the concern is that now a database will know when and where I shop (not that certian places don't already have that, but still, I prefer to use cash and not give my name if asked).
I don't know, its just getting harder and harder to not have your daily activities tracked anymore.
Give everyone the same exact amount of resources. Call them units, or whatever, then the game becomes all about tactics and strategy, because everyone has the same limited resources. The best examples I can think of are Bungie's "Myth" and "Myth 2." These to me were the best strategy games ever (fantasy based). Plug-ins have turned Myth2 into one of the greatest WW2 strategy as well. The game's engine and physics are simply amazingly realistic. And since everyone/team starts with a limited number of points that can be used on units, the mix of units as well as the usage of those units are absolutly key. You can't just rush what you have at the other player, you will all wind up as little flamming and charred bits of corpses if you do. You needed to think things out, come up with sometype of plan and be able to change and adapt it to fit the current situation.
There is a clearance level called sensitive, and confidential. All files must be marked properly if they contain this information. In which case they are not unclassified. As such, records must still be kept of how many copies and where they are located if memory serves me correct.
The networks, by carful planning can tell say ABC in Philadelphia, to broadcast the signal that sends everyone to go to www.nbc.com/news.asp?id='Philadelphia.PA'
Then they have the New York ABC to send everyone to www.nbc.com/news.asp?id='New York.NY', and they do this in every broadcasting center across the country.
They can then get lists of every person who happened to watch the news that night, where they are located, their IP address, etc., etc., and if you happened to already do business with them or an NBC affiliate, the cross-reference they use the cookies that are probably already on you computer to match up the data.
Now you are saying that the broadcast areas are usually very large, well yes and no. The areas that are unuslly mid way between the diferent areas, for instance Old Bridge, New Jersey (a city pretty much halfway between Philadelphia and New York), almost always have both NBC broadcasts, and usually at different times so that the people there can watch both versions of the news. In these cases, the computer would go to both Philadelphia's and New York's page, and the database system would see this, and then be able to place the person into the areas where they know there networks overlap.
No more need to type in where you are located, giving you the change to say Tokepa, Kansas, or some other city that you don't live in, they know where you live, now you have to do whatever possible to kep them from knowing you name.
I'm sorry to say it, but this technology just makes it 10 thousand times easier to generate more data about me. Data that I sure don't want some company to have so they can "specialize their marketing" to better suit what they believe I will buy as a consumer.
Think about this one second. They can send the data at specified times to certain areas of their TV networks, and when the next time you log on your computer, they can then match up that data with your computer and know the general area where you are located (and to a very good degree). No more hassle with haveing you input you address anymore, cause the only way you would have gotten that signal was if you had a TV that got that signal.
The only way I would EVER think about getting one of these is if they:
1) would gaurentee that they would not share or sell the database information to anyone else
2) would allow me to view and edit any and all information collected about me
3) if the company goes out of business, the data in the database can not be considered a company asset and thus be sold to anyone, specificly a clause that would state that the data about me ultimatly belongs to me, and that I am only leasing to the company the rites to view and use the data.
I don't want to sound like I am paraniod or anything, its just that I truely feel the internet has become just a comercial entity in which the users of it are just giving more food to the corporations in a much easier way for them to collect and keep checks on that information. I would truely rather be an anonymous entity in a huge group of anonymous entities, thus giving me the freedom to express my opinions and beliefs without any fear of personal backlash. A place where I can be whoever I want whenever I want, do things that I would never even dream of doing in real life and not have to worry about those actions comming back to haunt me at some later time because someone was cataloging them and had a way to tell exactly who I was EVERY SINGLE TIME I go online.
Type the install command | truss >> textofwhatitdoes.txt
In other words: /cdrom/cdrom0/install.sh | truss >>/etc/log/installlog.txt
Then read through the text file that it creates. Truss is an UNBELIEVABLY helpful command. It will show you EVERY application, command, file opened, etc., that the command you pipe through it does. Very helpful in diagnosing problems with applications (and installers in this case).
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Like the title says, please explain and view posts in chronological order.
actually mysql probably keeps it running VERY FAST. We had a mysql server take upwards of 15000 requests to write a webpage (PHP API). The page would be written within seconds.
Now to get on topic, does the patent office do any background checking on anything dealing with a computer program? Or do they just assume that since this was the first they read about this function, that it is obviously the first time it was implemented?
I have personally found that the best showers are usually in early July (4-11). They usually can be seen in the eastern sky (that is if you are located in North West Hemisphere).
Best locations for seeing these would be either along the coast (away from large cities). This helps cut down on most light sources that would otherwise inhibit you from seeing the faint light trails that are caused by the entry into the atmosphere.
I myself just got the Toshiba Satillite 2805 S402 and it ROCKS! 15" screen, 850 PIII, 20 gig drive, 128 RAM (upgradable), but most importantly, NVIDIA GeForce 2 GO video card!
I would highly recommend it to almost anyone. Quake 3 RUNS on this!! I mostly play Diablo 2 myself, but I have had no problems with it. The only downside that I have seen with it is the fact that there is no current way to run a game full screen with a resolution less then 1024x768 as this is the native pixil size for the screen. Anything smaller only uses the number of pixils specified (centered of course). So it sucks in the sense that it does not scale the pixil size up yet. Hopefully someone...hint...hint... NVIDIA...wink...wink... will work on a driver fix for this.
I am currently a comp sci major at Drexel University. Personally, I think object oriented programming needs to be tought FROM THE VERY BEGINNING!
We start by learning C++ (you know the basics), and its not until 2nd term sophomoe year that you even start learning object oriented stuff.
I truely think that one of the BEST languages to teach stdents would be JAVA as it is entirely an object oriented language. You can't not make things into classes and objects with JAVA.
if it was done right, it would be really cool. If it could be proven to me that there was no logs being kept and no way to sit and monitor a specific user of groups of users, then this would be a good idea. To bad no corporation will ever set it up that way, if they are going to spend money for this they are going to want to be able to monitor everyone (the true benifit of installing this type of system).
for running Linux as their OS on campus. I also and fighting the good fight, and so far am winning the small battles. Especially since Drexel's big claim is to "Be the most technologically advanced networked university in the country." And with this a small amount of Press Coverage about them restricting people to a specific OS would be REALLY bad for the university. What you can do is try and tip off some of the news agencies in the area, or places like Wired.com (I would mention ZDnet.con / TechTV.com, but they are pretty much owned by Mircosoft). You never know, a bit of bad publicity for the University goes a LONG way to getting them to fix things for the better.
2. Accounts are assigned to individuals and are not to be shared unless specifically authorized. You, the user, are solely responsible for all functions
performed from accounts assigned to you. Anything done through your account may be recorded. It is a violation of University Policy to allow others to use your
account. It is a violation to use another person's account, with or without that person's permission.
According to Drexel, this also not allowing other people to even SIT at your computer and USE it. It also, according to them, means you CAN NOT run LINUX and give an account to a friend. The way I read this rule is that you can not give away your username and password to the DREXEL accounts! I would need to give out my username and password to the email server, or to one of the UNIX systems to be in violation of the rule, which I believe is absolutely fine. But they are trying to twist it so that if your computer is connected into the network, all access to that system is restricted to you and you alone, and I feel that this is absolutly unacceptable. Especially when I do in fact pay for this service with the room and board.
And they are in fact enforcing this on Linux systems. 2 of my friends have been sanctioned for running Linux (one of them had given an account to his younger brother, the other was just running Linux and his system was hacked, so they SANCTIONED HIM for GETTING HACKED!!!).
The other part that I have a question on is this:
8. You may not attempt to bypass computer or network security mechanisms without the prior express permission of the owner of that computer or network
system. Possession of tools that bypass security or probe security, or of files that may be used as input or output for such tools, shall be considered as the equivalent
to such an attempt.
Now in this rule, they first state that you MAY attempt to probe security if you have the express permission of the person's computer or network that you are probing. This seems perfectly reasonable. But, in the very next sentence they then state that having and software of devices that are used to probe systems will be considered a violation of the acceptable use policy. Now, I am a UNIX network administrator. I have EVERY RIGHT to own devices and software that will probe systems for I regularly check both my own systems, and those at my work from my home computer. I also from time to time will probe some of my friends systems when they as me to (the case of my friend who was hacked I did indeed probe his system). I have never probed any system other then ones I have been authorized to do so, but according to the policy, even though I have authorization, I can't own any software or devices that do the probing!!!
If I had the choice, I would NEVER AGREE to this policy. But I do NOT have a choice. If I was able to get xDSL, or cable modem service, or a T1 (hell even a modem), I WOULD DO SO. But we as students are not allowed to get any of these in the dorms. The phone system we use does not allow modems. We can not get xDSL because we can not choice our phone service. And we can not get cable modems because do not get cable (have very poor satellite service with Direct TV, in which we get ~30 channels).
What options do we have other then to take whatever crap they feel like dishing out? I never even realized how bad the policy was until my friend was hacked several months ago.
His system was completely compromised (they had root access). They then used his system to hack other systems. The IT center at Drexel cut his connection (I agree with them doing this), but then without even doing ANY investigation, they brought him up on charges of mis-use of a computing device, and attempted hacking. This would have DEVISTATED ANY chances of him getting a job in the future (Computer Science major). He came to me right away looking for any help. His logs were wiped, but we had a seperate log that we setup that periodically captured all processes running. In that log I found an in.telnet process that someone was logging in as root from an IP outside IP address. Using this, I then traced the connection back to an address owned and run by Shaw Cable Modem services, out of Maryland, USA. Even with this information the IT department would not believe that he was hacked, and they were going through with the charges. The worst part of it was that the IT department was SURE to have logs of the access to the machine, but they REFUSED to even look at them for us, for this would PROVE that he had been hacked. Not until I got help from my computer ethic's professor were we able to work out the situation.
He was still sanctioned for running LINUX, and getting hacked! He had to do 20 hours of work for the University, just for running Linux. Now this is an OUTRAGE!
P.S. for those that want to know, his system was compromised with the buffer-overflow security hole in wu-ftpd-2.6.0. I am 99% positive that this is how they gained access.
The defence is for the freaking administrators of all the main systems (major IP subnets) to not allow a subnet ping (a ping where every node that is alive returns a ping to the sender)...This would stop ALL DoS attacks in which the person causing the attack is only in control of one computer.
That leaves us with attacks that are comming from super-high bandwidth systems, and attacks that are using large numbers of systems. The high-bandwidth systems are MOST likely NOT going to be responsible for many attacks, as most hackers can not afford to pay for the kind of bandwidth needed. This leaves us back to the issue that the person starting the attack will need to break into any/all systems that start the attack. Now this could be easily resolved if people were just informed correctly about what security issues they need to worry about (like placing your system behind a decent firewall, software or hardware based). That would then block out a very high number of the people trying to do these attacks, because face it, most of these attacks are from novice hackers who can not actually hack the system/entity that they have a problem with so they launch a DoS attack because it is so easy to do. Increasing the difficulty of launching this type of attack and the people who are doing these attacks will either need to learn how to be a better hacking (in which case they will probably find a way to actually gain access to the system that they are DoS'ing and just wipe them) or they will get fedup with it and go piss and moan to they friends.
that they will ticket you. Even though the system can handle a spped of about 50mph and still be able to send the correct information, 90% of all EZPass toll booths only allow you to go 5-10 mph. The reason why? Because they feel that it would "upset" the current traffic flow, even though that in most places the EZPass was put into place "because the NEEDED to upset the traffic flow" for the flow of traffic was not moving anywhere.
And yes I do believe that they can and do ticket people who go above the speed limit with it. They can also track your car with it, which is why I will never get one.
We noticed this about 2 weeks ago over at Anandtech.
Here is the REAL Deal. The way it is suppose to work is if you purchase $100 worth of stuff at Radio Shack, they will give you a cable modem free with a 1 year subscription to Comcast Cable Modem service. Now supposedly it is under the constraint that you purchase a 1 year subscription at Radio Shack, but it seems that no one informed Radio Shack that this is how it works. Instead 90% of the Radio Shacks are just giving you the mode free with the purchase of $100.
Origionally a lot of us (meaning Anandteckers), assumed that the management never told the workers at Radio Shack how things work with this deal, but after seeing how widespread this was, the new concensus is that Management goofed. There is a copy of the ACTUAL deal/promo floating around on the net somewhere, but I don't remember offhand and really don't feal like looking it up right now (hey its Christmas weekend).
Good luck to all those who get in on this, like I mentioned its about a 90% chance that you will not have to sign into a 1 year deal. If they ask you to, just go to the other Radio Shack that's 2 miles down the road:)
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I mean seriously...there have to be over 1000 computers with monitors there...
the concern is that now a database will know when and where I shop (not that certian places don't already have that, but still, I prefer to use cash and not give my name if asked).
I don't know, its just getting harder and harder to not have your daily activities tracked anymore.
If that is not Art, then I don't know what is.
Give everyone the same exact amount of resources. Call them units, or whatever, then the game becomes all about tactics and strategy, because everyone has the same limited resources. The best examples I can think of are Bungie's "Myth" and "Myth 2." These to me were the best strategy games ever (fantasy based). Plug-ins have turned Myth2 into one of the greatest WW2 strategy as well. The game's engine and physics are simply amazingly realistic. And since everyone/team starts with a limited number of points that can be used on units, the mix of units as well as the usage of those units are absolutly key. You can't just rush what you have at the other player, you will all wind up as little flamming and charred bits of corpses if you do. You needed to think things out, come up with sometype of plan and be able to change and adapt it to fit the current situation.
Cause the testers keep one if I recall...I signed up 4 days ago.
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Here come the mods to give me -1 thank you.
There is a clearance level called sensitive, and confidential. All files must be marked properly if they contain this information. In which case they are not unclassified. As such, records must still be kept of how many copies and where they are located if memory serves me correct.
Its not like its something you already can't get with the Freedom of Information Act already.
Mod this guy up, this is great stuff.
Then they have the New York ABC to send everyone to www.nbc.com/news.asp?id='New York.NY', and they do this in every broadcasting center across the country.
They can then get lists of every person who happened to watch the news that night, where they are located, their IP address, etc., etc., and if you happened to already do business with them or an NBC affiliate, the cross-reference they use the cookies that are probably already on you computer to match up the data.
Now you are saying that the broadcast areas are usually very large, well yes and no. The areas that are unuslly mid way between the diferent areas, for instance Old Bridge, New Jersey (a city pretty much halfway between Philadelphia and New York), almost always have both NBC broadcasts, and usually at different times so that the people there can watch both versions of the news. In these cases, the computer would go to both Philadelphia's and New York's page, and the database system would see this, and then be able to place the person into the areas where they know there networks overlap.
No more need to type in where you are located, giving you the change to say Tokepa, Kansas, or some other city that you don't live in, they know where you live, now you have to do whatever possible to kep them from knowing you name.
Think about this one second. They can send the data at specified times to certain areas of their TV networks, and when the next time you log on your computer, they can then match up that data with your computer and know the general area where you are located (and to a very good degree). No more hassle with haveing you input you address anymore, cause the only way you would have gotten that signal was if you had a TV that got that signal.
The only way I would EVER think about getting one of these is if they:
1) would gaurentee that they would not share or sell the database information to anyone else
2) would allow me to view and edit any and all information collected about me
3) if the company goes out of business, the data in the database can not be considered a company asset and thus be sold to anyone, specificly a clause that would state that the data about me ultimatly belongs to me, and that I am only leasing to the company the rites to view and use the data.
I don't want to sound like I am paraniod or anything, its just that I truely feel the internet has become just a comercial entity in which the users of it are just giving more food to the corporations in a much easier way for them to collect and keep checks on that information. I would truely rather be an anonymous entity in a huge group of anonymous entities, thus giving me the freedom to express my opinions and beliefs without any fear of personal backlash. A place where I can be whoever I want whenever I want, do things that I would never even dream of doing in real life and not have to worry about those actions comming back to haunt me at some later time because someone was cataloging them and had a way to tell exactly who I was EVERY SINGLE TIME I go online.
In other words:
/cdrom/cdrom0/install.sh | truss >> /etc/log/installlog.txt
Then read through the text file that it creates. Truss is an UNBELIEVABLY helpful command. It will show you EVERY application, command, file opened, etc., that the command you pipe through it does. Very helpful in diagnosing problems with applications (and installers in this case).
Like the title says, please explain and view posts in chronological order.
Now to get on topic, does the patent office do any background checking on anything dealing with a computer program? Or do they just assume that since this was the first they read about this function, that it is obviously the first time it was implemented?
I have personally found that the best showers are usually in early July (4-11). They usually can be seen in the eastern sky (that is if you are located in North West Hemisphere). Best locations for seeing these would be either along the coast (away from large cities). This helps cut down on most light sources that would otherwise inhibit you from seeing the faint light trails that are caused by the entry into the atmosphere.
I would highly recommend it to almost anyone. Quake 3 RUNS on this!! I mostly play Diablo 2 myself, but I have had no problems with it. The only downside that I have seen with it is the fact that there is no current way to run a game full screen with a resolution less then 1024x768 as this is the native pixil size for the screen. Anything smaller only uses the number of pixils specified (centered of course). So it sucks in the sense that it does not scale the pixil size up yet. Hopefully someone ...hint...hint... NVIDIA ...wink...wink... will work on a driver fix for this.
I am currently a comp sci major at Drexel University. Personally, I think object oriented programming needs to be tought FROM THE VERY BEGINNING! We start by learning C++ (you know the basics), and its not until 2nd term sophomoe year that you even start learning object oriented stuff. I truely think that one of the BEST languages to teach stdents would be JAVA as it is entirely an object oriented language. You can't not make things into classes and objects with JAVA.
if it was done right, it would be really cool. If it could be proven to me that there was no logs being kept and no way to sit and monitor a specific user of groups of users, then this would be a good idea. To bad no corporation will ever set it up that way, if they are going to spend money for this they are going to want to be able to monitor everyone (the true benifit of installing this type of system).
I don't have the time to run a search on this, but it was posted a while ago. Student recieved $10,000 the rest went to the lawyers
for running Linux as their OS on campus. I also and fighting the good fight, and so far am winning the small battles. Especially since Drexel's big claim is to "Be the most technologically advanced networked university in the country." And with this a small amount of Press Coverage about them restricting people to a specific OS would be REALLY bad for the university. What you can do is try and tip off some of the news agencies in the area, or places like Wired.com (I would mention ZDnet.con / TechTV.com, but they are pretty much owned by Mircosoft). You never know, a bit of bad publicity for the University goes a LONG way to getting them to fix things for the better.
In the acceptable use policy http://www.drexel.edu/IRT/policies/acceptableUse.h tml, the following are stated:
2. Accounts are assigned to individuals and are not to be shared unless specifically authorized. You, the user, are solely responsible for all functions performed from accounts assigned to you. Anything done through your account may be recorded. It is a violation of University Policy to allow others to use your account. It is a violation to use another person's account, with or without that person's permission.
According to Drexel, this also not allowing other people to even SIT at your computer and USE it. It also, according to them, means you CAN NOT run LINUX and give an account to a friend. The way I read this rule is that you can not give away your username and password to the DREXEL accounts! I would need to give out my username and password to the email server, or to one of the UNIX systems to be in violation of the rule, which I believe is absolutely fine. But they are trying to twist it so that if your computer is connected into the network, all access to that system is restricted to you and you alone, and I feel that this is absolutly unacceptable. Especially when I do in fact pay for this service with the room and board.
And they are in fact enforcing this on Linux systems. 2 of my friends have been sanctioned for running Linux (one of them had given an account to his younger brother, the other was just running Linux and his system was hacked, so they SANCTIONED HIM for GETTING HACKED!!!).
The other part that I have a question on is this:
8. You may not attempt to bypass computer or network security mechanisms without the prior express permission of the owner of that computer or network system. Possession of tools that bypass security or probe security, or of files that may be used as input or output for such tools, shall be considered as the equivalent to such an attempt.
Now in this rule, they first state that you MAY attempt to probe security if you have the express permission of the person's computer or network that you are probing. This seems perfectly reasonable. But, in the very next sentence they then state that having and software of devices that are used to probe systems will be considered a violation of the acceptable use policy. Now, I am a UNIX network administrator. I have EVERY RIGHT to own devices and software that will probe systems for I regularly check both my own systems, and those at my work from my home computer. I also from time to time will probe some of my friends systems when they as me to (the case of my friend who was hacked I did indeed probe his system). I have never probed any system other then ones I have been authorized to do so, but according to the policy, even though I have authorization, I can't own any software or devices that do the probing!!!
If I had the choice, I would NEVER AGREE to this policy. But I do NOT have a choice. If I was able to get xDSL, or cable modem service, or a T1 (hell even a modem), I WOULD DO SO. But we as students are not allowed to get any of these in the dorms. The phone system we use does not allow modems. We can not get xDSL because we can not choice our phone service. And we can not get cable modems because do not get cable (have very poor satellite service with Direct TV, in which we get ~30 channels).
What options do we have other then to take whatever crap they feel like dishing out? I never even realized how bad the policy was until my friend was hacked several months ago.
His system was completely compromised (they had root access). They then used his system to hack other systems. The IT center at Drexel cut his connection (I agree with them doing this), but then without even doing ANY investigation, they brought him up on charges of mis-use of a computing device, and attempted hacking. This would have DEVISTATED ANY chances of him getting a job in the future (Computer Science major). He came to me right away looking for any help. His logs were wiped, but we had a seperate log that we setup that periodically captured all processes running. In that log I found an in.telnet process that someone was logging in as root from an IP outside IP address. Using this, I then traced the connection back to an address owned and run by Shaw Cable Modem services, out of Maryland, USA. Even with this information the IT department would not believe that he was hacked, and they were going through with the charges. The worst part of it was that the IT department was SURE to have logs of the access to the machine, but they REFUSED to even look at them for us, for this would PROVE that he had been hacked. Not until I got help from my computer ethic's professor were we able to work out the situation.
He was still sanctioned for running LINUX, and getting hacked! He had to do 20 hours of work for the University, just for running Linux. Now this is an OUTRAGE!
P.S. for those that want to know, his system was compromised with the buffer-overflow security hole in wu-ftpd-2.6.0. I am 99% positive that this is how they gained access.
The defence is for the freaking administrators of all the main systems (major IP subnets) to not allow a subnet ping (a ping where every node that is alive returns a ping to the sender)...This would stop ALL DoS attacks in which the person causing the attack is only in control of one computer.
That leaves us with attacks that are comming from super-high bandwidth systems, and attacks that are using large numbers of systems. The high-bandwidth systems are MOST likely NOT going to be responsible for many attacks, as most hackers can not afford to pay for the kind of bandwidth needed. This leaves us back to the issue that the person starting the attack will need to break into any/all systems that start the attack. Now this could be easily resolved if people were just informed correctly about what security issues they need to worry about (like placing your system behind a decent firewall, software or hardware based).
That would then block out a very high number of the people trying to do these attacks, because face it, most of these attacks are from novice hackers who can not actually hack the system/entity that they have a problem with so they launch a DoS attack because it is so easy to do. Increasing the difficulty of launching this type of attack and the people who are doing these attacks will either need to learn how to be a better hacking (in which case they will probably find a way to actually gain access to the system that they are DoS'ing and just wipe them) or they will get fedup with it and go piss and moan to they friends.
that they will ticket you. Even though the system can handle a spped of about 50mph and still be able to send the correct information, 90% of all EZPass toll booths only allow you to go 5-10 mph. The reason why? Because they feel that it would "upset" the current traffic flow, even though that in most places the EZPass was put into place "because the NEEDED to upset the traffic flow" for the flow of traffic was not moving anywhere. And yes I do believe that they can and do ticket people who go above the speed limit with it. They can also track your car with it, which is why I will never get one.
Here is the REAL Deal. The way it is suppose to work is if you purchase $100 worth of stuff at Radio Shack, they will give you a cable modem free with a 1 year subscription to Comcast Cable Modem service. Now supposedly it is under the constraint that you purchase a 1 year subscription at Radio Shack, but it seems that no one informed Radio Shack that this is how it works. Instead 90% of the Radio Shacks are just giving you the mode free with the purchase of $100.
Origionally a lot of us (meaning Anandteckers), assumed that the management never told the workers at Radio Shack how things work with this deal, but after seeing how widespread this was, the new concensus is that Management goofed. There is a copy of the ACTUAL deal/promo floating around on the net somewhere, but I don't remember offhand and really don't feal like looking it up right now (hey its Christmas weekend).
Good luck to all those who get in on this, like I mentioned its about a 90% chance that you will not have to sign into a 1 year deal. If they ask you to, just go to the other Radio Shack that's 2 miles down the road :)