Reminds me of a South Park episode where the kids try to build a stairway to heaven and it became a race between them (helped with the US government) and the Japanese. They have to reach heaven because Kenny had a winning lottery ticket but had died before, but their parents misunderstood them (as usual) and thought they just missed Kenny that much. Their ladder was made of scrap wood while the Japanese one was hightech, and the Japanese won of course.. what's the point of this post, no idea. But the writers managed to tie it to GWB and the non-existant WMD, which made it hilarious. Read the script, or download it (from there or somewhere else):)
The site is nothing new, I remember visiting it about 2 or 3 years ago... I think I was wondering who else uses the word "sharc", so I looked it up. Apparently one chip in their gallery is named "sharc".
You say harm, harm because IE is quite integrated in Windows? I guess so and it's not removable, so maybe not delete IE but just hide it so it would just be used when the system/user explictly calls the IE component, and the user should get Mozilla when he clicks a http link, a html file or open his/her shortcuts...
Brings me an idea.. anyone want to exploit one of those 30 bugs and make a program that can delete IE and install Mozilla? Bonus points if they can use an IE-lookalike skin and deceive the user. That would be something, though I don't think the Mozilla folks would like this marketing ploy, because a high percentage of the users will probably send their complaints to them.
It wouldn't be so hard, just use an exploit to download and execute an installer, it can even be done through social engineering -- here in Germany there's a pest of so-called dialer programs, some of them take the easy way and use signed ActiveX controls to install themselves and then use the modem to dial 1-900 numbers. How did the user let this happen? Easy, their website just says "click 'Yes' when a dialog box comes up", and the dumb users does so when IE asks them "Do you want to trust content from 'Evil Bastard Company'?"
wouldn't it be a pain trying to type on them? I imagine it would be like handling wet soap, your fingers would slip everytime they try to push down the keys.
No idea, but I think the way it works is, the network only sends the caller's number, and the phone does a comparison of the number with the ones it has stored in its address book, displaying the name in case of a match. I don't think the protocol even has support for looking up names from a database and sending them over the network, with a few thousand cells and calls a second it would be very resource intensive.
Ha, yes, I saw it in a Time-Life book as well, unfortunately mine are 11000km away at the moment. Too bad you're posting anonymous, but I think the book was about astronomy.
Really? I can remember seeing a black and white photo of a lady who got a bruise on her stomach, because of a meteorite went through her roof and hit her.
Do I have to press enter after typing this command, or not?
Gotta be careful there, seeing how the page had to describe to Macheads commands like cd and mv (don't forget the space! Press enter afterwards!), some of them might fall for your trick (well if they don't forget to press Enter).. ah poor Mac-folks, life without a command prompt must have been a bliss.
IMO, It just doesn't look as attractive as an iPod.. only Apple can make hardware so sexy, and they (Dell) had to come up with something different to be "original". Unfortunately the iPod probably ranks as the world's sexiest MP3 player, and Dell can only settle for place 2, at best. And the way the thing looks, it didn't make it into the top-10 list.
Remember last year when Saddam was still running Iraq, he did an election and he won by 99,99% (or was it 100%?). And the USA screamed "That's no democracy.".
Heh, sweet irony. Or bitter irony, for the dead victims of the war (civilian and military).
It can be changed, but they still could've copied and pasted their whois result as plain-text! What, are they afraid it's not original enough? Haven't they heard of Photoshop?
I'm quite amused that they think that a suicidal terrorist might want a halal meal on the plane.
Indeed, remember the letter that the hijackers left behind? It told them to blend in, so that sort of shit would probably not come up.
This whole deal is just creating a false sense of safety -- in the public and in the minds of the idiot bureaucrats. 9-11 was a one shot idea, if it worked, they got away with it and there was no way it could be repeated. Thanks to the idiocy of the Bush Administration, it worked, they got away with it, taking 3000 people and America's sense of security with them. No terrorist would be trying to repeat that anytime soon, and if they did, they'll certainly be smart enough like last time to find the loopholes -- from the posts here there seem to still be very big loopholes -- and succeed again! Yay for the United Fascist States of GWB!
Quickly I hope! This will tell those fucking corporate-types that real hackers will not tolerate such a thing. Hopefully all distros will play along as well, so that Joe Linux-Sysadmin will have it installed by default.
On the topic of DDoS, who wants to run a script that does wget http://www.[A-z]*.com/ ?
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"... when your computer is a melted piece of metal?" would be better. :p
Reminds me of a South Park episode where the kids try to build a stairway to heaven and it became a race between them (helped with the US government) and the Japanese. They have to reach heaven because Kenny had a winning lottery ticket but had died before, but their parents misunderstood them (as usual) and thought they just missed Kenny that much. Their ladder was made of scrap wood while the Japanese one was hightech, and the Japanese won of course.. what's the point of this post, no idea. But the writers managed to tie it to GWB and the non-existant WMD, which made it hilarious. Read the script, or download it (from there or somewhere else) :)
The site is nothing new, I remember visiting it about 2 or 3 years ago... I think I was wondering who else uses the word "sharc", so I looked it up. Apparently one chip in their gallery is named "sharc".
You say harm, harm because IE is quite integrated in Windows? I guess so and it's not removable, so maybe not delete IE but just hide it so it would just be used when the system/user explictly calls the IE component, and the user should get Mozilla when he clicks a http link, a html file or open his/her shortcuts...
Well, like you said, it's fun to imagine.
Brings me an idea.. anyone want to exploit one of those 30 bugs and make a program that can delete IE and install Mozilla? Bonus points if they can use an IE-lookalike skin and deceive the user. That would be something, though I don't think the Mozilla folks would like this marketing ploy, because a high percentage of the users will probably send their complaints to them.
It wouldn't be so hard, just use an exploit to download and execute an installer, it can even be done through social engineering -- here in Germany there's a pest of so-called dialer programs, some of them take the easy way and use signed ActiveX controls to install themselves and then use the modem to dial 1-900 numbers. How did the user let this happen? Easy, their website just says "click 'Yes' when a dialog box comes up", and the dumb users does so when IE asks them "Do you want to trust content from 'Evil Bastard Company'?"
wouldn't it be a pain trying to type on them? I imagine it would be like handling wet soap, your fingers would slip everytime they try to push down the keys.
No idea, but I think the way it works is, the network only sends the caller's number, and the phone does a comparison of the number with the ones it has stored in its address book, displaying the name in case of a match. I don't think the protocol even has support for looking up names from a database and sending them over the network, with a few thousand cells and calls a second it would be very resource intensive.
Acrobat (not Reader) does have an OCR function, which is a "free" update from the web (free because they assumed you paid for the product alraedy).
You were supposed to develop this for Windows, you bleep!! bleep!!!. Bleeping bleeps!!
Ha, yes, I saw it in a Time-Life book as well, unfortunately mine are 11000km away at the moment. Too bad you're posting anonymous, but I think the book was about astronomy.
Really? I can remember seeing a black and white photo of a lady who got a bruise on her stomach, because of a meteorite went through her roof and hit her.
Do I have to press enter after typing this command, or not?
Gotta be careful there, seeing how the page had to describe to Macheads commands like cd and mv (don't forget the space! Press enter afterwards!), some of them might fall for your trick (well if they don't forget to press Enter).. ah poor Mac-folks, life without a command prompt must have been a bliss.
That Bongo player must have exhausted himself to death.
IMO, It just doesn't look as attractive as an iPod.. only Apple can make hardware so sexy, and they (Dell) had to come up with something different to be "original". Unfortunately the iPod probably ranks as the world's sexiest MP3 player, and Dell can only settle for place 2, at best. And the way the thing looks, it didn't make it into the top-10 list.
Well, South Tyrol (Tirol?) doesn't exactly have problems getting tourists, it's a popular destination for people from Germany and Austria.
Remember last year when Saddam was still running Iraq, he did an election and he won by 99,99% (or was it 100%?). And the USA screamed "That's no democracy.".
Heh, sweet irony. Or bitter irony, for the dead victims of the war (civilian and military).
Let's see, 2^3 is a KB? 2^6 would be an MB, and 2^9 would be a GB..
;-)
Hey, I've got some 30-pin Terabyte SIMMs to sell, you want some?
It can be changed, but they still could've copied and pasted their whois result as plain-text! What, are they afraid it's not original enough? Haven't they heard of Photoshop?
Incidentally, I find Photoshop over-hyped. has more features and is easier to use.
They did some nice research, but do they really have to show their whois search results as JPEGs? Strange folks.
Well certainly not all who bought them were kids? In fact isn't it forbidden to sell them to kids?
No one would expect terrorirts filling a bus with walking, breathing claymore mined hostages AND letting it fly and smash into buildings either!
And then that they'd hack through 128 RSA encryption so they can do\/\/nl0adz $$ Billions into their bank account, and get away with it!
No one would expect that, but would anyone expect it as a dumb movie plot?
I'm quite amused that they think that a suicidal terrorist might want a halal meal on the plane.
Indeed, remember the letter that the hijackers left behind? It told them to blend in, so that sort of shit would probably not come up.
This whole deal is just creating a false sense of safety -- in the public and in the minds of the idiot bureaucrats. 9-11 was a one shot idea, if it worked, they got away with it and there was no way it could be repeated. Thanks to the idiocy of the Bush Administration, it worked, they got away with it, taking 3000 people and America's sense of security with them. No terrorist would be trying to repeat that anytime soon, and if they did, they'll certainly be smart enough like last time to find the loopholes -- from the posts here there seem to still be very big loopholes -- and succeed again! Yay for the United Fascist States of GWB!
And considering it's only yes and no, you can encode the yes'es as 1s and the no's as 0s!
Sheesh, either some people are missing the joke or the grandparent post is joking, or you (parent post) is joking.
You don't want Yakov Smirnov's men after you, do you? Or, will you be after them?
Quickly I hope! This will tell those fucking corporate-types that real hackers will not tolerate such a thing. Hopefully all distros will play along as well, so that Joe Linux-Sysadmin will have it installed by default.
On the topic of DDoS, who wants to run a script that does wget http://www.[A-z]*.com/ ?