Why can't we have N'Synch singing at a cantina bar when Jar Jar Binks walks in - Hears the music and has his big floppy ears explode from the sonic disodence...
Oh well maybe it is just time to go back to alt.ensign.crusher.die.die.die and read about the klingon rape fantasies...
from:linust@aol.com
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subject:New kernel same place
date: ???
It is now time to download kernel 2.6.0. You can find it in the usual places. Happy compiling
Hmmm... Can you pass over a $100 dollar check to me, you wouldn't believe what I can accomplish if I only didn't have to work and pay for everyone elses cockeyed ideas...
Actually while you are at it, pay for my wife and kid too.
This is a great idea if I can just get everyone in the country to pitch in 100 bucks (~25 billion) to do it... I think I pay enough taxes without paying for someone elses toys...
The problem with script kiddies is that there is no perceptible difference between a stupid joyrider and a professional chop shop...
The scripting of exploits gives the rank amature the ability to hack into any system with any identified vulnerability...
There were some interesting logs posted by someone with a honeypot, where two kids were trying to figure out how to configure an ehternet interface (or something simple like that) after they had fully compromised a Solaris box, deleted their footprints in the logs, installed a couple of back doors, etc...
Uhm... No, all he has to do is download any of the common W.E.P. exploitation hacks, then they have full access to snoop my connection... Of course when doing e-Commerce I only use encrypted links, but that is above layer 4 not at layer 2
What do you think the 128 bit W.E.P. is... It is the security equivelent of the National Guard... If you want real security you send in the Marines or Rangers (I mean 802.3x, or IPsec with AES CTR Mode)
If my memory serves (occasionally it does) PCI-X has been "on the drawing board" for, what?, the past 5 fricking years? What do you mean... You can buy PCI-X motherboards today, and I belive for at least 18 months (I know I got mine 12 months ago)...
Now if you are talking $100 motherboards, it isn't that cheap 66Mhz-64 bit wide isn't cheap..
Did you read the rest of the post... Goes on to talk about how clueless executives probabally don't even know the OS of the servers that their tech organizations run... And by executives I am assuming you are talking CTO/CIO (or whatever the hell you want to call them) not the CEO/Bean Counter types that I KNOW don't have a clue...
The apache comment was that a large number of publicly facing websites are running Linux, so how can the executives of these companies say that they don't have Linux...
Isn't Apache running on 50+% of the web servers out there, with a decent chunk of those being Linux... These guys are clueless..
I have heard rumors of IT departments being told "You must have NT on the box" so they dual boot to Linux as well...
Work gets done, when boneheaded executive shows up, the servers are rebooted that morning to show the nice BSOD, no one works that day anyway - then the servers are booted back to a better OS...
The funny part is the group was finally challenged as to why they weren't seeing problem X Y & Z by the CEO - They were forced to admit that they were really running Linux - Making their boss look REALLY bad for fighting it so long
When I left my last company I had a dual Xeon system (3-4 fans if I recall) and a bunch of network switches, other boxen, etc. each with their own fans...
When I powered down when I left, I was SHOCKED at how quiet my cube got... I just keep a laptop in my cube now and use X/SSH/etc. to get at the "real" work machines that are elsewhere... I love the quiet.
Is a single.sig service... No matter which service I am logged into (web, e-mail etc.) I get the same lists of.sigs
- Nothing but a 32 bit operating system, running on a 16 bit core, based on an older 8 bit operating system, run by a 4 bit company that can't stand 2 bits of competition
I am just wondering what the legal implications of reveiling a flaw to Microsoft is...
Imagine this scenario...
1) You discover a flaw that allows you to get a hold of everyones on the Internet credit card
2) You tell the vendor and wait.
3) The vendor acknoledges the flaw and posts a patch
4) In between 2 & 3 "nasty evil little hacker" discovers the same flaw and exploits it to his economic advantage (but not enough to get himself caught)
5) Vendor discovers that "your" hack has been used againt them for a period of time...
Who would you send the cops after ???
How would you go about proving your innocense, Don't get me started on Innocent until proven guilty -- I don't buy it for a second...
So I am sitting here with a single moderator point left... My question is is this comment +1 funny or -1 Troll...
Damned, why can't I do a +2 Funny/Troll ???
Merlyn
Probabaly just a trick of my imagination
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So I was walking around the building late one night (probabaly after 1 or so) and I see a coworker and say hello before ducking into the bathroom...
While I was "relieving" myself, I realized that he had been struck and killed by a train about a month ago... Good thing I was already in the bathroom...
Ok... Where do you see a right to privacy on the internet in general ???
I can not point to any protocol standard that says you have such a right.
Your packets travel over the internet through other administrative domains that you do not control... What makes you think you have privacy there ?
Now if you want privacy get PGP/FreeSWAN/isakmpd/etc. and make it so your packets have no meaning to any but the destination. Until then NEVER assume you have privacy...
of the Internet Architecture Board on enabling wiretapping
RFC2804
So now we have the group that defines internet standards saying that requirements to implement wiretapping should not be included in protocol design discussions. That does not mean that the FBI couldn't put a BIG HONKING device in a couple of places on the internet and globally adjust all routing tables so that packets went to it... but then there is something about too much information hidding the data
I know that good/great patents are extremely important. There are probabally under 100 of these filled a year. Now I know that I personally filed about 12 last year, not a single one was what I would call a good ground breaking patent, they were all defensive patents...
I gained a friend in a the large company that I worked for legal dept... Basically the story went like this, when we are sued we look at their portfolio of patents, then look at our portfolio of patents that we have that might cause their products to infringe... Which ever pile is taller gets paid royalties by the other company. That is a defensive patent
Now lawyers have to be VERY careful not to use what are really defensive patents and go out looking for royalties, it makes everyone look bad.
First it was the hack to reboot systems asking for your default.ida file. Now it is code to trap and kill spiders...
What is an apache admin to do, it is so configurable there doesn't appear to be anything that it can't do. What is next using apache to brew my morning coffee (well there is the coffee pot cam - anyone know what webserver it ran on) write my website for me, solve world hunger ???
WHY WHY WHY do people run IIS anyway, I would love to see what it would take to do this with IIS, any takers ?
I keep saying (how many posts now... ???) that it is costs/profit that are finally causing companies to sanely get out of the business. Currently there are more than enough contenders selling broadband services at under the cost to provide the service (How many have filled for bankrupcy recently, or come close @Home, Rhythm, Northpoint ???)
They know they can't sell the service for more than $100 because no one would buy it. They know that they can't make money at a 100 dollar price point. Wisely they decide to leave the business alone until profit margins get better
All of the terrorists were required to show valid ID to get on the plane. Most of them have VALID ID (would have had one of these cards issued by the government) and as a foriegn agent entering the country I don't see how this can be very difficult to get. For that matter, this would only cover US citizens, not visitors, people on short business trips (to get trained to fly planes maybe) or anything else...
What I do see this becoming is a simple way for the government to track me, potentially businesses tracking me (they will now have access to a single point of data on every trasaction now) as I purchase goods and services from them. How will I as John Q. Public, know that this database isn't hackable (remember brought to you by the people who brought you Oracle 11i), won't reveal more information to the person swiping the card than is needed (I mean just because I swipe, will that mean that my whole database file is available to the swipee ???) and the data in the database is accurate (who gets to put it in, do I get a chance to audit my file and replace inacuracies etc.) I just love having to deal with my credit card files now... What a pain
Was running through the hardware section at ToysR'Us and saw a Nickalodeon (sp?) branded camera. The box has stuff from Mattel.
This was an impulse purchase, I mean why bother to research a $20 dollar purchase
Not the greatest camera 120x160 pixel resolution, and you need a lot (and I mean A LOT) of light to get a good image. But the software is fun for a 2 year old, all though I am guessing I have a couple of years before she can do it on her own.
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Why can't we have N'Synch singing at a cantina bar when Jar Jar Binks walks in - Hears the music and has his big floppy ears explode from the sonic disodence...
Oh well maybe it is just time to go back to alt.ensign.crusher.die.die.die and read about the klingon rape fantasies...
from:linust@aol.com
to:slashdot
subject:New kernel same place
date: ???
It is now time to download kernel 2.6.0. You can find it in the usual places. Happy compiling
Hmmm... Can you pass over a $100 dollar check to me, you wouldn't believe what I can accomplish if I only didn't have to work and pay for everyone elses cockeyed ideas...
Actually while you are at it, pay for my wife and kid too.
Thank you for your support
This is a great idea if I can just get everyone in the country to pitch in 100 bucks (~25 billion) to do it... I think I pay enough taxes without paying for someone elses toys...
The problem with script kiddies is that there is no perceptible difference between a stupid joyrider and a professional chop shop...
The scripting of exploits gives the rank amature the ability to hack into any system with any identified vulnerability...
There were some interesting logs posted by someone with a honeypot, where two kids were trying to figure out how to configure an ehternet interface (or something simple like that) after they had fully compromised a Solaris box, deleted their footprints in the logs, installed a couple of back doors, etc...
Very scary stuff
Uhm... No, all he has to do is download any of the common W.E.P. exploitation hacks, then they have full access to snoop my connection... Of course when doing e-Commerce I only use encrypted links, but that is above layer 4 not at layer 2
What do you think the 128 bit W.E.P. is... It is the security equivelent of the National Guard... If you want real security you send in the Marines or Rangers (I mean 802.3x, or IPsec with AES CTR Mode)
If my memory serves (occasionally it does) PCI-X has been "on the drawing board" for, what?, the past 5 fricking years?
What do you mean... You can buy PCI-X motherboards today, and I belive for at least 18 months (I know I got mine 12 months ago)...
Now if you are talking $100 motherboards, it isn't that cheap 66Mhz-64 bit wide isn't cheap..
kdhxfm88.org
What the hell kinda domain name is that? hard to remember, hard to spell correctly and no sex appeal.
Seems obvious to me KDHX is the radio call sign, they are located on the FM dial at 88 Mhz...
Any other questions ?
Time to loose some mana...
At least it didn't point to goatse.cx (not adding the URL tag should prevent the loosing of one point)
Did you read the rest of the post... Goes on to talk about how clueless executives probabally don't even know the OS of the servers that their tech organizations run... And by executives I am assuming you are talking CTO/CIO (or whatever the hell you want to call them) not the CEO/Bean Counter types that I KNOW don't have a clue...
The apache comment was that a large number of publicly facing websites are running Linux, so how can the executives of these companies say that they don't have Linux...
Isn't Apache running on 50+% of the web servers out there, with a decent chunk of those being Linux... These guys are clueless..
I have heard rumors of IT departments being told "You must have NT on the box" so they dual boot to Linux as well...
Work gets done, when boneheaded executive shows up, the servers are rebooted that morning to show the nice BSOD, no one works that day anyway - then the servers are booted back to a better OS...
The funny part is the group was finally challenged as to why they weren't seeing problem X Y & Z by the CEO - They were forced to admit that they were really running Linux - Making their boss look REALLY bad for fighting it so long
Oh well
The answer is obviously YES...
When I left my last company I had a dual Xeon system (3-4 fans if I recall) and a bunch of network switches, other boxen, etc. each with their own fans...
When I powered down when I left, I was SHOCKED at how quiet my cube got... I just keep a laptop in my cube now and use X/SSH/etc. to get at the "real" work machines that are elsewhere... I love the quiet.
Is a single .sig service... No matter which service I am logged into (web, e-mail etc.) I get the same lists of .sigs
- Nothing but a 32 bit operating system, running on a 16 bit core, based on an older 8 bit operating system, run by a 4 bit company that can't stand 2 bits of competition
I am just wondering what the legal implications of reveiling a flaw to Microsoft is...
Imagine this scenario...
1) You discover a flaw that allows you to get a hold of everyones on the Internet credit card
2) You tell the vendor and wait.
3) The vendor acknoledges the flaw and posts a patch
4) In between 2 & 3 "nasty evil little hacker" discovers the same flaw and exploits it to his economic advantage (but not enough to get himself caught)
5) Vendor discovers that "your" hack has been used againt them for a period of time...
Who would you send the cops after ???
How would you go about proving your innocense, Don't get me started on Innocent until proven guilty -- I don't buy it for a second...
6) spend 20-life in jail ???
So I am sitting here with a single moderator point left... My question is is this comment +1 funny or -1 Troll...
Damned, why can't I do a +2 Funny/Troll ???
Merlyn
So I was walking around the building late one night (probabaly after 1 or so) and I see a coworker and say hello before ducking into the bathroom...
While I was "relieving" myself, I realized that he had been struck and killed by a train about a month ago... Good thing I was already in the bathroom...
Ok... Where do you see a right to privacy on the internet in general ???
I can not point to any protocol standard that says you have such a right.
Your packets travel over the internet through other administrative domains that you do not control... What makes you think you have privacy there ?
Now if you want privacy get PGP/FreeSWAN/isakmpd/etc. and make it so your packets have no meaning to any but the destination. Until then NEVER assume you have privacy...
So they release a "Art Project" that convinces people to install a box on a bunch of networks, join an IRC channel and dump packets...
...
And this is a good thing because
???
of the Internet Architecture Board on enabling wiretapping
RFC2804
So now we have the group that defines internet standards saying that requirements to implement wiretapping should not be included in protocol design discussions. That does not mean that the FBI couldn't put a BIG HONKING device in a couple of places on the internet and globally adjust all routing tables so that packets went to it... but then there is something about too much information hidding the data
I know that good/great patents are extremely important. There are probabally under 100 of these filled a year. Now I know that I personally filed about 12 last year, not a single one was what I would call a good ground breaking patent, they were all defensive patents...
I gained a friend in a the large company that I worked for legal dept... Basically the story went like this, when we are sued we look at their portfolio of patents, then look at our portfolio of patents that we have that might cause their products to infringe... Which ever pile is taller gets paid royalties by the other company. That is a defensive patent
Now lawyers have to be VERY careful not to use what are really defensive patents and go out looking for royalties, it makes everyone look bad.
First it was the hack to reboot systems asking for your default.ida file. Now it is code to trap and kill spiders...
What is an apache admin to do, it is so configurable there doesn't appear to be anything that it can't do. What is next using apache to brew my morning coffee (well there is the coffee pot cam - anyone know what webserver it ran on) write my website for me, solve world hunger ???
WHY WHY WHY do people run IIS anyway, I would love to see what it would take to do this with IIS, any takers ?
I keep saying (how many posts now... ???) that it is costs/profit that are finally causing companies to sanely get out of the business. Currently there are more than enough contenders selling broadband services at under the cost to provide the service (How many have filled for bankrupcy recently, or come close @Home, Rhythm, Northpoint ???)
They know they can't sell the service for more than $100 because no one would buy it. They know that they can't make money at a 100 dollar price point. Wisely they decide to leave the business alone until profit margins get better
All of the terrorists were required to show valid ID to get on the plane. Most of them have VALID ID (would have had one of these cards issued by the government) and as a foriegn agent entering the country I don't see how this can be very difficult to get. For that matter, this would only cover US citizens, not visitors, people on short business trips (to get trained to fly planes maybe) or anything else...
What I do see this becoming is a simple way for the government to track me, potentially businesses tracking me (they will now have access to a single point of data on every trasaction now) as I purchase goods and services from them. How will I as John Q. Public, know that this database isn't hackable (remember brought to you by the people who brought you Oracle 11i), won't reveal more information to the person swiping the card than is needed (I mean just because I swipe, will that mean that my whole database file is available to the swipee ???) and the data in the database is accurate (who gets to put it in, do I get a chance to audit my file and replace inacuracies etc.) I just love having to deal with my credit card files now... What a pain
Was running through the hardware section at ToysR'Us and saw a Nickalodeon (sp?) branded camera. The box has stuff from Mattel.
This was an impulse purchase, I mean why bother to research a $20 dollar purchase
Not the greatest camera 120x160 pixel resolution, and you need a lot (and I mean A LOT) of light to get a good image. But the software is fun for a 2 year old, all though I am guessing I have a couple of years before she can do it on her own.