The vulnerabilities were discovered by three young security researchers with eEye Digital Security of Aliso Viejo, California, led by Marc Maiffret, a 21-year-old former hacker. In recent months, Maiffret, who calls himself the firm's "chief hacking officer," has advised the FBI and the White House on Internet security questions and testified before Congress.
How'd you like to have that on your business card?
That was part of the justification for having solitare installed on machines at work. Solitare supposedly helps develop the player's mousing skills which is then assumed to increase productivity for all other tasks in the point-and-click windows interface.
I hadn't heard that. Do you have a source for this? There have been reports on and off for probably over a year that AT&T is "in talks" to be acquired or somesuch. I think the last sone I heard was British Telecom was interested?
ATT wasn't able to evolve its IT systems to keep up with changes in its business. I remember back, prolly '94, reading about how they had a hundred or more different systems and how they had the enormous task of consolidating and modernizing these systems, the goal being a unified view of the customer (rather than the vertical systems they had for each business).
It wasn't that they didn't recognize this problem or try to do anything about it. They never came up with a workable strategy. Frankly, I'm not sure how you would even begin to tackle a problem like this.
Southwest Bell was one of the seven baby bells (BellSouth, Bell Atlantic, Ameritech, US West, NyNex, PacTel and SW Bell) and they went on to acquire PacTel and Ameritech and are now SBC.
Bell Atlantic and NyNex merged and (I lost track) then became Verizon when GTE came to the party.
>SBC swallows AT&T
When did this happen? AT&T has been disintegrating on its own for some time now (Wireless, now broadband leaving). SBC hasn't had much to do with it (yet).
AT&T Chairman C. Michael Armstrong... will serve as chairman of the new company when the merger closes.... Comcast President Brian Roberts will be chief executive officer.
He was going to retire in 2003, now he gets to go drive another company into the ground. I can't wait to see what happens to my service now. Up until October, we had MediaOne express (even though AT&T had bought M1 over a year prior), then we were migrated to @Home-less for the 2 months before they cut their service to AT&T and we were moved to attbi. I give it about 18 months before this goes bust and AOL/TW buys it and moves us onto something else.
>because all the high-bandwidth advertisments hadn't finished hoarding the network yet
Aren't the ads served from elsewhere, though? I would expect that the guy running the site doesn't have to worry about the bandwidth consumed by the ads.
Adcritic's problem seems to have been his own content. Serving video in exchange for banner impressions wasn't a sustainable business model given the popularity of his site versus the shrinking web advertising revenue, I guessing.
Well, they are rerpoting as fact that Mohammad Afroze Abdul Razzak is making these claims. Are they not supposed to print the story because what this guy is saying is almost certainly untrue?
It would be different if they were reporting that there were *in fact* security bugs in XP planted by terrorists, based on the claims of one guy.
K, I know I'll be moded down for this, but this reminded me, and I can't resist:
"It's Pedro, he's been picked up again. This time he was robbing an ATM, at knife point. He needs your 'expert legal advice'".
>imaging all 9,629,091 sq km... of the USA at 61-cm
I'm assuming that includes all of the sparsely populated areas in Montana and Alaska? If you trimmed the area to image down to the parts big brother would really find interesting, it would be a whole lot smaller, I would imagine (although, probably still be way huge)
I was hit with it as well (my 'homepage' link gives some details), the explanation being that he (Taco) used the script to disable accounts for other reasons as well (in my case, moderation abuse). I've been IP banned as well, but I suspect this happens when someone behind the company firewall (or maybe 5 different jerks) manages to get 5 posts downmodded. After 24 hours, this ban gets lifted (happened at least twice).
Exactly the way I understood this as well. The propulsion provided on the DS1 probe was suited to continuous operation over a long period of time, resulting in gradual, continuous acceleration of a very small craft using a very small amount of thrust.
Under the circumstances for which ion propulsion is appropriate, it can push a spacecraft up to about ten times as fast as chemical propulsion. Because the ion propulsion system, although highly efficient, is very gentle in its thrust, it cannot be used for any application in which a rapid acceleration is required. With patience, the ion propulsion system on DS1 imparts about 3.6 km/s to the spacecraft. To undertake the same mission with a chemical propulsion system would require a more expensive launch vehicle and a larger spacecraft to accommodate a large tank for the chemical propellants.
You need the opposite to boost the ISS - a large amount of thrust in a short period of time to move a very large object.
I wasn't able to buy the 310's last time I needed cards, and the 311's now have realtek chips, I believe.
But that doesn't make sense anyway to buy new NICs with tulip chips. If buying new cards was an option, wouldn't he just get something well supported in the first place? I bet his problem is motherboard-integrated NICs.
After these newer models get through the free trial period that is granted to all new boxes, they will not be able to schedule any new recordings. Trick Play and a buffer will still be enabled. We have conveyed that openly in our manuals, the box coverings, our website, etc. We are unapologetically in the business of trying to encourage new (fully informed) purchasers to subscribe to the TiVo Service.
That's not true, is it? You get two weeks gratis program info, but after that, it refuses to work until it sees some kind of subscription. (My brother bought a Sony unit thinking he could do what you just desribed, he took it back when it refused to let him record anything without a subscription).
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>only root can bind to low numbered ports
So, just bind to some arbitrary high-numbered port, right? I mean, only the worm is going to use this smtp service, who cares if it is on port 25?
Junk DNA?, or is there a more technical term?
The vulnerabilities were discovered by three young security researchers with eEye Digital Security of Aliso Viejo, California, led by Marc Maiffret, a 21-year-old former hacker. In recent months, Maiffret, who calls himself the firm's "chief hacking officer," has advised the FBI and the White House on Internet security questions and testified before Congress.
How'd you like to have that on your business card?
Actually, my testimony is accurate in a way. It depends on how you define the word 'is'.
No reflection on your comments, I understand what you're saying. Just, reminded me of the weasily-worded wiggling of someone else.
>Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response center.
... I'm aware". ;-)
Well, he *is* a manager, so its not too hard to believe the statement "first
at the risk of being modded redundant
So sue me if it takes me less than 20 seconds to get my point across!
That was part of the justification for having solitare installed on machines at work. Solitare supposedly helps develop the player's mousing skills which is then assumed to increase productivity for all other tasks in the point-and-click windows interface.
Don't know if that's really true?
I hadn't heard that. Do you have a source for this? There have been reports on and off for probably over a year that AT&T is "in talks" to be acquired or somesuch. I think the last sone I heard was British Telecom was interested?
ATT wasn't able to evolve its IT systems to keep up with changes in its business. I remember back, prolly '94, reading about how they had a hundred or more different systems and how they had the enormous task of consolidating and modernizing these systems, the goal being a unified view of the customer (rather than the vertical systems they had for each business).
It wasn't that they didn't recognize this problem or try to do anything about it. They never came up with a workable strategy. Frankly, I'm not sure how you would even begin to tackle a problem like this.
Well, not exactly...
>Baby Bells join into SBC.
Southwest Bell was one of the seven baby bells (BellSouth, Bell Atlantic, Ameritech, US West, NyNex, PacTel and SW Bell) and they went on to acquire PacTel and Ameritech and are now SBC.
Bell Atlantic and NyNex merged and (I lost track) then became Verizon when GTE came to the party.
>SBC swallows AT&T
When did this happen? AT&T has been disintegrating on its own for some time now (Wireless, now broadband leaving). SBC hasn't had much to do with it (yet).
>Armstrong clearly needs to go
... will serve as chairman of the new company when the merger closes. ... Comcast President Brian Roberts will be chief executive officer.
Armstrong is going to head this 'new company'.
AT&T Chairman C. Michael Armstrong
He was going to retire in 2003, now he gets to go drive another company into the ground. I can't wait to see what happens to my service now. Up until October, we had MediaOne express (even though AT&T had bought M1 over a year prior), then we were migrated to @Home-less for the 2 months before they cut their service to AT&T and we were moved to attbi. I give it about 18 months before this goes bust and AOL/TW buys it and moves us onto something else.
I borked the link. At the risk of being modded down on both posts:
or sometimes even coffee!
"Ooooh!"
"What's the matter, too hot?"
"No, too sweet!"
or sometimes even coffee! (rimshot) *ducks*
well, yes ... but that's a separate problem from the one that made them shut down the site
>because all the high-bandwidth advertisments hadn't finished hoarding the network yet
Aren't the ads served from elsewhere, though? I would expect that the guy running the site doesn't have to worry about the bandwidth consumed by the ads.
Adcritic's problem seems to have been his own content. Serving video in exchange for banner impressions wasn't a sustainable business model given the popularity of his site versus the shrinking web advertising revenue, I guessing.
Well, they are rerpoting as fact that Mohammad Afroze Abdul Razzak is making these claims. Are they not supposed to print the story because what this guy is saying is almost certainly untrue?
It would be different if they were reporting that there were *in fact* security bugs in XP planted by terrorists, based on the claims of one guy.
According to Desler, Microsoft has rigorous processes in place during the development of Windows to ensure the security and integrity of source code
Oh well, in that case!
K, I know I'll be moded down for this, but this reminded me, and I can't resist:
"It's Pedro, he's been picked up again. This time he was robbing an ATM, at knife point. He needs your 'expert legal advice'".
"STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!!!!"
>imaging all 9,629,091 sq km ... of the USA at 61-cm
I'm assuming that includes all of the sparsely populated areas in Montana and Alaska? If you trimmed the area to image down to the parts big brother would really find interesting, it would be a whole lot smaller, I would imagine (although, probably still be way huge)
I was hit with it as well (my 'homepage' link gives some details), the explanation being that he (Taco) used the script to disable accounts for other reasons as well (in my case, moderation abuse). I've been IP banned as well, but I suspect this happens when someone behind the company firewall (or maybe 5 different jerks) manages to get 5 posts downmodded. After 24 hours, this ban gets lifted (happened at least twice).
Exactly the way I understood this as well. The propulsion provided on the DS1 probe was suited to continuous operation over a long period of time, resulting in gradual, continuous acceleration of a very small craft using a very small amount of thrust.
http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ds1/tech/ionpropfaq.html
Under the circumstances for which ion propulsion is appropriate, it can push a spacecraft up to about ten times as fast as chemical propulsion. Because the ion propulsion system, although highly efficient, is very gentle in its thrust, it cannot be used for any application in which a rapid acceleration is required. With patience, the ion propulsion system on DS1 imparts about 3.6 km/s to the spacecraft. To undertake the same mission with a chemical propulsion system would require a more expensive launch vehicle and a larger spacecraft to accommodate a large tank for the chemical propellants.
You need the opposite to boost the ISS - a large amount of thrust in a short period of time to move a very large object.
I wasn't able to buy the 310's last time I needed cards, and the 311's now have realtek chips, I believe.
But that doesn't make sense anyway to buy new NICs with tulip chips. If buying new cards was an option, wouldn't he just get something well supported in the first place? I bet his problem is motherboard-integrated NICs.
>Any newbie who trys to install 2.5.1 is in for a learning experience
:-)
Right. And we certainly don't want any of those "newbies" to try anything that might make them actually learn something, right?
I think you are wrong.
After these newer models get through the free trial period that is granted to all new boxes, they will not be able to schedule any new recordings. Trick Play and a buffer will still be enabled. We have conveyed that openly in our manuals, the box coverings, our website, etc. We are unapologetically in the business of trying to encourage new (fully informed) purchasers to subscribe to the TiVo Service.
That's not true, is it? You get two weeks gratis program info, but after that, it refuses to work until it sees some kind of subscription. (My brother bought a Sony unit thinking he could do what you just desribed, he took it back when it refused to let him record anything without a subscription).