stupidity of the idea aside, I am tired of people being able to patent Ideas. You should have a certain amount of protection time to come up with something, perhaps, but if you don't, you should be fined by the patent office.
The whole point of patents (I thought) was to protect the little guy so that he had time to create/establish his idea.
And software and business method patents are bullshit to begin with.
When comcast took over the local cable company, it ran my cable ISP out of business. Luckily because of the phone regulations, they were able to survive as a DSL provider. Now that seems like it will go away, so we will have to rely on one of the local monopolies for Internet access. That likely means no more providing web/mail services for small groups like my cycling team.
Are you kidding me? Freeswan's error messages are very helpful. They, for example, told me exactly WHY a tunnel was not coming up with our checkpoints (checkpoint seems to think it is smarter than you in defining encryption domains, and will combine nets where it sees fit). Checkpoint logging of IPSEC? What a joke.
Have you ever tried to use the new packet capturing on a Nortel contivity? It ain't fun, especially since you have to be on the friggin' serial console just to do it. Still no SSH on those devices either. Freeswan on linux? 'tcpdump -i ipsec0' done. And our freeswan appliances have a limited-privilege 'admin' account, with the ssh keys for our NOC and LAN/WAN team installed, so THEY can deal with minor problems without having to pester us (The network security / infrastructure design team)
I can go on and on, but FreeS/WAN has saved my company tons of money and time, and it works BETTER than the commercial alternatives. Combined with a Redhat 8 kickstart, we have a kickass IPSec/IPTables appliance that we can ship to remote (not clueful) admins to do the initial install. They just buy a standard desktop, pop in an extra NIC, boot with our install CD/floppy (which already defines the network for them), and then we connect and finish the configuration to bring up the tunnels.
Let them compete on an even playing field with other products for other operating systems. Windows simply needs to no longer exist. If Microsoft wants to focus on applications, let them. Just don't let them create operating systems any more.
When waiting in Harrisburg (or was it BWI, I forget), they had "internet stations" where you had to pay like.50 a minute for a connection. I found the wireless network and used that instead. Even nice enough to assign me a DHCP address. "Any" didn't work though. Had to know the SSID. Nice security there.
Some reports on NANOG indicate that 10x-100x the traffic from the virus itself is being generated by braindead antivirus which responds to the spoofed addresses with a stupid 'you have a virus' message.
I run an IRC server at work, and it has made a group of us much more productive. The company is looking at an 'official' IM, likely lotus sametime, but I have found that that solution gets in the way more than helps (pretty much any IM solution is pretty intrusive that way though).
As a bonus, we run a 'bot on the channel that does stuff like phone number lookups, IP subnet calculations, etc.
PS: What on EARTH is up with IE's css support? is it intentionally designed to be completely broken?
Indeed. I work on a database for my cycling team, and get it looking great on firebird...then bring up IE..WTF? Actually, firebird in windows hacks it up a little bit due to the horrible font rendering in windows vs. linux, but at least the basic style is ok.
Sometimes I waste more time trying to get IE to display things properly than I do writing the actual functional code.
The way our patent system works, you could have patented the idea, and let this guy do all the work, bringing a product to market, and then sit back and collect.
Actually a "spoiler" is not what you are thinking of. A spoiler exists to "mix-up" the airflow... spoiling it... hence the name 'spoiler' What this achieves is a turbulent flow which reduces separation off the back of the car, which in turn reduces drag. It's the same reason for dimples in golf balls, just done a little differently.
The wings for downforce on rice-mobiles, however, are ridiculous. An actual spoiler wouldn't hurt, but of course, those don't look fast.
A front spoiler simply keeps air from going under the car in order to reduce interference drag.
that is why you don't take action on detected spam, you simply flag it and let the end user do with it as they please, with a method to have the mail admin team whitelist (actually, lower score is better than flat-out whitelisting) stuff that is getting flagged that the end users don't want flagged.
We do this with a combination of mimedefang and spamassassin on our Internet-facing sendmail servers.
Spam filters can already easily deal with this. The latest trend, however, is bayesian-killers with a bunch of random words as one part of the message, and the spam as another part.
Over christmas, I stayed a few nights at my girlfriend's mother's house. I brought a modem along, since they don't have broadband, but just for kicks fired up kismet.
Suffice it to say, I was on a much faster network than dialup, thanks to a friendly neighbor with a default-configured linksys, dhcp and everything:)
You are worried about banks? I noticed that my orthopedic surgeon's office uses a wireless network for pretty much everything (the doctor can dictate from anywhere, and nurses put your blood pressure and such in using a laptop from any exam room).
So, for kicks, I took my libretto to the office on my next visit and fired up kismet.
They are wide open. No WEP, Windoze boxes (including the domain controllers) all easily accessible. A quick port scan showed all types of vulnerable services and such. I did not take the time to go further, but figure that getting patient records would not be too difficult.
From the port scans, it seems that this small office is also on the same subnet as other businesses in the area. WTF???
So what is one to do? I dare not tell them what I found, what with the risk of being labeled a terrorist and all. I thought that an anonymous letter to them might be best. But how can I be sure that they ever fix the problem?
AOL blindly blocks broadband netblocks. Because of this, I now have to smart-relay through my ISP, which causes me my own headaches. I have no choice, as many people on the lists I maintain use AOL.
I'm sure that AOL includes these illigitimate blocks in its numbers.
One theory is that neo has special hardware in addition to his plugs. He is able to 'jack in' wirelessly (the matrix is 'hacked' into wirelessly from the ships, right?). Since neo understands the communications protocols, he can 'see' because he can follow those protocols, being connected wirelessly.
No, killing people in grotesque and painful ways (inciting terror) is a form of terrorism. Spam is harrassment.
I'm tired of the whole 'cyberterrorism' thing. Nobody has EVER been terrorized by computer, with the exception of stalkers. Even that would likely be called harrassment, and not terrorism by authorities.
Yup. Windoze has always had this wrong. OS/2, on the other hand, had a real OOI. If you changed the name to something a 'shortcut' pointed to, nothing ever broke.
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stupidity of the idea aside, I am tired of people being able to patent Ideas. You should have a certain amount of protection time to come up with something, perhaps, but if you don't, you should be fined by the patent office.
The whole point of patents (I thought) was to protect the little guy so that he had time to create/establish his idea.
And software and business method patents are bullshit to begin with.
This type of stuff really annoys me.
Have you ever tried to use the new packet capturing on a Nortel contivity? It ain't fun, especially since you have to be on the friggin' serial console just to do it. Still no SSH on those devices either. Freeswan on linux? 'tcpdump -i ipsec0' done. And our freeswan appliances have a limited-privilege 'admin' account, with the ssh keys for our NOC and LAN/WAN team installed, so THEY can deal with minor problems without having to pester us (The network security / infrastructure design team)
I can go on and on, but FreeS/WAN has saved my company tons of money and time, and it works BETTER than the commercial alternatives. Combined with a Redhat 8 kickstart, we have a kickass IPSec/IPTables appliance that we can ship to remote (not clueful) admins to do the initial install. They just buy a standard desktop, pop in an extra NIC, boot with our install CD/floppy (which already defines the network for them), and then we connect and finish the configuration to bring up the tunnels.
Let them compete on an even playing field with other products for other operating systems. Windows simply needs to no longer exist. If Microsoft wants to focus on applications, let them. Just don't let them create operating systems any more.
When waiting in Harrisburg (or was it BWI, I forget), they had "internet stations" where you had to pay like .50 a minute for a connection. I found the wireless network and used that instead. Even nice enough to assign me a DHCP address. "Any" didn't work though. Had to know the SSID. Nice security there.
Heh...this story reminds me of the movie antitrust for some reason.
Some reports on NANOG indicate that 10x-100x the traffic from the virus itself is being generated by braindead antivirus which responds to the spoofed addresses with a stupid 'you have a virus' message.
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As a bonus, we run a 'bot on the channel that does stuff like phone number lookups, IP subnet calculations, etc.
Indeed. I work on a database for my cycling team, and get it looking great on firebird...then bring up IE..WTF? Actually, firebird in windows hacks it up a little bit due to the horrible font rendering in windows vs. linux, but at least the basic style is ok.
Sometimes I waste more time trying to get IE to display things properly than I do writing the actual functional code.
*sigh*
The way our patent system works, you could have patented the idea, and let this guy do all the work, bringing a product to market, and then sit back and collect.
Why not just use an encrypted file system?
The wings for downforce on rice-mobiles, however, are ridiculous. An actual spoiler wouldn't hurt, but of course, those don't look fast.
A front spoiler simply keeps air from going under the car in order to reduce interference drag.
In his book, Linus talks about how he hates the cold.
Now I don't have to run samba just so I can look at the pr0n on my fileserver from my work laptop at home.
How, exactly, do they generate 'pictures' of the milky way galaxy?
We do this with a combination of mimedefang and spamassassin on our Internet-facing sendmail servers.
Spam filters can already easily deal with this. The latest trend, however, is bayesian-killers with a bunch of random words as one part of the message, and the spam as another part.
Over christmas, I stayed a few nights at my girlfriend's mother's house. I brought a modem along, since they don't have broadband, but just for kicks fired up kismet.
Suffice it to say, I was on a much faster network than dialup, thanks to a friendly neighbor with a default-configured linksys, dhcp and everything :)
So, for kicks, I took my libretto to the office on my next visit and fired up kismet.
They are wide open. No WEP, Windoze boxes (including the domain controllers) all easily accessible. A quick port scan showed all types of vulnerable services and such. I did not take the time to go further, but figure that getting patient records would not be too difficult.
From the port scans, it seems that this small office is also on the same subnet as other businesses in the area. WTF???
So what is one to do? I dare not tell them what I found, what with the risk of being labeled a terrorist and all. I thought that an anonymous letter to them might be best. But how can I be sure that they ever fix the problem?
I'm sure that AOL includes these illigitimate blocks in its numbers.
One theory is that neo has special hardware in addition to his plugs. He is able to 'jack in' wirelessly (the matrix is 'hacked' into wirelessly from the ships, right?). Since neo understands the communications protocols, he can 'see' because he can follow those protocols, being connected wirelessly.
I'm tired of the whole 'cyberterrorism' thing. Nobody has EVER been terrorized by computer, with the exception of stalkers. Even that would likely be called harrassment, and not terrorism by authorities.
Yup. Windoze has always had this wrong. OS/2, on the other hand, had a real OOI. If you changed the name to something a 'shortcut' pointed to, nothing ever broke.