All inbound traffic except on a few (two as I recall) specifically set up ports are stopped, of the remainder only one or two ports are not stealthed, those that are open are forwarded to SSH daemons on specific machines, none of which was the machine hosting the server.
standard ports that are likely open, such as http, telnet, and smtp. -- what kind of fool do you take me for?
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Firewalls are discussed in detail, as well as their possibly unintended consequences (an online game refuses to run because a critical port is being blocked by the firewall, for example)
This reminded me of a recent disturbing incidedent at a LAN party I was hosting. We were playing Halo, behind my router, configured with a firewall and NAT; DMZ was off, one of my guests was hosting the server so no unintentional rule in the firewall would've been forwarding him traffic from the outside (he was also DHCPed, further reducing the likelyhood, AND I checked the rules later), we had set up no additional firewall rules to allow people on the internet to connect to the Halo server, to our surprize and my chagrin, people outside my router were able to connect to the server apparently being run inside my LAN, somehow bypassing my firewall. Everyone at my LAN party has a good bit of network and computer experience, but this left us scratching our heads. We had always assumed Halo did the standard client-server thing and waited for clients to connect to it on some port. To this day I'm still not quite sure how it happens; my best guess is Halo connects to some master server which instructs to connect to the client machines, or (more likely) clients connect to the master server and data flows through it on its way to the game server. Anyone know for sure how Halo's doing this?
this. Ahhh, Back Orifice was fun (as someone else noted).
I remember doing something similar to my friends with an ICQ spoof program, my favorite went something like from UIN(666): "This is Satan, sell me you soul.", UIN(333): "This is God, don't listen to Satan.", UIN(1): "This is your mother, don't listen to either of them." It was even better if they tried to add the new UINs to their contact list and they all came back invalid. (The minimum is something like 1001)
Source - Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991
From Subpart L - Restrictions on Telephone Solicitation
L. No person may
a. Initiate any telephone call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice,
i. To any emergency telephone line, including any 911 line and any emergency line of a hospital, medical physician or service office, health care facility, poison control center, or fire protection or law enforcement agency; ii. To the telephone line of any guest room or patient room of a hospital, health care facility, elderly home, or similar establishment; or iii. To any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call;
(Emphasis mine) This appears to be the law that made calling cell phones illegal, but it seems it is specific to "telephone calls". I would think a good lawyer could argue that they're essentially the same thing though.
Erm... Insightful? Funny I'll grant you (and I think that's how the post was intended), but the script provided has no sense of grammar/spelling and would replace "too" with "tooo" and "stop" with "stoop" (OK, easily fixed with s/\bto\b/too/, so not really an issue) but "to" is a word and has proper uses, the script would arbitrarily replace the first occurence it with "too". If you can write me a script to find an improper use of "to" versus "too" (versus "two") it would seem you're well on your way to solving the Natural Language Problem. "To how many people did you send a dollar?" "I sent too many." (yum. abiguity, although arguably using "too" here wouldn't answer the question.) "to" or "too" here?
Do you suppose they'll let you take the domain if you want to switch hosting services? They registered it, it has their info on it, and (I'm guessing) they paid for it (out of money you gave them of course).
Nah, it'll start making sense when your network starts deciding to pre-emptively destroy threats. "11.245.21.4 has weapons of mass DDoSing, observe these reports where he pinged us 3 times. Packet bomb him." In the aftermath your network will discover that the IP address actually had no DDoS zombies, but was simply a NAT, the nodes behind which needed to be "liberated" from the NATs tyranny.
I live just north of Cinci and the local DSL provider (Zoomtown) just bumped their customers up to 3/1 MbPS (something like $40 a month). Roadrunner cable (~$45 a month I believe) is also a big competitor in the area. Cool technology, but are they really going to get a big market share with cheap slow dial-up at $10 less a month and bigger band at $10-15 more? Seems to me they need to increase their speed to compete with broadband or lower their price to compete with dialup.
Personally I look at the PK's as interfering with my playing "the game"
I read an excellent quote on this subject (unfortunately I don't know who said it), it went something like 'There should be a coop button [opposite of the player hostile button]. If the PKs can force me into their game, I should be able to force them into mine.'
So what they're telling us is essentially: Beagle2 is sent into orbit by EU. Beagle2 rides EU's rocket. Beagle2 cratered. Beagle2 disconnected. EU: anyone there?
A company is only going to do something if it's beneficial to them. You're suggesting that because of the hypothetical tax cut they'd write archaic code, but why? There are two possible scenarios that I see: 1. They write code just to get the tax break - this doesn't really make business sense because its likely the only thing they would be able to write off is the programmer time they spent on developing the code, and the programmer time costs more than the money they're saving in taxes, I.E. they lose money on the deal. 2. They need this archaic code - this does make business sense and more importantly makes open source sense, somebody needs a piece of code, so it gets written and added to the community to the benefit of anyone else who needs it. Further it makes a certain amount of sense that if no one in the community was willing or able to write this code it was in some way expensive or impossible to develop. A company might have at its disposal resources that the OS community at large does not which allow them to develop that code that otherwise would've have been written (think big expensive pieces of hardware).
I don't agree with the tax break idea, but I don't think this is a valid argument against it.
The rumor (well, I don't know if its rumor, I fairly sure John Carmack himself said it) is that Microsoft offered id a truckload of money to sit on Doom3 until an XBox port was done.
Heisenberg was driving down the Autobahn whereupon he was pulled over by a policeman. The policeman asked, "Do you know how fast you were going back there?" Heisenberg replied, "No, but I know where I am."
still waiting for something that truly replaces tabletop
You're going to be waiting for quite some time. The problem lies in the fundamental openness of a tabletop game and the lack of the same in computer games: You can't do anything the designer didn't think of or didn't want you to do, and part of the fun of D&D is the creativity it requires to win on some occasions. Often you end up bypassing a trap or monster easily because you thought of something the DM didn't. (example from one of my D&D games) Suppose you're facing extremely fast but not very intelligent enemies, wrap a rope around their necks when they stop and hold on tight. When they take off again, pop goes the weasel. Until you can tell a computer game "I wrap a rope around its neck" and it correctly interprets and responds appropriately, no computer game will replace D&D.
Check parent again, he didn't say there was no sound in space, he said the speed of sound in the vastness of space is essentially zero. More to the point, the speed of sound dependent on the transmission medium, and I haven't a clue as to what that speed would be in the low density gas of space. My laymans guess would be it's much higher than air (going from water to air is a speed increase, and I'm guessing its some function of density). It's unclear whether the original post takes this into account. Can anyone shed some light on this?
I'm one of (apparently a minority) of people who doesn't buy consoles for this reason alone. If consoles offered me the precision of a mouse I'd be much more apt to jump on board. As it stands analog sticks usually control viewpoint velocity (stick in center = 0 viewpoint movement) making it hard to aim (yes, I'm an FPS player), and those that don't force me to hold the stick in position when its trying to move; either way its no good for FPSes. With a mouse however I just whip it into position where I want to look and presto: snipe.
The console is catching up to the PC graphically as well
Indeed. This is an unfortunate consequence of too many game developers trying to maximize their market share by including all the people who never upgrade. If you keep watch on all the graphics demos that NVidia, ATI, et al. release you know what I'm talking about. Modern GFX cards are capable of doing vastly superior effects than what you see in most PC games. (Example screenshot: Rendered real-time, NVidia demo called 'Dawn')
It is a Christian country and it is defined and based on those assumptions.
a. Assumptions? You haven't mentioned any assumptions up to this point in your argument, to what are you refering? b. Care to prove this? I happen to know a large number of people living in the US who are *most definitely not* Christians, and freedom of religion is guaranteed by the constitution. If I recall correctly the 10 commandments say something to the effect of "Don't worship any God over me", which seems to be a very clear case of where the principals the US is based on and Christian doctrine differ.
And if you're going to try to say "the majority of Americans are Christians" then change "Christians" to "whites" or "males" in your argument and see how it reads. There is no difference between stepping on the toes of a gender, race or religion, especially in the eyes of the law.
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All inbound traffic except on a few (two as I recall) specifically set up ports are stopped, of the remainder only one or two ports are not stealthed, those that are open are forwarded to SSH daemons on specific machines, none of which was the machine hosting the server.
standard ports that are likely open, such as http, telnet, and smtp. -- what kind of fool do you take me for?
Firewalls are discussed in detail, as well as their possibly unintended consequences (an online game refuses to run because a critical port is being blocked by the firewall, for example)
This reminded me of a recent disturbing incidedent at a LAN party I was hosting. We were playing Halo, behind my router, configured with a firewall and NAT; DMZ was off, one of my guests was hosting the server so no unintentional rule in the firewall would've been forwarding him traffic from the outside (he was also DHCPed, further reducing the likelyhood, AND I checked the rules later), we had set up no additional firewall rules to allow people on the internet to connect to the Halo server, to our surprize and my chagrin, people outside my router were able to connect to the server apparently being run inside my LAN, somehow bypassing my firewall. Everyone at my LAN party has a good bit of network and computer experience, but this left us scratching our heads. We had always assumed Halo did the standard client-server thing and waited for clients to connect to it on some port. To this day I'm still not quite sure how it happens; my best guess is Halo connects to some master server which instructs to connect to the client machines, or (more likely) clients connect to the master server and data flows through it on its way to the game server. Anyone know for sure how Halo's doing this?
this. Ahhh, Back Orifice was fun (as someone else noted).
I remember doing something similar to my friends with an ICQ spoof program, my favorite went something like from UIN(666): "This is Satan, sell me you soul.", UIN(333): "This is God, don't listen to Satan.", UIN(1): "This is your mother, don't listen to either of them." It was even better if they tried to add the new UINs to their contact list and they all came back invalid. (The minimum is something like 1001)
Ian Crawford's "Where are they?" presents an interesting argument for the possiblity that we are alone.
Source - Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991
From Subpart L - Restrictions on Telephone Solicitation
L. No person may
a. Initiate any telephone call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice,
i. To any emergency telephone line, including any 911 line and any emergency line of a hospital, medical physician or service office, health care facility, poison control center, or fire protection or law enforcement agency;
ii. To the telephone line of any guest room or patient room of a hospital, health care facility, elderly home, or similar establishment; or
iii. To any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call;
(Emphasis mine) This appears to be the law that made calling cell phones illegal, but it seems it is specific to "telephone calls". I would think a good lawyer could argue that they're essentially the same thing though.
Erm... Insightful? Funny I'll grant you (and I think that's how the post was intended), but the script provided has no sense of grammar/spelling and would replace "too" with "tooo" and "stop" with "stoop" (OK, easily fixed with s/\bto\b/too/, so not really an issue) but "to" is a word and has proper uses, the script would arbitrarily replace the first occurence it with "too". If you can write me a script to find an improper use of "to" versus "too" (versus "two") it would seem you're well on your way to solving the Natural Language Problem. "To how many people did you send a dollar?" "I sent too many." (yum. abiguity, although arguably using "too" here wouldn't answer the question.) "to" or "too" here?
ask for a lot you have to make all your money before the job is outsourced.
On the other hand asking for a lot will likely speed up the process. (Not that you can even hope to compete)
-From someone else who's graduating in 2 weeks without a job (yet).
Do you suppose they'll let you take the domain if you want to switch hosting services? They registered it, it has their info on it, and (I'm guessing) they paid for it (out of money you gave them of course).
Ready.gov, reinterpretted.
Nah, it'll start making sense when your network starts deciding to pre-emptively destroy threats. "11.245.21.4 has weapons of mass DDoSing, observe these reports where he pinged us 3 times. Packet bomb him." In the aftermath your network will discover that the IP address actually had no DDoS zombies, but was simply a NAT, the nodes behind which needed to be "liberated" from the NATs tyranny.
from my DSL modem:and I've noticed dramatically increased transfer speeds.
I live just north of Cinci and the local DSL provider (Zoomtown) just bumped their customers up to 3/1 MbPS (something like $40 a month). Roadrunner cable (~$45 a month I believe) is also a big competitor in the area. Cool technology, but are they really going to get a big market share with cheap slow dial-up at $10 less a month and bigger band at $10-15 more? Seems to me they need to increase their speed to compete with broadband or lower their price to compete with dialup.
Personally I look at the PK's as interfering with my playing "the game"
I read an excellent quote on this subject (unfortunately I don't know who said it), it went something like 'There should be a coop button [opposite of the player hostile button]. If the PKs can force me into their game, I should be able to force them into mine.'
For those of us who are too lazy to figure it out, here's a site that tells you what a phone number spells.
So what they're telling us is essentially:
Beagle2 is sent into orbit by EU.
Beagle2 rides EU's rocket.
Beagle2 cratered.
Beagle2 disconnected.
EU: anyone there?
A company is only going to do something if it's beneficial to them. You're suggesting that because of the hypothetical tax cut they'd write archaic code, but why? There are two possible scenarios that I see:
1. They write code just to get the tax break - this doesn't really make business sense because its likely the only thing they would be able to write off is the programmer time they spent on developing the code, and the programmer time costs more than the money they're saving in taxes, I.E. they lose money on the deal.
2. They need this archaic code - this does make business sense and more importantly makes open source sense, somebody needs a piece of code, so it gets written and added to the community to the benefit of anyone else who needs it. Further it makes a certain amount of sense that if no one in the community was willing or able to write this code it was in some way expensive or impossible to develop. A company might have at its disposal resources that the OS community at large does not which allow them to develop that code that otherwise would've have been written (think big expensive pieces of hardware).
I don't agree with the tax break idea, but I don't think this is a valid argument against it.
The rumor (well, I don't know if its rumor, I fairly sure John Carmack himself said it) is that Microsoft offered id a truckload of money to sit on Doom3 until an XBox port was done.
1. Hack cheap camera.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Or alternatively....
1. Sell cameras under cost and make money on processing pcitures
2. Cameras get hacked
3. Don't profit!
Someone else can think out jokes conerning taking pictures of Natalie Portman naked and petrified or hot grits.
Heisenberg was driving down the Autobahn whereupon he was pulled over by a policeman. The policeman asked, "Do you know how fast you were going back there?" Heisenberg replied, "No, but I know where I am."
Taken from here.
you probably just need to hear this.
still waiting for something that truly replaces tabletop
You're going to be waiting for quite some time. The problem lies in the fundamental openness of a tabletop game and the lack of the same in computer games: You can't do anything the designer didn't think of or didn't want you to do, and part of the fun of D&D is the creativity it requires to win on some occasions. Often you end up bypassing a trap or monster easily because you thought of something the DM didn't. (example from one of my D&D games) Suppose you're facing extremely fast but not very intelligent enemies, wrap a rope around their necks when they stop and hold on tight. When they take off again, pop goes the weasel. Until you can tell a computer game "I wrap a rope around its neck" and it correctly interprets and responds appropriately, no computer game will replace D&D.
Check parent again, he didn't say there was no sound in space, he said the speed of sound in the vastness of space is essentially zero. More to the point, the speed of sound dependent on the transmission medium, and I haven't a clue as to what that speed would be in the low density gas of space. My laymans guess would be it's much higher than air (going from water to air is a speed increase, and I'm guessing its some function of density). It's unclear whether the original post takes this into account. Can anyone shed some light on this?
I prefer a thumbstick to a keyboard and mouse.
I'm one of (apparently a minority) of people who doesn't buy consoles for this reason alone. If consoles offered me the precision of a mouse I'd be much more apt to jump on board. As it stands analog sticks usually control viewpoint velocity (stick in center = 0 viewpoint movement) making it hard to aim (yes, I'm an FPS player), and those that don't force me to hold the stick in position when its trying to move; either way its no good for FPSes. With a mouse however I just whip it into position where I want to look and presto: snipe.
The console is catching up to the PC graphically as well
Indeed. This is an unfortunate consequence of too many game developers trying to maximize their market share by including all the people who never upgrade. If you keep watch on all the graphics demos that NVidia, ATI, et al. release you know what I'm talking about. Modern GFX cards are capable of doing vastly superior effects than what you see in most PC games. (Example screenshot: Rendered real-time, NVidia demo called 'Dawn')
So thats where mine went! I want those back! All of them!
It is a Christian country and it is defined and based on those assumptions.
a. Assumptions? You haven't mentioned any assumptions up to this point in your argument, to what are you refering?
b. Care to prove this? I happen to know a large number of people living in the US who are *most definitely not* Christians, and freedom of religion is guaranteed by the constitution. If I recall correctly the 10 commandments say something to the effect of "Don't worship any God over me", which seems to be a very clear case of where the principals the US is based on and Christian doctrine differ.
And if you're going to try to say "the majority of Americans are Christians" then change "Christians" to "whites" or "males" in your argument and see how it reads. There is no difference between stepping on the toes of a gender, race or religion, especially in the eyes of the law.