To turn left please turn the steering wheel two times to the left, press the brake, and then turn the steering wheel to the right. This is a feature to prevent accidental left turns.
Is this a flaw in something being handled responsibly? I'm not really sure, because I've never seen that happen. I'm not surprised they pulled it, etc, but I am kind of surprised about the option "bring it back for a full refund."
The last person who asked me that turned out to actually work with skype at bluehat. The whole team came over and THEN told me who they were -_-.
I was just looking for a table with people who weren't anti-social, and one of the people happened to work for skype. Very very friendly people by the way.
Basically I was trying to get into a friends machine (we were doing a mini CTF) and as a joke he gave me the IP to a skype regional node.
I fuzzed said regional node and started getting really weird responses. I was trying a port that was open (same port as oracle..7776 I think?) Eventually I figured out that an arbitrary 4 bytes would result in a response with a plaintext string at the bottom of the packet.
My first thought was that my friend was running a gameserver, botnet, chat room, or really just something..weird.
Eventually I figured out they were skype usernames. Complete accident that I stumbled upon it. I'm only mentioning the details here because A) Microsoft knows exactly how I found it B) It's patched.
I believe it would have actually have had use as a DDoS amplification platform. The responses sent back were 50-90x the size of the request.
They never told me why this worked. The first engineer I had talked to asked one of them if it was an edge case, and the other shook his head "no," and aaaalmost said what it was. Then he noticed I wasn't an MS employee and said he couldn't tell me that.
I found a flaw in skype that allowed the dumping of usernames from regional nodes. I could run it on multiple threads and dump literally as high as 2048 per second (never tried with more threads...) Finding the other regional nodes wasn't exactly difficult.
There are surprisingly dark uses for that ability.
They sent me an Xbox 360 (this was less than a week before the Xbox one launch) bundle (kinect), 2 games, an Xbox Live Card, and a researcher acknowledgement on Technet (same as this kid) for August of 2013..I'm one of the "individual" entries with no link.
I did get invited to bluehat as well which was absolutely incredible, but I paid for the flight, hotel (at a discounted rate, at the Westin, Seattle!), etc.
It was a f*cking awesome conference.
Skype isn't cover by their bug bounty program, so they said they had nothing they could do. I was pretty insistent that I really needed the money, because I really really needed the money. That was a brief period in my life of spam sandwiches and ramen.
I'm not complaining, but I am saying if something isn't covered by their bounty program you're not going to get money from it.
There is some ridiculously inflammatory "liberal media" out there; make no mistake. I used to read cracked 24/7 until it turned into...well..liberal media.
That being said this is not it! This is a report from people who would know about people we kind of suspected this of for well..ever.
Obviously this is real, and anyone who thinks it's acceptable isn't a conservative - they're a dick. The republicans of today aren't "real conservatives" at least going by the conservative philosophy. Arguably no one is. However one of the cornerstones of that philosophy is SUPPOSED to be individual rights.
"Investing heavily in nuclear/solar/wind/geothermal/tidal -- that is necessary. We esp. need R&D on nuclear, but people are irrationally afraid of it. (Seriously, about 100 people have died from reactor accidents, mostly Chernobyl, and mostly from old designs that wouldn't have failed if they had been upgraded.)"
Ironically the exact fears nuclear energy would solve for are the reasons nuclear energy has so little support in the US. France has a very succesful nuclear energy program, and they've never had an issue. They have a very strong regulation agency, and the latest and greatest tech.
On the other hand the lack of support for nuclear energy makes it 10 times more dangerous (and yet no accidents in the US since 3 mile island which was...an argument FOR nuclear imo.) If we built crap that wasn't designed in the 60s it would be even safer, and with a greater energy output.
I don't know how viable solar is after some basic calculations. Space based-solar power is a really cool idea, and theoretically could be viable one day. I am under the impression that wind power
Maybe space ex will be our new energy overlords one day?
Oh and we can't forget the petrol industries influence. That's a huge barrier..
The problems are numerous sadly. Those seem to be the viable paths though. I can't stand it when people complain about it, and have no alternative.
I'm all about nuclear energy, hell who knows, maybe fusion will happen eventually! For those who don't know Helium-3 exists in abundance on the moon, and unlike the classical fusion (I really don't know specifics) the helium 3-deuterium reaction doesn't produce the high energy neutrinos that damage the reactor shielding.
Actually anyone who knows anything about this may I ask:
I'm under the impression that neutrinos basically won't hit anything. Like in an AU worth of lead there is a pretty good chance a neutrino won't hit anything. How do the neutrinos in classical fusion do this? It's...kind of hard to google.
This! So so so much this! It sounds draconian, and hell maybe I'd be one of the ones who can't have kids. It needs to happen though.
Solve global warming, distribution of resources, and tons of other issues. Do the selection based on potential genetic defects, diseases, intelligence, etc.
I've never thought eugenics sounded so bad if done correctly. When I see someone with 8-10 kids in tow pay with EBT at the supermarket a part of me dies a little.
I grew up like that and not ending up as a criminal is fucking hard. Living a prosperous life is f*cking hard, because you've never seen an example of it.
I'm not saying everyone with a lot of kids who is on food stamps is bad..I'm just saying a lot of them are. You can fuck yourself up all day, but when it comes to messing your kids up..ugh
"Your post is mostly logically fallacious. The good news is that the parts that aren't logically biased are factually wrong.
I know you are stupid and small mined, byt many people aren't. We need to focus on practical solutions. The longer we wait the more expensive it gets."
Can't spell, or doesn't look over his work and calls people stupid.
What is logically biased and towards what?
Why not tell us which parts are "factually wrong"?
"China is working towards cleaner energies and have started implementing them. Many other 3rd world countries are also working on clean energies."
Yeah they say they are, because of international pressures. Just like the NRC has been working on "overhauling their safety program" for 20 years. Yet there are still many, many cases of violations going unpunished, and never corrected.
Just Saudi was working on "stopping human rights violations" etc etc..
Just like the "free range" chicken I buy is "free range." People lie. It's basically the default setting when addressing large populations.
I would love to think China is trying to make a change - and maybe they are. I just don't have much faith. They might just be telling us what we want to hear...and considering not-polluting a major contributor to raising production costs the people telling them to go green don't have much motivation to look into it.
"I know you are stupid and small mined, byt many people aren't. We need to focus on practical solutions. The longer we wait the more expensive it gets."
Yeah that was a good laugh. Most people aren't stupid and small minded? Have you ever gone outside before? Most people are either awful, selfish, egocentric pieces of shit, or stupid...or both. That's not to say everyone is, and I'm not saying I don't fit into at least one of those categories.
So since you're so goddamn smart what practical solutions might you propose?
"You are falsely blaming others. Even if not everyone contributes, change can be achieved, and it should be tried. Non-contributing countries could even be fined for not contributing to the common rescue attempt."
I never blamed others. The US holds probably the majority of the responsibility. I was just saying even if the entire United States was to stop burning fossil fuels, trash, and stop driving in the grand scheme of things it wouldn't matter. Yes I'm sure a lot of the pollution in China is caused by American consumerism. However cars are a thing there even if a smaller % of people drive.
"China has about the same emissions as the US. And guess why China has so much emissions? Because of the outsourced productions (electronics, clothing, toys). The US could easily implement requirements that their outsourced products have to adhere to emission limits!"
Ah so here we get to the meat of things. I actually agree with you on this one, but the problem is the US would never do that. The 2 major reasons China is cheaper to run production in are (in my mind, grain of salt and such) as follows:
-They have no problems trampling on the lower class citizens. They have no problems with people working 16 hours to get a meaningful wage.
-They don't have all those "Pesky" EPA regulations. I think the EPA goes way too far in a lot of cases, but at the very least they keep our air..mostly clean.
Yeah you're probably right. A lot of utterly massive companies don't get a discount though. Still, yeah they probably are getting one..especially since it's exclusive.
"As often as it takes until people like you listen?"
And yet here you sit using the same electricity that is supposed to be killing the planet to whine about it. Get rid of your car, get rid of your computer.
Nothing significant can happen unless everyone does. And here's the thing - most countries (especially poorer countries) don't give the tiniest bit of a fuck.
If everyone in America did what I'm saying it would make an impact, but A) That will never happen and B) It would just delay the inevitable, because of china etc.
So scenario A It's true and we're all fucked and can't do anything about it. Thus we're arguing over..nothing.
Scenario B It's not true and we're arguing over..nothing.
It doesn't paint the greatest picture of humanity but I'm fairly certain it's an accurate one.
Slashdot Mirror
That is tremendously more detail then I would think he'd go through. John are you bored or something?
Eh either way it makes maitenence a lot easier than something strictly running MS-DOS.
Nope they either run windows 3.1 or windows XP 95% of the time.
(I work with sensor and automation, and have serviced these CNCs)
That was part of my inspiration actually. The other thing was CentOS over-complicating really simple things for..questionable reasons.
"I would feel safer on the road with CentOS. :P"
"Bug report: Won't turn left"
To turn left please turn the steering wheel two times to the left, press the brake, and then turn the steering wheel to the right. This is a feature to prevent accidental left turns.
"Bug report closed"
Except that there isn't. Saying "it's okay he's black" is just as goddamn racist.
I actually submitted this story to slashdot, but it never got any comments, front page, etc.
Is this a flaw in something being handled responsibly? I'm not really sure, because I've never seen that happen. I'm not surprised they pulled it, etc, but I am kind of surprised about the option "bring it back for a full refund."
The last person who asked me that turned out to actually work with skype at bluehat. The whole team came over and THEN told me who they were -_-.
I was just looking for a table with people who weren't anti-social, and one of the people happened to work for skype. Very very friendly people by the way.
Basically I was trying to get into a friends machine (we were doing a mini CTF) and as a joke he gave me the IP to a skype regional node.
I fuzzed said regional node and started getting really weird responses. I was trying a port that was open (same port as oracle..7776 I think?) Eventually I figured out that an arbitrary 4 bytes would result in a response with a plaintext string at the bottom of the packet.
My first thought was that my friend was running a gameserver, botnet, chat room, or really just something..weird.
Eventually I figured out they were skype usernames. Complete accident that I stumbled upon it. I'm only mentioning the details here because A) Microsoft knows exactly how I found it B) It's patched.
I believe it would have actually have had use as a DDoS amplification platform. The responses sent back were 50-90x the size of the request.
They never told me why this worked. The first engineer I had talked to asked one of them if it was an edge case, and the other shook his head "no," and aaaalmost said what it was. Then he noticed I wasn't an MS employee and said he couldn't tell me that.
I found a flaw in skype that allowed the dumping of usernames from regional nodes. I could run it on multiple threads and dump literally as high as 2048 per second (never tried with more threads...) Finding the other regional nodes wasn't exactly difficult.
There are surprisingly dark uses for that ability.
They sent me an Xbox 360 (this was less than a week before the Xbox one launch) bundle (kinect), 2 games, an Xbox Live Card, and a researcher acknowledgement on Technet (same as this kid) for August of 2013..I'm one of the "individual" entries with no link.
I did get invited to bluehat as well which was absolutely incredible, but I paid for the flight, hotel (at a discounted rate, at the Westin, Seattle!), etc.
It was a f*cking awesome conference.
Skype isn't cover by their bug bounty program, so they said they had nothing they could do. I was pretty insistent that I really needed the money, because I really really needed the money. That was a brief period in my life of spam sandwiches and ramen.
I'm not complaining, but I am saying if something isn't covered by their bounty program you're not going to get money from it.
Wish I had mod points at the moment...where are mein 15 mod points >
I mean it's definitely inflammatory, but can you really deny it?
With 54 people I don't think I would believe them when they said they controlled for ANYTHING.
So...because of the ridiculous sentences being handed down to DDoSers no one is attacking sites anymore?
There is some ridiculously inflammatory "liberal media" out there; make no mistake. I used to read cracked 24/7 until it turned into...well..liberal media.
That being said this is not it! This is a report from people who would know about people we kind of suspected this of for well..ever.
Obviously this is real, and anyone who thinks it's acceptable isn't a conservative - they're a dick. The republicans of today aren't "real conservatives" at least going by the conservative philosophy. Arguably no one is. However one of the cornerstones of that philosophy is SUPPOSED to be individual rights.
Clearly an April fools' prank.
Banshee is a pretty good (if archaic) alternative.
"Investing heavily in nuclear/solar/wind/geothermal/tidal -- that is necessary. We esp. need R&D on nuclear, but people are irrationally afraid of it. (Seriously, about 100 people have died from reactor accidents, mostly Chernobyl, and mostly from old designs that wouldn't have failed if they had been upgraded.)"
Ironically the exact fears nuclear energy would solve for are the reasons nuclear energy has so little support in the US. France has a very succesful nuclear energy program, and they've never had an issue. They have a very strong regulation agency, and the latest and greatest tech.
On the other hand the lack of support for nuclear energy makes it 10 times more dangerous (and yet no accidents in the US since 3 mile island which was...an argument FOR nuclear imo.) If we built crap that wasn't designed in the 60s it would be even safer, and with a greater energy output.
I don't know how viable solar is after some basic calculations. Space based-solar power is a really cool idea, and theoretically could be viable one day.
I am under the impression that wind power
Maybe space ex will be our new energy overlords one day?
Oh and we can't forget the petrol industries influence. That's a huge barrier..
The problems are numerous sadly. Those seem to be the viable paths though. I can't stand it when people complain about it, and have no alternative.
I'm all about nuclear energy, hell who knows, maybe fusion will happen eventually! For those who don't know Helium-3 exists in abundance on the moon, and unlike the classical fusion (I really don't know specifics) the helium 3-deuterium reaction doesn't produce the high energy neutrinos that damage the reactor shielding.
Actually anyone who knows anything about this may I ask:
I'm under the impression that neutrinos basically won't hit anything. Like in an AU worth of lead there is a pretty good chance a neutrino won't hit anything. How do the neutrinos in classical fusion do this? It's...kind of hard to google.
This! So so so much this! It sounds draconian, and hell maybe I'd be one of the ones who can't have kids. It needs to happen though.
Solve global warming, distribution of resources, and tons of other issues. Do the selection based on potential genetic defects, diseases, intelligence, etc.
I've never thought eugenics sounded so bad if done correctly. When I see someone with 8-10 kids in tow pay with EBT at the supermarket a part of me dies a little.
I grew up like that and not ending up as a criminal is fucking hard. Living a prosperous life is f*cking hard, because you've never seen an example of it.
I'm not saying everyone with a lot of kids who is on food stamps is bad..I'm just saying a lot of them are. You can fuck yourself up all day, but when it comes to messing your kids up..ugh
Things need to change.
"Your post is mostly logically fallacious.
The good news is that the parts that aren't logically biased are factually wrong.
I know you are stupid and small mined, byt many people aren't. We need to focus on practical solutions. The longer we wait the more expensive it gets."
Can't spell, or doesn't look over his work and calls people stupid.
What is logically biased and towards what?
Why not tell us which parts are "factually wrong"?
"China is working towards cleaner energies and have started implementing them.
Many other 3rd world countries are also working on clean energies."
Yeah they say they are, because of international pressures. Just like the NRC has been working on "overhauling their safety program" for 20 years. Yet there are still many, many cases of violations going unpunished, and never corrected.
Just Saudi was working on "stopping human rights violations"
etc etc..
Just like the "free range" chicken I buy is "free range." People lie. It's basically the default setting when addressing large populations.
I would love to think China is trying to make a change - and maybe they are. I just don't have much faith. They might just be telling us what we want to hear...and considering not-polluting a major contributor to raising production costs the people telling them to go green don't have much motivation to look into it.
"I know you are stupid and small mined, byt many people aren't. We need to focus on practical solutions. The longer we wait the more expensive it gets."
Yeah that was a good laugh. Most people aren't stupid and small minded? Have you ever gone outside before? Most people are either awful, selfish, egocentric pieces of shit, or stupid...or both. That's not to say everyone is, and I'm not saying I don't fit into at least one of those categories.
So since you're so goddamn smart what practical solutions might you propose?
"You are falsely blaming others. Even if not everyone contributes, change can be achieved, and it should be tried. Non-contributing countries could even be fined for not contributing to the common rescue attempt."
I never blamed others. The US holds probably the majority of the responsibility. I was just saying even if the entire United States was to stop burning fossil fuels, trash, and stop driving in the grand scheme of things it wouldn't matter. Yes I'm sure a lot of the pollution in China is caused by American consumerism. However cars are a thing there even if a smaller % of people drive.
"China has about the same emissions as the US. And guess why China has so much emissions? Because of the outsourced productions (electronics, clothing, toys). The US could easily implement requirements that their outsourced products have to adhere to emission limits!"
Ah so here we get to the meat of things. I actually agree with you on this one, but the problem is the US would never do that. The 2 major reasons China is cheaper to run production in are (in my mind, grain of salt and such) as follows:
-They have no problems trampling on the lower class citizens. They have no problems with people working 16 hours to get a meaningful wage.
-They don't have all those "Pesky" EPA regulations. I think the EPA goes way too far in a lot of cases, but at the very least they keep our air..mostly clean.
I should have been more specific I suppose.
Yeah you're probably right. A lot of utterly massive companies don't get a discount though. Still, yeah they probably are getting one..especially since it's exclusive.
"As often as it takes until people like you listen?"
And yet here you sit using the same electricity that is supposed to be killing the planet to whine about it. Get rid of your car, get rid of your computer.
Nothing significant can happen unless everyone does. And here's the thing - most countries (especially poorer countries) don't give the tiniest bit of a fuck.
If everyone in America did what I'm saying it would make an impact, but A) That will never happen and B) It would just delay the inevitable, because of china etc.
So scenario A It's true and we're all fucked and can't do anything about it. Thus we're arguing over..nothing.
Scenario B It's not true and we're arguing over..nothing.
It doesn't paint the greatest picture of humanity but I'm fairly certain it's an accurate one.
"They find ways to keep costs low, for example, by only allowing payment by cash or American express"
Amex is the most expensive mainstream processing company in existence.
"2) b) The moon disappears. You're blamed. I'm pretty sure that you can show you're not responsible without knowing who the actual culprit is."
Not in any way the ensuing angry mob would accept. Just before the world ended.