What would happen if we were to create a federal law completely exempting medical establishments from any and all federal taxes, if and only if, such medical establishments are willing to see patients on a sliding scale? The sliding scale will be government mandated. Perhaps a simple doctor visit would warant $20 for someone who is below the 110% of the poverty level, for example.
If you think it is a good idea for a healthcare facility to take patients on a sliding scale have not yet seen the dark side of patient dumping. Look it up. Healthcare is a business. They limit the amount they dole out for free and next to free. It cuts into the bottom line. In poorer neighborhoods where the higher percentage of the population pays less, then taken for granted things like CAT scan and MRI are simply not there. The hospital can no longer afford one. When they can no longer afford one, care that would normaly use that diagnostic would be reduced to band-aids and asprin and maybe exploritory surgery. Surgery for insertion of a stint stops being an option. Treatment is now just perscription based blood thinners and hope he doesn't die soon.
These people will pay $1000 premiums per month - I work with these insurance companies and I see it happening daily in California - and in many cases their contractually agreed upon coverage will get denied.
One of the John Grisham novels is based on this ugly side of insurance. Deny all claims first. Pay as little as possible. Did you know many healthcare providers refuse to accept many forms of insurance? The state medical coupon is one of them. Try to get foster kids taken care of. It's long waits at the few places that accept it. At my dentist, I schedule an appointment and get seen. The foster kids can't get an appointment in advance. It's call everyday and see if they have an opening. I think they fill seats from cancellations or something. It's a pain in the ***.
I'm glad to see the entire state going to the latter in healthcare. There will be 2 classes of health care, Call everyday and hope to get an opening and those who have good healthcare insurance. The latter can get appointments and regular scheduled check-ups. The former gets slots only when I am unable to make an appointment. I've seen it first hand as a foster parrent. My appointments and my kids appointments are worlds apart even they are both insurance covered. Private and public insurance are not the same. They are not even close.
(disclaimer: I live in Mass. and my health insurance has not gone down. In fact it went up)
Of course it went up. Your state is now a magnet for the poor who can't afford medical insurance and are not working enough to cover the taxes to pay for it. Figure it out. Re-distribution of wealth comes out of the haves pocket and pays for stuff for the have-nots. Have-not's nearby move in to benifit. The haves feeling the burden move to lighten the demands. It always works that way. It can't work any other way.
So when are you leaving to get better health coverage for your buck?
The only exception might be very thin synthetic fabrics such as lycra that are basically transparent except for a black dye that is doesn't absorb near-IR
This is true and why IR voyouism was a problem, even at the Olympics. It was so much of a problem and recieved publicity that now official swimsuits are made to block IR for just this reason.
Cotton does scatter light. Most natural fibers do. Oil based Synthetics such a polyester scatter much less light, especialy when wet.
I was studying IR photography and was facinated with all the unseen things such as the new IR stripes on US money, healthy and unhealthy forests & plants, and found the articles on IR pass cloth and tinted windows. I still don't have an IR camera, but will soon make one.
Now that their stupidity is well understood, people are fighting back and kicking the RIAA's ass on a daily basis. They do us a big favor by doing stupid things that hasten their decline.
If this were a ball game, I still don't like the score. The number of cases in court verses the number who have rolled over and paid the settlement letter is huge.
The game isn't over yet. Between the boycott on CD's, the bad PR, and the defense getting into shape and warmed up getting stronger, the last quarter of the game will be worth front row seats. It's going to be exciting to watch the goliath fall as David shows others how to win. Not everyone turned and ran when Goliath challanged the little people.
4130 steel (and the slightly less common 4340) using chromium and molybdenum as alloying elements, was developed just before and during WWII by US metallurgists for use in aircraft, and was classified until the early 1960's.
The German cypher machine captured by the US was a highly guarded classified secret for obvious reasons. Now you can find photos of the Enigma machine online.
If it were effective, it would still be classified.
Not always. Many things that were classified are no longer classified because they became common knowledge and no longer required protection. Some examples are encryption standards, Nuclear basics, some radio modulation techniques, some CPU's, some radio frequencies, and much data from WWII. Even some of the SR71 information is no longer classified.
The fact a window tinting film can have a metalized film that blocks RF is now common knowledge. Others have stumbled upon the fact. Offices with metalic colors such as bronze, copper or stainless, have had problems with cell and pager coverage. GPS users have had reception problems in some vehicles. Many films are designed to reduce IR transmission to keep the heat out. With all that general knowledge, having a classified film with these properties is a moot point.
Just because it is declassified does not make it ineffective. The stealth fighter is still a low radar profile item.
It was classified when the film was used on the cockpit windows of stealth fighters to prevent radar reflections from entering the cockpit and having a retro-reflection back to the radar source. It's now common knowledge the stealth fighters have RF screens over things like Jet intakes and conductive films over windows so the plane's cavities do not reflect a signal back to the direction it came from. This lack of a reflection back to the source is what makes a stealth plane invisable to radar. Very little signal returns. All reflections are sent off to an angle, not back to the source. It's no longer a secret, so the film tech is now declassified.
If you don't want to spend big bucks for the official military product, visit your local car window tinting shop. Ask for a film that keeps out the heat and has a a nice metalic tint. Ask for samples. Take them outside and lay them on your GPS while watching signal strength. Pick from the ones that kill the GPS reception. Now you have one that blocks far IR, maybe near IR and radio. If you need to block near IR, take a IR modified webcam and see if it is transparant in the near IR. Most non-metalic window tints are water clear in the near IR. An IR camera sees through them like ordinary window glass.
it also means that you obviously wont be using your cell phone inside the house, you'll still need to go outside
Not always. Once you have a sealed RF container, you have the choice of what to let in and what to keep out. For example an active Cell/Pager repeater will provide excelent phone and pager coverage in the building. WiFi would not be in the passband and wouldn't get through. If you need it, you can always install an outdoor WiFi antenna and firewall it from your indoor LAN. Now WiFi works, but protected from snoops looking for the secure side of the LAN.
The fact that you can trace activity to an IP address does not mean you can trace activity to an actual real person.
That is the blaring hole in the arguement in the PDF on Paragraph 12 where they compare IP addresses to telephone numbers. They claim that phones sharing one line are like a party line. Only one can make a call from one number at a time. They missed entirely using ports on a router so multiple users behind a router can make a call all at once from the same phone number. The number does not identify the individual any more than call from the political campaign center identifies the individual making the call. You may try to call them back and sue the individual for harrassment, but identifying the individual by the phone number is a problem.
His declaration under penalty of purgery under the laws of the United States that the foregoing are true and correct should have had peer review so they would indeed be true and correct. They are not and is easly proven so. The following is easly proven. Not all IP address have a direct connected single user computer just like not all phone numbers are to a single person renting an apartment. Enter routers and trunked/ISDN lines and his example falls apart. He should be careful what he signs as true and correct. It could cost him.
The guy (or gal) pushing the cart stops, looks surprised for a moment, and the security guard gives 'em a handwave, and they're off.
Often supermarkets don't take the time to turn the packages over to find and de-activate all the tags. Most supermarket items are too low of a value to tag. The result is the clerk spends little time de-activating the tags. This is most common in stores which have self checkout lanes as the consumer has little knowledge on de-activating tags. Items in the supermarket not de-activated includes boxed items of higher value such as nutrition suppliments, baby formula, vitamines, and other likely to be concealed items.
Once you have the active tags, head over to your local electronics/computer store. They don't ignore tags.
WTF! Over 20 parts and hours of work to do *this*? All you need is a recording of the tones and $34 car CD player. No programming, soldering, or microcomputers required.
I was thinking even more descreet. A car CD player is a little strange to be carrying about with a battery. A better deal would be an I-pod with an amplified speaker amplifier with a tuned coil. The tuned coil will cut the power requirement greatly. The mp3 player is deniable as a hack device. The amp is for speakers, Duh, and the loop is an am radio antenna. Most non technical security folks won't be able to see it for what it is.
Building a loop on the end of a walking cane could prove fun. When you return your cart in the parking lot, drop an item and have it roll under the carts. Use your cane to retrieve it. Wait for them to pick up the row of carts to return them to the store entrance...
2. Peel off one of those security tags and stick it the underside of a shopping trolley. 3. Sit back and wait for some unsuspecting shopper to trigger the alarm, when going in nobody will really bat an eyelid, but if they walk out with a trolley load of shopping and it goes off, things will get interesting.
It is much more fun to stick them on the bottom of your shoe. Make a quick run into the stor to pick up a single small item such as candy. When they find the tag, you have plausable deniability. You must have stepped on it somewhere in the store. It can keep them busy for a while hunting for the tag and reviewing the security video.
The best place to get the stickers is from flea market items. they are in many packages besides DVD's and such. Electronics, watches, books, handbags, and such are likely to carry the tags. The tags are not de-activated in most cases. Have fun. Don't repeat the same store often, they will remember you after a while.
Checkout HPLIP on Sourceforge (HP drivers for printers/scanners/all-in-ones). Developed by HP Research Labs.
Thanks. That's the way Linux has been. If something doesn't work, wait 6 months and check again.
I picked up a new wireless card for my laptop. It was a no driver plug and play install. I set the SSID and encryption key and got Google right away. Gone are the days of no wireless or all in one for Linux.
It seems like only yesterday that some Winmodems were no longer doorstops. This spring the Zen was added to the list of working hardware with MTP support. About the only MP3 player that I haven't seen drivers for yet is the Zune. I presume it's because there is no demand.
When I was writing more long-form pieces, I had a Brother laser printer. Cost me $100 at the time and I could print books without running out of toner. The cartridges weren't that cheap, but it took a nice long while before I had to change them out.
Either a network laser printer or a printserver makes a nice addition to a home LAN. Many printer manufactures are counting on one PC/Printer combo and for the times you need a splash of color (google maps) a color printer becomes mandantory. With network printing, you have the choice of much cheaper printing. I have an inkjet printer on my LAN. It's on the shelf in the closet inconviently located. It's the secondary printer, not the primary. The laser printer is conviently located on a cart easly acessable and handy. It's the first choice for laptop printing. Printing to it with laptops over the wireless LAN is not a problem.
Maybe they should have a simple page that says "total costo over a year", where you input how many pages you plan to print and it will compare a printer against the others.
The manufactures fudge the numbers if they are published at all. Case in point, my old HP 722c printer used a large color cartridge. They came out with a newer 950c printer. You had a choice of the half full cartridge (at the same price point as the old 722 cart) or the high capacity cart for almost double the price. They touted the new cart as a bargain because it printed oh so many more pages and at higher quality.
I checked online... The first thing I noticed in the fine print is the comparison of apples and oranges.
The page count for the 722c printer is based on 15% page coverage. The page count for the 950c cart is based on 5% page coverage.
It's not that hard to adjust the 722c's page count based on using 1/3rd the ink for 5% coverage instead of 15% coverage. If I didn't pay attention to the details, I may have missed it. Needless to say, the newer 950c became a spare printer while I ran the 722c to the point the belt broke. The replacement belt is under the price of one cart for the 950c. My only problem is the color carts for the 722 are getting harder to find.
Due to the price of ink and the reduced price of photo prints, I no longer print photos at home. The printer manufactures have priced themselves out of the market and left the market wide open for photofnishers to take the market. With all the digital cameras out there, the printer manufactures are leaving lots of ink and photo paper unsold.
With the high cost of ink, many are very stingy with full color prints.
I personally will never buy another HP, because of their crap software, so I'm currently using Epson... but if I give up on Epson what's left?
Cannon, Xerox, IBM, Kodak,...
I personally will never buy another HP, because of their crap software
Don't use their software. I use Gimp and Ghostscript. Check the hardware compatibility list. All in one units and many scanners are doorstops as in the days of Winmodems.
Linux will have to make the same deal with the devil one day
Maybe not. Many distro's run a walled garden of safe applications. Grandma will never need to venture out of the garden and get hurt. Linspire and Ubuntu come to mind as examples that have safe online repositories. When not installing applications and doing system configuration, the users run as users, not administrators unlike Windows XP Linux will never have the ease of use of Windows 95 and Windows 98. Heck you could easly use and administer those without an account. At the login, just hit cancel. Linux has and will never be that easy to screw-up.
Any application or OS information that these contain could easily be forged.
True, but when the article goes on to say they have a bunch of VM machines to watch the attacks in progress and infiltrate the botnet command and control, they even though they have sandboxed bots, simply refuse to provide data such as what OS, how it was exploited, what code it was running, what version of OS, browser, etc.
Watching someone else's bot traffic is one thing. Having one of your own in a sandbox to watch, prod, control and examine is another story. That other story is un-published. That is my beef. The data is captured, but the results are not revealed. So pray tell, is any of it on Firefox on Ubuntu exploited by an executiable sent by gaim? Users want to know. Is this a 100% Windows thing, or is anything else in the botnet other than Windows?
Windows (older versions but common exploit) hides known extentions by default. Users are admins by default. Opening MyNakedWife.jpg.exe was an exploit that nailed many a Windows user. No warning of any kind was given, the software was installed.
Linux by default nobody runs as root. Ubuntu takes it up a notch. Even if the.exe were hidden, clicking on a.jpg.exe does not run the program. You get asked if you want to save it to disk or what program to use to open it, or in some cases, do you want to launch the program. Getting a prompt instead of viewing the photo is a major clue to a Linux user that the Windows user never got.
You think if Joe Sizpack was running Linux he _wouldn't_ click that file promising him "free smileys" or constantly keep his stuff up to date?
With Linux much like modern Windows, they phone home and look for updates. Being offered an update from a 3rd party is still a problem for Windows users and less so for Linux users. Example.. Go to any flash site without flash installed. The untrusted site may or might not send you to get the official flashplayer. In linux, you have to follow the instructions to go to Adobe and get the tarball for the flashplayer 9, then unpack, and install. It's a little more work, but you generaly get it from a trusted source.
Another common Windows exploit requiring a fault between the chair and keyboard used fake picutres of Windows error messages. Clicking the little x in the corner of the box is as much of an install button as the rest of the photo. This was also a common Windows social engineering trick to get the clueless to click on the install button. Linux does not install root level software by a click on a webpage when not running root. Since most Linux users don't run root, this exploit is broken. The exception is Firefox plug-ins that users can install in their browser.
Short attention span Windows users who can one click install your botnet software for you are easy to find. There are millions of them. Even if there were as many Linux users as Windows users, you would find many fewer willing to follow your social engineering.
Maybe you know some Linux exploits of the fault between the chair and keyboard that is as simple as hidden extensions, executible IM messages, and webpage install buttons disguised as a error dialog box that I should know about. If you do, fill me in..
it's not the holes but the number of active exploits that we should be counting.
I agree. The trouble is nobody wants to point fingers because they might get slapped. Read any of the news articles regarding the millions of bots in botnets. Every one of them I could find said "PCs". Not one article mentioned an operating system or version that was compromised. I searched Google, Yahoo, and anyplace else I could to find out if the bots had something in common such as Firefox, AIM, Flash 9, or a paticular OS. The details were sparse. If anything was mentioned it was Internet Explorer exploits and compromised websites. A search on the compromised websites gave the same generic results. About the only commonality was SQL with no mention of what flavor such as My-SQL or MS-SQL There was no mention of OS, web server or anything else. I hate thin articles when I am trying to avoid common exploits. If I can't use one SQL, can I use the other and which is which?
From the articles, I get the feeling I can't use a PC as a client with IM and I can't use an SQL enabled webserver. Other than that, there is very little hard data on botnets in the news.
The biggest bug in Windows is between the chair and keyboard. The item in question is gullable, has admin privilages, and can run widely dispensed Windows specific code. As a sample of this, just look at the members of any botnet and the OS in use.
Anything that doesn't run Windows code and has the default of not running admin is more secure than patched Windows in most cases.
Vista still runs Windows code, it's biggest fault, but it seems to be driving towards better system security and user permissions.
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What would happen if we were to create a federal law completely exempting medical establishments from any and all federal taxes, if and only if, such medical establishments are willing to see patients on a sliding scale? The sliding scale will be government mandated. Perhaps a simple doctor visit would warant $20 for someone who is below the 110% of the poverty level, for example.
If you think it is a good idea for a healthcare facility to take patients on a sliding scale have not yet seen the dark side of patient dumping. Look it up. Healthcare is a business. They limit the amount they dole out for free and next to free. It cuts into the bottom line. In poorer neighborhoods where the higher percentage of the population pays less, then taken for granted things like CAT scan and MRI are simply not there. The hospital can no longer afford one. When they can no longer afford one, care that would normaly use that diagnostic would be reduced to band-aids and asprin and maybe exploritory surgery. Surgery for insertion of a stint stops being an option. Treatment is now just perscription based blood thinners and hope he doesn't die soon.
These people will pay $1000 premiums per month - I work with these insurance companies and I see it happening daily in California - and in many cases their contractually agreed upon coverage will get denied.
One of the John Grisham novels is based on this ugly side of insurance. Deny all claims first. Pay as little as possible. Did you know many healthcare providers refuse to accept many forms of insurance? The state medical coupon is one of them. Try to get foster kids taken care of. It's long waits at the few places that accept it. At my dentist, I schedule an appointment and get seen. The foster kids can't get an appointment in advance. It's call everyday and see if they have an opening. I think they fill seats from cancellations or something. It's a pain in the ***.
I'm glad to see the entire state going to the latter in healthcare. There will be 2 classes of health care, Call everyday and hope to get an opening and those who have good healthcare insurance. The latter can get appointments and regular scheduled check-ups. The former gets slots only when I am unable to make an appointment. I've seen it first hand as a foster parrent. My appointments and my kids appointments are worlds apart even they are both insurance covered. Private and public insurance are not the same. They are not even close.
(disclaimer: I live in Mass. and my health insurance has not gone down. In fact it went up)
Of course it went up. Your state is now a magnet for the poor who can't afford medical insurance and are not working enough to cover the taxes to pay for it. Figure it out. Re-distribution of wealth comes out of the haves pocket and pays for stuff for the have-nots. Have-not's nearby move in to benifit. The haves feeling the burden move to lighten the demands. It always works that way. It can't work any other way.
So when are you leaving to get better health coverage for your buck?
The only exception might be very thin synthetic fabrics such as lycra that are basically transparent except for a black dye that is doesn't absorb near-IR
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This is true and why IR voyouism was a problem, even at the Olympics. It was so much of a problem and recieved publicity that now official swimsuits are made to block IR for just this reason.
Cotton does scatter light. Most natural fibers do. Oil based Synthetics such a polyester scatter much less light, especialy when wet.
Here is the Endgadget article on the problem and the IR blocking solution.
http://www.engadget.com/2004/07/27/no-more-infrar
I was studying IR photography and was facinated with all the unseen things such as the new IR stripes on US money, healthy and unhealthy forests & plants, and found the articles on IR pass cloth and tinted windows.
I still don't have an IR camera, but will soon make one.
Now that their stupidity is well understood, people are fighting back and kicking the RIAA's ass on a daily basis. They do us a big favor by doing stupid things that hasten their decline.
If this were a ball game, I still don't like the score. The number of cases in court verses the number who have rolled over and paid the settlement letter is huge.
The game isn't over yet. Between the boycott on CD's, the bad PR, and the defense getting into shape and warmed up getting stronger, the last quarter of the game will be worth front row seats. It's going to be exciting to watch the goliath fall as David shows others how to win. Not everyone turned and ran when Goliath challanged the little people.
This information was classified top secret.. Not any more. Many of the keys used in the past however may still be guarded secrets. We will never know.
_ Enigma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the
4130 steel (and the slightly less common 4340) using chromium and molybdenum as alloying elements, was developed just before and during WWII by US metallurgists for use in aircraft, and was classified until the early 1960's.
The German cypher machine captured by the US was a highly guarded classified secret for obvious reasons. Now you can find photos of the Enigma machine online.
If it were effective, it would still be classified.
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Not always. Many things that were classified are no longer classified because they became common knowledge and no longer required protection. Some examples are encryption standards, Nuclear basics, some radio modulation techniques, some CPU's, some radio frequencies, and much data from WWII. Even some of the SR71 information is no longer classified.
The fact a window tinting film can have a metalized film that blocks RF is now common knowledge. Others have stumbled upon the fact. Offices with metalic colors such as bronze, copper or stainless, have had problems with cell and pager coverage. GPS users have had reception problems in some vehicles. Many films are designed to reduce IR transmission to keep the heat out. With all that general knowledge, having a classified film with these properties is a moot point.
Just because it is declassified does not make it ineffective. The stealth fighter is still a low radar profile item.
It was classified when the film was used on the cockpit windows of stealth fighters to prevent radar reflections from entering the cockpit and having a retro-reflection back to the radar source. It's now common knowledge the stealth fighters have RF screens over things like Jet intakes and conductive films over windows so the plane's cavities do not reflect a signal back to the direction it came from. This lack of a reflection back to the source is what makes a stealth plane invisable to radar. Very little signal returns. All reflections are sent off to an angle, not back to the source. It's no longer a secret, so the film tech is now declassified.
If you don't want to spend big bucks for the official military product, visit your local car window tinting shop. Ask for a film that keeps out the heat and has a a nice metalic tint. Ask for samples. Take them outside and lay them on your GPS while watching signal strength. Pick from the ones that kill the GPS reception. Now you have one that blocks far IR, maybe near IR and radio. If you need to block near IR, take a IR modified webcam and see if it is transparant in the near IR. Most non-metalic window tints are water clear in the near IR. An IR camera sees through them like ordinary window glass.
Sample photos of IR and sunglasses and other materials. Caution, fabric photo may not be safe for work.
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it also means that you obviously wont be using your cell phone inside the house, you'll still need to go outside
Not always. Once you have a sealed RF container, you have the choice of what to let in and what to keep out. For example an active Cell/Pager repeater will provide excelent phone and pager coverage in the building. WiFi would not be in the passband and wouldn't get through. If you need it, you can always install an outdoor WiFi antenna and firewall it from your indoor LAN. Now WiFi works, but protected from snoops looking for the secure side of the LAN.
The fact that you can trace activity to an IP address does not mean you can trace activity to an actual real person.
That is the blaring hole in the arguement in the PDF on Paragraph 12 where they compare IP addresses to telephone numbers. They claim that phones sharing one line are like a party line. Only one can make a call from one number at a time. They missed entirely using ports on a router so multiple users behind a router can make a call all at once from the same phone number. The number does not identify the individual any more than call from the political campaign center identifies the individual making the call. You may try to call them back and sue the individual for harrassment, but identifying the individual by the phone number is a problem.
His declaration under penalty of purgery under the laws of the United States that the foregoing are true and correct should have had peer review so they would indeed be true and correct. They are not and is easly proven so. The following is easly proven. Not all IP address have a direct connected single user computer just like not all phone numbers are to a single person renting an apartment. Enter routers and trunked/ISDN lines and his example falls apart. He should be careful what he signs as true and correct. It could cost him.
Someone should design a shopping trolley with power steering, suspension and a sports muffler!
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Like this one?
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/images/shop
or this one?
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/12/neur
The guy (or gal) pushing the cart stops, looks surprised for a moment, and the security guard gives 'em a handwave, and they're off.
Often supermarkets don't take the time to turn the packages over to find and de-activate all the tags. Most supermarket items are too low of a value to tag. The result is the clerk spends little time de-activating the tags. This is most common in stores which have self checkout lanes as the consumer has little knowledge on de-activating tags. Items in the supermarket not de-activated includes boxed items of higher value such as nutrition suppliments, baby formula, vitamines, and other likely to be concealed items.
Once you have the active tags, head over to your local electronics/computer store. They don't ignore tags.
WTF! Over 20 parts and hours of work to do *this*? All you need is a recording of the tones and $34 car CD player. No programming, soldering, or microcomputers required.
I was thinking even more descreet. A car CD player is a little strange to be carrying about with a battery. A better deal would be an I-pod with an amplified speaker amplifier with a tuned coil. The tuned coil will cut the power requirement greatly. The mp3 player is deniable as a hack device. The amp is for speakers, Duh, and the loop is an am radio antenna. Most non technical security folks won't be able to see it for what it is.
Building a loop on the end of a walking cane could prove fun.
When you return your cart in the parking lot, drop an item and have it roll under the carts. Use your cane to retrieve it. Wait for them to pick up the row of carts to return them to the store entrance...
2. Peel off one of those security tags and stick it the underside of a shopping trolley.
3. Sit back and wait for some unsuspecting shopper to trigger the alarm, when going in nobody will really bat an eyelid, but if they walk out with a trolley load of shopping and it goes off, things will get interesting.
It is much more fun to stick them on the bottom of your shoe. Make a quick run into the stor to pick up a single small item such as candy. When they find the tag, you have plausable deniability. You must have stepped on it somewhere in the store. It can keep them busy for a while hunting for the tag and reviewing the security video.
The best place to get the stickers is from flea market items. they are in many packages besides DVD's and such. Electronics, watches, books, handbags, and such are likely to carry the tags. The tags are not de-activated in most cases. Have fun. Don't repeat the same store often, they will remember you after a while.
Checkout HPLIP on Sourceforge (HP drivers for printers/scanners/all-in-ones). Developed by HP Research Labs.
Thanks. That's the way Linux has been. If something doesn't work, wait 6 months and check again.
I picked up a new wireless card for my laptop. It was a no driver plug and play install. I set the SSID and encryption key and got Google right away. Gone are the days of no wireless or all in one for Linux.
It seems like only yesterday that some Winmodems were no longer doorstops. This spring the Zen was added to the list of working hardware with MTP support. About the only MP3 player that I haven't seen drivers for yet is the Zune. I presume it's because there is no demand.
When I was writing more long-form pieces, I had a Brother laser printer. Cost me $100 at the time and I could print books without running out of toner. The cartridges weren't that cheap, but it took a nice long while before I had to change them out.
Either a network laser printer or a printserver makes a nice addition to a home LAN. Many printer manufactures are counting on one PC/Printer combo and for the times you need a splash of color (google maps) a color printer becomes mandantory. With network printing, you have the choice of much cheaper printing. I have an inkjet printer on my LAN. It's on the shelf in the closet inconviently located. It's the secondary printer, not the primary. The laser printer is conviently located on a cart easly acessable and handy. It's the first choice for laptop printing. Printing to it with laptops over the wireless LAN is not a problem.
Maybe they should have a simple page that says "total costo over a year", where you input how many pages you plan to print and it will compare a printer against the others.
The manufactures fudge the numbers if they are published at all. Case in point, my old HP 722c printer used a large color cartridge. They came out with a newer 950c printer. You had a choice of the half full cartridge (at the same price point as the old 722 cart) or the high capacity cart for almost double the price. They touted the new cart as a bargain because it printed oh so many more pages and at higher quality.
I checked online... The first thing I noticed in the fine print is the comparison of apples and oranges.
The page count for the 722c printer is based on 15% page coverage. The page count for the 950c cart is based on 5% page coverage.
It's not that hard to adjust the 722c's page count based on using 1/3rd the ink for 5% coverage instead of 15% coverage. If I didn't pay attention to the details, I may have missed it. Needless to say, the newer 950c became a spare printer while I ran the 722c to the point the belt broke. The replacement belt is under the price of one cart for the 950c. My only problem is the color carts for the 722 are getting harder to find.
Due to the price of ink and the reduced price of photo prints, I no longer print photos at home. The printer manufactures have priced themselves out of the market and left the market wide open for photofnishers to take the market. With all the digital cameras out there, the printer manufactures are leaving lots of ink and photo paper unsold.
With the high cost of ink, many are very stingy with full color prints.
I personally will never buy another HP, because of their crap software, so I'm currently using Epson ... but if I give up on Epson what's left?
Cannon, Xerox, IBM, Kodak,...
I personally will never buy another HP, because of their crap software
Don't use their software. I use Gimp and Ghostscript. Check the hardware compatibility list. All in one units and many scanners are doorstops as in the days of Winmodems.
Linux will have to make the same deal with the devil one day
Maybe not. Many distro's run a walled garden of safe applications. Grandma will never need to venture out of the garden and get hurt. Linspire and Ubuntu come to mind as examples that have safe online repositories. When not installing applications and doing system configuration, the users run as users, not administrators unlike Windows XP Linux will never have the ease of use of Windows 95 and Windows 98. Heck you could easly use and administer those without an account. At the login, just hit cancel. Linux has and will never be that easy to screw-up.
Any application or OS information that these contain could easily be forged.
True, but when the article goes on to say they have a bunch of VM machines to watch the attacks in progress and infiltrate the botnet command and control, they even though they have sandboxed bots, simply refuse to provide data such as what OS, how it was exploited, what code it was running, what version of OS, browser, etc.
Watching someone else's bot traffic is one thing. Having one of your own in a sandbox to watch, prod, control and examine is another story. That other story is un-published. That is my beef. The data is captured, but the results are not revealed. So pray tell, is any of it on Firefox on Ubuntu exploited by an executiable sent by gaim? Users want to know. Is this a 100% Windows thing, or is anything else in the botnet other than Windows?
I'm going to cast the widest net possible.
.exe were hidden, clicking on a .jpg.exe does not run the program. You get asked if you want to save it to disk or what program to use to open it, or in some cases, do you want to launch the program. Getting a prompt instead of viewing the photo is a major clue to a Linux user that the Windows user never got.
Windows (older versions but common exploit) hides known extentions by default. Users are admins by default. Opening MyNakedWife.jpg.exe was an exploit that nailed many a Windows user. No warning of any kind was given, the software was installed.
Linux by default nobody runs as root. Ubuntu takes it up a notch. Even if the
You think if Joe Sizpack was running Linux he _wouldn't_ click that file promising him "free smileys" or constantly keep his stuff up to date?
With Linux much like modern Windows, they phone home and look for updates. Being offered an update from a 3rd party is still a problem for Windows users and less so for Linux users. Example.. Go to any flash site without flash installed. The untrusted site may or might not send you to get the official flashplayer. In linux, you have to follow the instructions to go to Adobe and get the tarball for the flashplayer 9, then unpack, and install. It's a little more work, but you generaly get it from a trusted source.
Another common Windows exploit requiring a fault between the chair and keyboard used fake picutres of Windows error messages. Clicking the little x in the corner of the box is as much of an install button as the rest of the photo. This was also a common Windows social engineering trick to get the clueless to click on the install button. Linux does not install root level software by a click on a webpage when not running root. Since most Linux users don't run root, this exploit is broken. The exception is Firefox plug-ins that users can install in their browser.
Short attention span Windows users who can one click install your botnet software for you are easy to find. There are millions of them. Even if there were as many Linux users as Windows users, you would find many fewer willing to follow your social engineering.
Maybe you know some Linux exploits of the fault between the chair and keyboard that is as simple as hidden extensions, executible IM messages, and webpage install buttons disguised as a error dialog box that I should know about. If you do, fill me in..
it's not the holes but the number of active exploits that we should be counting.
I agree. The trouble is nobody wants to point fingers because they might get slapped. Read any of the news articles regarding the millions of bots in botnets. Every one of them I could find said "PCs". Not one article mentioned an operating system or version that was compromised. I searched Google, Yahoo, and anyplace else I could to find out if the bots had something in common such as Firefox, AIM, Flash 9, or a paticular OS. The details were sparse. If anything was mentioned it was Internet Explorer exploits and compromised websites. A search on the compromised websites gave the same generic results. About the only commonality was SQL with no mention of what flavor such as My-SQL or MS-SQL There was no mention of OS, web server or anything else. I hate thin articles when I am trying to avoid common exploits. If I can't use one SQL, can I use the other and which is which?
From the articles, I get the feeling I can't use a PC as a client with IM and I can't use an SQL enabled webserver. Other than that, there is very little hard data on botnets in the news.
No wonder Windows Vista is best in his review.
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I am not convinced, next please Mr Jones.
Someone else didn't like the numbers either and provided this link;
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/m
There are more patches in a month than there are fixed patches in the count.
I looked at the user comments at the bottem of the article. One juicy tidbit was to this link..
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/m
The biggest bug in Windows is between the chair and keyboard. The item in question is gullable, has admin privilages, and can run widely dispensed Windows specific code. As a sample of this, just look at the members of any botnet and the OS in use.
Anything that doesn't run Windows code and has the default of not running admin is more secure than patched Windows in most cases.
Vista still runs Windows code, it's biggest fault, but it seems to be driving towards better system security and user permissions.
Shocked quartz could solve the matter once and for all.
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Will you settle for small glass beads?
http://www.orble.com/the-tunguska-eventmeteor-com
Scroll down the page to the photo of the beads. There were reports of these embeded in the bark of some of the downed trees.