happened to me. I used to have Qwest as my LD provider. My rates were good; I was satisfied with my service. Then, my roommate gets a bill in his name from Sprint for LD service. They (Sprint) had switched the LD service from Qwest under my name to Sprint under my roommates name without my permission. The local and LD services had both been in my name. How can they do that? Phone companies fscking suck. I have since terminated all my LD service and use my cell since LD is "free" (as in beer).
I hereby propose a boycott on all LD companies! Call everyone you know and tell them!
IMO would be for the law to recognize that digital information (in this case, email) is inherently insecure and modifiable, and therefore should not be considered valid as evidence of anything under any circumstances. Think about this. Do you remember email messages you wrote or read six months ago? Probably not. Especially if you read/write a large volume of email. If someone were to fabricate a message that appeared to have been created/sent a long time ago, the person who apparently authored the message may not be able to remember and therefore refute the evidence. Essentially, you could fabricate evidence that is nearly irrefutable because neither the author nor recipient could remember well enough to testify that it is/isn't what they wrote/read. Just my $1/50.
"It's a bad idea to have people with clear political ties reviewing a system under political scrutiny," Does this mean it is a better idea to have people with not so clear political ties to do something like this? Just a thought. It probably won't matter that much. I am sure the FBI will find a way to get a review that says what they want it to. Companies don't have a problem doing the same.
While this is still small fish, it's the most succcessfull attempt yet of any online currency, thats backed by real value.
PayPal is backed by real value. It is backed by money. Check it out. www.x.com
college. I kind of felt ripped off. I started in the IT field in high school and liked it. That was why I decided to go to UC (Cincinnati) to get a computer engineering degree. We studied analog circuits, digital systems design, and object oriented programming, but we never did the stuff I liked - systems engineering/integration. We were never taught up to date skills. We coded C and C++ on Sparc LX's (ugh!). I would have graduated without a single class for the stuff geared at I wanted to do. Does that mean I am not a computer engineer? No. I definitely use engineering skills with computers for my job as a consultant. They (UC) sold me an electrical engineer's education with programming classes added to the curriculum. I don't want to be a coder. I found out after two years that the education I wanted was not even in the engineering college, but in the college of applied science. It was called information engineering technology. Classes like Hubs, Routers, and Switches and TCP/IP. By this time, I already had experience and a job offer. Why would I change degree programs and stay in school for another two or three years when I could go out now and make the same money doing what I want? My point here is that colleges need better education for the geek wannabes. At least from the engineering/admin side. I really don't know/care about the development side. My.02, but I suppose everyone's PATH!=/mine.
IIRC from Hawking's book, a black hole is defined as a "set of events from which nothing can escape to a large distance." By this definition, the event horizon is the boundary of the black hole. If light is just outside the event horizon, it can escape to a large distance given enough time. That is not to say that the black hole can not grow, but the size of a black hole is definitely not zero. I think Hawking wrote that some black holes grow and some shrink depending on the mass and rate of increase of mass, but I don't remember the exact conditions.
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. This is a very good book. Easy to read. Hawking explains concepts very well. It covers more than just black holes, but if you like this type of reading, the whole book is good. It is not long, either. I read it in one day.
is Intel's PC's used by their marketing staff. Evidently, they are all running 1st gen Pentiums. Their engineering staff defended themselves by stating that the new PIIIs were only stable up to 1.1299999999GHz.
You can use Win2K with several DNS implementations including NT4, BIND 8.2, BIND 8.1.2, and BIND 4.9.7. However, you will not have the same functionality as with Win2K DNS. For example, with the BIND implementations, you will not get the WINS record support (which doesn't seem to be a big deal in your situation). To compare and contrast functionality of the different DNS's with W2K, go here ->http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/library/res ources/reskit/samplechapters/cncf/cncf_i mp_bdvd.asp
You can't really compare port scanning with looking in someone's windows. That would make port 80 analagous to a window that the homeowner is inviting people to look into. How is the looker supposed to know which windows the owner would like looked into or not?
Port scanning is more analagous to calling a repair shop and asking what services they will provide for your car.
port open="Why yes, Mr. Cronack, we do change oil."
port closed(or stealth)="Sorry, we don't do mufflers."
Please let me know if you can think of any reason such activity would be legitimate.
I have found a cool web site that I really like, www.satan.hell. Then, I ftp to the system and find alot of cool h4x0r w4r3z and I download a bunch. Then, I think to myself, "Self, I wonder what other neato stuff is on this computer." So, I run a port scan and find a port that streams live pr0n to my player, so I get in some personal time.
Now I have: 1)port scanned a host; 2)used the resulting information for a legit purpose; 3)and done some quality jerkin'.
Hmmm, kinda sounds like a Friday night, huh?
...scientists and researchers have created a robot to guide the evolution of information. They have named this robot Regulon. Regulon will be responsible for removing all of the weak and sick little information from the information gene pool. The designers of Regulon say that he is quite the efficient information predator.
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Regulon has removed the code which he runs on from the information gene pool. He was able to continue operation from memory (RAM) until a reboot was necessary. Unfortunately, he was running Windows95, so that did not last very long. Designers said that it was a fundamental design flaw that caused the problem. One of the designers was quoted as saying, "Maybe, we should not try to regulate information."
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happened to me. I used to have Qwest as my LD provider. My rates were good; I was satisfied with my service. Then, my roommate gets a bill in his name from Sprint for LD service. They (Sprint) had switched the LD service from Qwest under my name to Sprint under my roommates name without my permission. The local and LD services had both been in my name. How can they do that? Phone companies fscking suck. I have since terminated all my LD service and use my cell since LD is "free" (as in beer).
I hereby propose a boycott on all LD companies! Call everyone you know and tell them!
IMO would be for the law to recognize that digital information (in this case, email) is inherently insecure and modifiable, and therefore should not be considered valid as evidence of anything under any circumstances. Think about this. Do you remember email messages you wrote or read six months ago? Probably not. Especially if you read/write a large volume of email. If someone were to fabricate a message that appeared to have been created/sent a long time ago, the person who apparently authored the message may not be able to remember and therefore refute the evidence. Essentially, you could fabricate evidence that is nearly irrefutable because neither the author nor recipient could remember well enough to testify that it is/isn't what they wrote/read. Just my $1/50.
"It's a bad idea to have people with clear political ties reviewing a system under political scrutiny," Does this mean it is a better idea to have people with not so clear political ties to do something like this? Just a thought. It probably won't matter that much. I am sure the FBI will find a way to get a review that says what they want it to. Companies don't have a problem doing the same.
I'm sure in another millenium we'll have space travel, but many people might not want to leave earth. Uhh, don't we already have space travel?
While this is still small fish, it's the most succcessfull attempt yet of any online currency, thats backed by real value. PayPal is backed by real value. It is backed by money. Check it out. www.x.com
college. I kind of felt ripped off. I started in the IT field in high school and liked it. That was why I decided to go to UC (Cincinnati) to get a computer engineering degree. We studied analog circuits, digital systems design, and object oriented programming, but we never did the stuff I liked - systems engineering/integration. We were never taught up to date skills. We coded C and C++ on Sparc LX's (ugh!). I would have graduated without a single class for the stuff geared at I wanted to do. Does that mean I am not a computer engineer? No. I definitely use engineering skills with computers for my job as a consultant. They (UC) sold me an electrical engineer's education with programming classes added to the curriculum. I don't want to be a coder. I found out after two years that the education I wanted was not even in the engineering college, but in the college of applied science. It was called information engineering technology. Classes like Hubs, Routers, and Switches and TCP/IP. By this time, I already had experience and a job offer. Why would I change degree programs and stay in school for another two or three years when I could go out now and make the same money doing what I want? My point here is that colleges need better education for the geek wannabes. At least from the engineering/admin side. I really don't know/care about the development side. My .02, but I suppose everyone's PATH!=/mine.
IIRC from Hawking's book, a black hole is defined as a "set of events from which nothing can escape to a large distance." By this definition, the event horizon is the boundary of the black hole. If light is just outside the event horizon, it can escape to a large distance given enough time. That is not to say that the black hole can not grow, but the size of a black hole is definitely not zero. I think Hawking wrote that some black holes grow and some shrink depending on the mass and rate of increase of mass, but I don't remember the exact conditions.
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. This is a very good book. Easy to read. Hawking explains concepts very well. It covers more than just black holes, but if you like this type of reading, the whole book is good. It is not long, either. I read it in one day.
is Intel's PC's used by their marketing staff. Evidently, they are all running 1st gen Pentiums. Their engineering staff defended themselves by stating that the new PIIIs were only stable up to 1.1299999999GHz.
You can use Win2K with several DNS implementations including NT4, BIND 8.2, BIND 8.1.2, and BIND 4.9.7. However, you will not have the same functionality as with Win2K DNS. For example, with the BIND implementations, you will not get the WINS record support (which doesn't seem to be a big deal in your situation). To compare and contrast functionality of the different DNS's with W2K, go here ->http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/library/res ources/reskit/samplechapters/cncf/cncf_i mp_bdvd.asp
You can't really compare port scanning with looking in someone's windows. That would make port 80 analagous to a window that the homeowner is inviting people to look into. How is the looker supposed to know which windows the owner would like looked into or not?
Port scanning is more analagous to calling a repair shop and asking what services they will provide for your car.
port open="Why yes, Mr. Cronack, we do change oil."
port closed(or stealth)="Sorry, we don't do mufflers."
Please let me know if you can think of any reason such activity would be legitimate. I have found a cool web site that I really like, www.satan.hell. Then, I ftp to the system and find alot of cool h4x0r w4r3z and I download a bunch. Then, I think to myself, "Self, I wonder what other neato stuff is on this computer." So, I run a port scan and find a port that streams live pr0n to my player, so I get in some personal time. Now I have: 1)port scanned a host; 2)used the resulting information for a legit purpose; 3)and done some quality jerkin'. Hmmm, kinda sounds like a Friday night, huh?
I am not a quantum mechanics expert, but I think an H and anti-H pair would annihilate and release energy. It would be a small atomic bomb. I think.
maybe DNA computers wouldn't hook up to wires. what about the brain? perhaps you could install a math coprocessor in your head.
...scientists and researchers have created a robot to guide the evolution of information. They have named this robot Regulon. Regulon will be responsible for removing all of the weak and sick little information from the information gene pool. The designers of Regulon say that he is quite the efficient information predator.
This just in...
Regulon has removed the code which he runs on from the information gene pool. He was able to continue operation from memory (RAM) until a reboot was necessary. Unfortunately, he was running Windows95, so that did not last very long. Designers said that it was a fundamental design flaw that caused the problem. One of the designers was quoted as saying, "Maybe, we should not try to regulate information."