While we know that Fizzer only operates on the Windows platform and uses the Windows address book to mail itself, it also tries to use Kazaa to spread itself further.
Actually, it doesn't use the Windows address book. I know this because I (under firewalled, very controlled conditions) ran it to see how it worked. One thing I noticed is that it was sending e-mails out to addresses I did not know. That computer does not have an address book, nor any outlook express smtp/pop3 server settings (I never configured it).
Though the track record of OE and its address book is pretty bad, it isn't always to blame.
The reason that the IRC networks are working together is this:
The bots don't actually spread over IRC. However, one of the methods they can be controlled (we presume, at least) is IRC. For that, infected systems connect to a random irc server from a large list. The larger networks don't really care -- the problem is that the smaller networks have servers which cannot support as many clients. Entire servers can be filled if their limit is only 250 clients (which is the limit for some).
The reason that some networks are omitted from the list is that it appears that they created the server list from an old mirc default servers.ini, only including entries that began with 'irc' (ie matching regex/^irc/). A few networks were left out because of this.
Well, sort of
There's a levy (different from a tax) that is supposed to go to the artists in proportion to their sales. For CD-Rs sold as "Music CD-Rs", which can be recorded to using burners that hook up to the stereo, then it's kind of expensive at (I don't have the exact figures handy) CAD$1.20. Data CDs are only like CAD$0.20 though. The sales tax is far more significant than the levy.
IANAL, but I'm not sure if a honeynet would apply to this law.
Section 219a's definition of a telecommunications service:
(a) "Telecommunications" and "telecommunications service" mean any service lawfully provided for a charge or compensation to facilitate the origination, transmission, retransmission, emission, or reception of signs, data, images, signals, writings, sounds, or other intelligence or equivalence of intelligence of any nature over any telecommunications system by any method, including, but not limited to, electronic, electromagnetic, magnetic, optical, photo-optical, digital, or analog technologies.
And then the law linked to says this:
(b) Conceal the existence or place of origin or destination of any telecommunications service.
By running a honeynet, you are not hiding the existance or location from the telecommunications provider, just the hacker attempting to connect. And a telecommunications service must be lawfully provided for a charge or compensation -- I seriously doubt the hacker is paying for access to the honeynet server.
OTOH I can't be sure that it's impossible to make up a situation in which the honeynet could be illegal, so it might be illegal to distribute it.
Regardless, I'm happy that Canada doesn't have anything like this.
Indeed, navigating a normal desktop with a remote doesn't work very well.
Luckily, there are menu programs that are designed to make sure you don't need to do that. I'd imagine an HTPC as having its own menuing system that is designed to accomodate many types of remotes (some have more buttons than others, after all), with different menus to match.
Fuel cells aren't controlled fire. They work by stripping the hydrogen atom of its electron, sending the electron through a wire, than having it join up with another hydrogen that has done the same thing + an oxygen from the air.
Fire, which is combustion, works much differently. The reaction going on in fuel cells won't run your lawnmower, unless you're talking about an electric one... in which case, you've got electricity on your lap already when using a battery.
FTP does the same; its data connection is just a raw file sent over TCP. Neither should be faster than the other.
Sometimes an ISP's web proxy (transparent or otherwise) can help speed HTTP downloads by caching frequently requested files. For larger files, it shouldn't have any difference.
So basically, the two are the same speed once established, though HTTP does start faster.
A more practical reason to choose one over the other is this: if you are trying to host web sites with dynamic content AND downloadable files on the same system, then using lighter-weight ftpd processes to send large files keeps the heavy apache+mod_php+mod_perl+mod_ssl (or some combination of those) processes free to handle clients. Extremely high traffic sites actually have to be concerned about the number of connections, as if you leave HTTP keepalive enabled, then you can easily pass the default compiled-in 255 client limit for apache if there's over 100 processes stuck sending files that might take an hour to complete. FTP will keep the downloads from overwheming the web pages, as they will have separate limits.
\Sen"ti*ent\, a. [L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See Sense.] Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif.
(Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.
OK, so the dictionary's not all that helpful... but basically the difference is that people are self-aware, whereas animals are not. You don't see animals going around wondering about religion, if cloning is moral, etc.
The general basis for arguments that humans are special is because, unlike all other animals, humans are sentient. If we had another sentient species we were aware of, I imagine that experimentation on them would be considered bad too.
Some people theorize that dolphins are sentient, though there's a lot of people who are unconvinced... and that's offtopic anyway.
A boycott sounds like a good plan, but getting enough people to do it would be hard. Unfortunately, if a big enough impression is made that it starts hurting their sales noticably, they aren't going to attribute it to the boycott. No, they'd probably claim that internet piracy is the cause of the downturn and use that to justify being even worse. <sarcasm>After all, if we aren't buying their products, we're obviously pirating.</sarcasm>
I'm not sure if there's a way out. If the artists start turning away, then they'd lose their revenue in a way that they couldn't attribute to piracy (no source of revenue = no revenue), which would probably hurt them a lot more. However, the artists can't be expected to do that either, as they need money too.
Everyone seems to be so vocal about their favourite easy way out. There isn't one, and they know it. It's getting harder too -- as the post says, they're diversifying.
When there's no gravity, *any* amount of force will start someting moving. In space, I guess the electromagnetic waves have enough force to overcome the tiny amounts of gravity out there. Once something's moving, it doesn't stop until another force acts on it. So there really isn't a lot of energy that needs to come from anywhere. It's all in the radio waves.
The delay from when TF2 was originally supposed to be released (soon after Quake2's release) is far greater than the extra time it took to release woody.
And TF2 might even go gold! (Looks around) Maybe not.:-(
Since we haven't heard anything from valve in a while, I don't think they're even close... what is comparable to hell freezing over and pigs flying, except about 10 times as amazing? Probably a new game from Valve.;-)
Hey, they do a great job... but they do take a while.
I find this an interesting contrast to the past few years where people have tried various things ranging from restricting sales of violent games (especially FPSs) to banning them outright, with claims that they were causing kids to want to kill each other.
So the US Army comes along and makes a violent FPS. Why aren't they complaining? Apparently it's bad if Id does it, but it's alright for the army.
Who are they expecting needs to be faught against, anyway?
About 19 months ago, I decided to get an LCD display for my monitorless 486... its primary job is NAT (previously using a 56k modem w/PPP, now using the cable modem w/ethernet). Matrix Orbital displays connect to the serial port and have a really simple interface (it displays a character for every character you send, commands are prefixed by 0xFE, then a code for the command).
I went looking around, and it seems there aren't too many places to get the displays from in Canada. I ordered from HVW Technologies, which even has a student discount if you provide a scanned image of your student card. Their displays section includes units both with and without drive bay mounting kits. Their prices are reasonable, and their response time was great. I've got a picture of my (custom-written) uptime program here.
When I wrote the software, LCDproc was about the only program that was any good, and it kept flickering because it'd send a "clear screen" code before every update. I have no idea if that's been fixed in the interim, but I took the opportunity to write my API for a Grade 11 project (got 100%!).
That's the first 4 lines of the attachment. It hasn't made any false positives that I've seen yet, so I think it's fairly safe.
One last note... mozilla (which I use) seems to be adding a column of spaces down the middle of that text. If you happen to see that too, then make sure to remove them (or just grab the first 4 lines from the attachment from/var/spool/mail/$USER and properly backslash everything)
Wasn't Verisign one of the first to switch to a policy of denying registrar transfers by default (claiming that the other registrars were stealing customers by having them switch without knowing exactly what was going on)? Seems to me that they're doing exactly what they were complaining about.
This has an advantage over a version in mod_perl in that it would use very little memory. On the other hand, mod_perl takes 1mb Apache processes and turns them into 15mb Apache processes. No thank-you.
Yes, if in a crash hydrogen will dissipate much faster than gasoline. Not only that, but the hydrogen fuel tanks' safety requirements are much higher than those of gasoline... you can't even get them to explode if you shoot bullets through them. I don't think the same can be said about most gasoline tanks. Crashes result in either an intact tank or one which has its fuel diffuse very quickly so it is not dangerous.
Also, while the vehicle is running, though it may seem unusual, hydrogen-powered cars do not burn anything. Combustion has its own whole set of problems. A nice example of how they work is shown here, including a flash animation on the process.
Yes, except one problem with that theory, which I also was wondering about when researching hydrogen fuel cells a year ago.
The amount of water that would be released into the atmosphere if every vehicle in the world was instantly converted to hydrogen would be about 0.1% (or maybe it was less) per year of the water produced by plants in the same period of time.
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Actually, it doesn't use the Windows address book. I know this because I (under firewalled, very controlled conditions) ran it to see how it worked. One thing I noticed is that it was sending e-mails out to addresses I did not know. That computer does not have an address book, nor any outlook express smtp/pop3 server settings (I never configured it).
Though the track record of OE and its address book is pretty bad, it isn't always to blame.
The reason that the IRC networks are working together is this:
/^irc/). A few networks were left out because of this.
The bots don't actually spread over IRC. However, one of the methods they can be controlled (we presume, at least) is IRC. For that, infected systems connect to a random irc server from a large list. The larger networks don't really care -- the problem is that the smaller networks have servers which cannot support as many clients. Entire servers can be filled if their limit is only 250 clients (which is the limit for some).
The reason that some networks are omitted from the list is that it appears that they created the server list from an old mirc default servers.ini, only including entries that began with 'irc' (ie matching regex
Well, sort of There's a levy (different from a tax) that is supposed to go to the artists in proportion to their sales. For CD-Rs sold as "Music CD-Rs", which can be recorded to using burners that hook up to the stereo, then it's kind of expensive at (I don't have the exact figures handy) CAD$1.20. Data CDs are only like CAD$0.20 though. The sales tax is far more significant than the levy.
Section 219a's definition of a telecommunications service:
And then the law linked to says this:
By running a honeynet, you are not hiding the existance or location from the telecommunications provider, just the hacker attempting to connect. And a telecommunications service must be lawfully provided for a charge or compensation -- I seriously doubt the hacker is paying for access to the honeynet server.
OTOH I can't be sure that it's impossible to make up a situation in which the honeynet could be illegal, so it might be illegal to distribute it.
Regardless, I'm happy that Canada doesn't have anything like this.
Indeed, navigating a normal desktop with a remote doesn't work very well.
Luckily, there are menu programs that are designed to make sure you don't need to do that. I'd imagine an HTPC as having its own menuing system that is designed to accomodate many types of remotes (some have more buttons than others, after all), with different menus to match.
How the heck do you effectively control windows/linux with a remote...
LIRC for Linux. It can control lots of software, including at least one HTPC software project.
It has a windows port too.
Actually, it would be an accomplishment if the residents of florida could simply learn to count!
Fuel cells aren't controlled fire. They work by stripping the hydrogen atom of its electron, sending the electron through a wire, than having it join up with another hydrogen that has done the same thing + an oxygen from the air.
Fire, which is combustion, works much differently. The reaction going on in fuel cells won't run your lawnmower, unless you're talking about an electric one... in which case, you've got electricity on your lap already when using a battery.
Sometimes an ISP's web proxy (transparent or otherwise) can help speed HTTP downloads by caching frequently requested files. For larger files, it shouldn't have any difference.
So basically, the two are the same speed once established, though HTTP does start faster.
A more practical reason to choose one over the other is this: if you are trying to host web sites with dynamic content AND downloadable files on the same system, then using lighter-weight ftpd processes to send large files keeps the heavy apache+mod_php+mod_perl+mod_ssl (or some combination of those) processes free to handle clients. Extremely high traffic sites actually have to be concerned about the number of connections, as if you leave HTTP keepalive enabled, then you can easily pass the default compiled-in 255 client limit for apache if there's over 100 processes stuck sending files that might take an hour to complete. FTP will keep the downloads from overwheming the web pages, as they will have separate limits.
OK, so the dictionary's not all that helpful... but basically the difference is that people are self-aware, whereas animals are not. You don't see animals going around wondering about religion, if cloning is moral, etc.
Some people theorize that dolphins are sentient, though there's a lot of people who are unconvinced... and that's offtopic anyway.
A boycott sounds like a good plan, but getting enough people to do it would be hard. Unfortunately, if a big enough impression is made that it starts hurting their sales noticably, they aren't going to attribute it to the boycott. No, they'd probably claim that internet piracy is the cause of the downturn and use that to justify being even worse. <sarcasm>After all, if we aren't buying their products, we're obviously pirating.</sarcasm>
I'm not sure if there's a way out. If the artists start turning away, then they'd lose their revenue in a way that they couldn't attribute to piracy (no source of revenue = no revenue), which would probably hurt them a lot more. However, the artists can't be expected to do that either, as they need money too.
Everyone seems to be so vocal about their favourite easy way out. There isn't one, and they know it. It's getting harder too -- as the post says, they're diversifying.
When there's no gravity, *any* amount of force will start someting moving. In space, I guess the electromagnetic waves have enough force to overcome the tiny amounts of gravity out there. Once something's moving, it doesn't stop until another force acts on it. So there really isn't a lot of energy that needs to come from anywhere. It's all in the radio waves.
They did already in the last slashback.
The delay from when TF2 was originally supposed to be released (soon after Quake2's release) is far greater than the extra time it took to release woody.
Heh that would be funny
But I think they thought of that - you have to push the button while saying the command (at least that's the impression I got)
And TF2 might even go gold! (Looks around) Maybe not. :-(
;-)
Since we haven't heard anything from valve in a while, I don't think they're even close... what is comparable to hell freezing over and pigs flying, except about 10 times as amazing? Probably a new game from Valve.
Hey, they do a great job... but they do take a while.
I find this an interesting contrast to the past few years where people have tried various things ranging from restricting sales of violent games (especially FPSs) to banning them outright, with claims that they were causing kids to want to kill each other.
So the US Army comes along and makes a violent FPS. Why aren't they complaining? Apparently it's bad if Id does it, but it's alright for the army.
Who are they expecting needs to be faught against, anyway?
About 19 months ago, I decided to get an LCD display for my monitorless 486... its primary job is NAT (previously using a 56k modem w/PPP, now using the cable modem w/ethernet). Matrix Orbital displays connect to the serial port and have a really simple interface (it displays a character for every character you send, commands are prefixed by 0xFE, then a code for the command).
I went looking around, and it seems there aren't too many places to get the displays from in Canada. I ordered from HVW Technologies, which even has a student discount if you provide a scanned image of your student card. Their displays section includes units both with and without drive bay mounting kits. Their prices are reasonable, and their response time was great. I've got a picture of my (custom-written) uptime program here.
When I wrote the software, LCDproc was about the only program that was any good, and it kept flickering because it'd send a "clear screen" code before every update. I have no idea if that's been fixed in the interim, but I took the opportunity to write my API for a Grade 11 project (got 100%!).
That's the first 4 lines of the attachment. It hasn't made any false positives that I've seen yet, so I think it's fairly safe.
One last note... mozilla (which I use) seems to be adding a column of spaces down the middle of that text. If you happen to see that too, then make sure to remove them (or just grab the first 4 lines from the attachment from /var/spool/mail/$USER and properly backslash everything)
Wasn't Verisign one of the first to switch to a policy of denying registrar transfers by default (claiming that the other registrars were stealing customers by having them switch without knowing exactly what was going on)? Seems to me that they're doing exactly what they were complaining about.
This has an advantage over a version in mod_perl in that it would use very little memory. On the other hand, mod_perl takes 1mb Apache processes and turns them into 15mb Apache processes. No thank-you.
Yes, if in a crash hydrogen will dissipate much faster than gasoline. Not only that, but the hydrogen fuel tanks' safety requirements are much higher than those of gasoline... you can't even get them to explode if you shoot bullets through them. I don't think the same can be said about most gasoline tanks. Crashes result in either an intact tank or one which has its fuel diffuse very quickly so it is not dangerous. Also, while the vehicle is running, though it may seem unusual, hydrogen-powered cars do not burn anything. Combustion has its own whole set of problems. A nice example of how they work is shown here, including a flash animation on the process.
Yes, except one problem with that theory, which I also was wondering about when researching hydrogen fuel cells a year ago.
The amount of water that would be released into the atmosphere if every vehicle in the world was instantly converted to hydrogen would be about 0.1% (or maybe it was less) per year of the water produced by plants in the same period of time.