Re:Damn - it won't go "Slashdotted"
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SCO.com Defaced
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Damn - it won't go "Slashdotted"
Careful! You may be falling right into SCO's "trap". Just think - they "hack" their own website then post the fact to Slashdot. Their site gets slashdotted and next thing you know they're running to all the reporters who will listen about how their website was hacked and DDoS'd again.
I wouldn't put it past SCO to "deface" their own site just to give them something to go scream in the press about. Their court cases are suffering badly and suddenly their website is "hacked", so they now conveniently have something to bash all those l33t hax0rs (who must all be running illegal copies of linux which they own) that they can hype in the press.
My operating system of choice IsNot Microsoft Windows My favorite software company IsNot Microsoft My favorite internet company IsNot Microsoft My news site of choice IsNot MSN My webmail site of choice IsNot Microsoft Hotmail My game console IsNot a Microsoft XBox My favorite CEO IsNot Microsofts Steve Ballmar My... oh forget it....
Possbily, but since the USSS now seems to be in control of the shadowcrew website you can bet that they have all the server logs, posting histories, etc. from that site. By analyzing all that data they could very well identify other people to investigate. And if they managed to infiltrate this website then it means they can locate & infiltrate others.
Exactly. A few years back a porn operator registered the domain whitehouse.com. Mozilla & Internet Explorer both defaulted to a.com domain if you didn't specify it. People wanting to visit whitehouse.gov but just entering in "whitehouse" in their browser ended up at his porn site. When IE & Mozilla got smarter and started using keyword lookups rather than blindly assuming.com he lost his major source of income for this porn site. He tried to sue Microsoft over this but was laughed out of court.
I dont' know why Howard Stern doesn't contest the charges and fines in court.
From what I've heard some radio stations have tried to do this, not necessarially over Howards particular case but for other fines the FCC has levied. When these sorts of things have gone to court in the past the FCC has used tactics that end up costing the radio stations a fortune and the possibility of them losing their licenses to get them to give up. One standard practice apparently used by the FCC is to put all license renewals on hold for whoever is involved. So if Infinity Broadcasting, for example, challenged a fine in court they could find all FCC reviews of the 100+ radio stations they own held up indefinitely. And since the FCC is a government body it doesn't cost them anything to drag these sorts of things through the courts as slowly as they can. It ends up costing the radio stations piles of money in lawyers, etc. So it's a no-win situation for the radio stations.
Stern has repeatedly challenged the FCC to face him in court over his fines without pulling these sorts of tactics. He's never gotten a response from the FCC.
From what I understand both XM & Sirius license individual radios. This means a subscription lets you listen to their service on one radio. I think both companies offer discounts for additional recivers, but you're still paying for each one you listen to. This is why some of the manufacturers of radios make them portable & include docking stations for cars, stereos, etc. You buy one radio & take it wherever you want - in the car, the office, home, etc.
Just a couple weeks ago my tv of 10+ years died, and thanks to a small windfall from some stock options I had to use or lose I decided to take the plunge. I got a 46" Samsung DLP HDTV and upgraded my Comcast cable to their digital service with HD. For an additional $4.00 a month I'm getting HD from all the major networks (when they choose to broadcast in HD) as well as ESPN, Discovery HD, and INHD (& INHD2). Those last two are channels devoted entirely to HD programming. It's all worked quite well for me, and the HD programming is quite spectacular. The INHD channels routinely show IMAX movies, concerts, and other things that look amazing. I've had the setup for about two weeks now and have only seen the picture freeze once for about a second and a bit of digital interference one other time for about a second. Other than that it's been perfect (knock on artifical wood-finished surface).
I forget what it's called but all the Escort radar detectors I've had for the past 10 years or so have had a feature that's supposed to pick up special radar signals and display warning messages like "road work ahead", "fog ahead", "accident", etc. The system requires police, road crews, etc. to have radar transmitters on their vehicles that send out specially encoded signals that the detectors pick up & convert into these pre-defined messages. Despite having seen this feature built into radar detectors for years I have NEVER seen it actually put to use anywhere. Has anybody ever seen whatever this is called actually in use?
Because Access functions are already built in to the Windows operating system, the totals could be altered even if a computer did not have Access installed on it...
But Maryland election officials agreed with Bear that no hacking can happen unless the hacker is physically at the computer.
How long until somebody writes a virus/worm/trojan that does nothing on most Windows boxes (other than propagate) and on systems where GEMS is detected then around 8:00pm on election day just go wreak havoc with the election results? No physical access to the GEMS systems is needed. If those machines are hooked up to the internet at any time prior to the election (like to get Windoze updates) they could potentially become infected with just such a worm.
Yeah, I know it's a stretch. Just playing devils advocate...
Jeeves uses Googles paid advertisments, but their search engine is entirely their own. They bought the company Teoma, which had developed it's own competing search technology. That's what all the Jeeves properties use for search now.
it's a totally different thing when your have 1 car per 100x1000x2000 cubic yards of space. Your room for maneuvres increases enormously
You're assuming that there would only be one vehicle in that space. How do you enforce that? If it's automated you probably could enforce it, but what about the other issues like mechanical failures, birds, etc.? What happens to your car when the one 500 feet above you suddenly breaks down and gravity takes over?
An automated system to handle every possible situation in real time in 3 dimensions where even the smallest failure or incorrect decision could easily result in death is a HUGE responsibility that I want nothing to do with. Who will build such a system? What will happen when they get sued out of existance after the first person dies from a failure of such a system?
That's a silly attitude. The addition of a third dimension also adds a lot more room to avoid other vehicles.
You've obviously never driven in Boston. I work in Cambridge (just over the Longefellow Bridge in Kendall Square) and can attest to the crazyness of Boston drivers. Adding more space won't help.
That, coupled with good automation that'll eliminate the risks of intoxication and fatigue, should make flying vehicles much safer than land vehicles. Also, think how much will be saved (eventually) when there's less road maintenance...
Researchers have been trying to automate automobile driving for years and have been having an extremely difficult time with it. I can't imagine automating travel in 3 dimensions will be any easier. Even if the system is 100% automated and drivers (or whatever you want to call them) can't take over manual control once the vehicle is in the air the ability to keep track of hundreds of other objects moving all around you and preventing collisions will be extremely difficult. It'll have to keep track of all the other cars around it. In the event of a breakdown it'll have to safely land without crashing into other vehicles in the air. (when the transmission in my car died I just coasted to the side of the highway - how do you manage that a few hundred feet up in the air with other cars whizzing by you in something that probably glides like a rock when unpowered?) It'll also have to be able to avoid hazards like flocks of birds that suddenly fly by. A head-on collision between a Canada goose flying at 10 mph and a car travelling at 50 mph would do some serious damage. And what do you do when there's a traffic jam in the middle of the city where you (and probably 50 other people) all want to land?
(Not to mention the fact that Microsoft will undoubtedly push to have the manufacturers use Windows as the foundation for all of this - what happens when your auto pilot suddenly BSOD's?)
No thanks, I'll stay on the ground when I drive around the city. And if these things ever DO make it into consumers hands and they DO start flying them through the city then I'll do all my travelling in the subway.
... back when the highest capacity SCSI drive was around 9gb. Now that you can get 144gb & larger SCSI drives for decent prices it really doesn't make as much sense to do RAID 0 if you don't need to. Simply mirroring 2 146gb's or doing a RAID 5 configuration of 3+ drives would give you a ton more usable space than RAID 0 as well as the redundancy that RAID is meant to provide. Of course if you only have a few small drives, don't mind the possibility of losing all your data, etc. then RAID 0 would be worthwhile.
Yes, I had that problem repeatedly when a large client first went to this system. But it quit doing that at least a year ago.
Sucks for RSA. We switched over to CRYPTOCard almost 2 years ago now. The constant loss of synchronization was a huge factor since we have remote offices all over the place and constantly having to resync remote users was a real pan in the ass.
Of course the cost is still a major issue. RSA's licenses are a lot more expensive than most other alternatives. Their support contracts are very expensive. Their tokens expire every 2 years which adds yet another cost (esp. when dealing with all our remote users). Many of the other alternatives don't have tokens that expire, thus saving a lot of time & money down the line.
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Fun With Passwords?
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A long time ago at a company far far away we had an ftp server that had a generic account on it for downloads only. The password was "downloadfiles" but with the caveat that each vowel was replaced by an incremented number, so the actual password was "d0wnl12df3l4s"
but why do I need to do that much extra work when the existnig DNSBL stuff works and could be used in nearly every MTA as is without doing any extra code
First of all SPF targets an entirely different problem inherent to spam than DNSBL's do. SPF specifically targets forged "From" addresses. DNSBL's target the originating IP of the e-mail. You can't target one type of spam using the other method.
Second, even support for DNSBL's didn't exist in the vast majority of MTA's until spam became a problem and the first DNSBL's like MAPS came along. If SPF becomes more and more widespread in its use then I'm sure you'll start seeing support for it getting rolled direclty into MTA's rather than having to use add-on's.
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Damn - it won't go "Slashdotted"
Careful! You may be falling right into SCO's "trap". Just think - they "hack" their own website then post the fact to Slashdot. Their site gets slashdotted and next thing you know they're running to all the reporters who will listen about how their website was hacked and DDoS'd again.
Mod me "conspiracy theorist".
I wouldn't put it past SCO to "deface" their own site just to give them something to go scream in the press about. Their court cases are suffering badly and suddenly their website is "hacked", so they now conveniently have something to bash all those l33t hax0rs (who must all be running illegal copies of linux which they own) that they can hype in the press.
My operating system of choice IsNot Microsoft Windows
My favorite software company IsNot Microsoft
My favorite internet company IsNot Microsoft
My news site of choice IsNot MSN
My webmail site of choice IsNot Microsoft Hotmail
My game console IsNot a Microsoft XBox
My favorite CEO IsNot Microsofts Steve Ballmar
My... oh forget it....
Reminds me of the scene near the end of The Running man. The lame movie, not the awesome Steven King novel.
Possbily, but since the USSS now seems to be in control of the shadowcrew website you can bet that they have all the server logs, posting histories, etc. from that site. By analyzing all that data they could very well identify other people to investigate. And if they managed to infiltrate this website then it means they can locate & infiltrate others.
Exactly. A few years back a porn operator registered the domain whitehouse.com. Mozilla & Internet Explorer both defaulted to a .com domain if you didn't specify it. People wanting to visit whitehouse.gov but just entering in "whitehouse" in their browser ended up at his porn site. When IE & Mozilla got smarter and started using keyword lookups rather than blindly assuming .com he lost his major source of income for this porn site. He tried to sue Microsoft over this but was laughed out of court.
I dont' know why Howard Stern doesn't contest the charges and fines in court.
From what I've heard some radio stations have tried to do this, not necessarially over Howards particular case but for other fines the FCC has levied. When these sorts of things have gone to court in the past the FCC has used tactics that end up costing the radio stations a fortune and the possibility of them losing their licenses to get them to give up. One standard practice apparently used by the FCC is to put all license renewals on hold for whoever is involved. So if Infinity Broadcasting, for example, challenged a fine in court they could find all FCC reviews of the 100+ radio stations they own held up indefinitely. And since the FCC is a government body it doesn't cost them anything to drag these sorts of things through the courts as slowly as they can. It ends up costing the radio stations piles of money in lawyers, etc. So it's a no-win situation for the radio stations.
Stern has repeatedly challenged the FCC to face him in court over his fines without pulling these sorts of tactics. He's never gotten a response from the FCC.
d'oh! I knew that. My fingers just outtyped my brain...
From what I understand both XM & Sirius license individual radios. This means a subscription lets you listen to their service on one radio. I think both companies offer discounts for additional recivers, but you're still paying for each one you listen to. This is why some of the manufacturers of radios make them portable & include docking stations for cars, stereos, etc. You buy one radio & take it wherever you want - in the car, the office, home, etc.
I hope Sirius comes out with a similar product by the end of the year. I plan to subscribe to Sirius when Howard Stern starts there next year.
Just a couple weeks ago my tv of 10+ years died, and thanks to a small windfall from some stock options I had to use or lose I decided to take the plunge. I got a 46" Samsung DLP HDTV and upgraded my Comcast cable to their digital service with HD. For an additional $4.00 a month I'm getting HD from all the major networks (when they choose to broadcast in HD) as well as ESPN, Discovery HD, and INHD (& INHD2). Those last two are channels devoted entirely to HD programming. It's all worked quite well for me, and the HD programming is quite spectacular. The INHD channels routinely show IMAX movies, concerts, and other things that look amazing. I've had the setup for about two weeks now and have only seen the picture freeze once for about a second and a bit of digital interference one other time for about a second. Other than that it's been perfect (knock on artifical wood-finished surface).
I forget what it's called but all the Escort radar detectors I've had for the past 10 years or so have had a feature that's supposed to pick up special radar signals and display warning messages like "road work ahead", "fog ahead", "accident", etc. The system requires police, road crews, etc. to have radar transmitters on their vehicles that send out specially encoded signals that the detectors pick up & convert into these pre-defined messages. Despite having seen this feature built into radar detectors for years I have NEVER seen it actually put to use anywhere. Has anybody ever seen whatever this is called actually in use?
Because Access functions are already built in to the Windows operating system, the totals could be altered even if a computer did not have Access installed on it...
But Maryland election officials agreed with Bear that no hacking can happen unless the hacker is physically at the computer.
How long until somebody writes a virus/worm/trojan that does nothing on most Windows boxes (other than propagate) and on systems where GEMS is detected then around 8:00pm on election day just go wreak havoc with the election results? No physical access to the GEMS systems is needed. If those machines are hooked up to the internet at any time prior to the election (like to get Windoze updates) they could potentially become infected with just such a worm.
Yeah, I know it's a stretch. Just playing devils advocate...
Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, and other web providers announced a huge increase in the number of subscribers in California.
That contract is for paid advertising, not search. Jeeves has their own search engine based on technology they acquired from Teoma.
Jeeves uses Googles paid advertisments, but their search engine is entirely their own. They bought the company Teoma, which had developed it's own competing search technology. That's what all the Jeeves properties use for search now.
If you don't want the paid ads then go to their Teoma site instead. It's the same search engine, just a lot fewer sponsered/paid links.
it's a totally different thing when your have 1 car per 100x1000x2000 cubic yards of space. Your room for maneuvres increases enormously
You're assuming that there would only be one vehicle in that space. How do you enforce that? If it's automated you probably could enforce it, but what about the other issues like mechanical failures, birds, etc.? What happens to your car when the one 500 feet above you suddenly breaks down and gravity takes over?
An automated system to handle every possible situation in real time in 3 dimensions where even the smallest failure or incorrect decision could easily result in death is a HUGE responsibility that I want nothing to do with. Who will build such a system? What will happen when they get sued out of existance after the first person dies from a failure of such a system?
You've obviously never driven in Boston. I work in Cambridge (just over the Longefellow Bridge in Kendall Square) and can attest to the crazyness of Boston drivers. Adding more space won't help.
That, coupled with good automation that'll eliminate the risks of intoxication and fatigue, should make flying vehicles much safer than land vehicles. Also, think how much will be saved (eventually) when there's less road maintenance...
Researchers have been trying to automate automobile driving for years and have been having an extremely difficult time with it. I can't imagine automating travel in 3 dimensions will be any easier. Even if the system is 100% automated and drivers (or whatever you want to call them) can't take over manual control once the vehicle is in the air the ability to keep track of hundreds of other objects moving all around you and preventing collisions will be extremely difficult. It'll have to keep track of all the other cars around it. In the event of a breakdown it'll have to safely land without crashing into other vehicles in the air. (when the transmission in my car died I just coasted to the side of the highway - how do you manage that a few hundred feet up in the air with other cars whizzing by you in something that probably glides like a rock when unpowered?) It'll also have to be able to avoid hazards like flocks of birds that suddenly fly by. A head-on collision between a Canada goose flying at 10 mph and a car travelling at 50 mph would do some serious damage. And what do you do when there's a traffic jam in the middle of the city where you (and probably 50 other people) all want to land?
(Not to mention the fact that Microsoft will undoubtedly push to have the manufacturers use Windows as the foundation for all of this - what happens when your auto pilot suddenly BSOD's?)
No thanks, I'll stay on the ground when I drive around the city. And if these things ever DO make it into consumers hands and they DO start flying them through the city then I'll do all my travelling in the subway.
...is to figure out how to attach electric eels to the artifical reefs in order to provide the necessary current!
So I can embed an entire copy of the unabridged oxford english dictionary into something like vi? That's some serious data compression!
... back when the highest capacity SCSI drive was around 9gb. Now that you can get 144gb & larger SCSI drives for decent prices it really doesn't make as much sense to do RAID 0 if you don't need to. Simply mirroring 2 146gb's or doing a RAID 5 configuration of 3+ drives would give you a ton more usable space than RAID 0 as well as the redundancy that RAID is meant to provide. Of course if you only have a few small drives, don't mind the possibility of losing all your data, etc. then RAID 0 would be worthwhile.
Yes, I had that problem repeatedly when a large client first went to this system. But it quit doing that at least a year ago.
Sucks for RSA. We switched over to CRYPTOCard almost 2 years ago now. The constant loss of synchronization was a huge factor since we have remote offices all over the place and constantly having to resync remote users was a real pan in the ass.
Of course the cost is still a major issue. RSA's licenses are a lot more expensive than most other alternatives. Their support contracts are very expensive. Their tokens expire every 2 years which adds yet another cost (esp. when dealing with all our remote users). Many of the other alternatives don't have tokens that expire, thus saving a lot of time & money down the line.
A long time ago at a company far far away we had an ftp server that had a generic account on it for downloads only. The password was "downloadfiles" but with the caveat that each vowel was replaced by an incremented number, so the actual password was "d0wnl12df3l4s"
First of all SPF targets an entirely different problem inherent to spam than DNSBL's do. SPF specifically targets forged "From" addresses. DNSBL's target the originating IP of the e-mail. You can't target one type of spam using the other method.
Second, even support for DNSBL's didn't exist in the vast majority of MTA's until spam became a problem and the first DNSBL's like MAPS came along. If SPF becomes more and more widespread in its use then I'm sure you'll start seeing support for it getting rolled direclty into MTA's rather than having to use add-on's.