Jack Thompson has only himself and his repeated unethical behavior to blame for flushing 12 years of college down the drain. He is exactly the reason that we need associations such as the bar and the AMA.
Usenet in the late 80s and early 90s was what got me hooked on the internet. My "online" experience up to that point was limited to pretty small BBS systems, and I was blown away by Usenet's size and scope. The focus and quality of the discussions in the technical groups was often really excellent.
I remember posting a question about some arcane aspect of the Kermit protocol (at that the time I was working on a project that required me to implement Kermit in MUMPS ) and getting suggestions from some of the original designers. Great stuff.
Arnold already has more than enough cash to live in luxury for several lifetimes. His waiving of his governor's salary doesn't grant him any kind of moral high ground in my book.
How many of those state employees have families to feed and (sky-high California) mortgages to pay? How many are living paycheck to paycheck?
For Schwarzenegger to reduce 200,000 of his employees to poverty-level wages is a defining "Let Them Eat Cake" moment.
BS or not, the State Controller should be commended for defying the Governator.
For Schwarzenegger to deny the rightful wages of thousands of working people is despicable. I'm sickened to see yet another filthy-rich, hopelessly-out-of-touch pol try to screw over the masses simply for the sake of political theatre.
It's interesting to see how widespread this exploit has become. I've checked my home and office connections using Dan Kaminsky's handy DNS Checker and it appears that my ISPs have taken measures to avoid this problem.
Unfortunately, I also travel a good deal for work, and it's hard to be sure that the ISP used by whatever-hotel-I'm-staying-at-this-week will be as proactive.
The guys in TFA got pwned by being redirected to a bogus Google look-alike page. As I understand it, this kind of attack would be noticeable when attempting to use a secure (HTTPS) web connection, because the browser should throw up a certificate error. Is this true? What other ways might be used to detect this problem?
6502 assembly - now there's a blast from the past
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I disassembled a few dozen bytes of the dump to see what it looked like. I have no idea what it's supposed to be doing, but seeing the code does take me back a few decades... E000 4C B0 E2 JMP $E2B0 E003 AD 11 D0 LDA $D011 E006 10 FB BPL $E003 E008 AD 10 D0 LDA $D010 E00B 60 RTS E00C 8A TXA E00D 29 20 AND #$20 E00F F0 23 BEQ $E034 E011 A9 A0 LDA #$A0 E013 85 E4 STA $E4 E015 4C C9 E3 JMP $E3C9 E018 A9 20 LDA #$20 E01A C5 24 CMP $24 E01C B0 0C BCS $E02A E01E A9 8D LDA #$8D E020 A0 07 LDY #$07 E022 20 C9 E3 JSR $E3C9 E025 A9 A0 LDA #$A0 E027 88 DEY E028 D0 F8 BNE $E022 E02A A0 00 LDY #$00 E02C B1 E2 LDA ($E2),Y E02E E6 E2 INC $E2 E030 D0 02 BNE $E034 E032 E6 E3 INC $E3 E034 60 RTS
Back in my C64 days, I used to practically think in 65xx assembly code... ah, memories.
* The hand-painted wooden ball in a cup - Toss the ball, catch it in the cup, dump it out of the cup, toss it and catch it in the cup again. The ball is on a string and attached to the cup, so there's no worry if you don't catch the ball in a cup. And clean up is as easy as catching a ball in a cup.
My wife teaches fifth grade. A few years back, as part of her science curriculum, she was able to get a moon rock on loan from NASA for her classroom. I was amazed at how (seemingly) simple it was - she (and the school) had to sign some papers, and they left it with her for a week. I came in after class one day to see it -- I was pretty amazed to actually be holding a moon rock in my hands. As I recall, it was from one of the later Apollo moon missions, but still very cool.
I'm a longtime user of AVG. Version 7 was reasonably lightweight, effective and (most importantly to me) unobtrusive.
Unfortunately, version 8 is a different story. After Grisoft forced me to upgrade in May, suddenly AVG became a nagging resource hog. Nightly scan times rocketed from about an hour to over six hours - a scheduled scan that started at 2am would still be going at 8:30am. I have been able to reduce this time somewhat by changing the scan settings (e.g., don't scan inside compressed archives), but it's still slow.
Most annoyingly, their new "LinkScanner" and "SafeSurf" features slowed my browser to a crawl. I didn't want these, since I already use FireFox with the AdBlock and NoScript extensions. I tried to simply disable LinkScanner, but then AVG constantly bothered me with nagging warnings that my computer "was not fully protected". After a little digging, I found that it was possible to uninstall the feature entirely with the following command:
Eventually you reach a point where your stuff owns you (in Soviet Russia...? but I digress...).
I can't help but feel a little envious of this guy. Unfortunately, my wife and kids might have something to say about me selling off our house and all of our possessions.
One useful byproduct of a long series of failures is that it produces a well-developed sense of cynicism and sarcasm, which are essential skills required for posting snarky (yet insightful - insightful, dammit!) remarks on Slashdot.
While Dave Leis' touching characterization of the device as "a buddy who wants to keep you safe and help you graduate" clearly comes straight from the heart, many students at the high school have expressed concerns this rule "cuts like a knife".
A spokesman for the school administration added that "We can't stop this thing we've started.".
Is it really better targeting? I'd say that college students compose a very large percentage of their market. I know that I listened to (and purchased) a lot more music in my college years than I do now. In addition, in just a few years these well-educated "soft targets" are going to be the high-earning consumers (and potential policy makers) that this industry needs to survive. Do they really want to intimidate and terrorize these people? Obviously the RIAA (and the cartels pulling the strings) are failing to take the long view on this matter.
I remember a common threat in grade school was "this will be on your permanent record". We used to joke about it - it seemed ridiculous.
As an adult, it's starkly clear to me that "permanent records" do exist for all of us, and they control our lives to a large degree. Credit reports, "no-fly" lists, and now this "red flag" list - somewhere out there grim people in small offices quietly compile lists of citizens whom they feel should be "less free".
What kind of oversight exists for this list? What does one have to do (or not do) to appear on it? If you're on it, how can you be removed?
I wish I could say I was surprised by this new step towards an Orwellian dystopia, but the past several years have numbed me to it.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
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It's not like "Transsexual" is an endpoint - it seems more like a transition path.
Wouldn't it make more sense to simply add one point (or one-half, if you will) to both the Male and Female genders?
Jack Thompson has only himself and his repeated unethical behavior to blame for flushing 12 years of college down the drain. He is exactly the reason that we need associations such as the bar and the AMA.
Usenet in the late 80s and early 90s was what got me hooked on the internet. My "online" experience up to that point was limited to pretty small BBS systems, and I was blown away by Usenet's size and scope. The focus and quality of the discussions in the technical groups was often really excellent.
I remember posting a question about some arcane aspect of the Kermit protocol (at that the time I was working on a project that required me to implement Kermit in MUMPS ) and getting suggestions from some of the original designers. Great stuff.
The link seems to be requiring registration now. For those who don't want to bother, I posted this.
Pretty much what you'd expect. Looks to be your garden variety petty bureaucrat, overly impressed by her little bit of power.
Yeah, poor Arnold. I'm sure he's clipping coupons.
Once again, pure political theatre.
Arnold already has more than enough cash to live in luxury for several lifetimes. His waiving of his governor's salary doesn't grant him any kind of moral high ground in my book.
How many of those state employees have families to feed and (sky-high California) mortgages to pay? How many are living paycheck to paycheck?
For Schwarzenegger to reduce 200,000 of his employees to poverty-level wages is a defining "Let Them Eat Cake" moment.
BS or not, the State Controller should be commended for defying the Governator.
For Schwarzenegger to deny the rightful wages of thousands of working people is despicable. I'm sickened to see yet another filthy-rich, hopelessly-out-of-touch pol try to screw over the masses simply for the sake of political theatre.
3) If you're going to violate the DMCA, you should join the Air Force first.
I used to live right around the corner from Grover's Mill - there is actually a small monument at the supposed landing site.
It's interesting to see how widespread this exploit has become. I've checked my home and office connections using Dan Kaminsky's handy DNS Checker and it appears that my ISPs have taken measures to avoid this problem.
Unfortunately, I also travel a good deal for work, and it's hard to be sure that the ISP used by whatever-hotel-I'm-staying-at-this-week will be as proactive.
The guys in TFA got pwned by being redirected to a bogus Google look-alike page. As I understand it, this kind of attack would be noticeable when attempting to use a secure (HTTPS) web connection, because the browser should throw up a certificate error. Is this true? What other ways might be used to detect this problem?
I disassembled a few dozen bytes of the dump to see what it looked like. I have no idea what it's supposed to be doing, but seeing the code does take me back a few decades...
E000 4C B0 E2 JMP $E2B0
E003 AD 11 D0 LDA $D011
E006 10 FB BPL $E003
E008 AD 10 D0 LDA $D010
E00B 60 RTS
E00C 8A TXA
E00D 29 20 AND #$20
E00F F0 23 BEQ $E034
E011 A9 A0 LDA #$A0
E013 85 E4 STA $E4
E015 4C C9 E3 JMP $E3C9
E018 A9 20 LDA #$20
E01A C5 24 CMP $24
E01C B0 0C BCS $E02A
E01E A9 8D LDA #$8D
E020 A0 07 LDY #$07
E022 20 C9 E3 JSR $E3C9
E025 A9 A0 LDA #$A0
E027 88 DEY
E028 D0 F8 BNE $E022
E02A A0 00 LDY #$00
E02C B1 E2 LDA ($E2),Y
E02E E6 E2 INC $E2
E030 D0 02 BNE $E034
E032 E6 E3 INC $E3
E034 60 RTS
Back in my C64 days, I used to practically think in 65xx assembly code... ah, memories.
* The hand-painted wooden ball in a cup - Toss the ball, catch it in the cup, dump it out of the cup, toss it and catch it in the cup again. The ball is on a string and attached to the cup, so there's no worry if you don't catch the ball in a cup. And clean up is as easy as catching a ball in a cup.
My wife teaches fifth grade. A few years back, as part of her science curriculum, she was able to get a moon rock on loan from NASA for her classroom. I was amazed at how (seemingly) simple it was - she (and the school) had to sign some papers, and they left it with her for a week. I came in after class one day to see it -- I was pretty amazed to actually be holding a moon rock in my hands. As I recall, it was from one of the later Apollo moon missions, but still very cool.
I'm a longtime user of AVG. Version 7 was reasonably lightweight, effective and (most importantly to me) unobtrusive.
Unfortunately, version 8 is a different story. After Grisoft forced me to upgrade in May, suddenly AVG became a nagging resource hog. Nightly scan times rocketed from about an hour to over six hours - a scheduled scan that started at 2am would still be going at 8:30am. I have been able to reduce this time somewhat by changing the scan settings (e.g., don't scan inside compressed archives), but it's still slow.
Most annoyingly, their new "LinkScanner" and "SafeSurf" features slowed my browser to a crawl. I didn't want these, since I already use FireFox with the AdBlock and NoScript extensions. I tried to simply disable LinkScanner, but then AVG constantly bothered me with nagging warnings that my computer "was not fully protected". After a little digging, I found that it was possible to uninstall the feature entirely with the following command:
avg_free_stf_xxxx.exe /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch
(Substitute "avg_free_stf_xxxx.exe" in the above command with the name of your setup file.)
This improved my browser performance, and eliminated the warnings.
I'm still (grudgingly) using AVG, but I will switch if/when I find a better alternative.
Are you talking about Java or C#?
Agreed absolutely.
Eventually you reach a point where your stuff owns you (in Soviet Russia...? but I digress...).
I can't help but feel a little envious of this guy. Unfortunately, my wife and kids might have something to say about me selling off our house and all of our possessions.
I have one bumper sticker (actually, a bumper magnet) on my car: "Worst President Ever".
Last week, I walked out of the supermarket (accompanied by my six-year-old son), I found this note on my windshield.
I suppose this must be an example of tolerant conservative thinking?
One useful byproduct of a long series of failures is that it produces a well-developed sense of cynicism and sarcasm, which are essential skills required for posting snarky (yet insightful - insightful, dammit!) remarks on Slashdot.
I hadn't seen this one before (and no, I am *not* new here), so for the fellow uninitiated, LART == Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool.
In that case, your REAL friends should be either Firefox with NoScript or Opera with JavaScript disabled.
Better yet, set up a dual boot with a more secure OS to use for your "friend's" surfing. Ubuntu, for example, makes it dead easy.
While Dave Leis' touching characterization of the device as "a buddy who wants to keep you safe and help you graduate" clearly comes straight from the heart, many students at the high school have expressed concerns this rule "cuts like a knife".
A spokesman for the school administration added that "We can't stop this thing we've started.".
Is it really better targeting? I'd say that college students compose a very large percentage of their market. I know that I listened to (and purchased) a lot more music in my college years than I do now. In addition, in just a few years these well-educated "soft targets" are going to be the high-earning consumers (and potential policy makers) that this industry needs to survive. Do they really want to intimidate and terrorize these people? Obviously the RIAA (and the cartels pulling the strings) are failing to take the long view on this matter.
I remember a common threat in grade school was "this will be on your permanent record". We used to joke about it - it seemed ridiculous.
As an adult, it's starkly clear to me that "permanent records" do exist for all of us, and they control our lives to a large degree. Credit reports, "no-fly" lists, and now this "red flag" list - somewhere out there grim people in small offices quietly compile lists of citizens whom they feel should be "less free".
What kind of oversight exists for this list? What does one have to do (or not do) to appear on it? If you're on it, how can you be removed?
I wish I could say I was surprised by this new step towards an Orwellian dystopia, but the past several years have numbed me to it.
I'll stick with my analog watch, thanks.
A simpler solution would be hardware keylogger, like this.