The article is not that good, but there are many many userful links below the article.
A lot of security is based on thrust. This is the main thing. Same thing goes for signatures. You can sign a paper but they thrust you that you did read (an can) the paper. Signatures can be faked as well.
And of course you can bridge the gap between you and the computer with biometric autorisation.
This is really nothing new. we already use digitally signed and encrypted EDIFACT messages (Invoices) where a notary is used to give out the keys. The messages are then send over internet (unreliable ) but much cheaper then X-400 (now over 5.000 euro per month)
The xbox acts as a cooker itself! no need to buy a microwave to warm up that pizza, just put it on the xbox! Is the x-box big enough for this? I doubt it since this was meant as a family machine. That means you need BIG pizza's. The xbox is only atx size
Expensive heating is now cut down thanks to the myraid of heat exhauts on the Xbox A Beowulf cluster of... would solve this problem much faster.
Use the controller as an inexpensive door stop: big enough for even the heaviest of doors. Or better, use your Dreamcast, it is is real cheap now.
coming soon: a hack to reverse the exhauts so the xbox doubles as a vacum! Silly, why do you want to heat your dust?
Never open a email with subject "Good times". it is a virus. send this to all newsgroups, all the people on your adressbook, and shout it out on/.
Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will
scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will
recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream
goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards,
screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field
harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.
It will give your ex-boyfriend your new phone number. It will mix
Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave
its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It
will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and
ide your car keys when you are late for work.
Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you
nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and
shave off both your eyebrows while dating your current boyfriend behind
your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Visa card.
>
It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such
is the power of Goodtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those
things we hold most dear.
>
It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It
will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's
voice mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and
terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat
up. It will make a batch of Methamphetamine in your bathtub and then
leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase
gradeschooles with your new snowblower.
you say an connections is not an attack, how would you callit it if you get 100's of udp packts to port 1245 on your dailup line (and you have noting running on port 1245). Not interesting. (I am not interesting at all). But for the next Win95 luser this might be an real problem.
(And yes, lots of stray packets might cause me to die in a hardcore diablo game!)
But for the correctness of language you are correct. Also you can call the WTC "attack" an interrupted flight. that makes it sound much less interresting. 8-)
The more traditional search engines (not google?) have protections against sites that do extreme things to get to 1 in the hitlist. They have protections against repeating 1 word a lot of times. (META="sex, sex,sex"). Repeating your "exwords" in the normal meta tag so many times should trigger the search engine "spam alert" and decrease the search relevance.
28,874 persons died from firearm.
19,102 persons died of drug-induced causes.
Some simple math says that a few million people (in the US) die each year. Why not get the big ones? your number one (Alzheimer) is close to old age. why not include smoking , or car accidents in it. Or even better, look at the word population, how many people die of hunger?
just as webmasters used to spend hundreds of largely-wasted hours trying to manipulate SEs through the META KEYWORDS tag
You are right. Any system where the webmasters have an impact on search relevance will be beaten. Hey they even found a way to beat google. Just create a fake front end that looks serious with one button "naked pictures". The system he describes works best for altavista (6 months ago) like systems.
Even/. got lots of trolls spending 1000ths of hours whose biggest effort is to lead you to goatse.sx.
-open mail relays. For http this would be things like proxy's (~=safeweb)
-throwaway accounts. You can use them as well. Note that that is not truly anonymous, they can stil track where you are coming from (ip+time+callerid)
the reg had nice acticle about this a short while ago. "Do-it-yourself Internet anonymity". they have a article about safeweb as well.
If the modem is an HCF modem (i.e. has its own DSP) you aren't allowed to use it.
Can someone explain how this is done? Do most softmodems have a mode where they can just get/send a digitized version of the analog data to digital buffers? And if they do , do have any of these modems have documentation for this?
Yes i know this is inefficient and there are legal concerns, but is this even useful for MY rockwell hcf modem?
The Register : As we say, if you like the 8500's Quake III frame-rate but aren't willing to put up with the dip in image quality, buy a different card. Or wait for ATI to change its drivers, which, we understand, it's in the process of doing.
HardOCP was the first to publish about this: The Facts As We See Them: It certainly seems to us here at [H]ardOCP that ATi has in fact included application specific instructions in their version 5.13.01.3276 Win2K drivers that make Quake 3 arena benchmarks faster by up to over 15%. Either way, the driver optimisations for Quake III are just one of the (many) factors that differentiate different vendors' products. ®
firingsquad show show some details how the quack.exe is made and concludes:
To some of us, it seems like the evidence points towards intentionally deceptive code designed not only to inflate benchmark scores, but also to keep anyone from finding out. To others, this is nothing more than an overreation to a perfectly legitimate game optimization. In our eyes, anyone who vehemently peddles either of these explanations is either naive or pushing an agenda of their own.
there later in Q&A with ati explains in 2 pages that:Our goal for the RADEON 8500 is and always has been to deliver the best possible gaming experience to our customers.
Wrong. Not all dvd drives can read cd-r cd roms. This has to do something with the color of the laser. Since a mp3 cd would be self made (I think you want to burn your own). this might nog be the solution you want.
An attack to an closed port is an attack. You might not have a problem with it. You do have a firewall. But the next victim might have a problem with it. Read the article about it. Suppose one starts scanning port 25 or 101 A lot. maybe a exchange SMTP gateway is vulnurable. It is nice to detect this. (It might just be a spammer....).
On the other side they are missing all ICMP messages. (how many possibilties 2^16 again?).
DOS attacks can use ICMP message as well. It would be nice to detect them as well. If you have a lot of ICMP messages outgoing this should trigger a good log filter.
Or does your firewall aready filter ALL ICMP messages?
I mean *HONESTLY*, who on earth would target COMDEX,
Every true pointy haired boss is convinced that he is the center of the world and everything turn arround him. The worst thing that could happen to the world is that they target him. That is why every big building was closed on 9/11.
AMD Zone gives this summary at the end of its review: "No architectural or marketing changes with this release... expect the previous CPUs to decline in price... expect a bit higher performance and power consumption."
Anandtech agrees, saying the chip will not offer any significant extra performance over the 1800+, so early adopters need not sweat too much about being left behind. The site believes that AMD is currently the performance leader on desktop processors.
VIAHardware.com reckons users could be just as well off picking up the 1800+ at 1.53GHz and simply overclocking it to 1.6GHz. Users already owning a high-speed XP chip are better off waiting for the next upgrade on the platform to significantly increase performance.
Tech Report has some extensive benchmarking, putting the 1900+ slightly ahead of Intel's P4 2.0GHz in most of them, while SimHQ.com gets very excited about the new chip.
If you run win 95 (or 98/me) like i happen to do at the moment the solution is simple:
get a copy of poledit (it is on the install disk of 95 & 98 and you can download it with some effort form the internet).
You can simply unlock the registry and run. just don't tell anybody you did.
For oracle software (forms) you DO need access to the regsity to change things when chaning environments. at least in my situation.
Slashdot Mirror
The article is not that good, but there are many many userful links below the article.
A lot of security is based on thrust. This is the main thing. Same thing goes for signatures. You can sign a paper but they thrust you that you did read (an can) the paper. Signatures can be faked as well.
And of course you can bridge the gap between you and the computer with biometric autorisation.
This is really nothing new. we already use digitally signed and encrypted EDIFACT messages (Invoices) where a notary is used to give out the keys. The messages are then send over internet (unreliable ) but much cheaper then X-400 (now over 5.000 euro per month)
just code html to make a link. you should type:
k ernel.org/mirrors/</a>
<a href="http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/">http://www.
This works in html formatted <B> and </B> plain old text. (i think code as well).
just a tip.
The xbox acts as a cooker itself! no need to buy a microwave to warm up that pizza, just put it on the xbox!
... would solve this problem much faster.
Is the x-box big enough for this? I doubt it since this was meant as a family machine. That means you need BIG pizza's. The xbox is only atx size
Expensive heating is now cut down thanks to the myraid of heat exhauts on the Xbox
A Beowulf cluster of
Use the controller as an inexpensive door stop: big enough for even the heaviest of doors.
Or better, use your Dreamcast, it is is real cheap now.
coming soon: a hack to reverse the exhauts so the xbox doubles as a vacum!
Silly, why do you want to heat your dust?
just my 2 cents
Never open a email with subject "Good times". it is a virus. send this to all newsgroups, all the people on your adressbook, and shout it out on /.
Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will
scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will
recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream
goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards,
screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field
harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.
It will give your ex-boyfriend your new phone number. It will mix
Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave
its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It
will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and
ide your car keys when you are late for work.
Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you
nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and
shave off both your eyebrows while dating your current boyfriend behind
your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Visa card.
>
It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such
is the power of Goodtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those
things we hold most dear.
>
It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It
will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's
voice mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and
terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat
up. It will make a batch of Methamphetamine in your bathtub and then
leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase
gradeschooles with your new snowblower.
I would have said:
/. system moderated your article as funny, it got +1 interesting, +1 underrated and +1 funny)
And that my friend, is called job security
"he best job security you'll *ever* have is the ability to quickly get
a new job."
(I am glad the
Ok (why post as an ac?).
you say an connections is not an attack, how would you callit it if you get 100's of udp packts to port 1245 on your dailup line (and you have noting running on port 1245). Not interesting. (I am not interesting at all). But for the next Win95 luser this might be an real problem.
(And yes, lots of stray packets might cause me to die in a hardcore diablo game!)
But for the correctness of language you are correct. Also you can call the WTC "attack" an interrupted flight. that makes it sound much less interresting. 8-)
stronger search engines
The more traditional search engines (not google?) have protections against sites that do extreme things to get to 1 in the hitlist. They have protections against repeating 1 word a lot of times. (META="sex, sex,sex"). Repeating your "exwords" in the normal meta tag so many times should trigger the search engine "spam alert" and decrease the search relevance.
too much ... makes one blind. 8-)
28,874 persons died from firearm.
19,102 persons died of drug-induced causes.
Some simple math says that a few million people (in the US) die each year. Why not get the big ones? your number one (Alzheimer) is close to old age. why not include smoking , or car accidents in it. Or even better, look at the word population, how many people die of hunger?
Alan says: it is a great but academic project.
linus says: Don't do drugs. (Or "i don't care")
what is you opinion about this?
just as webmasters used to spend hundreds of largely-wasted hours trying to manipulate SEs through the META KEYWORDS tag
/. got lots of trolls spending 1000ths of hours whose biggest effort is to lead you to goatse.sx.
You are right. Any system where the webmasters have an impact on search relevance will be beaten. Hey they even found a way to beat google. Just create a fake front end that looks serious with one button "naked pictures". The system he describes works best for altavista (6 months ago) like systems.
Even
what spammers use:
-open mail relays. For http this would be things like proxy's (~=safeweb)
-throwaway accounts. You can use them as well. Note that that is not truly anonymous, they can stil track where you are coming from (ip+time+callerid)
the reg had nice acticle about this a short while ago. "Do-it-yourself Internet anonymity". they have a article about safeweb as well.
If the modem is an HCF modem (i.e. has its own DSP) you aren't allowed to use it.
Can someone explain how this is done? Do most softmodems have a mode where they can just get/send a digitized version of the analog data to digital buffers? And if they do , do have any of these modems have documentation for this?
Yes i know this is inefficient and there are legal concerns, but is this even useful for MY rockwell hcf modem?
THis is a copy of
this article on zdnet. completely copied including spelling errors.
by Kai Vuorinen
date: Tuesday Oct 12, 1999.
Is this still all true?
If you missed the discussion in the first place.
:Our goal for the RADEON 8500 is and always has been to deliver the best possible gaming experience to our customers.
The Register : As we say, if you like the 8500's Quake III frame-rate but aren't willing to put up with the dip in image quality, buy a different card. Or wait for ATI to change its drivers, which, we understand, it's in the process of doing.
HardOCP was the first to publish about this: The Facts As We See Them: It certainly seems to us here at [H]ardOCP that ATi has in fact included application specific instructions in their version 5.13.01.3276 Win2K drivers that make Quake 3 arena benchmarks faster by up to over 15%. Either way, the driver optimisations for Quake III are just one of the (many) factors that differentiate different vendors' products. ®
firingsquad show show some details how the quack.exe is made and concludes:
To some of us, it seems like the evidence points towards intentionally deceptive code designed not only to inflate benchmark scores, but also to keep anyone from finding out. To others, this is nothing more than an overreation to a perfectly legitimate game optimization. In our eyes, anyone who vehemently peddles either of these explanations is either naive or pushing an agenda of their own.
there later in Q&A with ati explains in 2 pages that
yeah right.!
All dvd players can read CDroms....MP3 player
Wrong. Not all dvd drives can read cd-r cd roms. This has to do something with the color of the laser. Since a mp3 cd would be self made (I think you want to burn your own). this might nog be the solution you want.
just look on mp3.com for your own mp3 car radio.
An attack to an closed port is an attack. You might not have a problem with it. You do have a firewall. But the next victim might have a problem with it. Read the article about it. Suppose one starts scanning port 25 or 101 A lot. maybe a exchange SMTP gateway is vulnurable. It is nice to detect this. (It might just be a spammer....).
On the other side they are missing all ICMP messages. (how many possibilties 2^16 again?).
DOS attacks can use ICMP message as well. It would be nice to detect them as well. If you have a lot of ICMP messages outgoing this should trigger a good log filter.
Or does your firewall aready filter ALL ICMP messages?
because it became such a pain to keep track of licenses!
I suppose you were a NT/win95 admin before, and are now a linux admin.
The licensing for a lot of packages under unix (i.e. a real, certified compiler under sun, not gcc) is terrible.
Did you ever try to figure out how much it cost for a oracle deployment in a multi tier environment with ~ 100 users?
That is one reason free software is used, you don't have to report it to the beancounter.
Personally, I like the fact that SOMEONE has thought this through and decided I'm worth more alive than dead.
-The actions taken do not matter that much (read other posts about possibilties)
-It all falls down to some PR
I mean *HONESTLY*, who on earth would target COMDEX,
Every true pointy haired boss is convinced that he is the center of the world and everything turn arround him. The worst thing that could happen to the world is that they target him. That is why every big building was closed on 9/11.
:s/pointy haired boss/american/g
karma--
I have the unregistered (free) version but it locks up my win95 pc......
/.'ed/
somebody mirrored a short version where the bullshit is cut out but that one is
and /etc is not sensitive? You can see the system configuration there.
And what about swap?
AMD Zone gives this summary at the end of its review: "No architectural or marketing changes with this release ... expect the previous CPUs to decline in price ... expect a bit higher performance and power consumption."
Anandtech agrees, saying the chip will not offer any significant extra performance over the 1800+, so early adopters need not sweat too much about being left behind. The site believes that AMD is currently the performance leader on desktop processors.
VIAHardware.com reckons users could be just as well off picking up the 1800+ at 1.53GHz and simply overclocking it to 1.6GHz. Users already owning a high-speed XP chip are better off waiting for the next upgrade on the platform to significantly increase performance.
Tech Report has some extensive benchmarking, putting the 1900+ slightly ahead of Intel's P4 2.0GHz in most of them, while SimHQ.com gets very excited about the new chip.
Amdmb.com also has a piece showing the expected five to six per cent performance increase.
If you run win 95 (or 98/me) like i happen to do at the moment the solution is simple:
get a copy of poledit (it is on the install disk of 95 & 98 and you can download it with some effort form the internet).
You can simply unlock the registry and run. just don't tell anybody you did.
For oracle software (forms) you DO need access to the regsity to change things when chaning environments. at least in my situation.