Is it just me, or is there no data connection from the motherboard to the hard drive?
Makes me wonder what the conductive properties of mineral oil is... especially over a long period of time where water/metals/other stuff might disolve in it...
Yeah? Well Mr. Anonymous... why not use your real name?
If you "worked there" you could probably answer these questions then:
1) If Melb IT was closed, then how did the domain get transferred?
2) If it was an automated tool, then the tool is flawed. Explain why they did not fix their tool and why they are not helping to fix their tool faster.
Garbage companies like yours deserve to be chased off the net with extreme prejudice.
You are either a liar or a fool.
Melb IT was MOST DEFINATELY a huge portion of the problem. And still ARE a huge portion of the problem. If their shit worked while they were away, it's their fault. If the shit worked because someone was there doing it, it's their fault. Pretty simple to understand.
It sorta makes me wonder why there have not been more calls for vigilante justice here in the comments. I for one might like to play a game of "my bandwidth is bigger than your bandwidth" for a while this weekend.
Writing down a password and making that password obvious are not the same thing. Just use inconspicuous information to hold passwords.
For example, on my desk are:
- a plastic cartoon character who's name and gesture is a password - a post it note with my boss's address which with a small transform is a password - a password in plain text written on a cable tag, attached to an ethernet cable in the wall
Likewise, one of my ex-girlfriends uses a sheet of plain text phone numbers she doesn't want anybody know she has... all backwards with the dashes in the wrong place and the word "part numbers" on the top.
Anybody that can think for a second or two when they make up passwords or when they have to memorize them can easily do this.
Joe Mitnick isn't going to find them, the CIA might, but they'd have to try a bunch first; and the kid hired to vacuum the floor sure isn't going to figure it out.
Users on my network have to change their passwords every 90 days, unless the complain about it in which case I ask them to make one up that has numbers and letters and they don't have to change it anymore.
I haven't come to a conclusion yet about the streak.
But the light itself looks like it is from an oily-two stroke smoke coming from an idling boat motor is rising up around the lit light and causing a glow. You can see it comes up at an angle starting up from the lower left on the other side of that dock. A smokey exhaust would reflect the light like that.
So it's light scattered off normal smoke one would see at a dock, not an explosion or impact.
The streak could be just about anything, a bug, a hair, a development artifiact, etc.
They repost usenet articles as being written as their "experts" without mentioning it's Usenet.
Their users spam usenet with useless crap that is the modern version of the AOL'ers first visits there. (Where the [AOL] Me too![/AOL] thing came from.)
I can imagine the mail admins at Yahoo.com got tired of them for other reasons.
If I had my way, EE would get chased off the net with extreme predjudice. You should stop using them rather than stop using Yahoo.
It has been my experience that the larger the company, the less likely any individual has the business need to get on the Internet (specifically browsing). So you can stop a whole bunch of the rank and file getting all that stuff if you simply do not let them have access all.
Using images that do not have Internet Explorer icons visible helps a lot too.
I work at a small company, so spyware software is easy to update. Public humiliation at company meetings for those that get the stuff works wonders.... "Weather Bug" doesnt get downloaded twice if the perp is named at the meeting and has to go get lunch the next day.
Except Tit for Tat is more robust than other plans, deals well with a wide variety of opponents, and is easy for opponents to "figure out" and is "forgiving" so it does not get caught in endless loops of mutual punishment easily.
Being that, beating Tit for Tat isn't that big of a deal. Doing BETTER than Tit for Tat consistently _IS_ a big deal.
The game is a positive sum game, so it pays off to end up in a cooperative (or semi-cooperative) sequence over repeated "defections".
For some good reading on the Prisoner's Dilemma Game and how it fits in some biological systems read;
"The Evolution of Cooperation" by Robert Axelrod (and newer books)
"The Selfish-Gene" by Richard Dawkins
There may be more recent books too, it's been while since I studied the subject.
Theft or stealing has the implication of denial of the object from the original owner as a necessary part of it's definition. Downloading something does not meet that criteria, so it's not theft.
Well since IIS is the only server affected, the "UrlScan" security configuration tool (designed to allow or disallow various types of things, including URL strings) could be used to block this exploit.
Depending on your application, it may provide a lot of time to fix the ASP.NET stuff without worrying about script kiddies.
I have been looking, but have not found out an answer to if the flaw involves basic authentication done via IIS or if it involves ASP.NET applications specifically...
I disagree that satellites aren't important in massive combat.
I'd say that they are even a tempting target for any country in a limited war with NATO, US, or similarly equipped countries.
GPS (military level) guided weapons are what makes us ABLE to engage in limited conflicts. Without them we are back to unguided iron bombs, a limited set of missiles that are less accurate, and nukes.
Take out the GPS satellites and those countries (mainly US) are forced into a conflict the populace would accept less readily, and that forces us to escalate or withdraw or kill lots of civilians.
Plans to protect, replace ours, and shoot down the other guy's satellites (that might be armed or provide targeting information) are going to be an essential part of any country that relies on GPS targeting for conventional warfare.
(Russia is rumored to have had some nukes in orbit, the US could too for all we know. So it's not that far fetched that the US needs a plan for it.)
Not clear from the post, but the parent seems to be under the false notion that ELF and VLF are sound waves and that sea life can somehow hear them.
They are not. They are RADIO waves. (Extremely Low Frequency, and Very Low Frequency)
The deal is this; with a big antenna, the stratosphere, and (i think) the Earth's mantle can be used to reflect powerful but extremely low frequency (talking four, ten cycles a second... basically a subwoofer-like version of light) radio waves. The cool part about these waves is they go through most stuff, including a long distance under water where subs can hear them. (It's one-way communication.)
So the ELF system was used to send simple messages in code to submarines without risking the sub surfacing (or changing depth) and giving it away. Usually either launch orders or "surface for more detailed message".
The protesters had a problem with the tool as a means to call in a nuke launch, and since the ELF systems are up in the north woods without much staffing, it was a tempting target to sabatoge or protest and easier for the protesters to get to.
Since we are not on a hair trigger for nuke strikes and most of the "boomer" subs are being (or planned on) converted to missile launch platforms for Tomahawk and newer weapons systems... ELF isn't as important as it was during the Cold War.
The 10k figure is out of date. It's way lower in most states now.
Also, I work in the banking industry helping bankers present classes over the internet (yeech) and know for a fact they do WAY more than have some computer flag account transfers.
There are all sorts of automatic checks, plus the "know your customer" encouragement, which ammounts to little more than "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" go find out what your neighbors are doing type digging through transactions.
My point; don't count on that 10k number keeping you under the radar.
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Is it just me, or is there no data connection from the motherboard to the hard drive?
Makes me wonder what the conductive properties of mineral oil is... especially over a long period of time where water/metals/other stuff might disolve in it...
Yeah? Well Mr. Anonymous... why not use your real name?
If you "worked there" you could probably answer these questions then:
1) If Melb IT was closed, then how did the domain get transferred?
2) If it was an automated tool, then the tool is flawed. Explain why they did not fix their tool and why they are not helping to fix their tool faster.
Garbage companies like yours deserve to be chased off the net with extreme prejudice.
You are either a liar or a fool.
Melb IT was MOST DEFINATELY a huge portion of the problem. And still ARE a huge portion of the problem. If their shit worked while they were away, it's their fault. If the shit worked because someone was there doing it, it's their fault. Pretty simple to understand.
It sorta makes me wonder why there have not been more calls for vigilante justice here in the comments. I for one might like to play a game of "my bandwidth is bigger than your bandwidth" for a while this weekend.
Heh that event took a bunch of my (ISP part time job) customers offline too.
:)
You should have seen the look on my boss' face when he got off the phone ofter hearing that.
It was great fun explaining it to the customers:
"I guess the fiber line was shot, they are re'splicing it"
"No, it was tacked down properly, it was shot."
"No, they normally don't wear out. It was SHOT. BANG BANG bullet SHOT."
They believe ANYTHING we say about why we are down now.
That sounds a lot like some women I have dated...
that users are dumb.
Writing down a password and making that password obvious are not the same thing. Just use inconspicuous information to hold passwords.
For example, on my desk are:
- a plastic cartoon character who's name and gesture is a password
- a post it note with my boss's address which with a small transform is a password
- a password in plain text written on a cable tag, attached to an ethernet cable in the wall
Likewise, one of my ex-girlfriends uses a sheet of plain text phone numbers she doesn't want anybody know she has... all backwards with the dashes in the wrong place and the word "part numbers" on the top.
Anybody that can think for a second or two when they make up passwords or when they have to memorize them can easily do this.
Joe Mitnick isn't going to find them, the CIA might, but they'd have to try a bunch first; and the kid hired to vacuum the floor sure isn't going to figure it out.
Users on my network have to change their passwords every 90 days, unless the complain about it in which case I ask them to make one up that has numbers and letters and they don't have to change it anymore.
I haven't come to a conclusion yet about the streak.
But the light itself looks like it is from an oily-two stroke smoke coming from an idling boat motor is rising up around the lit light and causing a glow. You can see it comes up at an angle starting up from the lower left on the other side of that dock. A smokey exhaust would reflect the light like that.
So it's light scattered off normal smoke one would see at a dock, not an explosion or impact.
The streak could be just about anything, a bug, a hair, a development artifiact, etc.
With balsa wood, light trash bags, straws, and a small candle (with a wind block) a garbage bag can be caused to float like a hot air balloon.
I doubt a person could be carried, but self-heating setup can get off the ground.
Funniest post ever.
:)
I spit wine all over my cat thanks to you.
Part of the point of adding extra explosives is to blow the detonation system apart before it can set off the main payload.
A large artillery shell makes a bigger hole than an ounce of C4 (or whatever they are using) to kill the explosive or it's detonation system.
Shotguns are sometimes mounted on the bomb robots to blow the suspect package apart for the same reason.
True, if you are sending an RC car chances are you know or suspect an object is a bomb.
That still doesn't mean you are OK with the whole thing going off over just making a mess out of a single room with a small shaped charge.
Experts-exchange is a slimy outfit anyway.
They repost usenet articles as being written as their "experts" without mentioning it's Usenet.
Their users spam usenet with useless crap that is the modern version of the AOL'ers first visits there. (Where the [AOL] Me too![/AOL] thing came from.)
I can imagine the mail admins at Yahoo.com got tired of them for other reasons.
If I had my way, EE would get chased off the net with extreme predjudice. You should stop using them rather than stop using Yahoo.
It's probably one of those "self-censorship" things going on.
The security folks are afraid these messages have codes in them, so they probably took out portions that they thought might have instructions in them.
You should try aL JeerZeerA or other Arabic "news" sites to get the full copy.
If you can get one of the "hairball formula" dry foods in their diet it works wonders.
Look for the ones using SOY LECTINS. Purina has a patent on it, but I think I have seen other brands.
It works by keeping the hairballs from getting "sticky" in the cat's gut so it slides through a little bit at a time rather than piling up.
My house of three cats went from 6 pukes a week down to once every month or two. (Aside from the "i ate too fast" puke.)
... and something is REALLY bugging me about it.
How do you motivate a slice of rat brain to fly a plane? Does it feal pain when it crashes? Get nutrients when it flys far? What?
All too soon we will see little USB plug ins with these things to help the rail-gun spawn-campers aim fast in UT2024; Ultimate.
[FuZZy1] Punched a hole in 3L1T3's cranium
[3L1T3>] NOOB!
[3L1T3]; Rat-bot camper!
[FuZZy1]; LOL!1 That why tehy call me Fuzzy1
No internet, no spyware.
It has been my experience that the larger the company, the less likely any individual has the business need to get on the Internet (specifically browsing). So you can stop a whole bunch of the rank and file getting all that stuff if you simply do not let them have access all.
Using images that do not have Internet Explorer icons visible helps a lot too.
I work at a small company, so spyware software is easy to update. Public humiliation at company meetings for those that get the stuff works wonders.... "Weather Bug" doesnt get downloaded twice if the perp is named at the meeting and has to go get lunch the next day.
One would think.... after the engineers do that a few times they would make a permenent circuit and just do that with a switch....
Except Tit for Tat is more robust than other plans, deals well with a wide variety of opponents, and is easy for opponents to "figure out" and is "forgiving" so it does not get caught in endless loops of mutual punishment easily.
Being that, beating Tit for Tat isn't that big of a deal. Doing BETTER than Tit for Tat consistently _IS_ a big deal.
The game is a positive sum game, so it pays off to end up in a cooperative (or semi-cooperative) sequence over repeated "defections".
For some good reading on the Prisoner's Dilemma Game and how it fits in some biological systems read;
"The Evolution of Cooperation" by Robert Axelrod (and newer books)
"The Selfish-Gene" by Richard Dawkins
There may be more recent books too, it's been while since I studied the subject.
Having one plan that can beat Tit for Tat
HAH HaH!
While pointing.
Copyright infringement yes, "thievery" no.
Theft or stealing has the implication of denial of the object from the original owner as a necessary part of it's definition. Downloading something does not meet that criteria, so it's not theft.
Not moral, illegal, etc. yes, theft.... no.
....except Knoppix (at least the one I DL'ed a month ago) still refuses to write to an NTFS partition.
MOST machines users end up with nowdays are NTFS.
Knoppix works great for FAT32 drives though.
Well since IIS is the only server affected, the "UrlScan" security configuration tool (designed to allow or disallow various types of things, including URL strings) could be used to block this exploit.
Depending on your application, it may provide a lot of time to fix the ASP.NET stuff without worrying about script kiddies.
I have been looking, but have not found out an answer to if the flaw involves basic authentication done via IIS or if it involves ASP.NET applications specifically...
Lack of experience?
Hmm. Maybe you folks should go back to a Monarchy if you consider experience to be more value than intelligence and wisdom.
Nobody would be more experienced than someone born into leadership via birth right.
I disagree that satellites aren't important in massive combat.
I'd say that they are even a tempting target for any country in a limited war with NATO, US, or similarly equipped countries.
GPS (military level) guided weapons are what makes us ABLE to engage in limited conflicts. Without them we are back to unguided iron bombs, a limited set of missiles that are less accurate, and nukes.
Take out the GPS satellites and those countries (mainly US) are forced into a conflict the populace would accept less readily, and that forces us to escalate or withdraw or kill lots of civilians.
Plans to protect, replace ours, and shoot down the other guy's satellites (that might be armed or provide targeting information) are going to be an essential part of any country that relies on GPS targeting for conventional warfare.
(Russia is rumored to have had some nukes in orbit, the US could too for all we know. So it's not that far fetched that the US needs a plan for it.)
Not clear from the post, but the parent seems to be under the false notion that ELF and VLF are sound waves and that sea life can somehow hear them.
They are not. They are RADIO waves. (Extremely Low Frequency, and Very Low Frequency)
The deal is this; with a big antenna, the stratosphere, and (i think) the Earth's mantle can be used to reflect powerful but extremely low frequency (talking four, ten cycles a second... basically a subwoofer-like version of light) radio waves. The cool part about these waves is they go through most stuff, including a long distance under water where subs can hear them. (It's one-way communication.)
So the ELF system was used to send simple messages in code to submarines without risking the sub surfacing (or changing depth) and giving it away. Usually either launch orders or "surface for more detailed message".
The protesters had a problem with the tool as a means to call in a nuke launch, and since the ELF systems are up in the north woods without much staffing, it was a tempting target to sabatoge or protest and easier for the protesters to get to.
Since we are not on a hair trigger for nuke strikes and most of the "boomer" subs are being (or planned on) converted to missile launch platforms for Tomahawk and newer weapons systems... ELF isn't as important as it was during the Cold War.
Thus the cuts.
The 10k figure is out of date. It's way lower in most states now.
Also, I work in the banking industry helping bankers present classes over the internet (yeech) and know for a fact they do WAY more than have some computer flag account transfers.
There are all sorts of automatic checks, plus the "know your customer" encouragement, which ammounts to little more than "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" go find out what your neighbors are doing type digging through transactions.
My point; don't count on that 10k number keeping you under the radar.
Well, they should follow Lucas' footsteps and digitally re master Yogurt to be female and attractive (but still green) and have her shoot first.
With new dialogue, they could change the entire meaning and importance between the characters in the scene.