This isn't surprising at all, even less so if he works in IT. Corporate management issues a new policy: "our computing resources are not to be used for [insert a huge list of time-wasting things employees have been caught doing in the office]." But keep in mind who's eventually tasked with implementing the policy. Given such an edict, network admins everywhere will happily block the most prolific productivity killers... Except for their own.
You'll find plenty of enterprises where MySpace, Facebook, Blogger, LiveJournal and friends all resolve to nowhere, yet geekier time pits like Slashdot and TechCrunch are wide open.
Yeah, same here, except right now there's a rather humongous distributed bruteforce campaign going on. The 20-30 attempts I tend to see have skyrocketed to several thousand per day. It's actually pretty impressive - it's clearly a distributed sequential dictionary attack. Most of the IPs will only try once or twice, in an effort to avoid exactly the sort of reactive firewalling you mention.
Dec 1 11:17:57 shaunc sshd[35178]: Failed unknown for illegal user griffin from 196.211.53.74 port 20893 ssh2 Dec 1 11:18:17 shaunc sshd[35262]: Failed unknown for illegal user griffith from 92.50.243.18 port 40689 ssh2 Dec 1 11:18:30 shaunc sshd[35308]: Failed unknown for illegal user griffith from 82.207.103.151 port 60822 ssh2 Dec 1 11:18:33 shaunc sshd[35354]: Failed unknown for illegal user grizelda from 65.203.231.41 port 60602 ssh2
Many thousands of these, seconds apart, all day long. It got so bad that for the time being I've moved sshd to a different port.
I drink a lot (a fifth of vodka every two days, on average). One of my coworkers, out of 12+, claims she can smell the hell out of it on me. I shower each morning and two different Axe products are part of my showering repertoire. While I don't doubt that I sweat out some portion of the previous night's alcohol during the course of the work day, I'm curious where the threshold is.
I put back about 375ml of vodka per night - mixed with various other beverages, typically Diet Mt. Dew, a random Gatorade, or one of Ocean Spray's delicious juices. Some nights I have no vodka, but drink 6 to 12 beers instead, depending upon the brand. And from time to time, such as last night, I'll get to sleep simply by virtue of 100mg Diphenhydramine HCl without having a drop of alcohol. This coworker swears she can still smell it, even after I've gone 48 hours and 2 or more showers since my last drink.
I suspect that certain people have unusually strong senses of smell. We know that dogs do. I hope that I don't have any offensive BO at work, and I'd doubly hope that if I did, someone would tell me about it. That only a single coworker has mentioned her ability to "smell the booze on me" makes me paranoid, but it also makes me wonder. Is she hypersensitive, or are all of my other coworkers picking up on it and just being too polite to say anything? Knowing most of my coworkers very fondly, I suspect the former.
Dogs have never liked me - or conversely, they've always liked me too much. To me, canines exhibit excessive hyperactivity. That's why I have a cat instead. She might be the boss of my house, but the only time she freaks out is when I drop some fresh catnip somewhere nearby.
I'm more concerned about the "send us your old and worn out gold jewelry ads".
Rob Cockerham recently tested out their scam by sending them a bunch of junk spray-painted gold. They sent him back a check! It was only $1 or so, I guess it's a consolation prize they send to anyone who bothers to mail in an envelope.
Someone else tried it with actual gold and found that the prices they're willing to quote you (at least initially) are way below the true value, but if you complain about their offer, they'll make a reasonable one.
First, the blurb is very misleading. I took from it that the bank yelled at the use of the phrase "one hexadecimal dollar" which no banker would understand how to equate to the digits, $2.56.
Along those lines, I always wondered whether or not this check was ever mailed to Verizon, and if so, whether or not they managed to cash it.
Why wouldn't it just keep on churning out the spam it has until given new stuff?
Because the life expectancy of a given spammed domain is on the order of several hours now, even with fast-flux DNS tactics, and professional spammers certainly understand that. There's no reason to expect that botnets are given a "spam this until otherwise instructed" order; instead, evidence points to very specific commands from botnet operators to mail each campaign for X site to Y addresses over Z period of time. There are screenshots out there of popular spam/bot controller interfaces. Besides, if the botnet operators have been busted, we have to presume that access to their C&C (and the ability to shut down the botnet) was part of a plea bargain.
I've mentioned this anecdotally to friends and coworkers over the past week, but apparently I'm not the only one to notice: after the bust, spam volume has remained steady. Claims that this group was responsible for a third of all spam appear to be sorely overrated.
The same risk is present with peppers, so it's not an unreasonable guess. I wonder how long he waited between preparing and eating the sauce, and whether or not it was refrigerated.
horse-farms obviously object to the idea, while poor people shake their heads and wonder who is going to seriously say "kentucky" instead of "vegas" next holiday season.
Tourists probably aren't the primary target, casinos tend to draw out locals even in communities with strong "opposition" to gambling. Tunica county, MS legalized casino gambling and there are 8 or 10 casinos operating there now and doing extremely well. From what I've seen walking through the parking lots, most of the patrons are from nearby areas like Memphis or Tupelo, in for a night of fun and gone whenever their wallets empty out. These are day-trip people, not folks who decided to go there instead of Vegas.
If it's done right, legalizing gambling can indeed fill the municipal coffers. Tunica went from being the poorest county in the United States to the wealthiest in Mississippi, all in less than a decade. Of course this doesn't scale very well (if gambling was legal in every city, no regional "hubs" would benefit disproportionately), but Kentucky's far enough away from any such hubs that it might work.
One point brought up in the articles is that it's possible the MediaSentry downloads are unauthorized copies, which seems to be necessary since if the RIAA authorizes the copy, then technically they're not infringing copyright and hence have to basis for a lawsuit.
Whether or not MediaSentry was authorized to download the file is irrelevant. Mitch Bainwol himself could be doing the downloading, it's still illegal for Jammy Thomas to do the (alleged) uploading.
I guess so. Tiger's been my vendor of choice for personal orders for years, and they're where my own money goes. At work we're a Dell shop, and there's no option.
If you insult us, call as stupid idiots, tell us that we're shit... do not expect us to even talk to you.
I'll grant you that I've had a couple of drinks tonight, but I can't quite find the post where I did any of that. If you could point it out, I'd be greatly appreciative.
Wow, I've never come across a bigger cry baby tardmonkey.
Cool, does that mean I get an award? I've been vying for Tardmonkey of the Year for awhile now, but nobody has nominated me until today.
You cry about a bug, then refuse to submit a bug report. You know what, pack your computer up (or disassemble it, but I doubt you make your own computers) and send it back to whoever you bought it from because you're too fucking stupid to own one.
I have not refused to submit a bug report, I have neglected to submit a bug report. There's a significant difference.
As I pointed out in a prior post, I'm using an official public release version of Firefox. Not a beta, not a nightly, not an RC. In this capacity, I'm an end user, not a QA tester. Do you actually presume that everyone who uses Firefox should report each bug that they encounter? What if your grandmother uses Firefox and something doesn't work as she expects?
You posted on slashdot crying about a product issue with a free browser used by millions of people that has a very simple bug reporting system. Do you not see how unbelievably retarded you come across?
No, I really don't.
I'm no genius, but to me, reporting a bug that DIRECTLY AFFECTS YOU seems like a SMART thing to do.
I did report the bug, right here, several hours ago. Certainly you didn't miss that, as you've devoted quite a bit of time to an ad-hominem attack.
Crying on slashdot about it, then proceeding to try and prove that it's mozilla's fault you don't report bugs, well, really comes across as MONUMENTALLY FUCKING STUPID.
I do believe I've already made the point that I do not work for Mozilla QA. They have people who get paid for that shit. I am not one of them.
I respect your opinion and your experience, but I've been a TigerDirect customer for years, and I've never been disappointed. My last 3 personal computers have all been Systemax PCs that I've ordered from Tiger.
I often hear awful tales about rebate issues regarding Tiger. I avoid refurb and rebate items for that reason - you never know what you're going to get. So I can't say whether or not they honor their rebates, or whether their refurb items suck ass. If you buy a refurb PC you might get a piece of shit, I don't know.
I have no affiliation with Tiger other than I'm a satisfied customer and I've been ordering everything from PCs to monitors to KVMs to storage, and I've never had a problem. As far as their PC offerings go, I can't speak to anything other than the Systemax line, but they've always been solid for me.
I suppose you filed a bug report a few weeks ago and no one has done anything about it?
No, I did not report this as a bug. To the best of my knowledge I have never reported any bugs to the Mozilla team.
On the highly unlikely event that it was you that posted that bug, maybe you should give them more than 3 days to do something about it before bashing them on/.?
Firefox is used by millions of people. Firefox is also, presumably, used by all of its contributors. I don't download its nightlies. I don't run its alphas or betas. I do participate in the evaluation of other products, and I do report bugs I encounter there, because I'm running pre-release versions of those applications.
My Firefox is at 2.0.0.16. This is an official release (and, as far as I know, the most recent revision to the 2.0 tree). When Mozilla issues a public software update that has passed their internal reviews and release management processes, I don't believe that it's my responsibility to report bugs prior to complaining about them.
You know one thing I find annoying? Users that find bugs and never tell you about them.
Firefox is free software. I appreciate that. But using Mozilla's free software does not automatically enroll me as a card-carrying member of the Mozilla QA team.
Mozilla has released the second alpha build for Firefox 3.1, codenamed "Shiretoko."
I see. Is that why I was yet again presented with a dialog tonight inviting me to "Upgrade to Firefox 3!" even though I've hit the Never button on that same dialog at least twice on this machine over the past few weeks?
If you give me an upgrade option that says "Never," and I choose that option, my expectation is that I will no longer get random dialogs offering the upgrade. Ever. That's sort of the reason I keep clicking "Never" instead of "Later," but Firefox doesn't seem to care.
Some are wondering if the campaign has shaped up as an utter failure.
I would say so, especially with so many well-publicized false positives. The RIAA and McCain's campaign must use the same people for their due-diligence vetting...
Slashdot Mirror
you can read slashdot, but not a blog?
This isn't surprising at all, even less so if he works in IT. Corporate management issues a new policy: "our computing resources are not to be used for [insert a huge list of time-wasting things employees have been caught doing in the office]." But keep in mind who's eventually tasked with implementing the policy. Given such an edict, network admins everywhere will happily block the most prolific productivity killers... Except for their own.
You'll find plenty of enterprises where MySpace, Facebook, Blogger, LiveJournal and friends all resolve to nowhere, yet geekier time pits like Slashdot and TechCrunch are wide open.
Yeah, same here, except right now there's a rather humongous distributed bruteforce campaign going on. The 20-30 attempts I tend to see have skyrocketed to several thousand per day. It's actually pretty impressive - it's clearly a distributed sequential dictionary attack. Most of the IPs will only try once or twice, in an effort to avoid exactly the sort of reactive firewalling you mention.
Dec 1 11:17:57 shaunc sshd[35178]: Failed unknown for illegal user griffin from 196.211.53.74 port 20893 ssh2
Dec 1 11:18:17 shaunc sshd[35262]: Failed unknown for illegal user griffith from 92.50.243.18 port 40689 ssh2
Dec 1 11:18:30 shaunc sshd[35308]: Failed unknown for illegal user griffith from 82.207.103.151 port 60822 ssh2
Dec 1 11:18:33 shaunc sshd[35354]: Failed unknown for illegal user grizelda from 65.203.231.41 port 60602 ssh2
Many thousands of these, seconds apart, all day long. It got so bad that for the time being I've moved sshd to a different port.
the Indian Space probe, Chandrayaan has become only the fourth nation to land a probe on the Moon
It also must be the smallest nation to ever accomplish such a feat!
500 megs. 10 gigs a month SSH Nekkid Chicks
http://www.myprohost.com/
Psst...Might want to renew that (or change the sig).
I drink a lot (a fifth of vodka every two days, on average). One of my coworkers, out of 12+, claims she can smell the hell out of it on me. I shower each morning and two different Axe products are part of my showering repertoire. While I don't doubt that I sweat out some portion of the previous night's alcohol during the course of the work day, I'm curious where the threshold is.
I put back about 375ml of vodka per night - mixed with various other beverages, typically Diet Mt. Dew, a random Gatorade, or one of Ocean Spray's delicious juices. Some nights I have no vodka, but drink 6 to 12 beers instead, depending upon the brand. And from time to time, such as last night, I'll get to sleep simply by virtue of 100mg Diphenhydramine HCl without having a drop of alcohol. This coworker swears she can still smell it, even after I've gone 48 hours and 2 or more showers since my last drink.
I suspect that certain people have unusually strong senses of smell. We know that dogs do. I hope that I don't have any offensive BO at work, and I'd doubly hope that if I did, someone would tell me about it. That only a single coworker has mentioned her ability to "smell the booze on me" makes me paranoid, but it also makes me wonder. Is she hypersensitive, or are all of my other coworkers picking up on it and just being too polite to say anything? Knowing most of my coworkers very fondly, I suspect the former.
Dogs have never liked me - or conversely, they've always liked me too much. To me, canines exhibit excessive hyperactivity. That's why I have a cat instead. She might be the boss of my house, but the only time she freaks out is when I drop some fresh catnip somewhere nearby.
I'm more concerned about the "send us your old and worn out gold jewelry ads".
Rob Cockerham recently tested out their scam by sending them a bunch of junk spray-painted gold. They sent him back a check! It was only $1 or so, I guess it's a consolation prize they send to anyone who bothers to mail in an envelope.
Someone else tried it with actual gold and found that the prices they're willing to quote you (at least initially) are way below the true value, but if you complain about their offer, they'll make a reasonable one.
Cool, now that I can get behind. Or from behind. Four times each...
First, the blurb is very misleading. I took from it that the bank yelled at the use of the phrase "one hexadecimal dollar" which no banker would understand how to equate to the digits, $2.56.
Along those lines, I always wondered whether or not this check was ever mailed to Verizon, and if so, whether or not they managed to cash it.
I think I'd be happier with tetrahymenian overladies...
Why wouldn't it just keep on churning out the spam it has until given new stuff?
Because the life expectancy of a given spammed domain is on the order of several hours now, even with fast-flux DNS tactics, and professional spammers certainly understand that. There's no reason to expect that botnets are given a "spam this until otherwise instructed" order; instead, evidence points to very specific commands from botnet operators to mail each campaign for X site to Y addresses over Z period of time. There are screenshots out there of popular spam/bot controller interfaces. Besides, if the botnet operators have been busted, we have to presume that access to their C&C (and the ability to shut down the botnet) was part of a plea bargain.
I've mentioned this anecdotally to friends and coworkers over the past week, but apparently I'm not the only one to notice: after the bust, spam volume has remained steady. Claims that this group was responsible for a third of all spam appear to be sorely overrated.
He composed the rest of his comment over on Idle. :)
The same risk is present with peppers, so it's not an unreasonable guess. I wonder how long he waited between preparing and eating the sauce, and whether or not it was refrigerated.
horse-farms obviously object to the idea, while poor people shake their heads and wonder who is going to seriously say "kentucky" instead of "vegas" next holiday season.
Tourists probably aren't the primary target, casinos tend to draw out locals even in communities with strong "opposition" to gambling. Tunica county, MS legalized casino gambling and there are 8 or 10 casinos operating there now and doing extremely well. From what I've seen walking through the parking lots, most of the patrons are from nearby areas like Memphis or Tupelo, in for a night of fun and gone whenever their wallets empty out. These are day-trip people, not folks who decided to go there instead of Vegas.
If it's done right, legalizing gambling can indeed fill the municipal coffers. Tunica went from being the poorest county in the United States to the wealthiest in Mississippi, all in less than a decade. Of course this doesn't scale very well (if gambling was legal in every city, no regional "hubs" would benefit disproportionately), but Kentucky's far enough away from any such hubs that it might work.
One point brought up in the articles is that it's possible the MediaSentry downloads are unauthorized copies, which seems to be necessary since if the RIAA authorizes the copy, then technically they're not infringing copyright and hence have to basis for a lawsuit.
Whether or not MediaSentry was authorized to download the file is irrelevant. Mitch Bainwol himself could be doing the downloading, it's still illegal for Jammy Thomas to do the (alleged) uploading.
something like 50k nodes, 15PB of dedicated data storage
15 PedoBears?? That's a lot of JB!
I guess so. Tiger's been my vendor of choice for personal orders for years, and they're where my own money goes. At work we're a Dell shop, and there's no option.
If you insult us, call as stupid idiots, tell us that we're shit... do not expect us to even talk to you.
I'll grant you that I've had a couple of drinks tonight, but I can't quite find the post where I did any of that. If you could point it out, I'd be greatly appreciative.
Wow, I've never come across a bigger cry baby tardmonkey.
Cool, does that mean I get an award? I've been vying for Tardmonkey of the Year for awhile now, but nobody has nominated me until today.
You cry about a bug, then refuse to submit a bug report. You know what, pack your computer up (or disassemble it, but I doubt you make your own computers) and send it back to whoever you bought it from because you're too fucking stupid to own one.
I have not refused to submit a bug report, I have neglected to submit a bug report. There's a significant difference.
As I pointed out in a prior post, I'm using an official public release version of Firefox. Not a beta, not a nightly, not an RC. In this capacity, I'm an end user, not a QA tester. Do you actually presume that everyone who uses Firefox should report each bug that they encounter? What if your grandmother uses Firefox and something doesn't work as she expects?
You posted on slashdot crying about a product issue with a free browser used by millions of people that has a very simple bug reporting system. Do you not see how unbelievably retarded you come across?
No, I really don't.
I'm no genius, but to me, reporting a bug that DIRECTLY AFFECTS YOU seems like a SMART thing to do.
I did report the bug, right here, several hours ago. Certainly you didn't miss that, as you've devoted quite a bit of time to an ad-hominem attack.
Crying on slashdot about it, then proceeding to try and prove that it's mozilla's fault you don't report bugs, well, really comes across as MONUMENTALLY FUCKING STUPID.
I do believe I've already made the point that I do not work for Mozilla QA. They have people who get paid for that shit. I am not one of them.
I respect your opinion and your experience, but I've been a TigerDirect customer for years, and I've never been disappointed. My last 3 personal computers have all been Systemax PCs that I've ordered from Tiger.
I often hear awful tales about rebate issues regarding Tiger. I avoid refurb and rebate items for that reason - you never know what you're going to get. So I can't say whether or not they honor their rebates, or whether their refurb items suck ass. If you buy a refurb PC you might get a piece of shit, I don't know.
I have no affiliation with Tiger other than I'm a satisfied customer and I've been ordering everything from PCs to monitors to KVMs to storage, and I've never had a problem. As far as their PC offerings go, I can't speak to anything other than the Systemax line, but they've always been solid for me.
Where in Tennessee are you? I'm in Memphis; I realize this has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but I couldn't help but be curious.
I suppose you filed a bug report a few weeks ago and no one has done anything about it?
No, I did not report this as a bug. To the best of my knowledge I have never reported any bugs to the Mozilla team.
On the highly unlikely event that it was you that posted that bug, maybe you should give them more than 3 days to do something about it before bashing them on /.?
Firefox is used by millions of people. Firefox is also, presumably, used by all of its contributors. I don't download its nightlies. I don't run its alphas or betas. I do participate in the evaluation of other products, and I do report bugs I encounter there, because I'm running pre-release versions of those applications.
My Firefox is at 2.0.0.16. This is an official release (and, as far as I know, the most recent revision to the 2.0 tree). When Mozilla issues a public software update that has passed their internal reviews and release management processes, I don't believe that it's my responsibility to report bugs prior to complaining about them.
You know one thing I find annoying?
Users that find bugs and never tell you about them.
Firefox is free software. I appreciate that. But using Mozilla's free software does not automatically enroll me as a card-carrying member of the Mozilla QA team.
They have people who are paid to do this shit.
I am not one of them.
Cool, thanks. I'll get on that right awa
I see. Is that why I was yet again presented with a dialog tonight inviting me to "Upgrade to Firefox 3!" even though I've hit the Never button on that same dialog at least twice on this machine over the past few weeks?
If you give me an upgrade option that says "Never," and I choose that option, my expectation is that I will no longer get random dialogs offering the upgrade. Ever. That's sort of the reason I keep clicking "Never" instead of "Later," but Firefox doesn't seem to care.
This is really starting to get annoying.
Some are wondering if the campaign has shaped up as an utter failure.
I would say so, especially with so many well-publicized false positives. The RIAA and McCain's campaign must use the same people for their due-diligence vetting...
The same iframe appears no matter what site you look up on BugMeNot. I think it's safe to say that the submitter runs BugMeNot.com.