The only reason we see swarms of worms on windows is it is the number one used platform of home users who download stuff willy-nilly, as well as read their email using outlook.
Indeed, and for me, just running Linux doesn't go far enough. My webserver is running a relatively obscure (but secure) httpd on a relatively obscure (but secure) OS on a relatively obscure hardware platform. Further, the httpd is running as nobody in a chroot jail, and is behind a DMZ with no access to the outside Internet, let alone my LAN.
I'm so belt-and-suspenders that I don't trust ssh to sit on a port by itself, and I wrote a separate authorization program that only enables ssh temporarily, for a single IP address at a time.
I won't say it's unhackable, but it's about as close as I can get without cutting off the electricity...
It was a Powerbook 5300cs. I've got one, but the power connector came off the motherboard inside, and I haven't had time to open it up and solder it back on. I just hope aliens don't invade before the holidays...
I'm left-handed, but I got so used to using a mouse right-handed that it's actually my preferred means of playing. But for joysticks, I need to use my left hand, and Saitek joysticks have worked beautifully. They follow actual standards, so they work fine with Linux, too.
Why has nobody thought of this before? Would this reall work?
It's been thought of. Google for "nuclear waste subduction". The problem is that subduction is a long, slow process, punctuated by violent activities like earthquakes and volcanoes.
You could accumulate a lot of waste in a given area that was slowly being pulled under, and then an volcano blows it all back up again. Or an earthquake cracks the seals and you've got contaminated groundwater or whatever.
The problems seem solvable with careful choice of site(s). There are places where the odds of such things are quite small. Pick someplace offshore, for one thing.
In reality, you'd have a greater risk of an accident in transporting the waste there than in any major incident happening.
Well, I don't use my Palm to enter information very often. That's really a job for a desktop, no question. On the other hand, it's pretty good at information retrieval, and that's very nice.
For example, I keep a diary on my Palm, but I actually record the entries on a PC and sync up. It's really nice to be able to look up that place we went to on vacation last year (or whatever) while I'm away from my desktop.
On the other hand, a folding keyboard came in really handy when we were vacationing in a tiny village in Italy. I could keep up the diary and even write some code (google for OnboardC, LispME, Quartus Forth). When I wasn't using it, the games got my nephew through a couple of boring stretches.
Why not generate text that looks real (heck, use excerpts from real email), and include images that advertise the latest scam product? After all, they are supposed to be incomprehensible to programs, and Bayesian filters are programs...
How can a human, using science (based on man-made theories and such), living in four dimensions be able to prove something that is so far above him exists?
We can, and have, come to definite conclusions about infinite things before. See, e.g., Cantor's Diagonal Proof. Heck, we've come to some pretty definite and pretty reliable conclusions about systems vastly more complex than any individual human, or even all humans put together. Just how much do we know, as certainly as we know anything, about the Earth, of which humankind is necessarily a subset?
Thanks to icculus. The movies don't work, but they were pretty cheesy anyway (and got worse in the "Gold Edition").
But it was a very nice game. You were so weak as a human, and the aliens were so fast. It took a lot of strategy to get anything done. I sure learned where all the medpacks were.
Playing as an alien, where you could cling to any surface and move really quickly, was my favorite. But you had no distance weapons at all. You had to sneak up on everyone.
I also liked how you could cheat, but you had to earn it, like getting a specific number of kills, or completing a level without being spotted, and so forth.
Well, it didn't totally blow me away; not like being a totally new experience. (I'd seen it before on a regular screen.) There were two things I did notice:
First, you could see the texture of the clothing and other materials a lot better; you could tell more easily what things were made out of.
The second is an extension of the first. You could see people's skin tones a lot better. Fishburne looks like a craggy asteroid in close-up, and I was surprised by the woman who played Persephone; Imax added about a decade to her apparent age.
3D Imax is indeed cool, but there was one thing I noticed about it. A "dissolve" or "cross-fade" in 3D is really disorienting, at least for me. On a 2D screen everything is in the same plane of focus, but in 3D it's totally different. My brain just flipped out every time they did a dissolve, I couldn't figure out where to focus.
If this is at all common, 3D movies will need some new visual idioms. Anyone else have this problem?
Hell, a lot of ISPs can't even be bothered to do outbound filtering to drop packets with spoofed source addresses. If they did that, it would make DOS attacks vastly more difficult. But try getting anyone to care... until they get DOSd.
Apparently, Windows only supports ONE video overlay at a time, so if you play a movie on one screen, and try to drag it to the other screen, the movie goes black...
Well, my NVidia card at home has that problem, but the ATI one at work doesn't, FWIW. I was actually suprised when I got it set up at home and dragged the movie app to the other screen...
Last I heard they didn't cooperate. Nvidia's Linux drivers can do multiple monitors plus OpenGL acceleration. I'm trying to decide what my next card will be, and I'd kinda like to go ATI but currently my NVidia card doesn't need to exit the X server to play games...
Good idea, and all, but something tells me that the box that's doing the harvesting will not be running a webserver.
True, but I also do it for the common worms when feasible. Let them reinfect themselves. I thought about redirecting them to, e.g., microsoft.com, but then I could theoretically be considered guilty of aiding and abetting an attack.
By reflecting it back on the originating host, the problem solves itself. If it's wrong for me to send that traffic back at them, it was wrong for them to have sent it to me in the first place.
All the MPAA has to do is download and look at a pirated movie and look for the cap codes and bam, they have ID'ed the projection house responsible for leaking the film.
I understand that the people who do this sort of thing are fairly well organized and spread out. What if they take two captures, diff them appropriately, and use the 'good' frames from each version? At the very least, you should manage to muddy the waters a bit, making it hard to figure out which of several theaters is responsible...
Does anyone have any evidence of these things actually working?
Well, my lame little website has had a few harvesters hit it. (Fairly obvious by their behavior and failure to process the javascript munging of my email address). I have a robots.txt file that disallows everyone from an "email" directory.
For a while, I had it set up that if anyone went in there, they'd get a big list of fake addresses spammers have used when emailing me, and the connection is throttled to something like 10 bytes/second. But no one ever went in there.
Now it just does an http redirect back to 127.0.0.1. Let them harvest their own website, I say. Still haven't seen it happen yet, though.
he carrying capacity of the Earth changes with technology. However, I remeber a few years back reading that based on the technology then the world could support 25 billion people.
That many people could probably be kept alive, I suppose. But there would be no parks, stadiums, roads, etc. You'd need every scrap of land not actively used for housing to be farmland. BTW, you wouldn't be able to afford to support grazing animals - way too inefficient. The grain could feed ten people or one cow...
Anybody who says we are going to run out of room in the US needs to leave the city for a weekend and go for a long drive.
People use way more land than they stand on. I work through some of the math here.
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Read the parent posts you're replying to, or the articles they reference. The vehicle wasn't moving.
Indeed, and for me, just running Linux doesn't go far enough. My webserver is running a relatively obscure (but secure) httpd on a relatively obscure (but secure) OS on a relatively obscure hardware platform. Further, the httpd is running as nobody in a chroot jail, and is behind a DMZ with no access to the outside Internet, let alone my LAN.
I'm so belt-and-suspenders that I don't trust ssh to sit on a port by itself, and I wrote a separate authorization program that only enables ssh temporarily, for a single IP address at a time.
I won't say it's unhackable, but it's about as close as I can get without cutting off the electricity...
And Gillette did about the same, too.
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It was a Powerbook 5300cs. I've got one, but the power connector came off the motherboard inside, and I haven't had time to open it up and solder it back on. I just hope aliens don't invade before the holidays...
I'm left-handed, but I got so used to using a mouse right-handed that it's actually my preferred means of playing. But for joysticks, I need to use my left hand, and Saitek joysticks have worked beautifully. They follow actual standards, so they work fine with Linux, too.
Even Penny Arcade.
It's been thought of. Google for "nuclear waste subduction". The problem is that subduction is a long, slow process, punctuated by violent activities like earthquakes and volcanoes.
You could accumulate a lot of waste in a given area that was slowly being pulled under, and then an volcano blows it all back up again. Or an earthquake cracks the seals and you've got contaminated groundwater or whatever.
The problems seem solvable with careful choice of site(s). There are places where the odds of such things are quite small. Pick someplace offshore, for one thing.
In reality, you'd have a greater risk of an accident in transporting the waste there than in any major incident happening.
For example, I keep a diary on my Palm, but I actually record the entries on a PC and sync up. It's really nice to be able to look up that place we went to on vacation last year (or whatever) while I'm away from my desktop.
On the other hand, a folding keyboard came in really handy when we were vacationing in a tiny village in Italy. I could keep up the diary and even write some code (google for OnboardC, LispME, Quartus Forth). When I wasn't using it, the games got my nephew through a couple of boring stretches.
Why not generate text that looks real (heck, use excerpts from real email), and include images that advertise the latest scam product? After all, they are supposed to be incomprehensible to programs, and Bayesian filters are programs...
We can, and have, come to definite conclusions about infinite things before. See, e.g., Cantor's Diagonal Proof. Heck, we've come to some pretty definite and pretty reliable conclusions about systems vastly more complex than any individual human, or even all humans put together. Just how much do we know, as certainly as we know anything, about the Earth, of which humankind is necessarily a subset?
Moreover, I'm pretty much convinced that an omni-* deity would not create a universe with evil in it. I think it's a logical contradiction, which allows me to make pretty definite conclusions about its possibility.
God wants people to believe him solely on faith (dunno why, that's just the way it is)
So, there's two possibilities in your view.
- God exists, but refuses to give any proof thereof, and actively arranges that there will be no such proof.
- God does not exist.
Note that both explain the observed facts equally well (by definition) but one is (literally) infinitely less complicated...Perhaps you can enlighten me as to the Biblical basis for the following concepts:
All of these (and more) were central to the founding of the United States, and the Bible actually argues against them.
But it was a very nice game. You were so weak as a human, and the aliens were so fast. It took a lot of strategy to get anything done. I sure learned where all the medpacks were. Playing as an alien, where you could cling to any surface and move really quickly, was my favorite. But you had no distance weapons at all. You had to sneak up on everyone. I also liked how you could cheat, but you had to earn it, like getting a specific number of kills, or completing a level without being spotted, and so forth.
Heh... mine is.
If this is at all common, 3D movies will need some new visual idioms. Anyone else have this problem?
The fun part is being able to count every individual pore on his face.
Hell, a lot of ISPs can't even be bothered to do outbound filtering to drop packets with spoofed source addresses. If they did that, it would make DOS attacks vastly more difficult. But try getting anyone to care... until they get DOSd.
Well, my NVidia card at home has that problem, but the ATI one at work doesn't, FWIW. I was actually suprised when I got it set up at home and dragged the movie app to the other screen...
Last I heard they didn't cooperate. Nvidia's Linux drivers can do multiple monitors plus OpenGL acceleration. I'm trying to decide what my next card will be, and I'd kinda like to go ATI but currently my NVidia card doesn't need to exit the X server to play games...
True, but I also do it for the common worms when feasible. Let them reinfect themselves. I thought about redirecting them to, e.g., microsoft.com, but then I could theoretically be considered guilty of aiding and abetting an attack.
By reflecting it back on the originating host, the problem solves itself. If it's wrong for me to send that traffic back at them, it was wrong for them to have sent it to me in the first place.
I understand that the people who do this sort of thing are fairly well organized and spread out. What if they take two captures, diff them appropriately, and use the 'good' frames from each version? At the very least, you should manage to muddy the waters a bit, making it hard to figure out which of several theaters is responsible...
Well, my lame little website has had a few harvesters hit it. (Fairly obvious by their behavior and failure to process the javascript munging of my email address). I have a robots.txt file that disallows everyone from an "email" directory.
For a while, I had it set up that if anyone went in there, they'd get a big list of fake addresses spammers have used when emailing me, and the connection is throttled to something like 10 bytes/second. But no one ever went in there.
Now it just does an http redirect back to 127.0.0.1. Let them harvest their own website, I say. Still haven't seen it happen yet, though.
That many people could probably be kept alive, I suppose. But there would be no parks, stadiums, roads, etc. You'd need every scrap of land not actively used for housing to be farmland. BTW, you wouldn't be able to afford to support grazing animals - way too inefficient. The grain could feed ten people or one cow...
Anybody who says we are going to run out of room in the US needs to leave the city for a weekend and go for a long drive.
People use way more land than they stand on. I work through some of the math here.