When I first acquired broadband (a landmark event in my life). I figured it would be the nice thing to share out all the movies that I had downloaded for myself. All the movies I had downloaded were fresh releases, sometimes I had prerelease copies that weren't even in the theateres. I offered them in a format that could be saved to your hard disk... for free!
but the MPAA managed to hunt me down and send me and my ISP really naughty obscene letters. they quoted obscene literature such as "Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 106(3" and "we hereby state, pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 512" Eventually the letters started to get to offensive so I decisted all activity. But man, if I only had a team of lawyers at the time....
Yes. I did. Because at first it seemed to easy, and I figured there was a missing catch. Go ahead, load morpheus on your box, and put in your browser http://127.0.0.1:1214
Try every combination of things you could possibly do to transverse the shared folder. I didn't find a way, maybe I did miss something but I think a bunch of 12 year old wanna-be hackers thought they stumbled onto something when really they found a window in the front door.
Whoever these "hackers" didn't fully research before they decided to stroke their own egos and create a scare. I just tested this remotely (yes, on some stranger) and on my own local machine. My findings? You have access to EVERYTHING IN THE FOLDER THEY HAVE SPECIFICALLY SHARED OUT! Yes, you can download through your web browser what you could have downloaded already through Morpheus/Kazaa. Not a worthy exploit in my book, calm down everyone.
There were one certain bug that operated on various platforms that allowed anyone on the internet to access not only information on your hard drive, but also place any file they wanted on your hard drive. This bug also allowed them to execute any code on your hard drive.
The bug was called wu-ftpd, and it was packaged with all of your favorite distributions of linux, or unix for that matter.
Something funny... I didn't really see the slashdot crowd raising much of a fuss when that came out.. only seems to be the windows bugs that they are bothered with.
I always figured robots of the future would be easy going people that would integrate into society without a problem. There might be some who have a drinking problem, and also those who swear a lot... but then again, there aren't any perfect humans. I imagine a robot of the future being my best friend...
I work in a large government compound/building with a cafeteria in the center. For a while when I used to work early mornings I would order a breakfast sandwich that consisted of sausage, egg, cheese & grilled onions on a fried bagel. I probably ate this same thing everyday for about 6 months. It was the best breakfast anyone could ever have, ever.
I'm still trying to lose the weight =(
Quick... no time to post!
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Got to go see this movie quick... JonKatz didn't like it so it MUST be a blockbuster!
I've been burned 3 times. but out of the hundred or so auctions I have won in the last 5 years... they don't really bother me much.
first was a $10 win on a bootleg video for my favorite band, TOOL. I sent out $10, I got back nothing. I think the seller got busted for distributing bootleg videos. I just wish I had got mine.
Second was for a Cisco 3101 dual ethernet router that was advertised to have 16 MB ram and 8 MB of flash. I got it, pretty quick shipping I might add. However it didn't have 16 MB of ram and 8 MB of flash, it had 4 and 2, respectively. With that little memory.. you couldn't route CRAP nowadays (it was a project router, but I still wanted to run IOS 12.0). Well, I wrote the guy, he apologized and said he'd send the replacement ram/flash. He sent me 4 sims from a compaq and 2 flash chips from godknowswhat. I wrote him back and told him that he sent me the wrong stuff, and he apologized and said he'd send me the replacement ram/flash. I got 4 sims in the mail, it was 4 1MB cisco sims. I got exactly what I already had. The guy was stupid, apparently he was the proprietor of a warehouse of similar stuff and was hawking it on ebay, but didn't know what it was that he was selling. I ended up buying my own ram, and I use TFTP to boot it so I don't need flash.
and last was a lot of 5 used 15" monitors, I paid $120 for the lot to include shipping. A week after my money order was cashed the guy seemed to disappear. His ebay account was restricted, his phone number disconnected, and his website was gone. The guy had a LOT of positive feedback, so I thought the guy was for real. I'm thinking he got arrested or got "cleaned" by the mob or something. It sucked but I got over it.
This references this article from this slashdot article:
* Spider-Man 2 for the PlayStation is delayed to remove a scene that had the superhero on top of a building that looked like the World Trade Center.
* Changes are made to Flight Simulator 2002 to remove the World Trade Center towers from the flying environment and a patch is released to remove them from Flight Simulator 2000.
Why the hell is the world trade center being removed from old movies, video games, advertisements and just about anything else. Isn't this rewriting history? Are we supposed to pretend that they never existed? I have a picture of myself as a child with the World Trade Center right behind me.... should I doctor that photo to reflect the newer, more post 9/11 NYC skyline? I'm sorry, but there used to be two giant buildings where the empty space is... and pretending that they never existed will not help this country whatsoever.
The World Trade Center apparently never existed
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History of Video Games
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Okay, before I'm moderated as a troll, and this is in reference to the article... read:
* Spider-Man 2 for the PlayStation is delayed to remove a scene that had the superhero on top of a building that looked like the World Trade Center.
* Changes are made to Flight Simulator 2002 to remove the World Trade Center towers from the flying environment and a patch is released to remove them from Flight Simulator 2000.
Why the hell is the world trade center being removed from old movies, video games, advertisements and just about anything else. Isn't this rewriting history? Are we supposed to pretend that they never existed? I have a picture of myself as a child with the World Trade Center right behind me.... should I doctor that photo to reflect the newer, more post 9/11 NYC skyline? I'm sorry, but there used to be two giant buildings where the empty space is... and pretending that they never existed will not help this country whatsoever.
George should take some ideas from Star Ballz...
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Star Ballz Trumps Lucas
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· Score: 3, Funny
...and have Natalie Portman in a sex scene so all these damn/. trolls will finally shut up!
I was at DesertLAN in the beginning of Dec in Phoenix, AZ. It was the funnest ever. There was a CS Tournament, open gaming, and super monkey ball on a giant projection screen. I dunno how many people there are, but I know if work will allow me... I'll be at MML!
Re:The first Slashdot troll post investigation
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KaZaa Suspends Downloads
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· Score: -1, Offtopic
I gots me some karma to burn.
MOD THE PARENT UP! HE MAKES AN EXCELLENT POINT!
'nuff said. Moderators, it's your choice... mod me down or mod the parent up. Think positive!!!!
I always just rumaged through severely decrepid and archaic computer parts and ripped the jumpers off of them. Go through your old hardware and rip the jumpers off the parts you know you'll never need.
I would certainly hope you don't need to rely on a tool to write your resume for you. If you have the experience that you claim, you should have no problem selling yourself on an 8.5 x 11 piece of white paper. Writing a resume isn't that hard... just think of what you know and write it down, then organize it into a well grouped format and print it out.
If you need ideas, this site will give you plenty of ideas and suggestions on how to build a great resume yourself.
for the most part, you don't even need to take the hard drive apart to do this. I have seen and even once had the oppurtunity to use a forensic computer that had the ability to scan through the hard drive, and determine just about anything that had been deleted, wiped, or over written. It has the hard drive read the magnetic echo left on each sector. The machine is mostly used as evidence against kiddie porn fuckers to prosecute them. I didn't really believe it until I see it... so anything I don't want seen... I shoot it with my 12 guage (repeatedly). Seriously.
Say you have important information on your hard drive. You only want one other person to see that information so you put that information on a floppy disk then give it to that person. No one else can see this information. You then take a pencil and stab the magnetic film of the floppy about 30 - 40 times. You then take lighter fluid and douse the entire floppy and light it. Stomp on the ashes for extra measure. Since the data has been on your computer. You must first take your hard drive out. Expose it to a giant magnet, then shoot it with a 12 guage (twice). Take all the IC's out of your computer and smash them with a sledgehammer, then run over them with your truck. Burn those with lighter fluid too. Since your monitor most likely displayed that sensitive information, you must take it to a helicopter and drop it. Have the helicopter land on the debris for safe measure.
Ensure that the other person gives your data to no one. Do a thorough background check on him and his closest 50 living relatives. After he is done processing the information; shoot him.
No need to worry about any information getting anywhere.
If I had mod points you'd be getting one. I was going to say the same thing...
Right now in one of my boxes I have a voodoo3 3000 PCI video card which has played q2, q3a and cs just perfectly... and those are the only video games I play. Next paychecks one of these badboys is mine.
Now if there was only a way to make my 19" trinitron monitor about 60 lbs less than it is now...
Once you get ahold of your network adapter, just set up a remote swap file. Either that or configure the dreamcast memory cards to hold your swap memory. 16 MB is fine, but that's the )_only_ memory you have. Once you get ahold of the network adapter (good luck), things should be looking brighter.
Good luck to you! My dream cast died when I took it apart and put it together all fscked up. Hardware aint my forte.
When I got my first computer... it was a windows 95 machine (yes, I know, i'm a very late bloomer)... and I learned that thing inside and out to where I just *knew* windows intuitively. When I learned that the entire computer world was not windows... I took my first oppurtunity downloading the slackware disksets. It was more difficult I think, because I was so used to the windows point & click interface. Now I run a combination of BSD/SlackWare/Win2k all intuitively... but I would have rather been introduced to any of the unices as my primary introduction to computers.
As for these Koreans, I think this is a major step in computer education for those new to computers. Those who are not familiar with computers whatsoever will have no problem adapting to Linux, since they know nothing else. When learning any non windows operating system... you get so much of a better feel on how computers actually work. I think it's a great tool to learn, and even as just a user... I've noticed RedHat is great for that purpose.
My stereo slot is very very important to me since I like really really loud music. But I also wanted a computer in my car so that I can have mp3's piped through my stereo. I have the World's Smallest PC with it's audio output going into my car stereo. As a screen I am using a 5" LCD screen very sloppily mounted in the passenger side sun visor. With a happy hacker keyboard and a wireless trackball... I don't need to leave my car.
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...but they'll get a million times better as soon as they'll allow boolean searches. Man sometimes it's frustrating!!
When I first acquired broadband (a landmark event in my life). I figured it would be the nice thing to share out all the movies that I had downloaded for myself. All the movies I had downloaded were fresh releases, sometimes I had prerelease copies that weren't even in the theateres. I offered them in a format that could be saved to your hard disk... for free!
but the MPAA managed to hunt me down and send me and my ISP really naughty obscene letters. they quoted obscene literature such as "Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 106(3" and "we hereby state, pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 512" Eventually the letters started to get to offensive so I decisted all activity. But man, if I only had a team of lawyers at the time....
Yes. I did. Because at first it seemed to easy, and I figured there was a missing catch. Go ahead, load morpheus on your box, and put in your browser http://127.0.0.1:1214
Try every combination of things you could possibly do to transverse the shared folder. I didn't find a way, maybe I did miss something but I think a bunch of 12 year old wanna-be hackers thought they stumbled onto something when really they found a window in the front door.
Whoever these "hackers" didn't fully research before they decided to stroke their own egos and create a scare. I just tested this remotely (yes, on some stranger) and on my own local machine. My findings? You have access to EVERYTHING IN THE FOLDER THEY HAVE SPECIFICALLY SHARED OUT! Yes, you can download through your web browser what you could have downloaded already through Morpheus/Kazaa. Not a worthy exploit in my book, calm down everyone.
There were one certain bug that operated on various platforms that allowed anyone on the internet to access not only information on your hard drive, but also place any file they wanted on your hard drive. This bug also allowed them to execute any code on your hard drive.
The bug was called wu-ftpd, and it was packaged with all of your favorite distributions of linux, or unix for that matter.
Something funny... I didn't really see the slashdot crowd raising much of a fuss when that came out.. only seems to be the windows bugs that they are bothered with.
I always figured robots of the future would be easy going people that would integrate into society without a problem. There might be some who have a drinking problem, and also those who swear a lot... but then again, there aren't any perfect humans. I imagine a robot of the future being my best friend...
...I think I've been watching too much TV.
I work in a large government compound/building with a cafeteria in the center. For a while when I used to work early mornings I would order a breakfast sandwich that consisted of sausage, egg, cheese & grilled onions on a fried bagel. I probably ate this same thing everyday for about 6 months. It was the best breakfast anyone could ever have, ever.
I'm still trying to lose the weight =(
Got to go see this movie quick... JonKatz didn't like it so it MUST be a blockbuster!
Assuming he paid for shipping, he would have made about $2 on each monitor. That could probably be why they were never shipped.
I've been burned 3 times. but out of the hundred or so auctions I have won in the last 5 years... they don't really bother me much.
first was a $10 win on a bootleg video for my favorite band, TOOL. I sent out $10, I got back nothing. I think the seller got busted for distributing bootleg videos. I just wish I had got mine.
Second was for a Cisco 3101 dual ethernet router that was advertised to have 16 MB ram and 8 MB of flash. I got it, pretty quick shipping I might add. However it didn't have 16 MB of ram and 8 MB of flash, it had 4 and 2, respectively. With that little memory.. you couldn't route CRAP nowadays (it was a project router, but I still wanted to run IOS 12.0). Well, I wrote the guy, he apologized and said he'd send the replacement ram/flash. He sent me 4 sims from a compaq and 2 flash chips from godknowswhat. I wrote him back and told him that he sent me the wrong stuff, and he apologized and said he'd send me the replacement ram/flash. I got 4 sims in the mail, it was 4 1MB cisco sims. I got exactly what I already had. The guy was stupid, apparently he was the proprietor of a warehouse of similar stuff and was hawking it on ebay, but didn't know what it was that he was selling. I ended up buying my own ram, and I use TFTP to boot it so I don't need flash.
and last was a lot of 5 used 15" monitors, I paid $120 for the lot to include shipping. A week after my money order was cashed the guy seemed to disappear. His ebay account was restricted, his phone number disconnected, and his website was gone. The guy had a LOT of positive feedback, so I thought the guy was for real. I'm thinking he got arrested or got "cleaned" by the mob or something. It sucked but I got over it.
...as soon as we get $500 in donations. Thanks for browsing pbs.org!
This references this article from this slashdot article:
* Spider-Man 2 for the PlayStation is delayed to remove a scene that had the superhero on top of a building that looked like the World Trade Center.
* Changes are made to Flight Simulator 2002 to remove the World Trade Center towers from the flying environment and a patch is released to remove them from Flight Simulator 2000.
Why the hell is the world trade center being removed from old movies, video games, advertisements and just about anything else. Isn't this rewriting history? Are we supposed to pretend that they never existed? I have a picture of myself as a child with the World Trade Center right behind me.... should I doctor that photo to reflect the newer, more post 9/11 NYC skyline? I'm sorry, but there used to be two giant buildings where the empty space is... and pretending that they never existed will not help this country whatsoever.
Okay, before I'm moderated as a troll, and this is in reference to the article... read:
* Spider-Man 2 for the PlayStation is delayed to remove a scene that had the superhero on top of a building that looked like the World Trade Center.
* Changes are made to Flight Simulator 2002 to remove the World Trade Center towers from the flying environment and a patch is released to remove them from Flight Simulator 2000.
Why the hell is the world trade center being removed from old movies, video games, advertisements and just about anything else. Isn't this rewriting history? Are we supposed to pretend that they never existed? I have a picture of myself as a child with the World Trade Center right behind me.... should I doctor that photo to reflect the newer, more post 9/11 NYC skyline? I'm sorry, but there used to be two giant buildings where the empty space is... and pretending that they never existed will not help this country whatsoever.
...and have Natalie Portman in a sex scene so all these damn /. trolls will finally shut up!
I was at DesertLAN in the beginning of Dec in Phoenix, AZ. It was the funnest ever. There was a CS Tournament, open gaming, and super monkey ball on a giant projection screen. I dunno how many people there are, but I know if work will allow me... I'll be at MML!
I gots me some karma to burn.
MOD THE PARENT UP! HE MAKES AN EXCELLENT POINT!
'nuff said. Moderators, it's your choice... mod me down or mod the parent up. Think positive!!!!
with a TS clearance... doesn't matter what you know (they'll train you). You are guarenteed a big number of high paying jobs with that !!
I always just rumaged through severely decrepid and archaic computer parts and ripped the jumpers off of them. Go through your old hardware and rip the jumpers off the parts you know you'll never need.
I would certainly hope you don't need to rely on a tool to write your resume for you. If you have the experience that you claim, you should have no problem selling yourself on an 8.5 x 11 piece of white paper. Writing a resume isn't that hard... just think of what you know and write it down, then organize it into a well grouped format and print it out.
If you need ideas, this site will give you plenty of ideas and suggestions on how to build a great resume yourself.
for the most part, you don't even need to take the hard drive apart to do this. I have seen and even once had the oppurtunity to use a forensic computer that had the ability to scan through the hard drive, and determine just about anything that had been deleted, wiped, or over written. It has the hard drive read the magnetic echo left on each sector. The machine is mostly used as evidence against kiddie porn fuckers to prosecute them. I didn't really believe it until I see it... so anything I don't want seen... I shoot it with my 12 guage (repeatedly). Seriously.
Say you have important information on your hard drive. You only want one other person to see that information so you put that information on a floppy disk then give it to that person. No one else can see this information. You then take a pencil and stab the magnetic film of the floppy about 30 - 40 times. You then take lighter fluid and douse the entire floppy and light it. Stomp on the ashes for extra measure. Since the data has been on your computer. You must first take your hard drive out. Expose it to a giant magnet, then shoot it with a 12 guage (twice). Take all the IC's out of your computer and smash them with a sledgehammer, then run over them with your truck. Burn those with lighter fluid too. Since your monitor most likely displayed that sensitive information, you must take it to a helicopter and drop it. Have the helicopter land on the debris for safe measure.
Ensure that the other person gives your data to no one. Do a thorough background check on him and his closest 50 living relatives. After he is done processing the information; shoot him.
No need to worry about any information getting anywhere.
If I had mod points you'd be getting one. I was going to say the same thing...
Right now in one of my boxes I have a voodoo3 3000 PCI video card which has played q2, q3a and cs just perfectly... and those are the only video games I play. Next paychecks one of these badboys is mine.
Now if there was only a way to make my 19" trinitron monitor about 60 lbs less than it is now...
Once you get ahold of your network adapter, just set up a remote swap file. Either that or configure the dreamcast memory cards to hold your swap memory. 16 MB is fine, but that's the )_only_ memory you have. Once you get ahold of the network adapter (good luck), things should be looking brighter.
Good luck to you! My dream cast died when I took it apart and put it together all fscked up. Hardware aint my forte.
When I got my first computer... it was a windows 95 machine (yes, I know, i'm a very late bloomer)... and I learned that thing inside and out to where I just *knew* windows intuitively. When I learned that the entire computer world was not windows... I took my first oppurtunity downloading the slackware disksets. It was more difficult I think, because I was so used to the windows point & click interface. Now I run a combination of BSD/SlackWare/Win2k all intuitively... but I would have rather been introduced to any of the unices as my primary introduction to computers.
As for these Koreans, I think this is a major step in computer education for those new to computers. Those who are not familiar with computers whatsoever will have no problem adapting to Linux, since they know nothing else. When learning any non windows operating system... you get so much of a better feel on how computers actually work. I think it's a great tool to learn, and even as just a user... I've noticed RedHat is great for that purpose.
...and save your stereo slot.
My stereo slot is very very important to me since I like really really loud music. But I also wanted a computer in my car so that I can have mp3's piped through my stereo. I have the World's Smallest PC with it's audio output going into my car stereo. As a screen I am using a 5" LCD screen very sloppily mounted in the passenger side sun visor. With a happy hacker keyboard and a wireless trackball... I don't need to leave my car.