The Books of the Wars-I've never managed to actually finish it. It's basically the ending of every hope I have for humanity. Humans have reached out to the stars, and ventured far and wide. An evil rises on Earth and seduce the colonies to rush back one by one to Earth (to save it from the evil)-only to be ground down and reduced to nothing.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Books-Wars-Mark-Geston/dp/1416591524
You're aware of course that this is an offline attack? The way it works is you snag a hash as it goes across the wire (via man in the middle, client installed malware, or some other attack) then you take that hash and you calculate on your cracking machine passwords until you reach a password that matches that hash. Then the attacker takes your password and goes and logins with it. The server never sees 'billions passwords per second'.
What you're seeing is expected behavior. Comcast's SpeedBoost technology maxes out your connection for an arbitrary number of seconds at the begining of a transfer, and then reverts to a normal speed. If you watch their commercials advertising SpeedBoost closely you will see the disclaimer at the bottom of the screen.
I'd be very surprised if they dropped support for G4s-G3 processors I expected to be dropped from this upgrade but machines less than 2 years old would be locked out of the upgrade. I remain faithful that my G4 12in Powerbook will be running Leopard in 2 months.
There's really nothing new, or special about this technique. Definately nothing to 'keep firewall admins up at night'.
Its the same thing that Kazaa did, and Napster as well. Establish connection to a central server, central server informs each client of the others client ip address, each client connects out, NAT router sees outgoing connections to that host, and allows data in.
Nothing new, or exciting.
Dvorak has been posting nothing but trash for a long time now. I remember when he was on TechTV, he constantly had on great guests. But he was such a tool, it was almost impossible to watch. It was like watching one of those talking point shows on CNN, or even worse Fox News. But before those shows even existed.
Please, don't get sucked into them. I host several accounts with Fuitadnet. A year ago they were awesome, the best webhost I'd ever used. But then they were bought out, and it went way down hill. The support sucks unless you speak Hindi. I swear their English gets worse every time I have to talk to support (which is often!).
About time. I don't see why it took this long. Was there some massive tech barriers, that restrained the opening, or was it Canadas version of the RIAA?
Now, I like the idea of Electronic Voting. I think it's a good thing.
However
Electronic voting should be strongly resisted if they refuse to provide backup, paper receipts. Now, I don't want voters walking out of polling places with ballots, but if the database gets corrupted, I want that paper ballot to be available so my vote gets counted!
Wow..looks like slashdot is preparing to crush suicidegirls out of existence. Although...all the horny slashdot geeks signing up for the service might out weigh the cost of a server meltdown:-)
Is this a 'test' run?
I doubt it. More than likely I'd guess that this is a clever move by Dell to put some pressure on Microsoft.
Dell is a major PC manufacturer, so by 'offering' Linux as an 'alternative' they could be leaning on Microsoft for some sort of better deal, perhaps a slight lessening of the cost for each copy of Windows they buy? We all know in this day and age 'Cost is King' and every dollar they save will likely help them save loads of new computers.
My poor Opera only scored 3.5 stars. I think thats incredibly sad...I only recently started to use Opera and I have to say its taken the place of Firefox as my favorite browser. The only issue I have with it is the memory footprint. If you've got a lot of memory in your machine, it likes to swell up. Of course this could just be a Win 2k issue, since I don't notice it asmuch on my XP box at home.
I'm on Comcasts network, and I haven't had any problems sending email, and I'm not using their email servers. This seems to be an isolated policy perhaps?
Step #1-Release cut down versions of popular programming environment Step #2-Get students and home users hooked on Microsoft development software Step #3-Profit?....well that didn't work out how I wanted it to.
That took advantage of this program. Our district received a massive government grant (in excess of 20 million? I think). This was of course split up between 5 seperate smaller districts in small towns. Each one of these districts had an elementary, middle school, and high school. In addition there was a Vocation School. This money from the government lead to a massive revamp of IT services in all those schools which included: -Connecting 5 towns to the Vocation School with redundant fiber lines -Purchasing top notch routing and server equipment for each of the schools -purchasing in excess of 200 brand new computers for each building -and the founding of an Internet Service Provider which server the area as a dial up provider and as the central hub that tied the schools together. It also led to the vocational school receiving much needed tech upgrades to CS labs and the Photo and Design Mac labs. When this government money is well spent, it can be a great force for good. But once a unscrupulous contracter gets his hands on those kind of funs, these massive frauds occur.
1) Even if the repair did work, your speakers would sound slightly differant, as adding new foam would re-shape the cone. 2) From my experience these things rarely work. Just look at these kinds of things like me, you know have a wonderful excuse to justify the expense to your g/f:-D
Have you ever tried to install one of these 'released for linux and windows' games? They're clunky, and problematic. This could be gotten rid of with native ports that require no fancy install scripts.
Thats really cool. Reminds of the guy that first figured out that the Captain Crunch whistle exactly matched the long distance tones on the phone system. The good ol' days when you could get long distance... *sigh*
I'm not sure this is a great idea. On one hand, I really want open relays shut down so that people stop blantently misusing them. On the other, I know some companies I've done work with, use open relays completely legitimately, and I don't believe that the open relays are the big problem anymore. I think that most spam comes from A) Over-seas servers in countries that have abudant bandwidth and few laws governing their usage (ie India) B) Hijacked machines here in the good ol' US of A that have become spam relays via viruses. Until we get people to stop buying crap from spam, there will be no way to stop the spammers. Thats all there is to it, no matter how the government tries to stop it.
Following advice from this website, at the beginning of this semester I bought books online, and they were quite a bit cheaper. Even with the overseas shipping and conversion rates I ended paying at least a third less for my books. Whats ever better is if you can buy last semesters books from someone. I find lurking outside of the bookstore at the end of the semester quite effective for picking up used text books from students who know the bookstore is going to screw them on their buy-backs.:-)
I'll use it. In fact I'm looking forward to it. I think it will be easy to program for, and make it easy to find and sort things into classes. I take many digital photos and I will definately appreciate being able to add meta data to the file that gives background on where it was taken, when, and the circumstances. Much like a photo-album where you scribble remarks under the photos.
I'm so glad that they're at least considering repairing the Hubble Telescope and keeping it operational. I've been amazed by the images it has produced. It would be such a shame to let it die now.
Slashdot Mirror
The Books of the Wars-I've never managed to actually finish it. It's basically the ending of every hope I have for humanity. Humans have reached out to the stars, and ventured far and wide. An evil rises on Earth and seduce the colonies to rush back one by one to Earth (to save it from the evil)-only to be ground down and reduced to nothing. http://www.amazon.com/The-Books-Wars-Mark-Geston/dp/1416591524
Yup. There was just plain old news on Slashdot long before even I showed up
NTLM hashes are calculated on the host and submitted across the wire to a server in response to a request for authorization.
You're aware of course that this is an offline attack? The way it works is you snag a hash as it goes across the wire (via man in the middle, client installed malware, or some other attack) then you take that hash and you calculate on your cracking machine passwords until you reach a password that matches that hash. Then the attacker takes your password and goes and logins with it. The server never sees 'billions passwords per second'.
What you're seeing is expected behavior. Comcast's SpeedBoost technology maxes out your connection for an arbitrary number of seconds at the begining of a transfer, and then reverts to a normal speed. If you watch their commercials advertising SpeedBoost closely you will see the disclaimer at the bottom of the screen.
I'd be very surprised if they dropped support for G4s-G3 processors I expected to be dropped from this upgrade but machines less than 2 years old would be locked out of the upgrade. I remain faithful that my G4 12in Powerbook will be running Leopard in 2 months.
There's really nothing new, or special about this technique. Definately nothing to 'keep firewall admins up at night'. Its the same thing that Kazaa did, and Napster as well. Establish connection to a central server, central server informs each client of the others client ip address, each client connects out, NAT router sees outgoing connections to that host, and allows data in. Nothing new, or exciting.
Doesn't work in Opera either. If it doesn't work in Opera it will never be used on any page I develop.
Dvorak has been posting nothing but trash for a long time now. I remember when he was on TechTV, he constantly had on great guests. But he was such a tool, it was almost impossible to watch.
It was like watching one of those talking point shows on CNN, or even worse Fox News. But before those shows even existed.
Please, don't get sucked into them. I host several accounts with Fuitadnet. A year ago they were awesome, the best webhost I'd ever used. But then they were bought out, and it went way down hill. The support sucks unless you speak Hindi. I swear their English gets worse every time I have to talk to support (which is often!).
About time. I don't see why it took this long. Was there some massive tech barriers, that restrained the opening, or was it Canadas version of the RIAA?
Now, I like the idea of Electronic Voting. I think it's a good thing.
However
Electronic voting should be strongly resisted if they refuse to provide backup, paper receipts. Now, I don't want voters walking out of polling places with ballots, but if the database gets corrupted, I want that paper ballot to be available so my vote gets counted!
Wow..looks like slashdot is preparing to crush suicidegirls out of existence. :-)
Although...all the horny slashdot geeks signing up for the service might out weigh the cost of a server meltdown
Dell is a major PC manufacturer, so by 'offering' Linux as an 'alternative' they could be leaning on Microsoft for some sort of better deal, perhaps a slight lessening of the cost for each copy of Windows they buy? We all know in this day and age 'Cost is King' and every dollar they save will likely help them save loads of new computers.
http://michfilmfestival.com
http://a2tech.us
My poor Opera only scored 3.5 stars. I think thats incredibly sad...I only recently started to use Opera and I have to say its taken the place of Firefox as my favorite browser.
The only issue I have with it is the memory footprint. If you've got a lot of memory in your machine, it likes to swell up. Of course this could just be a Win 2k issue, since I don't notice it asmuch on my XP box at home.
I'm on Comcasts network, and I haven't had any problems sending email, and I'm not using their email servers. This seems to be an isolated policy perhaps?
Step #1-Release cut down versions of popular programming environment ....well that didn't work out how I wanted it to.
Step #2-Get students and home users hooked on Microsoft development software
Step #3-Profit?
That took advantage of this program. Our district received a massive government grant (in excess of 20 million? I think). This was of course split up between 5 seperate smaller districts in small towns. Each one of these districts had an elementary, middle school, and high school. In addition there was a Vocation School. This money from the government lead to a massive revamp of IT services in all those schools which included:
-Connecting 5 towns to the Vocation School with redundant fiber lines
-Purchasing top notch routing and server equipment for each of the schools
-purchasing in excess of 200 brand new computers for each building
-and the founding of an Internet Service Provider which server the area as a dial up provider and as the central hub that tied the schools together.
It also led to the vocational school receiving much needed tech upgrades to CS labs and the Photo and Design Mac labs.
When this government money is well spent, it can be a great force for good. But once a unscrupulous contracter gets his hands on those kind of funs, these massive frauds occur.
1) Even if the repair did work, your speakers would sound slightly differant, as adding new foam would re-shape the cone. :-D
2) From my experience these things rarely work. Just look at these kinds of things like me, you know have a wonderful excuse to justify the expense to your g/f
Have you ever tried to install one of these 'released for linux and windows' games? They're clunky, and problematic. This could be gotten rid of with native ports that require no fancy install scripts.
Thats really cool. Reminds of the guy that first figured out that the Captain Crunch whistle exactly matched the long distance tones on the phone system.
The good ol' days when you could get long distance...
*sigh*
I'm not sure this is a great idea. On one hand, I really want open relays shut down so that people stop blantently misusing them. On the other, I know some companies I've done work with, use open relays completely legitimately, and I don't believe that the open relays are the big problem anymore. I think that most spam comes from
A) Over-seas servers in countries that have abudant bandwidth and few laws governing their usage (ie India)
B) Hijacked machines here in the good ol' US of A that have become spam relays via viruses.
Until we get people to stop buying crap from spam, there will be no way to stop the spammers. Thats all there is to it, no matter how the government tries to stop it.
Following advice from this website, at the beginning of this semester I bought books online, and they were quite a bit cheaper. Even with the overseas shipping and conversion rates I ended paying at least a third less for my books. Whats ever better is if you can buy last semesters books from someone. I find lurking outside of the bookstore at the end of the semester quite effective for picking up used text books from students who know the bookstore is going to screw them on their buy-backs. :-)
I'll use it. In fact I'm looking forward to it. I think it will be easy to program for, and make it easy to find and sort things into classes. I take many digital photos and I will definately appreciate being able to add meta data to the file that gives background on where it was taken, when, and the circumstances. Much like a photo-album where you scribble remarks under the photos.
I'm so glad that they're at least considering repairing the Hubble Telescope and keeping it operational. I've been amazed by the images it has produced. It would be such a shame to let it die now.