right, like i used the NSA group policy templates to secure some Win2k web servers without even a second thought. I knew they'd been widely used and there was nothing on the webserver I'd really care to hide from the Snoops so it wasn't a matter of trust on that level. Besides, things like group policy templates are easy to audit yourself.
I say so long as their tools are this transparent then bring them on, the more help the better.
Not serious? but you should be, I actually like your ideas. What if a PAC or other political group runs spots like that to satarize opponents/positions? I think that would be brilliant. Sure, this is annoying as hell but TV is already nothing but late night movies and knife salesmen and the occasional discovery-channel brain-relaxing dinasaur animation so this, this could be an improvement (it's hard to break something already so broken). Of course, it probably won't be, but the smart use/humor potential is definately there.
Similarly, we were working on a dancer's bio page for a adult 'dance' club - it passes dancer GUIs to the DB in the URL starting at 1010, if you enter ?dancer=1001 you get a 'bio' with a picture of programmers' face pshop'd on top of a buxom female entertainer's body, plus some juicy bio details about him.
for that there will be a giant foot which comes out of the roof of a humvee on an accordian-like frame. It stamps around on the ground blowing up landmines, then retracts back into the humvee. For maximum effect, the foot should appear 3 to 4 times as large as the interior space of the humvee and should resemble as closely as possible animation from the opening of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
now THAT's technology.
Yea except the lit is giving info w/ a presumption of a base of knowledge, and is covering only a specific part of a subsection of security. W/O a broad-based understanding of the underlying priciples reading lit, while helpful, is not in-and-of-itself enough. It's good, mind you, but if you can find everything you need from books/man pgs/whatever then you have a bigger (or differently wired) brain than mine. That first 10% of knowledge is always the bitch.
I'm SO HAPPY/. posted this question and will be eagerly reading posts from start-to-finish tonight.
It's funny, I was thinking about this subject during my morning quality reading time (john) - there was an article about a U Illinois media prof. who complains about how media is run as big-business and that's inherently opposed to the spirit of the first ammendment. He cited the lack of dailys in NYC (down from 9 in the 1940's) and the inability of any small publisher (think Zine) to reach a wide audience.
I mean, first off, NY has at 2 free weeklies, the post and the times (radically different styles) and that new conservative-funded rag (I forget the name) so there are 5 papers running there. Considering the rise of TV and general displacement of print media down to 5 from 9 isn't so bad.
Secondly, and more importantly, it's kind of blaming the messenger isn't it? I mean, other news is available to us, obviously, even if it's not spoon-fed from the checkout line. If people aren't reading/watching it, it's because they don't want to. I blame the quality, the timber if you will, of the Average American much more than I do the Media Giants. If you think they're all brainwashed by Murdoch then you're taking away free choice and postulating a rat-in-the-maze/pavlovian world (which I sort-of don't think is how things really are). If you accept that we have choice, and you can't deny the choice exists, then we must conclude that people WANT to read about rich white mormon girls. WHY don't Zines thrive? WHY don't people look to indymedia.org or whatever for their news? Because they simply don't want to.
I know there are other factors, but the fact that Americans (in particular) don't fit in to the image we'd like them to (of free-thinking, compassionate, caring folks who want to know the Truth) we can't say it's Media's fault. It's our fault. Americans.
why not go one better. Run WME in a Windows environment with a second PC as a server (your linux box), have the second PC connect to media on the web, cache it and let the windows box be a client. If you have it as your gateway as well, (or just firewall) you could block or fake (incoming) communications to the MS box so they can't disable it/whatever.
So Windows is fine if you just run it shut off from the rest of the internet, and no EULA problems. They'll never hear a peep from that thing.
Of course, you'll prob. have to browse to the MS download page in I.E. running in Wine or something, MS kind of bans non-microsoft browsers/computers from thier update sites...
well there IS a WMA SDK, part of which is a download giving you APIs for the WMP. I presume w/ that you can write your own WMP (you just access WMP classes) and redistribute is as your version of WMP. It's not exactly open source, but has anyone even looked to see if they can program something that reads WMEs?
The problem is, windows media streams work, they're better, or they were, than quicktime, the meadia streaming sofware is a breeze to use, and it handles a lot of shit for you (like auto-sensing connection speed and feeding an optimized stream, which is nice on your bandwidth, as is the MMS protocol.)
And the encoder software is good enough (tm) and it's all free. That is, if you buy Win2k server... Of course, it doesn't scale well so you're going to need to buy a couple of those servers.
I just did some googling - Edwards' Airforce Base? Named after Capt. Edwards who died in a testflight of the early jet-powered flying wing (YB-49). They were apparently unstable as hell.
I wonder what miracles of modern science are now making them possible? Is it just computers?
I also wonder what OS those flight control computers use:)
by "go over" I presume we can do that electronically, or must one physically move physical material out of the united states? hrm... A friend just graduated from law school, I'll have to pick her brains...
...this makes me so f...angry. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? So my question is, is the partent post true? can broadcasts simple go offshore (from America) and continue to broadcast for free? What If I stream a channel to an offshore site, can they then distribute it (basically an offshore co-location, um, without the co.) If I run a shoutcast server from my DSL line in the states, will they come and sue me?
OK, now other than working around this utterly stupid law, what else can we do? Maybe if they try to drag a thousand internet radio broadcasters to court to demand payment it would make such a stink that they'd back off? We know the RIAA hates bad publicity.
Other alternatives? How about private internet radio 'clubs' where you have to be a member to listen? Does that exempt them (I know bars don't have to pay RIAA (yet) when they play a song, nor do dance clubs). Other than civil disobediance and lobbying what can we do?
*sigh* ok fair enough, I mean, accepting something as prima facia true w/o looking at the underlying info is, well, something to be avoided. I have to run but if I can get back b4 this discussion closes I'll dig something up for you. Until then 'absolut power corrupts absolutely' applies here and history informs - Look at the FBI/CIA operations from the '50s-late 70s, look what the CIA has done in El Salvadore, in Guatamala, Nicaragua etc. Look at what the fbi did under hoover, against anti-vietnam protesters, and, um, democrats. Now ask yourself if you want these people to be able to get together and have a party in your backyard (you won't be invited, unless you're being indited). Think about it, even if you have 'nothing to hide' that's fine, but just because you control your internal moral ethos by the rules those in power dictate doesn't mean we all do, or that we want to. I don't want to feel that I'm obliged to censor my thoughts, in my own house for christ's sake, in fear that someone may be listening and if these thoughts are out of favor now (or loose favor in the future) they could be called up and used against me by people who, don't forget, have power over me.
For example, if the FBI comes, arrests you, throws you in jail for a month, then you get out (due to lack of evidence (see above)) - did they have to do anything else to destroy you? what happened to your house (who paid your rent/mortgage), what happened to your community respect/standing? what happened to your friends, your sig. other., what happened to your raise, your promotion, your job?
yea, they posted that info in the forum a while back but they seemed to say, yea, it would be great, but we killed ourselves just getting the game out as-is. I think they said that they're looking at this as a 1-2 year process after the first game release. If we all buy a ton of copies, they're going to add cool mods (like mounts, etc.) later on.
I have such vivid memories from BGII (including many funny ones) I Can't Wait for NWN!
um, just buy a $25 pci video card and stop complaining. It's a great deal, and they're trying to work w/ the linux community; think about showing support rather than saying how fucked up they are. I mean, really...
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erm, exactly, that is, why would anyone who wanted to make a system... resistent to attacks call it unbreakable? That name doubles the number of attacks against your system. Call it "nothing to look at here, keep moving, keep moving" or something
While I'm sure this is a great solution, I'm a poor network adm who was literally thrown into the job (I have other specialties, server admin just isn't one of them), I can barely program javascript no less C, and I have been tasked w/ securing a server w/ CC #s on it (as w/ the poster, they're used for recurring billing).
When I firewalled the server I found a backdoor was already on it.
Anyway, are there any far-less-than-perfect-but-even-a-networking-newbie -can-implement-them solutions? I'd like to do SOMETHING but realistically my employer is not going to pay for a 'real' net admin to do the work and I can only learn so much so fast...
Oh, to make matters more interesting the server is NT 4 running SQL 6.5 w/ a blank SA password (which must be blank due to... oh, I don't want to get into it...)
ditto. Either exchange is impossible to administer well or just very, very hard. Until recently you couldn't restore single users mailboxes (there was brick backup but eventually even MS admitted it didn't work) you have to restore the entire server to get back one corrupted data store.
At one firm I was at exchange went down and it took 3 days of 24 hour work to get it back up (I guess we were 'lucky') - the solution? a $50,000 backup server that does absolutely nothing but wait for the main exchange server to go down. First time we had to use it, we were down for a day, it didn't come up.
I'm currently looking for a mail server, any server, that does mail well for 50 - 500 users (I'd settle for 50-100). I've played w/ xMail, it's tough to config. Heard good things about WorldMail (qualcomm?) but not used it. Heard free BSD's qmail (?) is good as well. I'm very interested in anyone who has info about free or cheap mail servers that can be configured in a day or two of work. If that exists.
and besides, it's not like a compiler or something, this is way, way more than a compiler, it's the toolset the NWN designers used to make the game. It's the core of thier 4 years (5? 6?) years of work. If you make something with it (in, say, a week), you owe them at least giving them unrestricted access to it - they put in 5 years X x Developers and you, a week and $50.00. right?
so not true, in a big corporate sales/marketing/feedback system only really pissed people get through (unless they're mining their DB for a marketing campaign, then they read the too-much-prozac-this-morning happy ones). Or people with an original take (like 'hi mr. tech support marketing guy, my name is d3v0 and i just found a way to hack your access point to broadcast porn across local public access TV broadcast frequencies'). Or, best of all but also most expensive, people who have letterhead with their name followed by esq.
the MS link to the detailed info about the patch is 'unavail' (ms slashdotted? *grin*) as is the link from the windowsupdate site. What is available follows (I hope you enjoy this as much as I did):
System Requirements: This update applies to Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2.
How to use: Restart your computer to complete the installation. How to uninstall: Uninstall is not available.
ok, I see 500,000 detectable earthquakes a year (earthquake.usgs.gov) but they found earthquakes in 1993 so we presume their 1,000,000 earthquakes sampled happened over the course of maybe 10 years (knowing this would help)? So out of 5 million they studied 1m.
Total area of earth = 500,000,000 km^2. 10 years is 3650 days (5,250,000 minutes) so the average number of earthquakes per minute is, conveniently, one and the distribution is 1 per 100 sq km.
What's the chance of 2 earthquakes happening at opposite sides of the world? Howabout within 30 seconds of eachother? See, I never got statistics, I have no idea how to figure this out. Anyone?
Howabout we patent the idea of growing clones of people in tanks. We pith them early (you know, when you hit a frog on the head with what is essentially an awl to kill them quickly in case they come out from under anesthetic while you're operating on them in science class?) and then just feed them nutrients. When they're old enough, we can start harvesting the organs out of them, giving them to the source of the clone as organ 'upgrades' (replace them before failure). This will enhance the lifespan of the clonee.
This post can count as art (as in prior) now, right?
screw invisiblity (though really, really hard to see would be sweet) - howabout having whatever's on your mind on your shirt? imagine what choreographers could do w/ this, or any artist for that matter. and Graphitti - need I say more? really dope graphitti.
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right, like i used the NSA group policy templates to secure some Win2k web servers without even a second thought. I knew they'd been widely used and there was nothing on the webserver I'd really care to hide from the Snoops so it wasn't a matter of trust on that level. Besides, things like group policy templates are easy to audit yourself.
I say so long as their tools are this transparent then bring them on, the more help the better.
Not serious? but you should be, I actually like your ideas. What if a PAC or other political group runs spots like that to satarize opponents/positions? I think that would be brilliant. Sure, this is annoying as hell but TV is already nothing but late night movies and knife salesmen and the occasional discovery-channel brain-relaxing dinasaur animation so this, this could be an improvement (it's hard to break something already so broken). Of course, it probably won't be, but the smart use/humor potential is definately there.
Similarly, we were working on a dancer's bio page for a adult 'dance' club - it passes dancer GUIs to the DB in the URL starting at 1010, if you enter ?dancer=1001 you get a 'bio' with a picture of programmers' face pshop'd on top of a buxom female entertainer's body, plus some juicy bio details about him.
for that there will be a giant foot which comes out of the roof of a humvee on an accordian-like frame. It stamps around on the ground blowing up landmines, then retracts back into the humvee. For maximum effect, the foot should appear 3 to 4 times as large as the interior space of the humvee and should resemble as closely as possible animation from the opening of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
now THAT's technology.
Yea except the lit is giving info w/ a presumption of a base of knowledge, and is covering only a specific part of a subsection of security. W/O a broad-based understanding of the underlying priciples reading lit, while helpful, is not in-and-of-itself enough. It's good, mind you, but if you can find everything you need from books/man pgs/whatever then you have a bigger (or differently wired) brain than mine. That first 10% of knowledge is always the bitch. /. posted this question and will be eagerly reading posts from start-to-finish tonight.
I'm SO HAPPY
It's funny, I was thinking about this subject during my morning quality reading time (john) - there was an article about a U Illinois media prof. who complains about how media is run as big-business and that's inherently opposed to the spirit of the first ammendment. He cited the lack of dailys in NYC (down from 9 in the 1940's) and the inability of any small publisher (think Zine) to reach a wide audience.
I mean, first off, NY has at 2 free weeklies, the post and the times (radically different styles) and that new conservative-funded rag (I forget the name) so there are 5 papers running there. Considering the rise of TV and general displacement of print media down to 5 from 9 isn't so bad.
Secondly, and more importantly, it's kind of blaming the messenger isn't it? I mean, other news is available to us, obviously, even if it's not spoon-fed from the checkout line. If people aren't reading/watching it, it's because they don't want to. I blame the quality, the timber if you will, of the Average American much more than I do the Media Giants. If you think they're all brainwashed by Murdoch then you're taking away free choice and postulating a rat-in-the-maze/pavlovian world (which I sort-of don't think is how things really are). If you accept that we have choice, and you can't deny the choice exists, then we must conclude that people WANT to read about rich white mormon girls. WHY don't Zines thrive? WHY don't people look to indymedia.org or whatever for their news? Because they simply don't want to.
I know there are other factors, but the fact that Americans (in particular) don't fit in to the image we'd like them to (of free-thinking, compassionate, caring folks who want to know the Truth) we can't say it's Media's fault. It's our fault. Americans.
why not go one better. Run WME in a Windows environment with a second PC as a server (your linux box), have the second PC connect to media on the web, cache it and let the windows box be a client. If you have it as your gateway as well, (or just firewall) you could block or fake (incoming) communications to the MS box so they can't disable it/whatever.
So Windows is fine if you just run it shut off from the rest of the internet, and no EULA problems. They'll never hear a peep from that thing.
Of course, you'll prob. have to browse to the MS download page in I.E. running in Wine or something, MS kind of bans non-microsoft browsers/computers from thier update sites...
well there IS a WMA SDK, part of which is a download giving you APIs for the WMP. I presume w/ that you can write your own WMP (you just access WMP classes) and redistribute is as your version of WMP. It's not exactly open source, but has anyone even looked to see if they can program something that reads WMEs?
The problem is, windows media streams work, they're better, or they were, than quicktime, the meadia streaming sofware is a breeze to use, and it handles a lot of shit for you (like auto-sensing connection speed and feeding an optimized stream, which is nice on your bandwidth, as is the MMS protocol.)
And the encoder software is good enough (tm) and it's all free. That is, if you buy Win2k server... Of course, it doesn't scale well so you're going to need to buy a couple of those servers.
I just did some googling - Edwards' Airforce Base? Named after Capt. Edwards who died in a testflight of the early jet-powered flying wing (YB-49). They were apparently unstable as hell.
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I wonder what miracles of modern science are now making them possible? Is it just computers?
I also wonder what OS those flight control computers use
by "go over" I presume we can do that electronically, or must one physically move physical material out of the united states? hrm... A friend just graduated from law school, I'll have to pick her brains...
...this makes me so f...angry. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? So my question is, is the partent post true? can broadcasts simple go offshore (from America) and continue to broadcast for free? What If I stream a channel to an offshore site, can they then distribute it (basically an offshore co-location, um, without the co.) If I run a shoutcast server from my DSL line in the states, will they come and sue me?
OK, now other than working around this utterly stupid law, what else can we do? Maybe if they try to drag a thousand internet radio broadcasters to court to demand payment it would make such a stink that they'd back off? We know the RIAA hates bad publicity.
Other alternatives? How about private internet radio 'clubs' where you have to be a member to listen? Does that exempt them (I know bars don't have to pay RIAA (yet) when they play a song, nor do dance clubs). Other than civil disobediance and lobbying what can we do?
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
*sigh* ok fair enough, I mean, accepting something as prima facia true w/o looking at the underlying info is, well, something to be avoided. I have to run but if I can get back b4 this discussion closes I'll dig something up for you. Until then 'absolut power corrupts absolutely' applies here and history informs - Look at the FBI/CIA operations from the '50s-late 70s, look what the CIA has done in El Salvadore, in Guatamala, Nicaragua etc. Look at what the fbi did under hoover, against anti-vietnam protesters, and, um, democrats. Now ask yourself if you want these people to be able to get together and have a party in your backyard (you won't be invited, unless you're being indited). Think about it, even if you have 'nothing to hide' that's fine, but just because you control your internal moral ethos by the rules those in power dictate doesn't mean we all do, or that we want to. I don't want to feel that I'm obliged to censor my thoughts, in my own house for christ's sake, in fear that someone may be listening and if these thoughts are out of favor now (or loose favor in the future) they could be called up and used against me by people who, don't forget, have power over me.
For example, if the FBI comes, arrests you, throws you in jail for a month, then you get out (due to lack of evidence (see above)) - did they have to do anything else to destroy you? what happened to your house (who paid your rent/mortgage), what happened to your community respect/standing? what happened to your friends, your sig. other., what happened to your raise, your promotion, your job?
see?
yea, they posted that info in the forum a while back but they seemed to say, yea, it would be great, but we killed ourselves just getting the game out as-is. I think they said that they're looking at this as a 1-2 year process after the first game release. If we all buy a ton of copies, they're going to add cool mods (like mounts, etc.) later on.
I have such vivid memories from BGII (including many funny ones) I Can't Wait for NWN!
um, just buy a $25 pci video card and stop complaining. It's a great deal, and they're trying to work w/ the linux community; think about showing support rather than saying how fucked up they are. I mean, really...
erm, exactly, that is, why would anyone who wanted to make a system ... resistent to attacks call it unbreakable? That name doubles the number of attacks against your system. Call it "nothing to look at here, keep moving, keep moving" or something
While I'm sure this is a great solution, I'm a poor network adm who was literally thrown into the job (I have other specialties, server admin just isn't one of them), I can barely program javascript no less C, and I have been tasked w/ securing a server w/ CC #s on it (as w/ the poster, they're used for recurring billing).
e -can-implement-them solutions? I'd like to do SOMETHING but realistically my employer is not going to pay for a 'real' net admin to do the work and I can only learn so much so fast...
... oh, I don't want to get into it...)
When I firewalled the server I found a backdoor was already on it.
Anyway, are there any far-less-than-perfect-but-even-a-networking-newbi
Oh, to make matters more interesting the server is NT 4 running SQL 6.5 w/ a blank SA password (which must be blank due to
I'll be happy to R any FMs y'all suggest.
Lockpicks are a clear violation of the DMCA as a circumvention tool.
ditto. Either exchange is impossible to administer well or just very, very hard. Until recently you couldn't restore single users mailboxes (there was brick backup but eventually even MS admitted it didn't work) you have to restore the entire server to get back one corrupted data store.
At one firm I was at exchange went down and it took 3 days of 24 hour work to get it back up (I guess we were 'lucky') - the solution? a $50,000 backup server that does absolutely nothing but wait for the main exchange server to go down. First time we had to use it, we were down for a day, it didn't come up.
I'm currently looking for a mail server, any server, that does mail well for 50 - 500 users (I'd settle for 50-100). I've played w/ xMail, it's tough to config. Heard good things about WorldMail (qualcomm?) but not used it. Heard free BSD's qmail (?) is good as well. I'm very interested in anyone who has info about free or cheap mail servers that can be configured in a day or two of work. If that exists.
client pppOe support on windows really sucks. except. except I've found RASPPPoE has worked well for me.
and besides, it's not like a compiler or something, this is way, way more than a compiler, it's the toolset the NWN designers used to make the game. It's the core of thier 4 years (5? 6?) years of work. If you make something with it (in, say, a week), you owe them at least giving them unrestricted access to it - they put in 5 years X x Developers and you, a week and $50.00. right?
so not true, in a big corporate sales/marketing/feedback system only really pissed people get through (unless they're mining their DB for a marketing campaign, then they read the too-much-prozac-this-morning happy ones). Or people with an original take (like 'hi mr. tech support marketing guy, my name is d3v0 and i just found a way to hack your access point to broadcast porn across local public access TV broadcast frequencies'). Or, best of all but also most expensive, people who have letterhead with their name followed by esq.
the MS link to the detailed info about the patch is 'unavail' (ms slashdotted? *grin*) as is the link from the windowsupdate site. What is available follows (I hope you enjoy this as much as I did):
System Requirements: This update applies to Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2.
How to use: Restart your computer to complete the installation.
How to uninstall: Uninstall is not available.
ok, I see 500,000 detectable earthquakes a year (earthquake.usgs.gov) but they found earthquakes in 1993 so we presume their 1,000,000 earthquakes sampled happened over the course of maybe 10 years (knowing this would help)? So out of 5 million they studied 1m.
Total area of earth = 500,000,000 km^2. 10 years is 3650 days (5,250,000 minutes) so the average number of earthquakes per minute is, conveniently, one and the distribution is 1 per 100 sq km.
What's the chance of 2 earthquakes happening at opposite sides of the world? Howabout within 30 seconds of eachother? See, I never got statistics, I have no idea how to figure this out. Anyone?
Howabout we patent the idea of growing clones of people in tanks. We pith them early (you know, when you hit a frog on the head with what is essentially an awl to kill them quickly in case they come out from under anesthetic while you're operating on them in science class?) and then just feed them nutrients. When they're old enough, we can start harvesting the organs out of them, giving them to the source of the clone as organ 'upgrades' (replace them before failure). This will enhance the lifespan of the clonee.
This post can count as art (as in prior) now, right?
screw invisiblity (though really, really hard to see would be sweet) - howabout having whatever's on your mind on your shirt? imagine what choreographers could do w/ this, or any artist for that matter. and Graphitti - need I say more? really dope graphitti.