(snipped thanks to lameness filter) 4 rows in set (11.56 sec)
mysql> use test; Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A ...and there it's been sitting for the past half hour or more. I love that 12-seconds just to display the list of DBs. Congratulations Slashdot, you slashdotted the spammer's sql server!
It would be nice though, if MS at least documented ALL the startup locations, preferably in a big file named "All The Possible Start-Up Locations For Win[2000]" (etc.)
It started simple enough; there were the CurrentVersion\Run , \RunServices and a few similar keys we all know and love, all lined up in a row.
Then new Windowses start coming out with more Registry keys that can load malicious code on startup. Once people were diligently monitoring Run and RunServices, the malware vendors discovered ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad...now that's diligently monitored (by a select few), but wait....what are we up to now? CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\ ?
That's a new one to me. What auto-crap-loading key will they discover next?
So, if even 'pwned' is insufficient to describe the level of ownership (e.g. in the year 2042, hacking their heads-up display contact lenses so an un-turn-off-able Goatse is tattooed across their eyeballs), would they then be considered qwned?
Not aimed at the original poster, just another kiddy rant.
From the top Google result for the airpwn project:
HTTP javascript alert boxes, letting people know just how pwned they were
Pwned? What kind of kiddies come up with this stuff; that's not even pronounceable. If you're going to make up some l33t term for kiddying somebody's box, at least make it pronounceable so that you can tell your friends what you did without sounding like a complete dumbass (you know...in person...you do talk to people in person, right?)
E.g.: "Haha, dude, I went to this coffeeshop, and everyone was on their like wireless thingamabobs, right? So I set up an injector node so that every image in the pages they loaded had little goatse's on them. I totally narfed them! I even popped up little boxes telling them how narfed they were."
That's why. Every new router, switch and other device on Intel's "Internet 3", replacing all the old hardware, will of course need processors...
This is the same reason Intel is putting so much research into DARPA's Smart Dust concept. Right now Smart Dust is a bunch of engineers geeking around (or to some extent, a solution looking for a problem), but when/if it hits big, and micropower sensors are deployed in the hundreds-thousands-or-millions at a time, they would love to step up to potential manufacturers (before ARM and everyone else do) and say "hey, we've already got nanowatt CPUs tailored to that application, whattdya say?"
(Of course, don't discount the Engineers Having Fun factor either.)
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the homebrew SNESKey adaptor yet. This allows you to hook a wide variety of game controllers (including NES, SNES and some Atari/Genesis controllers) to your computer's parallel port (remember when computers had those?). There was even a DOS program you could run your old-school DOS emulators under, which messed with some interrupt vectors so that it would trap control pad activity on the LPT port and translate it directly to keyboard presses (so it would work with pretty much any emulator without modifications).
Best part about this, was the ONLY parts it required were a common rectifier diode (or 2-3) to siphon the controller's power directly off the port.
Imagine when the human-targeting billboard people get together with the RFID people before descending on your nearest Wal~Mart. Can't tell skinny people from fat, male from female, you say? Once most products have RFID tags, it'll be a simple matter to differently target the person whose cart just rolled up with FUBU t-shirts and 13 bottles of Jheri Curl vs. the one with a stack of flannels and a gross of shotgun shells. (And telling the Size 8 purchases from the Size 18 purchases is more trivial still.) The beauty is these guys don't even have to correlate anything with actual purchases nor tie into a specific customer's Preferred Card database profile for this targeting method to be effective (although that might not stop 'em from trying anyway).
Oh, by the way (to those who modded up this crap about the words FAKE FAKE FAKE being encoded into the color channels), these parent and grandparent posts are hoaxes, as well. How many of you actually opened a photo editor and split the channels before modding this insightful? That's what I thought.
The evidence is quite good, from what I remember, including stuff like hashes matching files originally recorded back during the Napster days.
So you mean, if I rip my copy of Britney's "Baby Slap My Ass With a Trout" and compress it with LAME 2.6, it will be different from everyone else's copy compressed with LAME 2.6?
Record exec> We got hold of your browsing history and found out you downloaded a copyrighted ringtone on 2004-08-12. We subpoenaed your phone records and found your phone has rung 26 times since then. We estimate an average of 15 people heard the ringtone each time, for a total royalty fee of...
Me> Public? Prove that I was in public, and not just sitting alone up in my room reading Slashdot everytime the phone rang. It rang in my pants pocket and serenaded my left nut and my right nut. But they don't have ears.
Huck Finn probably made the list because it had the word 'nigger' in it. It wasn't banned at the high school I went to (in fact, required reading for some English classes), but I do remember my Eng. teacher disclaiming about some of the language (racial-related words in particular), and how it was taken differently in those days.
Nah, a real hacker would have thrown together a cheap microcontroller-based device with a screen (bonus geek points for hacking an existing device, like a GBA, digital camera, cellfone, etc.) and a custom display driver to read the realtime data from an embedded WiFi, wUSB, etc. device (or a memory, if a live stream wasn't available).
A video capture running on Windows Media Player? Come on...
Walt Rines - That's the son of a bitch that killed my message board (for an evening, anyway). At an antispam/antispyware message board that will remain nameless (but trivial to guess), an anonymous user posted a large, entertaining page of collected "dirt" on ole Walt. This included his home address, several phone numbers, a slew of information about his other ventures (did you know the honourable Mr. Rines is responsible for that spyware-laden piece of crap "Kazanon"?), and similarly-dug dirt about his upstanding family members. Some excerpts:
Walt's sister sells "Gravestone Artwear" and "Goddess-Sized Medieval/Pagan/Gothic Attire" (Jesus, it makes you shudder to put a visual to THAT one, doesn't it?) under the way-cool, groovy, far out New-Age monniker of "Lily Moonstorm".
Business Address & Phone:
Her business email, , is obviously the place to order 8 million cases of black lipstick, granite earrings and goddess-sized marble dildoes. DON'T MISS THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!!!!!!!!!
Then there's Jason C. Rines, Walt's scumbag brother and "opt-in" spammer. Former "VP for Sales & Marketing" for Walt's now-defunct gtminet.net, Jason learned at the knee of the master (or was that BETWEEN the knees, Jay?) And now he's got his Senator-the-Corleone-family-are-respectable-busine ssmen" speech spiffed up real nice--but he's the same old chickenboner in a shinier suit.
Now CEO of MediaHeights, LLC (mediaheights.com, impulseinteractive.com, emailresults.net, market research.net and other spam palaces), Jason apparently dabbles in magic, too, making a "Suite 305" appear in half the buildings in Dover, NH---including those without a third floor.
Dangerous work, magic, so Jason and his "lovely" wife Regina "opted" to live out in Rochester, NH, where they're less likely to be hit by one of those flying suites.
Perhaps you'd like to call him at home () and discuss, say, the finer points of prestidigitation.
Alright, Walt-Baby, let's get medieval! Let's drag out your main squeeze!
Sara , former Telemarketing Queen, is into "Aroma Therapy". (Can't blame the poor girl, since she probably has to shove a bushel of pine needles up her nose every time you drop trou, eh, Walt?)
Sara , Aroma Therapy Practitioner, PO Box Rochester, NH 03866,
(Unlisted # from a CLEC in Milton, NH)
Sara has *cough*cough* nothing to do with Walt's spy/spam activities. Of course, she DOES use email addresses like @odysseusmarketing.com (a suspended corporation at a dead street address in California with bogus phone numbers and bogus individuals to contact). Probably drives out there every weekend and picks up her mail from the Los Angeles Post Office, too. Yeah.
On the other hand, she does have her uses, notably, grunting out Walt's worthless progeny. Probably won't much longer, though, when we post pictures of Walt and some of some of his "on-the-side" Hip-Hop Bimbos.
Anyway, the cunt rag called up our WWW host making various threats, and succeeded in getting the board chmodded to 000 until they could be bothered to pass along the complaint. At the moment, the board "should be" up again (but isn't, because these boneheads can't seem to keep a copy of mysql running more than a couple days this week) with the spammer's valuable "opt in" information temporarily removed.
We'll be looking for an upstream with bigger, brasser ones to limit this kind of annoyance in the future. Any recommendations on a balls-of-steel host that will serve 40GBytes+/mo on the reasonably cheap?
1) Run your own code on the camera A code loader has been written that allows you to nondestructively load your own executable code into the camera's 8MB (slightly less of it usable by you) DRAM. A small demo program from his site demonstrates the concept by blinking out a pattern on the 'Ready' LED, but programs of arbitrary complexity could be written...subject to the limitation that you can't access/execute any of the onboard firmware in this mode. (Bracing for the inevitable Beowulf-cluster comments...)
2) Bye-bye 25-picture limitation Another clever hack lets you reset the 25-picture limit to an arbitrarily high number. This allows you to take pictures until the camera's FLASH memory actually fills up completely (under "real-world" outdoor picture-taking conditions, I've found this to be about 50 shots, but it will vary with how compressible your images are).
3) Firmware updater and miscellaneous updates/bugfixes Balerdi's patchfile for an existing Dakota firmware corrects several nits/bugs with the original. It makes the number-of-pictures display count upward from 0 instead of downward from 25 (very useful in conjunction with the previous hack), ensures picture numbering starts from 1 everytime the camera is cleared and always remains consistent (even if you delete shots), and fixes a bug in the original firmware that could result in 2 pictures having an identical number/filename (making one impossible to download).
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mysql> show databases;
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4 rows in set (11.56 sec)
mysql> use test;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
It would be nice though, if MS at least documented ALL the startup locations, preferably in a big file named "All The Possible Start-Up Locations For Win[2000]" (etc.)
It started simple enough; there were the CurrentVersion\Run , \RunServices and a few similar keys we all know and love, all lined up in a row.
Then new Windowses start coming out with more Registry keys that can load malicious code on startup. Once people were diligently monitoring Run and RunServices, the malware vendors discovered ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad...now that's diligently monitored (by a select few), but wait....what are we up to now? CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\ ?
That's a new one to me. What auto-crap-loading key will they discover next?
Interestingly, Chicago's 312 is right by Chicago's 708 (which used to be part of 312)... (Aha! I *knew* I grew up in a ghetto.)
Nah... the DMCA doesn't apply unless you make an exact copy of the bike (or sell the pen) and leave the original behind for its owner...
Umm... do you actually know what sustainable means?
So, if even 'pwned' is insufficient to describe the level of ownership (e.g. in the year 2042, hacking their heads-up display contact lenses so an un-turn-off-able Goatse is tattooed across their eyeballs), would they then be considered qwned?
Not aimed at the original poster, just another kiddy rant.
From the top Google result for the airpwn project:
HTTP javascript alert boxes, letting people know just how pwned they were
Pwned? What kind of kiddies come up with this stuff; that's not even pronounceable. If you're going to make up some l33t term for kiddying somebody's box, at least make it pronounceable so that you can tell your friends what you did without sounding like a complete dumbass (you know...in person...you do talk to people in person, right?)
E.g.: "Haha, dude, I went to this coffeeshop, and everyone was on their like wireless thingamabobs, right? So I set up an injector node so that every image in the pages they loaded had little goatse's on them. I totally narfed them! I even popped up little boxes telling them how narfed they were."
But be forewarned, this site can open up a gaping security hole.
That's why. Every new router, switch and other device on Intel's "Internet 3", replacing all the old hardware, will of course need processors...
This is the same reason Intel is putting so much research into DARPA's Smart Dust concept. Right now Smart Dust is a bunch of engineers geeking around (or to some extent, a solution looking for a problem), but when/if it hits big, and micropower sensors are deployed in the hundreds-thousands-or-millions at a time, they would love to step up to potential manufacturers (before ARM and everyone else do) and say "hey, we've already got nanowatt CPUs tailored to that application, whattdya say?"
(Of course, don't discount the Engineers Having Fun factor either.)
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the homebrew SNESKey adaptor yet. This allows you to hook a wide variety of game controllers (including NES, SNES and some Atari/Genesis controllers) to your computer's parallel port (remember when computers had those?). There was even a DOS program you could run your old-school DOS emulators under, which messed with some interrupt vectors so that it would trap control pad activity on the LPT port and translate it directly to keyboard presses (so it would work with pretty much any emulator without modifications).
Best part about this, was the ONLY parts it required were a common rectifier diode (or 2-3) to siphon the controller's power directly off the port.
Imagine when the human-targeting billboard people get together with the RFID people before descending on your nearest Wal~Mart. Can't tell skinny people from fat, male from female, you say? Once most products have RFID tags, it'll be a simple matter to differently target the person whose cart just rolled up with FUBU t-shirts and 13 bottles of Jheri Curl vs. the one with a stack of flannels and a gross of shotgun shells. (And telling the Size 8 purchases from the Size 18 purchases is more trivial still.) The beauty is these guys don't even have to correlate anything with actual purchases nor tie into a specific customer's Preferred Card database profile for this targeting method to be effective (although that might not stop 'em from trying anyway).
Yes, but these aren't communicating to you digitally.
In that case, it would be beneficial if it also keeps track of how often I punch in the screen...
The resulting data, which represents about 20 terabytes, will be available to everyone in the months to come
Indeed.
My sysadmin gives me those...usually after firing up a rendering program...
Oh, by the way (to those who modded up this crap about the words FAKE FAKE FAKE being encoded into the color channels), these parent and grandparent posts are hoaxes, as well. How many of you actually opened a photo editor and split the channels before modding this insightful? That's what I thought.
The evidence is quite good, from what I remember, including stuff like hashes matching files originally recorded back during the Napster days.
So you mean, if I rip my copy of Britney's "Baby Slap My Ass With a Trout" and compress it with LAME 2.6, it will be different from everyone else's copy compressed with LAME 2.6?
Record exec> We got hold of your browsing history and found out you downloaded a copyrighted ringtone on 2004-08-12. We subpoenaed your phone records and found your phone has rung 26 times since then. We estimate an average of 15 people heard the ringtone each time, for a total royalty fee of...
Me> Public? Prove that I was in public, and not just sitting alone up in my room reading Slashdot everytime the phone rang. It rang in my pants pocket and serenaded my left nut and my right nut. But they don't have ears.
It's not really visible unless you split the image into CMYK.
Huck Finn probably made the list because it had the word 'nigger' in it. It wasn't banned at the high school I went to (in fact, required reading for some English classes), but I do remember my Eng. teacher disclaiming about some of the language (racial-related words in particular), and how it was taken differently in those days.
Attach a frickin' laser to "it" and you have a frickin laser pointer.
Nah, a real hacker would have thrown together a cheap microcontroller-based device with a screen (bonus geek points for hacking an existing device, like a GBA, digital camera, cellfone, etc.) and a custom display driver to read the realtime data from an embedded WiFi, wUSB, etc. device (or a memory, if a live stream wasn't available).
A video capture running on Windows Media Player? Come on...
Maybe 1 in 10 are smart enough to cover their sources so we can't prove they cheated, but, hey, that almost counts as research... ;-)
"The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein
Walt Rines - That's the son of a bitch that killed my message board (for an evening, anyway). At an antispam/antispyware message board that will remain nameless (but trivial to guess), an anonymous user posted a large, entertaining page of collected "dirt" on ole Walt. This included his home address, several phone numbers, a slew of information about his other ventures (did you know the honourable Mr. Rines is responsible for that spyware-laden piece of crap "Kazanon"?), and similarly-dug dirt about his upstanding family members. Some excerpts:
e ssmen"
Walt's sister sells "Gravestone Artwear" and "Goddess-Sized Medieval/Pagan/Gothic Attire" (Jesus, it makes you shudder to put a visual to THAT one, doesn't it?) under the way-cool, groovy, far out New-Age monniker of "Lily Moonstorm".
Business Address & Phone:
Her business email, , is obviously the place to order 8 million cases of black lipstick, granite earrings and goddess-sized marble dildoes. DON'T MISS THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!!!!!!!!!
Then there's Jason C. Rines, Walt's scumbag brother and "opt-in" spammer. Former "VP for Sales & Marketing" for Walt's now-defunct gtminet.net, Jason learned at the knee of the master (or was that BETWEEN the knees, Jay?)
And now he's got his Senator-the-Corleone-family-are-respectable-busin
speech spiffed up real nice--but he's the same old chickenboner in a shinier suit.
Now CEO of MediaHeights, LLC (mediaheights.com, impulseinteractive.com, emailresults.net, market research.net and other spam palaces), Jason apparently dabbles in magic, too, making a "Suite 305" appear in half the buildings in Dover, NH---including those without a third floor.
Dangerous work, magic, so Jason and his "lovely" wife Regina "opted" to live out in Rochester, NH, where they're less likely to be hit by one of
those flying suites.
Perhaps you'd like to call him at home () and discuss, say, the finer points of prestidigitation.
Alright, Walt-Baby, let's get medieval! Let's drag out your main squeeze!
Sara , former Telemarketing Queen, is into "Aroma Therapy". (Can't blame the poor girl, since she probably has to shove a bushel of pine needles up her nose every time you drop trou, eh, Walt?)
Sara , Aroma Therapy Practitioner, PO Box Rochester, NH 03866,
(Unlisted # from a CLEC in Milton, NH)
Sara has *cough*cough* nothing to do with Walt's spy/spam activities. Of course, she DOES use email addresses like @odysseusmarketing.com (a suspended corporation at a dead street address in California with bogus
phone numbers and bogus individuals to contact). Probably drives out there every weekend and picks up her mail from the Los Angeles Post Office, too.
Yeah.
On the other hand, she does have her uses, notably, grunting out Walt's worthless progeny. Probably won't much longer, though, when we post
pictures of Walt and some of some of his "on-the-side" Hip-Hop Bimbos.
Anyway, the cunt rag called up our WWW host making various threats, and succeeded in getting the board chmodded to 000 until they could be bothered to pass along the complaint. At the moment, the board "should be" up again (but isn't, because these boneheads can't seem to keep a copy of mysql running more than a couple days this week) with the spammer's valuable "opt in" information temporarily removed.
We'll be looking for an upstream with bigger, brasser ones to limit this kind of annoyance in the future. Any recommendations on a balls-of-steel host that will serve 40GBytes+/mo on the reasonably cheap?
Granted, this is a discussion of the *new* Dakota cam with LCD, but I'm surprised the newest hacks of the old one haven't been mentioned:
(All of these can be found on Rodrigo Balerdi's page)
1) Run your own code on the camera
A code loader has been written that allows you to nondestructively load your own executable code into the camera's 8MB (slightly less of it usable by you) DRAM. A small demo program from his site demonstrates the concept by blinking out a pattern on the 'Ready' LED, but programs of arbitrary complexity could be written...subject to the limitation that you can't access/execute any of the onboard firmware in this mode. (Bracing for the inevitable Beowulf-cluster comments...)
2) Bye-bye 25-picture limitation
Another clever hack lets you reset the 25-picture limit to an arbitrarily high number. This allows you to take pictures until the camera's FLASH memory actually fills up completely (under "real-world" outdoor picture-taking conditions, I've found this to be about 50 shots, but it will vary with how compressible your images are).
3) Firmware updater and miscellaneous updates/bugfixes
Balerdi's patchfile for an existing Dakota firmware corrects several nits/bugs with the original. It makes the number-of-pictures display count upward from 0 instead of downward from 25 (very useful in conjunction with the previous hack), ensures picture numbering starts from 1 everytime the camera is cleared and always remains consistent (even if you delete shots), and fixes a bug in the original firmware that could result in 2 pictures having an identical number/filename (making one impossible to download).