Most of popular mass mailers used by spammers are Windows only.
My impression was, those are just for the "Spamming for Dummies" readers -- people, who have been spammed themsleves and are trying (and failing) to "make a fortune on the Internet", as the scumbag, who spammed them promised.
The pros, and, I guess, this case is about a pro, use stuff like the recently described here program, that masquarades as an Apache process, and calls the owners back for the new spams and address lists.
If it is not bad intention, it is just stupidity. For a while, I had a fax number, which was the same as that of some medical lab (or insurance company) -- except for the area code.
Twice a week a fax would arrive from a doctor's office in my area -- thanks to an absent minded "office manager" or some such. Due to the nature of the business, all faxes contained not only the patients' names, SS#, but also diagnoses, health histories -- the works! I called them back every time -- boy, were the morons surprised... They never even bothered to check the fax ID string, which I had configured to my company's name.
Not to give any ideas, but how difficult is it for a scumbag to get a phone number similar to that of a claims department of an insurance company?.. Or a mortgage department of a bank? You can guess the other steps she/he will need to make. Mind you, completely passive and impossible to detect. No dumpster diving involved either -- totally white-collar job...
We can moan about the need to use encryption and authentication, but faxes don't have this feature at all. As long as this sort of information passes over telephone lines unencrypted, your info is not safe.
My conspiracy theory suggests, that Clinton was very well protected by the media -- intentionally or not. By reducing -- in the minds of the readers/viewers -- the scandal to that cunnilingus, they managed to push his real crimes beyond the average attention span.
Only the Wall Street Journal had a big full page article on all the other shady things he was accused of, but who reads that?
Whether or not the "media" had done that deliberately, or simply because their attention spans are just as short is another question. But they did help him out, I think.
Why do they insist on this devices being registered and what not? Why can't I anonymously buy and/or recharge it at a gas station? If it can be done with cell phones, it is certainly possible with these -- much simpler -- devices.
I suspect, it is so by design. We are dealing with the government, after all...
I would wholeheartedly welcome this! Because it will cause the public uproar about the ridiculously low speed limits and lead to them being raised. Or so I hope...
You can't use the same standard. For example, I'm quite comfortable, that US, UK, and France will not use their nuclear arsenal in a way I would not approve. I'm not so comfortable about the other countries and organizations you listed. Hence, the moaning...
We really want something that compiles once, can profile code execution and then recompile to optimise based on the execution profile; something along the lines of what this article talks about but built right into the compiler.
Sun's compiler had this for years. From their
man-page:
-xprofile=p
Collects data for a profile or use a profile to optimize.
p must be collect[:name], use[:name], or tcov.
This option causes execution frequency data to be collected and saved during execution, then the data can be
used in subsequent runs to improve performance. This
option is only valid when a level of optimization is
specified.
If compilation and linking are performed in separate
steps, the same -xprofile option must appear on the
compile as well as the link step.
collect[:name]
Collects and saves execution frequency for later
use by the optimizer with -xprofile=use. The
compiler generates code to measure statement
execution-frequency.
The name is the name of the program that is being
analyzed. This name is optional. If name is not
specified, a.out is assumed to be the name of the
executable.
You can set the environment variables SUN_PROFDATA
and SUN_PROFDATA_DIR to control where a program
compiled with -xprofile=collect stores the profile
data. If set, the -xprofile=collect data is written to SUN_PROFDATA_DIR/SUN_PROFDATA.
These environment variables similarly control the
path and names of the profile data files written
by tcov , as described in the tcov(1) man page.
If these environment variables are not set, the
profile data is written to name.profile/feedback
in the current directory, where name is the name
of the executable or the name specified in the
-xprofile=collect:name flag. -xprofile does not
append.profile to name if name already ends in.profile. If you run the program several times,
the execution frequency data accumulates in the
feedback file; that is, output from prior execu-
tions is not lost.
use[:name]
Uses execution frequency data to optimize strategically. The name is the name of the executable
that is being analyzed. This name is optional. If
name is not specified, a.out is assumed to be the
name of the executable.
The program is optimized by using the execution
frequency data previously generated and saved in
the feedback files written by a previous execution
of the program compiled with -xprofile=collect.
The source files and other compiler options must
be exactly the same as those used for the compilation that created the compiled program that generated the feedback file If compiled with
-xprofile=collect:name, the same program name name
must appear in the optimizing compilation:
-xprofile=use:name.
Sun offers a fairly advanced compiler and, perhaps more importantly, "performance libraries" on their Sparc machines. Intel is doing the same on their machines -- Linux, FreeBSD (via port), and Windows. Will Sun do likewise with AMD or will they just help GCC in the amd64 optimization area(s)?
It seems, that if the machines were made by the Democratic Party's contributors, he (and/or many of people agreeing with him on this forum) would not have minded.
I'd dismiss such blabbing as a trolling flamebait, but the moderators thought otherwise.
So, I have to respond.
Think Elcomsoft. Think RIAA. Think Scientology.
That's a handful of cases. Only one of them involved putting anyone to jail, BTW. There are countless thousands of corporations in US alone.
They can jail you anytime they want by picking up a phone and getting their legal staff on the job. It's up to you to raise millions to defend yourself.
You are severely overestimating their capabilities. Looking for balance (if you care), think anti-Tobacco lawsuits, think "McDonalds made be fat", think Ford/Firestone, and countless other lower profile (usually -- class-action) suits against "corporations".
People do pick and choose governments with ease, every four years.
Oh yeah? Try firing the demopublican "janus"...
Try firing Microsoft.
I did -- long time ago.
Apparently the Secret Service has been ordering all the local law enforcement around the country to round up protesters in the President's path and detain them.
Secret Service is not a corporation, it is a part of the executive branch of our government.
Skylarov was yanked by cops on the sayso of Adobe; who owned the cops?
He was arrested by an FBI agent acting on a tip from Adobe. The agent -- according to his affidevit -- personally observed Sklyarov breaking the law.
Kevin Mitnick spent years in prison without charges because the corporations he insulted wanted him to rot, period.
I don't know about this case much, but your acusations of illegal imprisonment require more serious substantiation.
IF THEY ARE ALTERING THE HISTORICAL RECORD, HOW WOULD YOU EVER KNOW???
"Historical records" have been altered for as long as they existed. Trusting one source is foolish anyway -- besides deliberate alterations, it can suffer from honest mistakes, ignorance, etc. There is enough record keeping in today's civilization to make one company's private archive insignificant.
Want to talk to Time Warner about erasing the record? What is "Time"? Can you schedule an appointment with it? Make it do jail time?
For WHAT? They are under NO OBLIGATION to hold that archive in the first place, nor to keep it complete or accurate. If they make promises about its accuracy, you are welcome to sue them for false advertising, but they don't. What's your problem? A corporation does not have to be honest any more than you or me. It just should not be breaking a law.
They seem to own the courts, don't they?
No they don't -- and I even listed some counter examples.
When the corporation becomes the law, you have a real police state.
Just remember, we are not there yet, however dim your view of the world is... And no, you did not convince me, we are going in that direction with any measurable speed.
That said, your repeated corporation-bashing here is tiring. They are just the way people prefer to organize themselves to do jobs, which require cooperation of multiple individuals. No better alternatives exist -- you would not like a kibutz I suspect, and you, most likely, would not survive in a kolhoz, nor in whatever ancient Egyptians called their pyramid-building formations of slaves.
The lack of comas is annoying, but the use of "your" instead of "you are" or "you're" is flat out offensive. Once could be a typo, but twice -- in just four lines of text -- is alot.
OpenSSH and Sendmail both suffered trojan horse releases last year
I remember security bugs being found in those projects, but there was not a word about them being deliberate. Care to post pointers to the trojans you mentioned?
It also talks about the molten bus and how the US military steam shoveled all of the remains and debris into a mass
grave.
The entire "The Dawn of the E-Bomb" does not have a word "bus", nor "grave". Are you reading something else?
The super weapon was made to destroy everything in its path.
Most weapons are like that. The "humanism" of this one, is that the "path" is fairly narrow. Seriously, the more precise the weapon, the more humane it is. War is hell -- one way or the other, but the smaller the number of innocent bystanders, that might die while I destroy an objective, the better.
This is typical for neocons though...
Had to come to this, did not it, you pinky tree-hugging homo terrorist!
Seriously, what is the point of engineering something like this?
To advance science? If you require an immediately
practical application, it would be useful -- as other pointed out -- to have some knowledge in this area, when someone decides to use such virii against us.
If it was another country's research team we'd probably be invading by now...
Only if not researching such subject(s) was one of the conditions of the country's past surrender.
The Concorde program was financed by the European tax-payers, who never got their money back -- despite the grotesque ticket prices. Their paternalistic politians considered it a great idea, because, you see, they were great men with an even greater "vision". Crossing the Atlantic in 4 hours is great, but if it can be crossed in 8 hours for 15 times less money -- well, thanks, but no thanks (rough esitmates).
It was not entirely useless, but the free market would've done much better job...
Especially true about the executive branch. And the further away from the local, common sense level (town, county, state, federal) the worse it gets.
This monopoly on the alcohol distribution stems from prohibition -- can't we finally get rid of it? Usually, the states are not allowed to mess with the interstate commerce, but when it comes to alcohol, it is ok? Can't rely on the private sector's lobbying much either, because the established businesses enjoy the system as it provides additional barriers to entry for would be competition... Sort of a "potential hole".
And drop the ``A'' from the ATF while at it (as the first step in dismantling that agency)?
Russia does far more launches than the US. Russia does them much more safely.
Nitpicking: most were done by the Soviet Union, not Russia. The actual cosmodrome (still the main one) is in Kazahstan, BTW.
Real point: But that aside, you are forgetting at least one accident, which left hundreds of people on the ground dead -- the rocket exploded. Soviets also had the tendency to announce the launches well after the fact, so the failed ones will remain unknown. Don't trust the evil empire's propaganda...
Final mumbling: Although cheaper in absolute terms, the Soviet space program was a bigger strain on the country's economy, indirectly responsible for more deaths and sufferings. Then, again, may be, the glory was worth it... I don't know.
Computer style infrared (IrDA) ports have been designed to reduce interference for more reliable data transfer.
To achieve this, the infrared beam has been designed to be very narrow (5 degrees).
This means you will need to aim the IrDA port directly at the target device (TV, VCR, etc).
The infrared beam has a reach of about 2 meters ( 6.6 feet ) with good battery condition.
Infrared beam power of SONY PEG(IrDA1.2) is weak and has a reach of about 1.5 meters ( 4.9 feet ).
Distance and height are important in making this remote work.
Vary the height, distance and angle to find what works for your environment.
2 meters is rather close. My couch is about 4 meters away from the TV and the rest of the electronics... So nothing using the regular Palm hardware will work for me.
Worse -- although the "PalmRemote" is also available for WinCE devices -- those, according to the site, have the same hardware limitations.
Not sure about Win95 -- PalmRemote is available for it too, but even the smallest Win95 laptop will not be small and energy efficient enough to act as a remote...
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My impression was, those are just for the "Spamming for Dummies" readers -- people, who have been spammed themsleves and are trying (and failing) to "make a fortune on the Internet", as the scumbag, who spammed them promised.
The pros, and, I guess, this case is about a pro, use stuff like the recently described here program, that masquarades as an Apache process, and calls the owners back for the new spams and address lists.
But then, of course, I am trolling...
If it is not bad intention, it is just stupidity. For a while, I had a fax number, which was the same as that of some medical lab (or insurance company) -- except for the area code.
Twice a week a fax would arrive from a doctor's office in my area -- thanks to an absent minded "office manager" or some such. Due to the nature of the business, all faxes contained not only the patients' names, SS#, but also diagnoses, health histories -- the works! I called them back every time -- boy, were the morons surprised... They never even bothered to check the fax ID string, which I had configured to my company's name.
Not to give any ideas, but how difficult is it for a scumbag to get a phone number similar to that of a claims department of an insurance company?.. Or a mortgage department of a bank? You can guess the other steps she/he will need to make. Mind you, completely passive and impossible to detect. No dumpster diving involved either -- totally white-collar job...
We can moan about the need to use encryption and authentication, but faxes don't have this feature at all. As long as this sort of information passes over telephone lines unencrypted, your info is not safe.
Must be either Linux or FreeBSD... I wonder, if that's why Microsoft is so upset? Or am I just trolling?
My conspiracy theory suggests, that Clinton was very well protected by the media -- intentionally or not. By reducing -- in the minds of the readers/viewers -- the scandal to that cunnilingus, they managed to push his real crimes beyond the average attention span.
Only the Wall Street Journal had a big full page article on all the other shady things he was accused of, but who reads that?
Whether or not the "media" had done that deliberately, or simply because their attention spans are just as short is another question. But they did help him out, I think.
Why do they insist on this devices being registered and what not? Why can't I anonymously buy and/or recharge it at a gas station? If it can be done with cell phones, it is certainly possible with these -- much simpler -- devices.
I suspect, it is so by design. We are dealing with the government, after all...
I would wholeheartedly welcome this! Because it will cause the public uproar about the ridiculously low speed limits and lead to them being raised. Or so I hope...
Free market also implies the freedom to refuse service to anyone...
You can't use the same standard. For example, I'm quite comfortable, that US, UK, and France will not use their nuclear arsenal in a way I would not approve. I'm not so comfortable about the other countries and organizations you listed. Hence, the moaning...
Sun's compiler had this for years. From their man-page:
Sun offers a fairly advanced compiler and, perhaps more importantly, "performance libraries" on their Sparc machines. Intel is doing the same on their machines -- Linux, FreeBSD (via port), and Windows. Will Sun do likewise with AMD or will they just help GCC in the amd64 optimization area(s)?
It seems, that if the machines were made by the Democratic Party's contributors, he (and/or many of people agreeing with him on this forum) would not have minded.
We still could not afford to let him get them, which was the point.
I'd dismiss such blabbing as a trolling flamebait, but the moderators thought otherwise. So, I have to respond.
That's a handful of cases. Only one of them involved putting anyone to jail, BTW. There are countless thousands of corporations in US alone.
You are severely overestimating their capabilities. Looking for balance (if you care), think anti-Tobacco lawsuits, think "McDonalds made be fat", think Ford/Firestone, and countless other lower profile (usually -- class-action) suits against "corporations".
Oh yeah? Try firing the demopublican "janus"...
I did -- long time ago.
Secret Service is not a corporation, it is a part of the executive branch of our government.
He was arrested by an FBI agent acting on a tip from Adobe. The agent -- according to his affidevit -- personally observed Sklyarov breaking the law.
I don't know about this case much, but your acusations of illegal imprisonment require more serious substantiation.
"Historical records" have been altered for as long as they existed. Trusting one source is foolish anyway -- besides deliberate alterations, it can suffer from honest mistakes, ignorance, etc. There is enough record keeping in today's civilization to make one company's private archive insignificant.
For WHAT? They are under NO OBLIGATION to hold that archive in the first place, nor to keep it complete or accurate. If they make promises about its accuracy, you are welcome to sue them for false advertising, but they don't. What's your problem? A corporation does not have to be honest any more than you or me. It just should not be breaking a law.
No they don't -- and I even listed some counter examples.
Just remember, we are not there yet, however dim your view of the world is... And no, you did not convince me, we are going in that direction with any measurable speed.
That said, your repeated corporation-bashing here is tiring. They are just the way people prefer to organize themselves to do jobs, which require cooperation of multiple individuals. No better alternatives exist -- you would not like a kibutz I suspect, and you, most likely, would not survive in a kolhoz, nor in whatever ancient Egyptians called their pyramid-building formations of slaves.
Indeed. Yet, this compromises were never suspected to have been made by the project insiders -- unlike with the Interbase.
The lack of comas is annoying, but the use of "your" instead of "you are" or "you're" is flat out offensive. Once could be a typo, but twice -- in just four lines of text -- is alot.
I remember security bugs being found in those projects, but there was not a word about them being deliberate. Care to post pointers to the trojans you mentioned?
The entire "The Dawn of the E-Bomb" does not have a word "bus", nor "grave". Are you reading something else?
Most weapons are like that. The "humanism" of this one, is that the "path" is fairly narrow. Seriously, the more precise the weapon, the more humane it is. War is hell -- one way or the other, but the smaller the number of innocent bystanders, that might die while I destroy an objective, the better.
Had to come to this, did not it, you pinky tree-hugging homo terrorist!
It is a conspiracy! A vast right wing conspiracy! -mi
To advance science? If you require an immediately practical application, it would be useful -- as other pointed out -- to have some knowledge in this area, when someone decides to use such virii against us.
Only if not researching such subject(s) was one of the conditions of the country's past surrender.
...It does poorly.
I am repeating myself, but it is still true.
The Concorde program was financed by the European tax-payers, who never got their money back -- despite the grotesque ticket prices. Their paternalistic politians considered it a great idea, because, you see, they were great men with an even greater "vision". Crossing the Atlantic in 4 hours is great, but if it can be crossed in 8 hours for 15 times less money -- well, thanks, but no thanks (rough esitmates).
It was not entirely useless, but the free market would've done much better job...
... It does poorly.
Especially true about the executive branch. And the further away from the local, common sense level (town, county, state, federal) the worse it gets.
This monopoly on the alcohol distribution stems from prohibition -- can't we finally get rid of it? Usually, the states are not allowed to mess with the interstate commerce, but when it comes to alcohol, it is ok? Can't rely on the private sector's lobbying much either, because the established businesses enjoy the system as it provides additional barriers to entry for would be competition... Sort of a "potential hole".
And drop the ``A'' from the ATF while at it (as the first step in dismantling that agency)?
The post you replied to mentioned "sucking dry". "Decimation" is merely reducing by 10% (every 10th soldier of the punished legion was executed).
Not that I disagree with your main point, though -- I too would give all I have to be cured from an otherwise terminal decease.
Nitpicking: most were done by the Soviet Union, not Russia. The actual cosmodrome (still the main one) is in Kazahstan, BTW.
Real point: But that aside, you are forgetting at least one accident, which left hundreds of people on the ground dead -- the rocket exploded. Soviets also had the tendency to announce the launches well after the fact, so the failed ones will remain unknown. Don't trust the evil empire's propaganda...
Final mumbling: Although cheaper in absolute terms, the Soviet space program was a bigger strain on the country's economy, indirectly responsible for more deaths and sufferings. Then, again, may be, the glory was worth it... I don't know.
From the link:
2 meters is rather close. My couch is about 4 meters away from the TV and the rest of the electronics... So nothing using the regular Palm hardware will work for me.
Worse -- although the "PalmRemote" is also available for WinCE devices -- those, according to the site, have the same hardware limitations.
Not sure about Win95 -- PalmRemote is available for it too, but even the smallest Win95 laptop will not be small and energy efficient enough to act as a remote...