Maybe IHBT, but all these "evil terrorists" have used are just conventional explosives, are there even any equivalent technologies in use now that detect these?
Yes, there are. I work at a company that makes relatively small explosives designed for use deep in oil wells. Whenever one of our employees has to go somewhere via air travel, they have to take a certified letter from our legal department explaining why they have explosive residue on their clothes. The amount to set off the detectors is minute enough, that even people who work at the plant but don't come in direct contact with the explosives still have to have it.
Last month we had someone who works at our other offices (NOT the plant where the explosives are manufactured) get detained because his computer tested positive. The computer had been to the manufacturing facility for about a day, several months prior to it coming into the posession of the person who was using it at the time, and it still set off the detector.
The real irony of it is that the explosives we make are classed 1.4S, wich means that they can be (and are) shipped in the cargo hold of passenger flights...
It's no wonder that BSD lacks behind linux in software when it is missing important system calls!
No, BSD just got it right the first time:-P
From a freebsd-emulation mailing list post:
To me, it looks like mmap2 takes an offset that's a page index, rather than a byte position. Since linux passes the offset with a 32-bit long, rather than a 64-bit off_t like we do, they need to do this in order to be able to map offsets larger than 4GB into a file.
(I had to reboot my Win2K box just to upgrade AIM recently)
Don't believe it. Most installers are stupid. When they say the need to reboot, just ignore them (kill the process through task manager if they don't give you a choice).
I got 60-140+ day uptimes back when I was running Win2k by doing this. Everything that claimed it needed a reboot worked fine without it -- except for MS security patches:*(
So do you add another DNS record for every site you visit?
No, just ones that demand an email address and that I care enough about to give a real one.
Seems like a big hassle on the management end.
I have some scripts that add the DNS record (Secure DDNS is your friend), create a folder on my IMAP server, and add an entry to my sieve script. It's just a single command to add a new domain, and all it's mail gets routed where it's supposed to...
I also have a catchall so anytime I order something or fill out any other online form I use "the domain I'm browsing"@mydomain.com, that way if they give it out I can tell.
I like to use the form me@"the domain I'm browsing".mydomain.com. That way if the address ever gets too inundated with spam, I can delete the DNS record for it and not even have to see the postmaster notifies for it. It also wastes a minumum of my bandwidth (1 DNS NACK packet vs. an entire SMTP conversation).
Guess you've never posted to a busy mailing list. My bugtraq-posting address gets a fair amount of spam, 99% of it comes from Korea. Almost time to change it to a new one and zap the DNS record:)
However, stuff that's been harvested by web-bots (my work address and webmaster@), gets mostly English-language spam.
I also get the occasional messages to the nonexistent sales@ or marketing@ addresses, and oddly enough, steve@ (no idea where that one came from).
Although it's nice to think that Nvidia are porting their drivers to FreeBSD because they are keen on supporting open solutions, the number of users is [relatively] tiny, and I don't find it particularly convincing.
Based on the number of complaints that end up on the freebsd-stable mailing list on the (rare) occasion that something in the tree is broken, I would have to disagree.
Doubtful. For one thing, the FreeBSD kernel is totall different than the MacOS X kernel (which is actually a microkernel). Also, Macs don't use XFree86 for low-level hardware access. Any work they did porting to FreeBSD would have to be pretty much redone for a MacOS X ports.
You are missing the point, the wireless mesh network IS the internet. Of course longhaul links would be a bitch with the need for a repeater every 25-30 miles or so.
Ugh, I'd hate to see the BGP routing tables on something like that......
I'd love to see the 'click to focus' work only if you click in the title bar, so you can work in a window that is partially covered by other windows. I find that very handy but in MS Windows this is not possible because if you click anywhere in a window it always pops up. Not even TweakUI can change that.
Not to mention that focus-follows-mouse works okay except for some misbehaving applications that bring themselves to the top as soon as you mouse over them and give them focus.
OTP is the only mathematically proven uncrackable encryption algorithm.
OTP is rarely used because the key management is cumbersome - the key can only be used once, and the key must be the same length as the message.
Sooooo... If OTP requires a completely secure delivery method for the key (which is the same length as the message), why not use the completely secure delivery method for the message itself and forget the encryption? It's kinda pointless at that point.
The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.
Anonymous Coward: "But that's impossible. How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?"
The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line.
DJB's stralloc library, and a bunch of others already exist and very nice. Yet people are not aware of them, or don't care/wish to conform rather than avoid overflows.
They exist, but are not standardized. Until something like this becomes part of ANSI C I doubt many people will use it or even be aware of its existence.
OTOH, DJB's stuff is notorious for having licesing problems. That in itself may cause poeple to be wary of this particular implementation.
Somewhat offtopic, that's a pretty sweet library. Somebody did a GPL re-implementation (why oh why couldn't they have made it LGPL?)
What about PHP? As far as I can tell all strings are dynamically allocated and bounds checking is done on arrays and such (plus is has associateive arrays much like Perl which are very nice).
What would be nice is a good standardized library for C with variable-sized strings since that's where most overflows happen.
What would you rather use, Java? No buffer overflows, maybe, but it's by no means immune to logic flaws -- and those are a lot harder to track down and fix.
The point is that if a programmer wants to be sloppy and stupid, s/he'll find a way to be sloppy and stupid, no matter what strange constraints the language imposes.
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I'm going to start e-mailing naked pictures of my ugly ass to known terrorists. Cruel and unusual? Maybe. But,
1. Terrorists deserve the torture
2. So does any asshat listening in
Maybe IHBT, but all these "evil terrorists" have used are just conventional explosives, are there even any equivalent technologies in use now that detect these?
Yes, there are. I work at a company that makes relatively small explosives designed for use deep in oil wells. Whenever one of our employees has to go somewhere via air travel, they have to take a certified letter from our legal department explaining why they have explosive residue on their clothes. The amount to set off the detectors is minute enough, that even people who work at the plant but don't come in direct contact with the explosives still have to have it.
Last month we had someone who works at our other offices (NOT the plant where the explosives are manufactured) get detained because his computer tested positive. The computer had been to the manufacturing facility for about a day, several months prior to it coming into the posession of the person who was using it at the time, and it still set off the detector.
The real irony of it is that the explosives we make are classed 1.4S, wich means that they can be (and are) shipped in the cargo hold of passenger flights...
It's no wonder that BSD lacks behind linux in software when it is missing important system calls!
:-P
No, BSD just got it right the first time
From a freebsd-emulation mailing list post:
To me, it looks like mmap2 takes an offset that's a page index, rather
than a byte position. Since linux passes the offset with a 32-bit
long, rather than a 64-bit off_t like we do, they need to do this in
order to be able to map offsets larger than 4GB into a file.
So mmap2 would be redundant on BSD...
Then use FreeBSD. It came out of California ;)
(I had to reboot my Win2K box just to upgrade AIM recently)
:*(
Don't believe it. Most installers are stupid. When they say the need to reboot, just ignore them (kill the process through task manager if they don't give you a choice).
I got 60-140+ day uptimes back when I was running Win2k by doing this. Everything that claimed it needed a reboot worked fine without it -- except for MS security patches
So do you add another DNS record for every site you visit?
No, just ones that demand an email address and that I care enough about to give a real one.
Seems like a big hassle on the management end.
I have some scripts that add the DNS record (Secure DDNS is your friend), create a folder on my IMAP server, and add an entry to my sieve script. It's just a single command to add a new domain, and all it's mail gets routed where it's supposed to...
I also have a catchall so anytime I order something or fill out any other online form I use "the domain I'm browsing"@mydomain.com, that way if they give it out I can tell.
I like to use the form me@"the domain I'm browsing".mydomain.com. That way if the address ever gets too inundated with spam, I can delete the DNS record for it and not even have to see the postmaster notifies for it. It also wastes a minumum of my bandwidth (1 DNS NACK packet vs. an entire SMTP conversation).
Guess you've never posted to a busy mailing list. My bugtraq-posting address gets a fair amount of spam, 99% of it comes from Korea. Almost time to change it to a new one and zap the DNS record :)
However, stuff that's been harvested by web-bots (my work address and webmaster@), gets mostly English-language spam.
I also get the occasional messages to the nonexistent sales@ or marketing@ addresses, and oddly enough, steve@ (no idea where that one came from).
Oh, sorry, let me hike these up...
I did that. :) Was wondering how long it would take anyone to notice.
DISCLAIMER: I can't promise nobody did this after me, but the Microsoft page was blank when I saw the article (3 comments).
That's very true. In theory, old non-multisession capable CD-ROM drives (ones that don't say MultiRead) should be unaffected...
How hard would it be to have a driver that doesn't check for the extra indexes? (And has a simple toggle.)
I may be mistaken, but I thought that it was the CD-ROM drive itself that read the TOC and session data, not the software.
However, I'm sure that hacked firmware will eventually be developed that allows such an option.
Although it's nice to think that Nvidia are porting their drivers to FreeBSD because they are keen on supporting open solutions, the number of users is [relatively] tiny, and I don't find it particularly convincing.
Based on the number of complaints that end up on the freebsd-stable mailing list on the (rare) occasion that something in the tree is broken, I would have to disagree.
Doubtful. For one thing, the FreeBSD kernel is totall different than the MacOS X kernel (which is actually a microkernel). Also, Macs don't use XFree86 for low-level hardware access. Any work they did porting to FreeBSD would have to be pretty much redone for a MacOS X ports.
looks like we're getting ready to fight the Goa'uld invasion forces... ;-)
:-D
I just hope nobody turns this thing on Moscow to prove a point
You are missing the point, the wireless mesh network IS the internet. Of course longhaul links would be a bitch with the need for a repeater every 25-30 miles or so.
Ugh, I'd hate to see the BGP routing tables on something like that......
I'd love to see the 'click to focus' work only if you click in the title bar, so you can work in a window that is partially covered by other windows. I find that very handy but in MS Windows this is not possible because if you click anywhere in a window it always pops up. Not even TweakUI can change that.
Not to mention that focus-follows-mouse works okay except for some misbehaving applications that bring themselves to the top as soon as you mouse over them and give them focus.
Like, oh, MICROSOFT OFFICE!!!!!
OTP is the only mathematically proven uncrackable encryption algorithm.
OTP is rarely used because the key management is cumbersome - the key can only be used once, and the key must be the same length as the message.
Sooooo... If OTP requires a completely secure delivery method for the key (which is the same length as the message), why not use the completely secure delivery method for the message itself and forget the encryption? It's kinda pointless at that point.
The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.
Anonymous Coward: "But that's impossible. How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?"
The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line.
DJB's stralloc library, and a bunch of others already exist and very nice. Yet people are not aware of them, or don't care/wish to conform rather than avoid overflows.
They exist, but are not standardized. Until something like this becomes part of ANSI C I doubt many people will use it or even be aware of its existence.
OTOH, DJB's stuff is notorious for having licesing problems. That in itself may cause poeple to be wary of this particular implementation.
Somewhat offtopic, that's a pretty sweet library. Somebody did a GPL re-implementation (why oh why couldn't they have made it LGPL?)
What about PHP? As far as I can tell all strings are dynamically allocated and bounds checking is done on arrays and such (plus is has associateive arrays much like Perl which are very nice).
What would be nice is a good standardized library for C with variable-sized strings since that's where most overflows happen.
What would you rather use, Java? No buffer overflows, maybe, but it's by no means immune to logic flaws -- and those are a lot harder to track down and fix.
The point is that if a programmer wants to be sloppy and stupid, s/he'll find a way to be sloppy and stupid, no matter what strange constraints the language imposes.
...or some pimply kid in his parents' basement. I'll kick his ass if I find him.