I was a young sysadmin for a very small mom and pop type isp. I had been working there for just under a year and had quickly move up the ranks from support lacky to full out director of operations. Now i'll be the first to say, at that point in time i was extreamly underqualified. After i was promoted, i worked at this isp for roughly 6 more weeks until i was fired because i couldn't keep up with the work (i was 16, in high school, and working another job). When i left that night i made sure to shake hands with my boss and thanked him for everything and did my best to show them there were no hard feelings then removed myself from wheel (for any linux nuts who don't know what wheel is, it's the BSD equiv of the group root). and went home and went to bed. The next day i noticed that about 3 systems weren't responding (i was trying to remove any data i had left on my accounts but alas couldn't). At that point in time my stomache fell. Something bad happened and i KNEW my name was going to come up because i had been fired the night before so i got rid of any grey material i might have had (ie- crack and any other sysadmin tools that well all use). And not 2 weeks later the cops came a knocking with a search warrrent. they took all my coputers (2 macs and a freebsd box) as well as lots of floppies and hard drives and anything they could find. Before i go any further let me tell you that this is one of the worst feelings you ever get... knowing that these pigs are digging thorugh your entire room in front of your parents, trying to find evidence of a crim you (i) did not commit. what's even worse is my parents actually didn't belive me. i felt so violated. Anyway, the pigs took it all and tried to get me to come with them downtown for questioning. i told them flat out, not with out a lawyer. the enext day i contacted a lawyer in hopes that they would try to question me and such... but they never did. They only returned about half my equipment and kept the rest as "evidence".
This happend 4 years ago. I haven't been questioned nor has the case been offically dropped. They were trying to pin a class a felony on me, so the statue of limitations is in thier favor if they ever do decide to charge me. (i know it's some insane amount of time.. something like 10 or 20 years). OIh and also most of the returned equipment was broken. The cops actually lied to me and my parents in saying i had removed a ahrd drive in front of them and that i broke things in my freebsd box when in fact i had not (at least my parents backed me up there).
the moral of my story? trust no one. not even your parents. people are afraid of what they don't understand and you know what? they don't understand what we as geek/nerds/hackers do. they think jsut by hearing the word hacker you are automatically braking into computers and stealing information.
As a side note... someone close to the "case" started spreading the news around the town i use to live in. i couldn't go anywhere with out people asking me about it. this was so humiliating.
I honestly think that i was framed. and if/when i find out by who i will be ready to serve any time that will result in our meeting (not that i condone this kind of action, but this country needs more justice).
With that many consumers with that many fat pipes, the backbone is going to be awfully oversaturated. If this becomes a continuing trend, there inernet may become unusable. ---
I have no problem with typo squatting as a whole, but there are a dozen Slashdot typo sites, one of which frames Slashdot with a 2nd banner ad. Now I don't care... but this fools about 1 person every 2-3 days, and they flame me for selling out and doing something so horrible as framing Slashdot for extra ad space.So I guess typo sites that frame the site are pretty slimey, but as long as the typo site provides a link to the correct site, I'm totally cool with 'em.
I find it ironic that the graphics engine behind quake made it famous yet in the quest to do well in the game every graphical option is turned off. Makes you wonder why they didn't just make it 2d stick figures? Oh yeah, then nobody would have bought it. But boy, people would use it. ---
I find that proper trolling on average nets karma. In fact I have 46 karma from primarily trolling. I would have more except for the cap at 50 keeps losing points when I'm on a positive streak. ---
While I agree you have a point, this discussion is about security, not performance. In that respect take linux. Linux, as long as you avoid X like the horrible plague upon humanity that it is, performs excellently. Windows, on the other hand, runs like shit, although, it is faster than linux running X. But then, consider how horribly insecure linux is. So you see it is a triple edged sword, with a cherry on top. ---
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A long time ago in a town far away...
I was a young sysadmin for a very small mom and pop type isp. I had been working there for just under a year and had quickly move up the ranks from support lacky to full out director of operations. Now i'll be the first to say, at that point in time i was extreamly underqualified. After i was promoted, i worked at this isp for roughly 6 more weeks until i was fired because i couldn't keep up with the work (i was 16, in high school, and working another job). When i left that night i made sure to shake hands with my boss and thanked him for everything and did my best to show them there were no hard feelings then removed myself from wheel (for any linux nuts who don't know what wheel is, it's the BSD equiv of the group root). and went home and went to bed. The next day i noticed that about 3 systems weren't responding (i was trying to remove any data i had left on my accounts but alas couldn't). At that point in time my stomache fell. Something bad happened and i KNEW my name was going to come up because i had been fired the night before so i got rid of any grey material i might have had (ie- crack and any other sysadmin tools that well all use). And not 2 weeks later the cops came a knocking with a search warrrent. they took all my coputers (2 macs and a freebsd box) as well as lots of floppies and hard drives and anything they could find. Before i go any further let me tell you that this is one of the worst feelings you ever get... knowing that these pigs are digging thorugh your entire room in front of your parents, trying to find evidence of a crim you (i) did not commit. what's even worse is my parents actually didn't belive me. i felt so violated. Anyway, the pigs took it all and tried to get me to come with them downtown for questioning. i told them flat out, not with out a lawyer. the enext day i contacted a lawyer in hopes that they would try to question me and such... but they never did. They only returned about half my equipment and kept the rest as "evidence".
This happend 4 years ago. I haven't been questioned nor has the case been offically dropped. They were trying to pin a class a felony on me, so the statue of limitations is in thier favor if they ever do decide to charge me. (i know it's some insane amount of time.. something like 10 or 20 years). OIh and also most of the returned equipment was broken. The cops actually lied to me and my parents in saying i had removed a ahrd drive in front of them and that i broke things in my freebsd box when in fact i had not (at least my parents backed me up there).
the moral of my story? trust no one. not even your parents. people are afraid of what they don't understand and you know what? they don't understand what we as geek/nerds/hackers do. they think jsut by hearing the word hacker you are automatically braking into computers and stealing information.
As a side note... someone close to the "case" started spreading the news around the town i use to live in. i couldn't go anywhere with out people asking me about it. this was so humiliating.
I honestly think that i was framed. and if/when i find out by who i will be ready to serve any time that will result in our meeting (not that i condone this kind of action, but this country needs more justice).
rip the fucking system.
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WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN?!?!
If you didn't see this coming, you are very, very, stupid.
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Yes what a troll. God some of you moderators are un-fucking-believably stupid.
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Don't ask me. I have no idea what you're talking about; I haven't read either one.
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..don't you think that's a bit redundant?
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My guess would be Stockholm...... don't know where I got that from, though.
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If you read them, you would know. Don't expect us to do your dirty work for you, Mr. Smarty Pants. That's what they pay you the "big bucks" for!
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If there were running Windows, it would have automatically changed!
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What planet do you live on?
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NAT blows. Listening sockets are difficult to map.
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Scew data over power lines. I want to see power over data lines. The more, the better.
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You fail to realize that the trojan known as 'napster' will saturate a connection 24/7 regardless of the number of users.
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With that many consumers with that many fat pipes, the backbone is going to be awfully oversaturated. If this becomes a continuing trend, there inernet may become unusable.
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Rehash, no new info. Talk amongst yourselves.
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Maybe NameZero is the owner!
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You don't get it, do you?
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I find it ironic that the graphics engine behind quake made it famous yet in the quest to do well in the game every graphical option is turned off. Makes you wonder why they didn't just make it 2d stick figures? Oh yeah, then nobody would have bought it. But boy, people would use it.
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Another fine example of why I will never be caught dead on IRC.
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They should run at 48 fps, but every other frame is simply the interlaced combination of the current and next frames. That I'd like to see.
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What about an uncommon television?
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I find that proper trolling on average nets karma. In fact I have 46 karma from primarily trolling. I would have more except for the cap at 50 keeps losing points when I'm on a positive streak.
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While I agree you have a point, this discussion is about security, not performance. In that respect take linux. Linux, as long as you avoid X like the horrible plague upon humanity that it is, performs excellently. Windows, on the other hand, runs like shit, although, it is faster than linux running X. But then, consider how horribly insecure linux is. So you see it is a triple edged sword, with a cherry on top.
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And a sheild. Bring a sheild too.
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Don't take it personally. He can't help. Not everyone is so fortunate as to be born dead: some people are born stupid.
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