Gee, I dunno. Do you expect the Hollings bill to pass anytime soon.. in Canada?:^)
And once everyone gets up to the current speed limit for processors, they're going to pause before making the jump to a DRM machine. Just wait until PC sales plummet and see if some politicians don't start rethinking.
that I can't start spreading my "Hello. I am the nephew of the late Stephen King.." Nigerian-variant spam yet? Poot!
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I would like to modestly propose Sharp's Rule of Rubber Analogies. It's similar to Godwin's rule.
If, during a discussion, a badly stretched analogy is used and replied to, that discussion is basically over. Any further comments will involve stretching the analogy in the direction each person wants it to go in rather than the original topic.
No self-respecting admin would leave port 25 open.
So? They use port 8080 or 1080 or whatever to talk to an open proxy in a Korean school, to an open relay in France...
And if they had self-respecting admins, would they have open access in the first place? I wonder what the warchalking symbol for "clueless, playing in traffic" is?:^)
I can't wait until the first warspammed company shows up in NANAE whining/threatening to be let out of SPEWS.
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If there was a way to slap an initial advertising screen on any "free" web access, some companies might go for it -- as long as it was secure and only used spare bandwidth.
"This free access brought to you by ZikZak Corporation. To view our many products and services, click here. Normal surfing will resume in 5 seconds. 4. 3. 2.."
I hope you mean a master's degree, but I have this horrible feeling that you don't. The only reason to have those MS certifications is so that you can put "Microsoft Solution Provider" on your product box. Impressive?! (Okay, you had a hidden sarcasm tag.)
This proposal appears to be macho bullshit rather than serious security. First off most people who are warchalking just want to download their email. So while it is great press to demonize them don't make a big issue.
So far. Just wait until spammers start "warspamming". Then they won't even need disposable accounts to dump their spam on the net. (Their web site is usually on another clueless/black hat ISP that denies responsibility because "they didn't send the spam from our network".)
Luckily, a honey pot alarm could make it easy to "warmallet" these slime: Just look for the trailer home in the parking lot.
Hmm... That should be easy enough to test with a modified message on my answering machine. And why does Bell Canada give me a busy signal when their end hangs up? (The answering machine is smart enough to deal with it. I've not sure about my IVR software.)
I dunno about carrots, but with sugar cubes, fruit and a little yeast, you'll get something with power in a few weeks, fer sure! Maybe the carrots are to stop you from going blind?
It sounds like they had a cheap low-tech system, or this was a while ago. Certainly detecting busy signals is trvial. Most of the systems calling me now wait until after I say hello before connecting a human to me (human/answering machine detection).
Gee, telemarketers that are cheap bastards and prefer employees to do grunt work rather than spending a little for an upgrade, so it ain't so!:^)
The dialer is smart enough to recognize an answering machine, busy, all kinds of different things, including a live human voice. The amount of busies, disconnected or answering machines that get through to the agent is minimal.
How do they tell the difference between a human and an answering machine? About the only thing I can think of it that a human usually says "Hello?" and listens, but an answering machine has a longer message before shutting up. In that case, a "Hello.. Haha, fooled you, you're talking to a machine" message should be possible.
If it was the equivilent of an X-10 webcam, they would have had to have a hot babe in the picture. (It seems manditory in X-10 ads talking about security for some reason.)
Creating a babe-less X-10 is probably what bumped the price up.
Such a flashy display might draw some attention, like maybe when the driver behind you crashes into something after being blinded.
Why not just build a bootleg transponder with a stolen code? (Yeah yeah, my SUV is really a big 18-wheeler, yeah, that's it...) Why do I suspect that that those transponders don't have a heavy-duty encyption/indentification method?
I've been painted a number of times from apartment buildings when walking at night. I immediately turn and point at the dufus with the laser pointer. The "dirty" beam from a laser diode isn't exactly hard to pinpoint.
I still want to get an IR laser and paint nearby apartment buildings with TV/VCR/Stereo remote controls codes for on/max volume at 3am. One of these days...
Spelled/spelt, dived/dove, lighted/lit, etc. I never figured all those out in English class. Is this some kind of historic linguistic fault-line, or is there a subtle difference? (Flied/flew? I don't think so.)
I guess it's too late to get any marks back on those essays?:^)
Why is it a joke? I own a Brownie Holiday Flash.:^) Mind you, I've never tried to buy 127 film for it in.. umm.. 30 years.
Even the "ancient" Agfa CL18 digital that I use now suits my purposes just fine. I frequently carry it around "just in case" because it doesn't cost anything to snap a few iffy shots if want to.
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.. thinking how cool the Dragon's Lair graphics were
Minor quibble, but what graphics? It was all classical animation from a laser disk player. (And it was hell on the laser player.)
After the initial Oooo! I never really liked that game. I always thought it should dispense food pellets every few correct moves. I called those "rodent trainer games".
We're decoding the message fron the aliens now sir. They say "Watch.. Out.. For.. That.. Asteroi--"...
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Ooo! If Stephen King is dead, (1) I see possiblities (2) ???? (3) profit!
Hello, I am Donald King, the nephew of the late author Stephen King. I am writing to you as someone that I have been told I can trust. When he died in a plane crash/junta/falling ice block, Steven King left $66 million (US SIXTY-SIX MILLION DOLLARS ONLY) in a bank account... (Insert the rest of the Nigerian scam. I'm sure most people know it by heart or some other organ of their body.)
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Huh, I wouldn't have figured that Lenin would have been that picky a customer, what with him being dead and all.
And once everyone gets up to the current speed limit for processors, they're going to pause before making the jump to a DRM machine. Just wait until PC sales plummet and see if some politicians don't start rethinking.
I have no wish to pirate, but I also have no wish to buy hardware that will cause more trouble than the old hardware.
that I can't start spreading my "Hello. I am the nephew of the late Stephen King.." Nigerian-variant spam yet? Poot!
If, during a discussion, a badly stretched analogy is used and replied to, that discussion is basically over. Any further comments will involve stretching the analogy in the direction each person wants it to go in rather than the original topic.
So? They use port 8080 or 1080 or whatever to talk to an open proxy in a Korean school, to an open relay in France...
And if they had self-respecting admins, would they have open access in the first place? I wonder what the warchalking symbol for "clueless, playing in traffic" is? :^)
I can't wait until the first warspammed company shows up in NANAE whining/threatening to be let out of SPEWS.
"This free access brought to you by ZikZak Corporation. To view our many products and services, click here. Normal surfing will resume in 5 seconds. 4. 3. 2.."
I hope you mean a master's degree, but I have this horrible feeling that you don't. The only reason to have those MS certifications is so that you can put "Microsoft Solution Provider" on your product box. Impressive?! (Okay, you had a hidden sarcasm tag.)
It originally came from the movie WarGames. (He was using an IMSAI 8080 and what sounded like a Bell 202 modem.)
So far. Just wait until spammers start "warspamming". Then they won't even need disposable accounts to dump their spam on the net. (Their web site is usually on another clueless/black hat ISP that denies responsibility because "they didn't send the spam from our network".)
Luckily, a honey pot alarm could make it easy to "warmallet" these slime: Just look for the trailer home in the parking lot.
Hmm... That should be easy enough to test with a modified message on my answering machine. And why does Bell Canada give me a busy signal when their end hangs up? (The answering machine is smart enough to deal with it. I've not sure about my IVR software.)
Or this one? F33R!
I dunno about carrots, but with sugar cubes, fruit and a little yeast, you'll get something with power in a few weeks, fer sure! Maybe the carrots are to stop you from going blind?
I've been running my fridge that way for years now!
Gee, telemarketers that are cheap bastards and prefer employees to do grunt work rather than spending a little for an upgrade, so it ain't so! :^)
How do they tell the difference between a human and an answering machine? About the only thing I can think of it that a human usually says "Hello?" and listens, but an answering machine has a longer message before shutting up. In that case, a "Hello .. Haha, fooled you, you're talking to a machine" message should be possible.
Creating a babe-less X-10 is probably what bumped the price up.
Why not just build a bootleg transponder with a stolen code? (Yeah yeah, my SUV is really a big 18-wheeler, yeah, that's it...) Why do I suspect that that those transponders don't have a heavy-duty encyption/indentification method?
I still want to get an IR laser and paint nearby apartment buildings with TV/VCR/Stereo remote controls codes for on/max volume at 3am. One of these days...
I guess it's too late to get any marks back on those essays? :^)
"When are we going to Planet Ten?"
"Real soon!"
- Buckaroo Banzai
Even the "ancient" Agfa CL18 digital that I use now suits my purposes just fine. I frequently carry it around "just in case" because it doesn't cost anything to snap a few iffy shots if want to.
Minor quibble, but what graphics? It was all classical animation from a laser disk player. (And it was hell on the laser player.)
After the initial Oooo! I never really liked that game. I always thought it should dispense food pellets every few correct moves. I called those "rodent trainer games".
We're decoding the message fron the aliens now sir. They say "Watch .. Out .. For .. That .. Asteroi--"...
Hello, I am Donald King, the nephew of the late author Stephen King. I am writing to you as someone that I have been told I can trust. When he died in a plane crash/junta/falling ice block, Steven King left $66 million (US SIXTY-SIX MILLION DOLLARS ONLY) in a bank account... (Insert the rest of the Nigerian scam. I'm sure most people know it by heart or some other organ of their body.)