in his concession speech.
This is happening bigtime all over the face of American culture. IMHO the watershed moment was when Disney dumped its 2-d animation unit. How shallow is that? and yet at the same time California Adventure has a mock "Disney animators" studio in which a few animators are used as robots to interact with an Eddie Murphy voiced cartoon with the express intent of getting you to buy art in the shop that you are dumped in at the end of the ride. Just like the recently PC nerfed Pirates ride.
I tell you that corporate culture needs a reality check like us proud voters gave to the professional politicians in California.
(I admit I am a little worried that Carly Fiona was named to the transition team)
I don't know where I am going with this, I just felt it needed to be said.
Interesting note on moderation, My note generated a fifty/fifty between over/under rated. I think that a majority of moderators are cowards and the few that stand up are quickly slapped down.
My suggestion is that everybody starts with a mod point everyday, if you gain a level of karma you increase your level of moderation.
The idea being that the more you contribute, the more power you have.
Sounds simple in theory but can be very difficult when applied to a Slashdot like community.
Beefy trailer, I am writing my thoughts as I download. I went for the big one of course and it is taking forever to download even with my DSL going full throttle.
83% and climbing, a couple of minutes until it is done.
I can't wait!
99, 100!
BRB:)
OMFG. That was sweet! I hate to be a person that swallows hype.
But, if the brothers W. can deliver on even half of the promised special effects it is looking like an E-ticket movie.
Also only one shot (maybe two, real quick) from the "love-fest" Jar-Jar angle in the entire clip.
Mostly looks like they are spending the money on special effects and music.
Works for me!
Of course I am a fan who was slightly disapointed by the second movie and am hoping for good things from the Finale.
At least they are having the grace to end it here. Unlike certain other producers I happen to be aware of.
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No, No, No. You never cut the cable, as the book "Blind mans Bluff" points out: You attempt to tap it at first, sabatoge it at second, cut it only as a last desperate resort.
For God's Sake Man! Read some spy novels!
Well since you brought it up that is exactly what I was going to say next, Simply dig up the fiber optic cable nearest to you, shine a halogen flashlight on it and run. Instant Dos.
/. comes up with.
I guess the cat is out of the bag, lets see what
Nice post.
I would give you a mod boost if I were able.
I am afraid you are going to have to accept this reply instead.
I have to say this technology is really subject to Dos style attacks. Simply overwhelm the server with false keys very much like an alphabet attack, and for those of you that scoff because of the huge numbers involved, realize the computer power of a large zombie army with todays excessive computer power.
I don't want to say anymore because I am freaking myself out just thinking about it.
I admit I did not read all of the replys in this thread, but since this is a hot button topic for me I felt the need to point out a couple of things.
/. subscriber.
First off Norton software has a really bad track record with me because when Win95 launched Microsoft gave Symantic enough hooks in the code to make a partnership worthwhile. Things have changed between the two companys since then. Symantic has been embraced and extended by Microsoft and is pretty desperate right now. I saw copys of Systemworks for free via rebate at Fries.
Also I can attest that Symantic software aimed at joe six-pack user is absolute crap. I have seen more systems compromised by this bloatware than I have ever seen helped.
On the ad blocking issue: Banner ads are fine. Any other bullshit flash or those really annoying three inch box ads get blocked and I sleep comfortable at night because I am a
I have found a useful friend with Mailwasher, For those of you that thought the war was lost, check out this beauty.
No direct links, Look it up for yourself.
Sounds like you grew up in the same type of environment I did. All I can say is I miss the nuts and bolts aspect, But I am way happy with modern computer power, I recently purchased a Barton 2.5 Gig with an Nforce2 MB and I have not looked back since. Now I just have to play the waiting game with the Athlon64, I figure Doom III is going to be the make or break. Speaking of Doom, I connected two 386's up with postage stamp size and it was playable.
I want to quantify my post by saying I am an avid supporter of Slashdot, Thats why I tossed money for a subscription.
I consider the chances of Google selling out right up there with Slashdot selling out.
Oops. My bad.
I do hope that Google decides for the common person, but history and greed tend to rule this out.
I can see the flames now.
Don't they realise that these tactics are about as fruitful as SCO's efforts? I mean a sword has a double edge. History teaches us that the sword will indeed swing the other way and I hope it chops the head off of these several snakes.
No Hydra references allowed, These bastards are indeed a contemporary threat that will suffer the fate of the TWX industry. (They used to be the best in the business)
Anybody remember TWX?
Didn't think so.
Oh, thats really going to help these assholes.
Spyware is spyware, by any other name.
A little follow up.
I submitted the story and linkage to the powers that be where I work.
Stunned silence from the media professionals.
They just don't know where to go with this because they are so afraid of law enforcement.
I might add I was privilaged to run audio on a nationaly syndicated show that was critical of the IRS.
Sure as shit, the executive producer was audited and several intimidation tactics were employed by our heavy handed government to silence any dissent aired by the program.
The ironic thing is that people wanted dubs of that show over and over again, Even though I admit the sound quality was crap. (Hey, I was just learning my craft. Cut me a little slack, OK?)
Just a reminder from the 90's that big brother can indeed touch you whoever you are.
Where I live if you expect people to respect a red light you are mistaken. I am a very cautious driver and here is a reason why: I am sitting next to this impatient dude with a car full of people blaring the radio loud and obviously impatient sitting next to me in the front row in a double left turn lane. The speed limit for the cross traffic is 35. The light turns green. I wait to look off the possible approaches while Mr. Impatient hit the gas rather than look around. Guess what? MI did not see the red light runner that clipped the front bumper off of his car because somebody thought they could make the yellow-red.
My spin is that if you look at the article you will notice that it changes the light immedietly.
Having witnessed such a light change in person I noted it also cuts the yellow down to half a second.
These devices are accidents waiting to happen.
Nice answer. I was mostly refering to shares and other things being turned on behind the hapless windows users back.
I did indeed uninstall this piece of crap.
That being said, I think you are thinking along the same lines as myself.
Give it thirty days and lets all see what happens.
I cannot believe the majority of the reviews I am reading here. I thought this was Slashdot. Home of the cynics.
What I got reading through fifty percent of the comments was "Oh, what a great piece of code Apple has crafted"
Well. I am here to tell you the real truth.
FU. You Apple elegance lovers.
I was cynical from the start and was not dissapointed loading this buggy DRM filled chunk of code from Apple trying to run a secure service on my creaky win2k box.
Apple insists that you update to the latest Quicktime build. Ok I don't have a problem updating the latest build of spyware. I do this and discover that not only does Itunes have a poor security policy but it actually changes your policy behind your back like enabling shares to the fullest extent you have ever allowed. After a security audit I uninstalled the software and am just waiting for the security alerts to roll in. Apple has never had much of a friend in Microsoft. This axiom is very evident in this software. I trust Apple OK, but trusting Microsoft to treat Apple fairly is a big Issue. Don't be surprised if you see major hacks within I-tunes within the next ten days or so.
I found I-tunes to be a creaky tower built on a creaky platform, and I predict no good will come of it.
Just a quick note, Grove echoing my sentiments today makes me feel validated. The USA is indeed starting to wake up to the problems that we face. And woe to the elected leader that thinks his job is secure. (I love the "woe" thing, straight out of the bible) I have always loved the idea of being a prophet, since I cannot change what I write here and hopefully /. is under a reasonably good stewardship. Hey you people at OSDN, trust cuts both ways. Do not allow /. archives to vanish. (The DVD's should sent to Mars via the next most convenient vehicle. Thank you!) You might just discover that the community has a veto.
This is an example of corporate greed squashing talent.
Who am I to tell Robert Altman that he cannot give away copies of his work for generating a word of mouth campaign. I guess I am Jack Valenti, Defender of the old school and opposer of any new innovation.
Well, Guess what mister asshole. The people are slowly but most certainly wising up to you and the evil spite that you continue to spew.
The members can and will recall you. Rosen is a very smart woman, she saw the handwriting on the wall and stepped down.
When will you at least show the class Grey Davis showed in his concession speech.
This is happening bigtime all over the face of American culture. IMHO the watershed moment was when Disney dumped its 2-d animation unit. How shallow is that? and yet at the same time California Adventure has a mock "Disney animators" studio in which a few animators are used as robots to interact with an Eddie Murphy voiced cartoon with the express intent of getting you to buy art in the shop that you are dumped in at the end of the ride. Just like the recently PC nerfed Pirates ride.
I tell you that corporate culture needs a reality check like us proud voters gave to the professional politicians in California.
(I admit I am a little worried that Carly Fiona was named to the transition team)
I don't know where I am going with this, I just felt it needed to be said.
This is one small step for mankind, and hopefully one giant leap into the inferno for SCO.
Interesting note on moderation, My note generated a fifty/fifty between over/under rated. I think that a majority of moderators are cowards and the few that stand up are quickly slapped down.
My suggestion is that everybody starts with a mod point everyday, if you gain a level of karma you increase your level of moderation.
The idea being that the more you contribute, the more power you have.
Sounds simple in theory but can be very difficult when applied to a Slashdot like community.
I was indeed able to pull out a legible signal using Cool Edit 2000, I don't speak morse. I sent the file to the folks at the center.
I will post any results to my journal.
If I win anything it is going to the EFF. (Protecting grannies from the RIAA. 24/7)
Arnold is looking pretty good right now.
Thank you. Your insite makes me thankful that I submitted. Again, Thank you.
Beefy trailer, I am writing my thoughts as I download. I went for the big one of course and it is taking forever to download even with my DSL going full throttle.
:)
83% and climbing, a couple of minutes until it is done.
I can't wait!
99, 100!
BRB
OMFG. That was sweet! I hate to be a person that swallows hype.
But, if the brothers W. can deliver on even half of the promised special effects it is looking like an E-ticket movie.
Also only one shot (maybe two, real quick) from the "love-fest" Jar-Jar angle in the entire clip.
Mostly looks like they are spending the money on special effects and music.
Works for me!
Of course I am a fan who was slightly disapointed by the second movie and am hoping for good things from the Finale.
At least they are having the grace to end it here. Unlike certain other producers I happen to be aware of.
"Chances are, if they're selling a product, there is an easy-to-follow trail right back to the good old USA."
If this is true Symantec is toast. Here is my chance to get back at the spam offering to protect my computer.
I guess you missed the food reference.
Look up the word.
I felt it was needed.
I am there.
Hope I don't kill real people in the process.