this is almost as stupid as saying that the widespread AIDS virus is a good sign - because it must show in some way that people are 'socially active'...
obviously, i'm stretching things with this comparison -- botnets don't slowly kill people.
but this kind of view is still a crock of sh*t, isn't it?
spindoctors. grrrr..
(now i'll go and read the article, and find out what kind of government official made such a comment)
...look them both up on Google, and your favourite peer-to-peer file sharing thingumy, and I'm sure you will find both quite enlightening to, um, "play with".
There are some very interesting/good MP3s and AVis by Bandler -- and Milton Erickson's material is also worth spending some time over.
Deep techies -- programmers in particular -- will likely find some of the NLP techniques quite interesting, especially if "O'Reilly's Mind Hacks" seemed like an interesting title.
Enjoy!
Nice to see this topic finally getting some more mainstream media coverage -- hypnosis is almost magickal, isn't it?
Perhaps a Firefox-esque forced delay is in order so people can't just click 'OK' without thinking.
I believe people will anyway -- they'll just learn that they have to wait a moment before they can click 'OK'... they still won't think. Maybe most of them never will.
Have you heard a scottish person talk? Maybe they have good grammar, but who can tell?
I am sure that someone who is fluent in the Scots language can tell if a Scottish person has good grammar or not -- because it's not the same language as English, and its grammar does have rules.
After a Dutch guy told me they have it easier because they say 'vey vey vey', I considered the options -- disregarded (the somewhat silly, imho) 'dub dub dub' -- and eventually settled on saying 'wuh wuh wuh'. (I still think it's pretty stupid though.)
since the whole debacle with www.odeon.co.uk over accessiblity (wherein odeon tried to sue some guy who scraped their site and served it up text only) they now provide a text-only version of their film times (it's linked from their front page).
adding that info on text-only pages/was/ their site redesign!
The current version of NTFS [...], does not handle full-fledged journaling; change-journal logs note alterations to files but can't provide enough information to reverse them.
not necessarily the case... http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1617 233,00.as p
at the time, there was some dispute as to which 'high traffic sites' had been infected, as nobody who knew the names of these sites would actually come forward to name-and-shame them.
unsurprisingly, there was a discussion right here about it: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/2 0/225 6242&tid=172&tid=95
'scuse me for asking the obvious question, but how come the staff at safeway/etc didn't notice that this guy was using his mother's card?...if credit cards had a photo of the owner upon them, then (in some cases) this kinda stuff could be prevented (because--correct me if i'm wrong, i live in the uk and ccards may work differently in the usa--this kid should not have been able/allowed to use his mother's credit card in the first place)
All it would take would be for Apple to release OS X for the PC. Any chance Linux had at serious penetration of the desktop market would evaporate.
..i don't necessarily agree on that point: a lot of people value linux because it is free and open, and not just because of the fact that it runs on x86 hardware and is not a Microsoft product.
no matter what platfom OSX might run on, a lot of it isn't GPL'ed software (or your favourite open licence), and likely never will be.
FWIW, Verizon are currently being totally OTT with their so-called spam control (i.e. email blocking) policies--they are currently blocking mail from most of Europe in a very ham-fisted fashion.
sure, it doesn't fix the problem with ISPs blocking port 25, but it'll allow you to test your mail server--and more.
i assume that the mail server you wish to telnet into is yours, and that you can configure it as you wish.
on your mail server, use iptables to put in a simple port mapping from say port 8025 to port 25, and use this when needs be. (fwiw, a port mapping of this kind is what we have in place on our mail servers)
this will allow you to telnet in and test all you like.
also, as you're now making SMTP available on a non-standard port, this also allows your clients/customers to access your SMTP services even if they are using an ISP that blocks port 25--providing they are smart enough to configure their email client with the information you provide.
(this above point is useful if you have a client who runs mybusiness.com, but wishes to send mail on a dial-up connection/without/ using the ISPs mail server--AOL aren't the only ISP to force all port 25 connections to their own mail server, but some ISPs won't even let you relay mail from mybusiness.com even after you've authenticated!)
and, of course, even if you add a port mapping on a non-standard port, your SMTP services are also still available on the standard port 25.
sorry, but if i was trying to pull a fast one on my current place of employment (or otherwise rip someone off, or carry out some kind of espionage), i'd be a total fool to think any existing comms channels were secure --/without/ having put in my own layer of encryption, to which only i have the key/passphrase.
install gpg, or worse than nothing, use s/mime - but if you need to ensure privacy, you need to have (put) your own privacy layer in place.
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this is almost as stupid as saying that the widespread AIDS virus is a good sign - because it must show in some way that people are 'socially active'...
obviously, i'm stretching things with this comparison -- botnets don't slowly kill people.
but this kind of view is still a crock of sh*t, isn't it?
spindoctors. grrrr..
(now i'll go and read the article, and find out what kind of government official made such a comment)
...look them both up on Google, and your favourite peer-to-peer file sharing thingumy, and I'm sure you will find both quite enlightening to, um, "play with".
/J
There are some very interesting/good MP3s and AVis by Bandler -- and Milton Erickson's material is also worth spending some time over.
Deep techies -- programmers in particular -- will likely find some of the NLP techniques quite interesting, especially if "O'Reilly's Mind Hacks" seemed like an interesting title.
Enjoy!
Nice to see this topic finally getting some more mainstream media coverage -- hypnosis is almost magickal, isn't it?
Bon Voyage...
I believe hacking is neither an art nor a science, I think it's a craft -- comprised of part science and part art.
I believe people will anyway -- they'll just learn that they have to wait a moment before they can click 'OK'... they still won't think. Maybe most of them never will.
i don't speak hebrew, but i believe this pic shows the early google setup at stanford, complete with lego and duct tape.
d ata-centersn ess_Google_History.html
http://tidno1.exteen.com/20050222/server-google
i'm sure i've seen a pic showing racks of beige-boxed pcs, before google went for the rack mount kit - but i can't seem to find it now.
but nowadays, google's data centres are just like any one elses
http://www.prweaver.com/blog/2004/09/03/8-google-
http://www.mrx.no/San-Francisco/A_cluster_of_cool
hth?
end of July?
just a thought, but maybe traffic is up on those sites because all the schools, colleges and universities have closed for the summer?
give the parent post a mod point - for actually being able to see both sides of what has happened.
I am sure that someone who is fluent in the Scots language can tell if a Scottish person has good grammar or not -- because it's not the same language as English, and its grammar does have rules.
After a Dutch guy told me they have it easier because they say 'vey vey vey', I considered the options -- disregarded (the somewhat silly, imho) 'dub dub dub' -- and eventually settled on saying 'wuh wuh wuh'. (I still think it's pretty stupid though.)
since the whole debacle with www.odeon.co.uk over accessiblity (wherein odeon tried to sue some guy who scraped their site and served it up text only) they now provide a text-only version of their film times (it's linked from their front page).
/was/ their site redesign!
adding that info on text-only pages
According to this article:
http://www.r-fx.org/apf.phpb fd.php
http://www.r-fx.org/
hehe, that "why physicists can't fight" piece should certainly be modded +5 funny--or perhaps +5 artful troll...
did anyone else actually read to the end of the piece and check out the 'disturbing phone call from Steven Hawking'....???
>> And IE exploits run from non trusted sites
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not necessarily the case...
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,161
at the time, there was some dispute as to which 'high traffic sites' had been infected, as nobody who knew the names of these sites would actually come forward to name-and-shame them.
unsurprisingly, there was a discussion right here about it:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/
'scuse me for asking the obvious question, but how come the staff at safeway/etc didn't notice that this guy was using his mother's card? ...if credit cards had a photo of the owner upon them, then (in some cases) this kinda stuff could be prevented (because--correct me if i'm wrong, i live in the uk and ccards may work differently in the usa--this kid should not have been able/allowed to use his mother's credit card in the first place)
All it would take would be for Apple to release OS X for the PC. Any chance Linux had at serious penetration of the desktop market would evaporate.
..i don't necessarily agree on that point: a lot of people value linux because it is free and open, and not just because of the fact that it runs on x86 hardware and is not a Microsoft product.
no matter what platfom OSX might run on, a lot of it isn't GPL'ed software (or your favourite open licence), and likely never will be.
that's funny, in both the C64 game and in the comic strip, there is a dude who goes around on one wheel--is the game based upon the comic strip?
yes, i think you're referring to a character from "BC"--currently running here
cool--what this guy has built is similar in nature to the 'bombardier embrio' concept motorbike.
articles with pics here and here
well cross me with an octopus already godammit!
FWIW, Verizon are currently being totally OTT with their so-called spam control (i.e. email blocking) policies--they are currently blocking mail from most of Europe in a very ham-fisted fashion.
l ass_action/
read more about it here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/21/verizon_c
i have a workaround...
/without/ using the ISPs mail server--AOL aren't the only ISP to force all port 25 connections to their own mail server, but some ISPs won't even let you relay mail from mybusiness.com even after you've authenticated!)
sure, it doesn't fix the problem with ISPs blocking port 25, but it'll allow you to test your mail server--and more.
i assume that the mail server you wish to telnet into is yours, and that you can configure it as you wish.
on your mail server, use iptables to put in a simple port mapping from say port 8025 to port 25, and use this when needs be. (fwiw, a port mapping of this kind is what we have in place on our mail servers)
this will allow you to telnet in and test all you like.
also, as you're now making SMTP available on a non-standard port, this also allows your clients/customers to access your SMTP services even if they are using an ISP that blocks port 25--providing they are smart enough to configure their email client with the information you provide.
(this above point is useful if you have a client who runs mybusiness.com, but wishes to send mail on a dial-up connection
and, of course, even if you add a port mapping on a non-standard port, your SMTP services are also still available on the standard port 25.
sorry, but if i was trying to pull a fast one on my current place of employment (or otherwise rip someone off, or carry out some kind of espionage), i'd be a total fool to think any existing comms channels were secure -- /without/ having put in my own layer of encryption, to which only i have the key/passphrase.
install gpg, or worse than nothing, use s/mime - but if you need to ensure privacy, you need to have (put) your own privacy layer in place.
(it's no good hoping and relying on magic pixies)
when i'm choosing a big iron, i try to find one which can get the big creases out of my big pants
they just hold their breath -- at least, that's what my mother told me some years ago...