As Groklaw sort-of said, I suddenly realised that people have to be very careful as to what they admit in a lot of places now.. Imagine you are sued, and they produce a "Haha M$ suxx0r" post or one referencing a comment from the immediate period after release, when I'm sure a lot of people have downloaded it or at least looked at the directory listing. Specifically, imagine a MS lawyer-cluster producing it.
The machine it was stolen from, or at least a machine it had been stored on, was infected by Nimda. This is proven by the presence of riched20.dll in folders containing.eml files, a Nimda giveaway.
I get these worms mixed up, but doesn't Nimda drop a backdoor? Couldn't the code have been an unexpectedly excellent find for someone? How long ago does this mean it was stolen? Can it be 2 years, as Nimda is?
Do the exploits used by slammer, blaster, mydoom [and maybe more?] exist in this part of the source?
Well, it's the fastest supercomputer ever built with off-the-shelf components and the number three fastest machine on the planet -- and that's before the upgrade.
People really should qualify this before throwing it around all the time - it's like saying a cheetah is the fastest animal in the universe because we've never seen anything faster.
How many intelligence agencies are there worldwide? How many list their mainframes in the 500 list? What was the last time we knew about the exciting things people like the NSA and GCHQ were doing with computers? World War II. Now take how far ahead of academic computing they were in 1945 and add 50 years worth of Moore's law, Cold War and funky Russian mathematics geniuses.
I bet NSA has stuff that makes this look like a gameboy. -- Before modding "troll", go look up the meaning of the words discussion, rhetorical and "devil's advocate".
Let me elaborate: The humour in my comment comes from the fact that, at heart, it contains a question; why did NASA not just send a colour camera, which as we all know are cheap and small? The comment used the notion of "irony" to point out that the giant might of NASA apparently didn't send a colour camera, but obviously this wasn't for technological reasons.
Jeez. Go look up the meaning of the word troll, doofus.
Still, he added, it would be tough for VeriSign to win the public relations war because its opponents are highly regarded technologists.
So, to paraphrase, it'll be hard to convince the public that SiteFinder is any good, becuase the people who say it's useless and buggers up the internet know what they're talking about.
The BBC, although trusted and mostly accurate, is becoming more and more tabloidy. Just look at how many of their main stories are 'in quotes like this'; a sure sign they are reporting second hand news, press releases and suppositions.
The Guardian has always offered a fairly good view of issues, and I would happily recommend it to those in the US who are keen for an outsider's view of the US.
This is fantastic - I have a 54G and never knew (other than an nmmap guess) that it was eve Linux, let alone GPLd.
Now, do any of these excellent firmwares solve the problem whereby the damn thing won't have an XP box plugged into it (Network Cable Unplugged) unless there's a hub/switch in-between? Drives me to distraction, and Linksys say it's not faulty...
Worked/s fine first time with my powerbook, obviously.
MPAA could not get the Okokrim into this trouble as the MPAA has no authority over the Norwegian police.
I think you're the one smoking something if you don't think the MPAA prompted this action. Try here:
The indictment comes more than two years after the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) contacted OKOKRIM prosecutors and requested a criminal investigation of Johansen and his father, Per, who owned the PC on which Johansen posted DeCSS.
Maybe theyll change their domain name like M$ did to bastards.sco.com instead of sco.com/bastards
Windows Update exists at windowsupdate.com and v4.update.microsoft.com or similar.
The dDOS was just aimed at the first one, whilst all links (web and local) to Windows Update point at the other one. The attack was therefore not hugely disruptive, especially once a nice layer of properly hardened computers was in the way.
According to NetCraft, SCO is currently pinging at about the 16 second mark - are there really that many computers with fast clocks, or is it bad coding, or is something else happening here? Feb 1st is supposed to mark the start of the GET storm.
"There appears to have been no hacking, no stealing, and no violation of any Senate rule," Miranda said. "Stealing assumes a property right and there is no property right to a government document. . . "
Since when does unauthorised access to a computer system not count as "hacking"? And if there's no property right on a government document, what's to stop any old citizen walking into the OEOB and taking whatever they feel like?
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Windows can burn CDs. People who can contribute linux bits have seen the source code.
Sue!
I get these worms mixed up, but doesn't Nimda drop a backdoor? Couldn't the code have been an unexpectedly excellent find for someone? How long ago does this mean it was stolen? Can it be 2 years, as Nimda is?
Do the exploits used by slammer, blaster, mydoom [and maybe more?] exist in this part of the source?
Work it out - "code" in this case means CD-Key.
There was no Server 2003 source code leak.
Who the hell mods these things?
Nimda is responsible - look for riched20.dll in the source code tar. This is Nimda's engine.
So, was this stolen recently or has someone been slaving over it and turning out beauts like MyDoom, Blaster and Slammer?
How many intelligence agencies are there worldwide? How many list their mainframes in the 500 list? What was the last time we knew about the exciting things people like the NSA and GCHQ were doing with computers? World War II. Now take how far ahead of academic computing they were in 1945 and add 50 years worth of Moore's law, Cold War and funky Russian mathematics geniuses.
I bet NSA has stuff that makes this look like a gameboy.
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Before modding "troll", go look up the meaning of the words discussion, rhetorical and "devil's advocate".
You could do a live install of Win2K while connected and benchmark the incoming worms.
As with most news these days, we are one step closer to living in a world where theonion is a serious news source. See here
RTFA. They're B&W with filters.
This means the 'film' is B&W. Now explain to me how they're colour?
Yes, you got me, it's a troll.
Let me elaborate: The humour in my comment comes from the fact that, at heart, it contains a question; why did NASA not just send a colour camera, which as we all know are cheap and small? The comment used the notion of "irony" to point out that the giant might of NASA apparently didn't send a colour camera, but obviously this wasn't for technological reasons.
Jeez. Go look up the meaning of the word troll, doofus.
So when are we going to have the technology to send _colour_ cameras to Mars?
I've seen them in some very expensive shops, so I'd have thought NASA would be able to shrink one down to the size of a football or so.
I *heart* corporate thinking.
In soviet russia, Google searches you!
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That thing last night about Tetris was fantastic.
You might be interested in another UK news outlet's take on the story, here.
The BBC, although trusted and mostly accurate, is becoming more and more tabloidy. Just look at how many of their main stories are 'in quotes like this'; a sure sign they are reporting second hand news, press releases and suppositions.
The Guardian has always offered a fairly good view of issues, and I would happily recommend it to those in the US who are keen for an outsider's view of the US.
How exactly is a crossover cable going to help me connect my PC to my router/switch?
The mac uses 802.11g.
This is fantastic - I have a 54G and never knew (other than an nmmap guess) that it was eve Linux, let alone GPLd.
Now, do any of these excellent firmwares solve the problem whereby the damn thing won't have an XP box plugged into it (Network Cable Unplugged) unless there's a hub/switch in-between? Drives me to distraction, and Linksys say it's not faulty...
Worked/s fine first time with my powerbook, obviously.
It could be to do with the stonking great adverts /. has started showing to the right of the main content...
Have you got "images from other sites" turned off?
Maybe they'll follow Seattle's example and pay him off with a free DVD and a masterclass on DVD authoring.
I hope the okokrim sues the MPAA for getting them into his mess in the first place...
Best new word of the year:
Spackers [n]; Crackers in the employ of spammers.
Anyone from the UK (and the US?) will recognise the beauty of this phrase.
If you'd engaged brain before fingers, you'd realise that SCO have been and are running Linux/Apache. Did you expect them to be on IIS?
The dDOS was just aimed at the first one, whilst all links (web and local) to Windows Update point at the other one. The attack was therefore not hugely disruptive, especially once a nice layer of properly hardened computers was in the way.
According to NetCraft, SCO is currently pinging at about the 16 second mark - are there really that many computers with fast clocks, or is it bad coding, or is something else happening here? Feb 1st is supposed to mark the start of the GET storm.
Did the "filler data" look anything like this?