1. the language is English.
2. cacucasian porn is involved (for the "certain color range in images" filtering).
3. you use a grammar/syntax language engine to parse what's coming down the pipe to decide if it's insidious or not.
Until then, what gets filtered is what goes against someone's political agenda.
You mean, that whole thing with the USS Cole in Yemen is just some terrorist group's idea of sending us flowers?
the following is from http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/10/12/terrorism.box.ap/ , and it's just the big stuff. None of the petty kidnappings and murders are listed here.
July 8, 1998 -- U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed, killing 224 people, 12 of whom were Americans.
June 25, 1996 -- Truck bomb explodes outside the Khobar Towers housing complex near Dharan, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Americans and injuring more than 500 Americans and Saudis.
November 13, 1995 -- Car bomb detonates at a U.S. military headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing five Americans.
September 13, 1995 -- Rocket-propelled grenade pierces wall of U.S. Embassy in Moscow, but causes no injuries.
December 21, 1988 -- Pan Am Boeing 747 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland on a flight from London to New York, killing 270 people.
September 5, 1986 -- Hijackers seize Pan Am jumbo jet carrying 358 people at Karachi Airport. Twenty people killed when security forces storm the plane.
April 2, 1986 -- Four Americans killed when a bomb under a seat explodes on a TWA airliner en route from Rome to Athens.
June 14, 1985 -- Shiite gunmen seize a TWA airliner and forced it to Beirut, Lebanon. U.S. Navy diver was killed and 39 Americans held hostage for 17 days.
September 20, 1984 -- Car bomb at U.S. Embassy annex in east Beirut, Lebanon kills 16 and injures the ambassador.
December 12, 1983 -- Shiite extremists set off car bombs in front of the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait City, killing five people and wounding 86.
October 23, 1983 -- Shiite suicide bomber blows up U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 Americans.
April 18, 1983 -- Suicide car-bomber blows up U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 17 Americans.
November 4, 1979 -- Islamic students storm U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, holding 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
The United States has long had a policy of meddling and imperialism in other countries. Our record in South America and the Middle East, coupled with the habit of Congress giving Ambassadorships to large donors or "retiring" Congressmen, added to the sheer number of people who despise the U.S., indicates we're doing something wrong.
The British ruled a larger portion of the world than we do, yet they are attacked, bombed, and the target of terrorists far less often than the United States.
Can you explain what would constitute your foreign policies?
Follow on military invervention in foreign countries: There is not a soul among us who would could stand to see our friends and neighbors butchered, raped, and driven from their homes -- if it were here in the United States. Why does our compassion suddenly evaporate when the victims are not U.S. citizens?
QED is an editor, does some minimal rich-text editing, and stores the doc in a compressed format so you can have your entire novel-in-progress on your palm. Way cool.
BrainForest is somewhere between a hyped-up to do list, a project planner, and a Gannt (sp?) chart in an outline style. It works outline style, but you're able to assign details to things, such as percent complete, or target dates. You can then expand or contract the elements below (as in child elements of parent item). Hard to describe, so just try it.
Those are two of the three apps I've ever bought for my Palm, and I'm still using my original Pilot (before the 1000 and 5000 days).
Throw all that nonsense stuff on the belt into a fanny pack, or at least a horizontally-oriented case. (Try to sit down without castrating yourself.) Ditch that "I watched 'The Abyss' too many times" forearm keyboard in favor of a twiddler. Replace the borg/Universal Soldier pirate-eye-patch display with a two-eye display (with adjustable opacity), and make it look like normal glasses or sunglasses.
The point is to make it look like something stylish. Not an electronic dialysis/colostomy machine.
Any one of you who's done some serious breadboaring knows what a pain in the ass cases are. I've got some friends who've done hardware for DOD projects (US Military for the acronym-impaired), and it was just a bunch of boards hung in a rack. Kinda like old telco equipment, or mainframes. Looked hokey, but that's how the military wanted it. Ventilation's only a problem if you're not passing air over the thing, and one whole side of the cases tended to be an array of fans. 5-1/4" and 9" fans, both.
Perhaps the poster (phungus) could answer this for me. Is it really a case-less setup you want, or easier access to the boards inside? Easier access, "tool-less" cases might be an answer.
"A Japanese skier ultimately dreamed of literally skiing Mt. Everest. He planned to ski some 8,000 feet down an icy glacier at a 40 to 45 degree angle, from the 26,000 foot level near the summit. This documentary chronicles this incredible feat and the tremendous task of climbing Everest itself. The narrator reads from the diary that the skier personally kept."
Me not lawyer, just geek, but I'll still try to interpret.
Two years ago, you're manufacturing Meth in your basement. You get the mix a little hot, it combusts, and you manage to put the fire out before your neighbors notice, and before structural damage. "Geez," you think, "what a risk. I need to find a different hobby." You give up the Meth biz, and go straight. You delete all the recipees and customer lists from your computer.
You've now got a great job, life is good, and you decide to call your girlfriend for dinner. Problem is, you're in Philadelphia, you're dressed in black, and you're walking past the hotel where one of the WTO exec's just happens to be staying. The police grab you, throw you into a van, and charge you as being a leader of a some vague somethingorother directed against the WTO. They sieze all your belonging, and start snarfing through your hard drive(s).
They find and reconstruct enough of your old meth client list and sales receipts to charge you as a meth dealer, and a fragment of an old deleted JPG image of your sister's new baby, but since this is Philly, and since the kid's getting his nappies changed (and is naked), you're also going to be charged as a child porn king.
With a statute of limitations on deleted files, none of that is admissible, and you walk. In the current state of things, you'll be spending 10-25 in a Pennsylvania prison.
The judge quite clearly states, "perhaps six months for an isolated message." Isolated, not part of a larger, longer investigation.
And a little further on:
"If, to the contrary, there was an objective continuation of the challenged conduct, or a continuing pattern of wrongful acts, the cyber statute of limitations would be tolled as any other."
1. It doesn't change that fast. (it seems to, but it's still C, perl, and HTML on the back end)
2. You'll be playing catch-up whether you're isolated, or in the thick of it. Staying up to date is a choice few choose to make. Most are happy to be stale.
3. It's about life and living. Go. Have fun. I know several folks who have done the Peace Corps gig, and it was a life-altering experience. Experience the bio-mass. See other cultures. You can Geek the rest of your life, but few of us have the chance to spend serious time overseas, and fewer still of us take those chances.
The strange thing is that someone really needs to sue their employer (any takers out there?) and get this resolved here in the States. There are situations where it's OK for the employer to snoop on phone calls, and others where it's not. One of the exceptions I remember (me not Lawyer) is Montana and Delaware, both having state constitutions highly protective of individual rights, say that it's not OK for employers to snoop. Other states are like, "Sure, if it increases your profits, do whatever you like...."
Anyway, at some point, they'll label email and telephone as similar communications, and thus bound by similar rules. Which means they'll either give telephone conversations the same weak protections email has, or they'll do what Thomas Jefferson would do, and extend the same protections to email that telephone users enjoy.
And maybe grandfather us DSL and cable modem users in, too.:-)
Tell the students to be upfront when applying to a company. Ask what the company's policy is on hiring and sponsoring foreigners. If the company doesn't do that sort of thing (my current customer site won't touch foreigners), then move on.
There's lots of companies out there wanting talent, and your students have it. I know one student from Caclutta who had no problems getting hired by a large corporation. He finishes his degree in the spring and will start immediately after that, but the company has already flown him out twice for interviews and orientation. They're sponsoring him, and providing legal assistance.
People aren't paying because they're suddenly realizing that, at the 1,500 page length of a King novel, it'll be a good 50-80 chapters, or about thrice what they'd pay for the book in the bookstore. Still, I beleive the number will level off at around 50%.
I remember King said he weeded 500 pages out of one of his books. It was 1,300 pages after the weeding.
This isn't a flame, but I'll be modded down anyway.
Get your credit card company involved. How is it you're out money when you didn't get _anything_ from them?
Even if the exchange rate did vary widely, and in your favor, you don't think they'd suddenly refund you more than what they billed you?
Me smell rat.
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How useable the thing is is part of how "good" the technology is perceived as being. Linux wasn't taken that seriously until it had a GUI. Now that there's slick graphical widgets, folks are loving it. (I'm even seeing Linux versions of office software in mainstream stores like Best Buy.)
It's also part of the cool factor. When they stopped making VHS VCRs look like Soviet Space Program cast-offs, sales went up. When mobile phones got small enough to be, well, mobile, sales went up. Sexy, to me, doesn't have anything to do with sex.
In my lexicon, sexy is how well implimented the whole thing is. How much an integral part of my life will this product be? Flashing lights? Baah! Perfume spewing computers? Baah. Pager sized, hey, that's a start. 20 hour battery life? Good start. A visual display that looks like/normal/ sunglasses? Better yet. Shock resistant, splash-resistant? Yes.
It should all be so sexy, so cool, that I can walk into a meeting of 50-something, golf-playing, cigarette-stale-breath MBAs, and they'll all say, "Wow. Where can I buy one?"
The technology should be sexy, not the wearers....
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The technology should be sooo sexy that it'd sell even if _I_ were wearing it. If it's really good technology, then it doesn't matter what it's draped across.
But, geez, pulsating lights that give off perfume? No thanks. And just how the heck does making it look neato take care of the privacy concerns? "No, no, the mauve color alone indicates privacy guard. It's the lavender you have to watch out for."
SameTime from the folks at Lotus. Integrates with both Exchange and Lotus Notes directories (I think with NT directories, too) as well as LDAP. They actually bought stuff from http://www.ubique.com and merged it with stuff from http://www.databeam.com to create SameTime, and then integrated it into everything. A PIII 500 will support something like 20,000 users.
Anyway, secure, plus beaucoup other functionality. Published, extendable APIs, examples. Video streaming, audio streaming, etc. etc. Uses choice of ActiveX or Java. Version 2.0 is due out the end of the month (or thereabouts). There's a Java version of the chat/instant messaging client, plus a Windows version.
I think someone's using you as a test case for some IP spoofing. Awful lot of.41 and.81 ending IP addresses in there, but from vastly different subnets. Looks too similar for me to beleive it's coincidence. I think the exploit works that one box sends hundreds of spoofs, then another box (somewhere else) receives the response. Some responses go to legitimate boxes (which didn't ask for the info), some to unused IP space, and one to the actual box you wanted the results to go to. The exploiter is hoping you wont' figure out which of the hundreds of requests actually went to a box you can trace back to them.
Also, since your robots.txt file says what not to index, that's frequently the list of directories with tasty things that people would most like to hack into. Think about it. What's in your robots.txt file? Things that change too often to be listed in search engine results, or the sorts of things that you don't want out there.
I think you're being probed. Make sure your backups are up to date, and that the box is secured.:-)
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I'm not surprised. The U.S. seriously considered using buried nukes to build/expand the Panama canal. Luckily, cooler heads prevailed.
Given the availability of home computers, I think most porn surfers are going to do it at home, or at the friends' house where there is a computer.
I think it's like kids playing with guns. You may not own one, but the neighbor's kid always does.
Teach your kid good values, and you won't have to worry. As much.
1. the language is English.
2. cacucasian porn is involved (for the "certain color range in images" filtering).
3. you use a grammar/syntax language engine to parse what's coming down the pipe to decide if it's insidious or not.
Until then, what gets filtered is what goes against someone's political agenda.
You mean, that whole thing with the USS Cole in Yemen is just some terrorist group's idea of sending us flowers?
/ , and it's just the big stuff. None of the petty kidnappings and murders are listed here.
the following is from http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/10/12/terrorism.box.ap
July 8, 1998 -- U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed, killing 224 people, 12 of whom were Americans.
June 25, 1996 -- Truck bomb explodes outside the Khobar Towers housing complex near Dharan, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Americans and injuring more than 500 Americans and Saudis.
November 13, 1995 -- Car bomb detonates at a U.S. military headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing five Americans.
September 13, 1995 -- Rocket-propelled grenade pierces wall of U.S. Embassy in Moscow, but causes no injuries.
December 21, 1988 -- Pan Am Boeing 747 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland on a flight from London to New York, killing 270 people.
September 5, 1986 -- Hijackers seize Pan Am jumbo jet carrying 358 people at Karachi Airport. Twenty people killed when security forces storm the plane.
April 2, 1986 -- Four Americans killed when a bomb under a seat explodes on a TWA airliner en route from Rome to Athens.
June 14, 1985 -- Shiite gunmen seize a TWA airliner and forced it to Beirut, Lebanon. U.S. Navy diver was killed and 39 Americans held hostage for 17 days.
September 20, 1984 -- Car bomb at U.S. Embassy annex in east Beirut, Lebanon kills 16 and injures the ambassador.
December 12, 1983 -- Shiite extremists set off car bombs in front of the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait City, killing five people and wounding 86.
October 23, 1983 -- Shiite suicide bomber blows up U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 Americans.
April 18, 1983 -- Suicide car-bomber blows up U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 17 Americans.
November 4, 1979 -- Islamic students storm U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, holding 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
The United States has long had a policy of meddling and imperialism in other countries. Our record in South America and the Middle East, coupled with the habit of Congress giving Ambassadorships to large donors or "retiring" Congressmen, added to the sheer number of people who despise the U.S., indicates we're doing something wrong.
The British ruled a larger portion of the world than we do, yet they are attacked, bombed, and the target of terrorists far less often than the United States.
Can you explain what would constitute your foreign policies?
Follow on military invervention in foreign countries: There is not a soul among us who would could stand to see our friends and neighbors butchered, raped, and driven from their homes -- if it were here in the United States. Why does our compassion suddenly evaporate when the victims are not U.S. citizens?
Do you use email, and if so, how often do you check it?
What are the three web sites you visit most frequently?
QED is an editor, does some minimal rich-text editing, and stores the doc in a compressed format so you can have your entire novel-in-progress on your palm. Way cool.
BrainForest is somewhere between a hyped-up to do list, a project planner, and a Gannt (sp?) chart in an outline style. It works outline style, but you're able to assign details to things, such as percent complete, or target dates. You can then expand or contract the elements below (as in child elements of parent item). Hard to describe, so just try it.
Those are two of the three apps I've ever bought for my Palm, and I'm still using my original Pilot (before the 1000 and 5000 days).
decidedly uncool looking.
Throw all that nonsense stuff on the belt into a fanny pack, or at least a horizontally-oriented case. (Try to sit down without castrating yourself.) Ditch that "I watched 'The Abyss' too many times" forearm keyboard in favor of a twiddler. Replace the borg/Universal Soldier pirate-eye-patch display with a two-eye display (with adjustable opacity), and make it look like normal glasses or sunglasses.
The point is to make it look like something stylish. Not an electronic dialysis/colostomy machine.
Any one of you who's done some serious breadboaring knows what a pain in the ass cases are. I've got some friends who've done hardware for DOD projects (US Military for the acronym-impaired), and it was just a bunch of boards hung in a rack. Kinda like old telco equipment, or mainframes. Looked hokey, but that's how the military wanted it. Ventilation's only a problem if you're not passing air over the thing, and one whole side of the cases tended to be an array of fans. 5-1/4" and 9" fans, both.
Perhaps the poster (phungus) could answer this for me. Is it really a case-less setup you want, or easier access to the boards inside? Easier access, "tool-less" cases might be an answer.
So, yeah, first top to bottom, but not first.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0073340
The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975)
Documentary
"A Japanese skier ultimately dreamed of literally skiing Mt. Everest. He planned to ski some 8,000 feet down an icy glacier at a 40 to 45 degree angle, from the 26,000 foot level near the summit. This documentary chronicles this incredible feat and the tremendous task of climbing Everest itself. The narrator reads from the diary that the skier personally kept."
Me not lawyer, just geek, but I'll still try to interpret.
Two years ago, you're manufacturing Meth in your basement. You get the mix a little hot, it combusts, and you manage to put the fire out before your neighbors notice, and before structural damage. "Geez," you think, "what a risk. I need to find a different hobby." You give up the Meth biz, and go straight. You delete all the recipees and customer lists from your computer.
You've now got a great job, life is good, and you decide to call your girlfriend for dinner. Problem is, you're in Philadelphia, you're dressed in black, and you're walking past the hotel where one of the WTO exec's just happens to be staying. The police grab you, throw you into a van, and charge you as being a leader of a some vague somethingorother directed against the WTO. They sieze all your belonging, and start snarfing through your hard drive(s).
They find and reconstruct enough of your old meth client list and sales receipts to charge you as a meth dealer, and a fragment of an old deleted JPG image of your sister's new baby, but since this is Philly, and since the kid's getting his nappies changed (and is naked), you're also going to be charged as a child porn king.
With a statute of limitations on deleted files, none of that is admissible, and you walk. In the current state of things, you'll be spending 10-25 in a Pennsylvania prison.
The judge quite clearly states, "perhaps six months for an isolated message." Isolated, not part of a larger, longer investigation.
And a little further on:
"If, to the contrary, there was an objective continuation of the challenged conduct, or a continuing pattern of wrongful acts, the cyber statute of limitations would be tolled as any other."
1. It doesn't change that fast. (it seems to, but it's still C, perl, and HTML on the back end)
2. You'll be playing catch-up whether you're isolated, or in the thick of it. Staying up to date is a choice few choose to make. Most are happy to be stale.
3. It's about life and living. Go. Have fun. I know several folks who have done the Peace Corps gig, and it was a life-altering experience. Experience the bio-mass. See other cultures. You can Geek the rest of your life, but few of us have the chance to spend serious time overseas, and fewer still of us take those chances.
The strange thing is that someone really needs to sue their employer (any takers out there?) and get this resolved here in the States. There are situations where it's OK for the employer to snoop on phone calls, and others where it's not. One of the exceptions I remember (me not Lawyer) is Montana and Delaware, both having state constitutions highly protective of individual rights, say that it's not OK for employers to snoop. Other states are like, "Sure, if it increases your profits, do whatever you like...."
:-)
Anyway, at some point, they'll label email and telephone as similar communications, and thus bound by similar rules. Which means they'll either give telephone conversations the same weak protections email has, or they'll do what Thomas Jefferson would do, and extend the same protections to email that telephone users enjoy.
And maybe grandfather us DSL and cable modem users in, too.
Tell the students to be upfront when applying to a company. Ask what the company's policy is on hiring and sponsoring foreigners. If the company doesn't do that sort of thing (my current customer site won't touch foreigners), then move on.
There's lots of companies out there wanting talent, and your students have it. I know one student from Caclutta who had no problems getting hired by a large corporation. He finishes his degree in the spring and will start immediately after that, but the company has already flown him out twice for interviews and orientation. They're sponsoring him, and providing legal assistance.
Any motherboard will do. A 2U case will take most any CPU, but you may run into cooling problems on the 1U units.
Anyway, here's the first link that popped up on Google:
http://www.adexelec.com/agp32.htm
Lotsa right-angle-AGP bending gadgets. They also make them for PCI, ISA, and more other things than I can remember.
People aren't paying because they're suddenly realizing that, at the 1,500 page length of a King novel, it'll be a good 50-80 chapters, or about thrice what they'd pay for the book in the bookstore. Still, I beleive the number will level off at around 50%.
I remember King said he weeded 500 pages out of one of his books. It was 1,300 pages after the weeding.
This isn't a flame, but I'll be modded down anyway.
Get your credit card company involved. How is it you're out money when you didn't get _anything_ from them?
Even if the exchange rate did vary widely, and in your favor, you don't think they'd suddenly refund you more than what they billed you?
Me smell rat.
How useable the thing is is part of how "good" the technology is perceived as being. Linux wasn't taken that seriously until it had a GUI. Now that there's slick graphical widgets, folks are loving it. (I'm even seeing Linux versions of office software in mainstream stores like Best Buy.)
/normal/ sunglasses? Better yet. Shock resistant, splash-resistant? Yes.
It's also part of the cool factor. When they stopped making VHS VCRs look like Soviet Space Program cast-offs, sales went up. When mobile phones got small enough to be, well, mobile, sales went up. Sexy, to me, doesn't have anything to do with sex.
In my lexicon, sexy is how well implimented the whole thing is. How much an integral part of my life will this product be? Flashing lights? Baah! Perfume spewing computers? Baah. Pager sized, hey, that's a start. 20 hour battery life? Good start. A visual display that looks like
It should all be so sexy, so cool, that I can walk into a meeting of 50-something, golf-playing, cigarette-stale-breath MBAs, and they'll all say, "Wow. Where can I buy one?"
The technology should be sooo sexy that it'd sell even if _I_ were wearing it. If it's really good technology, then it doesn't matter what it's draped across.
But, geez, pulsating lights that give off perfume? No thanks. And just how the heck does making it look neato take care of the privacy concerns? "No, no, the mauve color alone indicates privacy guard. It's the lavender you have to watch out for."
SameTime from the folks at Lotus. Integrates with both Exchange and Lotus Notes directories (I think with NT directories, too) as well as LDAP. They actually bought stuff from http://www.ubique.com and merged it with stuff from http://www.databeam.com to create SameTime, and then integrated it into everything. A PIII 500 will support something like 20,000 users.
Anyway, secure, plus beaucoup other functionality. Published, extendable APIs, examples. Video streaming, audio streaming, etc. etc. Uses choice of ActiveX or Java. Version 2.0 is due out the end of the month (or thereabouts). There's a Java version of the chat/instant messaging client, plus a Windows version.
http://www.lotus.com/sametime
I think someone's using you as a test case for some IP spoofing. Awful lot of .41 and .81 ending IP addresses in there, but from vastly different subnets. Looks too similar for me to beleive it's coincidence. I think the exploit works that one box sends hundreds of spoofs, then another box (somewhere else) receives the response. Some responses go to legitimate boxes (which didn't ask for the info), some to unused IP space, and one to the actual box you wanted the results to go to. The exploiter is hoping you wont' figure out which of the hundreds of requests actually went to a box you can trace back to them.
:-)
Also, since your robots.txt file says what not to index, that's frequently the list of directories with tasty things that people would most like to hack into. Think about it. What's in your robots.txt file? Things that change too often to be listed in search engine results, or the sorts of things that you don't want out there.
I think you're being probed. Make sure your backups are up to date, and that the box is secured.
Let's see. Educated, employed, good salary, pays taxes....
Sounds like it's exactly the sort of foreigner the U.S. doesn't want.
It's geographic racism. Nothing more. No one objects to the Canadian or British programmers coming over.
They also mentioned atomic-powered cars back in the 60's. Glad those didn't catch on.