Wow, the author set up the POTS modem. When is the last time you had to use one of those?
Plenty of people still live in parts of the world without anything faster. But PPP isn't only for POTS, plenty of DSL services use PPPo[AE].
I think it's well past time to create a ppp-client package (conflicts with pppd) that has pppd configured the way that the 99% of the users who aren't modem pools will use it (for instance, not demanding a password from the other end of the line). Bonus points if the code starts diverging from the original pppd to become more client friendly (like having just one password file rather than chap and pap files, and sharing the user/pass configuration with the chat dialup script).
OK, you are wrong. And you'd have known it had you looked at his screenshots showing most of the permissions being "right" (except for the special folders).
Shit, the walls are mauve! Repeat, the walls are mauve! Call off the mission! Abort! Abort! Our dynamite can only blow up teal walls!
Seriously, this "photography=terrorism" idea is bullshit through and through. Does anyone honestly think a terrorist cares what the lobby of the hotel looks like until the second or so between coming through the front door and exploding?
It's not a bug, it's old knowledge getting flushed out of the general awareness of the public. FAT has a read-only bit and Linux knows about it, it's in there along with the system and hidden file bits:
A GPS tracker will track exactly where the car is no matter what.
Given the limitations of GPS, except for when it's in a garage or building;)
Seriously, though, if the police put a tracker on my car, and are unable to produce documentation demonstrating that they have done so, is the tracker mine if I discover it before they remove it?
Just like we can specify a URL like "http://username:password@www.somewhere.com/" can we come up with a way to specify a given virtualhostname at an IP address (say... "http://www.somesite.com>192.168.1.5/")?
Aside from evading such DNS censorship, it'd make debugging DNS and vhost configuration errors much, much easier.
What's the FBI going to do, laugh? The feds use the exact same tactic, under the guise of "Civil Forfeiture".
People don't care, because the government tells them that it is only used against drug dealers and terrorists, not that such allegations generally get proven beyond the assertion that "the guy must be one or else we wouldn't have taken his car/money/chemistry set".
You missed what was really special about this: If you want into defcon's network operations center, tell them you're from Wired and you just want to take a few pictures. Butter them up real good about how awesome they are for managing such a hostile environment, etc.
You vote for candidates based on who get the most money from corporations?
No, they vote for candidates based on whether or not they allow abortion. Then they get all pissy when people blame them for all the other crap and corruption their "champion" dog drags in, and cry that they don't have "representation" when their representative votes exactly the way they wanted on the issues they wanted him in on.
What doesn't seem fair to me is the notion that companies can terminate an employment contract and expect provisions of that terminated contract to continue to be in effect, but hey, when was the last time anyone seriously thought the legal system was "fair"?
Mod parent up. It takes two to tango, blaming the employees alone isn't going to get the problem solved. Employees DO need to keep their skills up to date, but it's pointless when employers are unable to appreciate those skills.
They obviously have ways of changing pay and do it regularly.
Having a % pay raise for a single employee based on that employee's tenure or performance evaluation is an entirely different operation than having a magical "set everyone's pay to 6.55!... except for the governor, the comptroller, the..." button that knows exactly which 200,000 employees are supposed to get docked, and an Undo button that not only returns the pay to whatever it used to be, but also issues back pay for the duration.
My first thought was that the system was somehow set to only allow a certain maximum change in payrolls
My first thought is that there's no way to say "Set everyone's hourly wage to 6.55", and that it would require loading each employee up one at a time, entering the new wage and saving the record, all while waiting about a minute (based on experience with large, ancient payroll systems) for each operation to complete.
All while using data entry personnel who you trust to give themselves pay cuts.
My second thought is that once it's done, there's no way to say "Set everyone's hourly wage back to what it originally was".
Even if there was a button that set everyone's wage to 6.55, I'm almost certain that the governor isn't taking a pay cut, so the button would still be useless.
Since I am not responsible for the price of gasoline, absolutely nothing.
But you are. You use it, therefore you have taken your rightful place on the demand curve. Want to demand less? Drive a smaller car or drive less, just like a lot of other Americans are doing.
Cops arrest 9 married couples for having sex thanks to an anonymous tip claiming they were prostitutes. No evidence of prostitution was found, just a bunch of people having sex in a jacuzzi.
if the crime was actually committed.
So cops don't go and arrest a doctor because someone puts a gun in their car and calls from a payphone to claim the doctor was waving it at them? Of course, they let him go, but almost certainly the arrest remains on his record and reputation.
Ignoring the cases above, how many thefts and murders happen every day?
50mb/sec is going to be enough for most users to get TV and internet
HDTV is about 18mbit per channel. Is your hypothetical wireless system going to be broadcasting 50mbit per user, or is this 50mbit per cell/base station? Does everyone in the neighborhood vote on what two channels to carry each evening, or do all the VoIP connections get dropped if someone changes the channel?
Seriously, this whining about how telcos and cablecos shouldn't need to spend money to upgrade the last mile needs to stop. Don't half-ass the upgrade, the rest of the technology will eventually be upgraded to make use of whatever capacity is installed.
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Wow, the author set up the POTS modem. When is the last time you had to use one of those?
Plenty of people still live in parts of the world without anything faster. But PPP isn't only for POTS, plenty of DSL services use PPPo[AE].
I think it's well past time to create a ppp-client package (conflicts with pppd) that has pppd configured the way that the 99% of the users who aren't modem pools will use it (for instance, not demanding a password from the other end of the line). Bonus points if the code starts diverging from the original pppd to become more client friendly (like having just one password file rather than chap and pap files, and sharing the user/pass configuration with the chat dialup script).
OK, you are wrong. And you'd have known it had you looked at his screenshots showing most of the permissions being "right" (except for the special folders).
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=646671&cid=24610199 is where I explained that FAT does in fact have a Read Only bit, and
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=646671&cid=24610565 is where someone else dug up why Windows has set the Read Only bit.
Shit, the walls are mauve! Repeat, the walls are mauve! Call off the mission! Abort! Abort! Our dynamite can only blow up teal walls!
Seriously, this "photography=terrorism" idea is bullshit through and through. Does anyone honestly think a terrorist cares what the lobby of the hotel looks like until the second or so between coming through the front door and exploding?
It's not a bug, it's old knowledge getting flushed out of the general awareness of the public. FAT has a read-only bit and Linux knows about it, it's in there along with the system and hidden file bits:
(linux/msdos_fs.h)
Aren't complete blithering idiots.
Hey, I'm just being "balanced"... if we're talking about 30% we have to talk about the other 70% too in order to be fair, right?
A GPS tracker will track exactly where the car is no matter what.
Given the limitations of GPS, except for when it's in a garage or building ;)
Seriously, though, if the police put a tracker on my car, and are unable to produce documentation demonstrating that they have done so, is the tracker mine if I discover it before they remove it?
Just like we can specify a URL like "http://username:password@www.somewhere.com/" can we come up with a way to specify a given virtualhostname at an IP address (say... "http://www.somesite.com>192.168.1.5/")?
Aside from evading such DNS censorship, it'd make debugging DNS and vhost configuration errors much, much easier.
What's the FBI going to do, laugh? The feds use the exact same tactic, under the guise of "Civil Forfeiture".
People don't care, because the government tells them that it is only used against drug dealers and terrorists, not that such allegations generally get proven beyond the assertion that "the guy must be one or else we wouldn't have taken his car/money/chemistry set".
Here is what is special about this:
You missed what was really special about this: If you want into defcon's network operations center, tell them you're from Wired and you just want to take a few pictures. Butter them up real good about how awesome they are for managing such a hostile environment, etc.
I expect this exploit to not work a second time.
You vote for candidates based on who get the most money from corporations?
No, they vote for candidates based on whether or not they allow abortion. Then they get all pissy when people blame them for all the other crap and corruption their "champion" dog drags in, and cry that they don't have "representation" when their representative votes exactly the way they wanted on the issues they wanted him in on.
Doesn't seem fair to me
What doesn't seem fair to me is the notion that companies can terminate an employment contract and expect provisions of that terminated contract to continue to be in effect, but hey, when was the last time anyone seriously thought the legal system was "fair"?
Mod parent up. It takes two to tango, blaming the employees alone isn't going to get the problem solved. Employees DO need to keep their skills up to date, but it's pointless when employers are unable to appreciate those skills.
You have to turn on the [domain.org] tag under Preferences - Discussion - Viewing.
Does this count as being a private dick?
including increased precipitation
Does this process ever reach a point where it stops?
Personally, I'd say it stops when it rains enough to make it not a desert anymore.
after every use.
Well, there's your problem. Quit letting people spit in it and you won't have to wash it to keep your coffee from tasting so funny.
"Recycling is Bullshit"
Except when it isn't: for instance, alumin[i]um, which recycling requires only five percent of the energy used to produce aluminium from ore. That number doesn't count getting the ore in the first place.
Now, sending a truck around weekly to pick up the 3 cans that one house in the neighborhood put out to recycle, that's bullshit.
I don't think that is the homemade kidney machine, the article says
regarding that picture.
going to the airport. It's uplifting. Just about everybody has a purpose, a direction, an empty wallet after that $8 coffee.
I think riding on the airplane would be "uplifting" enough without the $8 coffee.
They obviously have ways of changing pay and do it regularly.
Having a % pay raise for a single employee based on that employee's tenure or performance evaluation is an entirely different operation than having a magical "set everyone's pay to 6.55! ... except for the governor, the comptroller, the..." button that knows exactly which 200,000 employees are supposed to get docked, and an Undo button that not only returns the pay to whatever it used to be, but also issues back pay for the duration.
My first thought was that the system was somehow set to only allow a certain maximum change in payrolls
My first thought is that there's no way to say "Set everyone's hourly wage to 6.55", and that it would require loading each employee up one at a time, entering the new wage and saving the record, all while waiting about a minute (based on experience with large, ancient payroll systems) for each operation to complete.
All while using data entry personnel who you trust to give themselves pay cuts.
My second thought is that once it's done, there's no way to say "Set everyone's hourly wage back to what it originally was".
Even if there was a button that set everyone's wage to 6.55, I'm almost certain that the governor isn't taking a pay cut, so the button would still be useless.
It's not illegal to volunteer information, how on earth did you get that idea?
So you volunteer your information to every pair of smooth-talking people in suits and shades who can't produce any documentation?
I don't see why the library can't do whatever the hell it pleases.
I don't see why we can't point out how colossally stupid this is.
Since I am not responsible for the price of gasoline, absolutely nothing.
But you are. You use it, therefore you have taken your rightful place on the demand curve. Want to demand less? Drive a smaller car or drive less, just like a lot of other Americans are doing.
Cops arrest 9 married couples for having sex thanks to an anonymous tip claiming they were prostitutes. No evidence of prostitution was found, just a bunch of people having sex in a jacuzzi.
if the crime was actually committed.
So cops don't go and arrest a doctor because someone puts a gun in their car and calls from a payphone to claim the doctor was waving it at them? Of course, they let him go, but almost certainly the arrest remains on his record and reputation.
Ignoring the cases above, how many thefts and murders happen every day?
50mb/sec is going to be enough for most users to get TV and internet
HDTV is about 18mbit per channel. Is your hypothetical wireless system going to be broadcasting 50mbit per user, or is this 50mbit per cell/base station? Does everyone in the neighborhood vote on what two channels to carry each evening, or do all the VoIP connections get dropped if someone changes the channel?
Seriously, this whining about how telcos and cablecos shouldn't need to spend money to upgrade the last mile needs to stop. Don't half-ass the upgrade, the rest of the technology will eventually be upgraded to make use of whatever capacity is installed.