Unfortunately, you make space nice and accessible, its not just ground based attacks you have to worry about - whats to stop me parking a bunch of rocks in orbit then de-orbiting them shotgun style over the area? Or the white house for that matter? Not that I think this kind of defeatist attitude is ever useful - the whole "what if" and overreactive nature that pervades political thinking right now is more effective than a weekly terrorist strike.
I'm a huge fan of getting us off this fragile rock and spreading out to prevent a random occurance cleaning the slate. And if someone/thing dislikes us enough that they want to wipe us out, they gotta come a-hunting for us:-)
Heads up on the parent link - not safe for work. Its all rendered, but you try explaining that to the feminazi who's walking past your desk when you click the link..... apparently thats WORSE than just plain old nudity. Go figure.....
... viewers suggested using the system for internet sex. Experts dismiss the whole idea as silly.
"... the systems feel like you are poking at the world through a stick. A major challenge is providing the user with more delicate tactile sensations, such as feeling that occurs when one draws her finger over a rough or smooth surface. This kind of realism is difficult to achieve."
Now, I don't know what kind of gear you get into, but getting my happy parts getting poked with a stick doesn't rate on my fun-o-meter.
That being said... all you stickophiles, your virtual dreams are answered!
ISDN and Satellite are the two technologies of choice for those who are ADSL/Cable/Wifi challenged.
I use ISDN as I'm a gamer, and the pings are king for me. A few neighbours here have sat, and they get some bitching download speeds. Have a hunt around and see what you can get. Admittedly, often these techs cost more than an ADSL or cable service does (at least in Australia), but for me no neighbours within 150 meters of me, the rural lifestyle and $buttloads of cash saved living out of the city more than cover the additional costs.
I rate this up with security through obscurity as a strategy. It can work, for quite a while if you string it out or in a very small IT shop where there are few choices, but ultimately you are doing yourself more harm than good. Who are they going to give the new areas of technology? Why would they invest time and money into training you when you have shown such resistance to sharing your knowledge?
You do have a choice - patch and virus scan, or not.
How many of the virus outbreaks in the past 5 years have been on 0 day vulnerabilities? All the ones I can recall use old vulnerabilities that are on well documented, already resolved issues.
And if there WAS a 0 day virus propogating over the network and my machine was infected, I'd WANT to be off the network...
Just to close off, if you have an illness, temporary or permanent, that prevents you from driving safely (epilepsy, narcolepsy, etc) then it is illegal to drive in Australia, and if you get caught, its the same as driving without a license - punishments such as larger fines and jail time start to come into play, depending on the severity and your criminal record.
Thats just wrong. Here in Australia, you lose your drivers license for drink driving, and you are not behind the wheel of a car for however long you get pinged (6 months being the minimum). You can plead the case in court, but there are very few exceptions made.
I fully support this policy - you decide to risk MY life on the roads, you pay the penalty. Can't get to work now that you've committed a crime and are doing the "time"? Well, hopefully you will realise how important having a license is to your life, and you won't ever drink/drive again. And also, be thankful you didn't injure or kill another road user, pedestrian or even yourself...
To segue this back onto topic, same rules should apply in this situation. You put others at risk or deny them access to the network due to your inability to load a freely available, well publicised and mandatory on the network you are using tool, then you do the "time". Access cut off and you can't work? Well, perhaps next time you will ensure the virus scanner and firewall software is running, you won't have the issue, and those around you are not impacted.
You *need* at least a 256 kbps line to play CS : Source
Have to say thats not right - I'm on ISDN (128kbps), and it plays perfectly fine. Pings in the 60-80 range, lag is rare, and I have a fragging good time, even on the 32 person servers. Dropping the ISDN to 64k is not great, but you can still play on 10-12 player servers with not too many flying barrels with no lag.
Now, admittedly more bandwidth = a better experience, but its quite playable and enjoyable on 128k.
Found via following his web link. Not mainstream at all, but looks interesting all the same. Thanks for trolling and giving me an excuse to stumble over another distro to have a play with:-)
therefore, I give Dubbya 5 days to declare a war on Martian WMD's, terrorism, or being anti freedom. And hey, if the above news about the asteroid comes to light, he'll have a 50% strike rate on invading for legitimate reasons!
Check out mythtv - it strips out the ads for you, no more messing around for the same ad free goodness:-).
I notice in another reply you are saying you watch the shows using another machine - try the mythtv frontend. You can then stream them over your network, and watch them from another machine.
We're not spammers and we don't host spammers, but we're blacklisted as spammers.
Want a free iPod?
I'm sorry, your were doing so well with your comment, then it just fell apart at the end, what with all your support for spammers by ensuring they have a healthy supply of email addresses..... but thanks for playing!
Ok, so it validates based on what its recieved from the site that sends it and/or the domain name. But if I've spoofed the DNS, I can now perform a man in the middle attack by passing on the requests from the target machine to the valid site, then pass the responses back to your browser.
Voila, you have a valid SSL connection, nice little lock in your browser window, and I can;
www.diners.com, www.citibank.com, etc --> get all your banking details (for even more fun, continue the man in the middle attack and show them the real details, then after a few days do a mass login and transfer on all the logins you have grabbed)
Worst thing is, get a half decent botnet and the sites you have poisoned won't even notice they are being hit, as the IP addresses connecting to them will be nice and distributed.
However, if they were to use the chip to translate infared (or thermal, or anything else we can currently view with instramentation) into colours, they COULD see in that wavelength. Same as how infared goggles work - translate the wavelength into a "visible" wavelength.
I just followed that link, and the following "Ads by gooooooogle" were present;
Beat the Adwords System Access 100 Million People in 10 Min The Definitive Start Guide
Improve Your Rankings Increase Link Pop. W/ relevant text on quality sites. See how!.... and so on. So 2 things that suprise me are
a) google is letting people who offer google bombing services advertise through Adsense b) this page, about a guy who is repenting for a previous google infraction is, due to the words in his page, providing links to the same sort of companies!
I only stumbled across EVE about a month ago - played the 14 day free trial and loved it. Have now signed up and have 4 mates who also weren't aware of it previously on trials, and looks like at least 2 of them will be signing up as well.
Its got everything I'm keen for - closest thing to MMO Elite I've seen.
Certainly as a very new player in an environment where most people have 1+ years of experience/training/$, I'm a minnow in a sea of sharks and whales (especially when their fully kitted out battle cruisers fly past my frigate or destroyer - you get some serious scale perspective!) but I'm enjoying that. Most people I've chatted to in game have been quite helpful, and give me some pointers or offer to help with missions or joint mining/trading trips.
I found this article to be very interesting, but noted the following section in the writeup;
We use snort_inline for Data Control and replace all outgoing suspicious connections. A connection is suspicious if it contains typical IRC messages like " 332 ", " TOPIC ", " PRIVMSG " or " NOTICE ". Thus we are able to inhibit the bot from accepting valid commands from the master channel. It can therefore cause no harm to others - we have caught a bot inside our Honeynet.
I'm wondering why the Botnet writers don't put in something a little more serious to check if they are stuck in a honeypot. I was picturing something like the mafia, where you can't become part of the inner circle unless you commit a hit. Just like how undercover cops won't commit murder or serious crimes, the honeypot runners won't allow the machine to infect other machines, as it goes against what their objectives are.
The botnet writers could set it so a machine isn't accepted into the botnet until there is a verified secondary machine infected - use unique IDs submitted to an irc session, usenet channel, email address or web page to verify a secondary target, then allow access to the core botnet control areas. Once the initially infected machine has access to the botnet and has the latest software and target information, it could update the secondary machine while not revealling the main botnet information.
Sure, this won't stop people who are willing to let their machine infect other machines in the persuit of your botnet, but it would stop the current honeypot approach, and cause some serious moral dilemmas for those writing honeypots.
The OzTiVo guys have both the cable and the sat data available for foxtel and optus, and the MythTV info can be grabbed using this beastie. Grabs foxtel, optus and all free to air around Australia.
It has hit AU, just not "retail". The OzTiVo crew have got the solution humming, and its a beautiful thing. OzTiVo homepage
Personally I have a MythTV box, but thats because of the higher geek-quotient involved:-) but I have set up OzTiVo's for friends and family who are less "techie", and just want something that works. Get the integrated network + cache card, a 200+ Gb hdd and a memory stick, and you are about $400 in for a solution that then costs $0/month down. The community group for OzTiVo keeps the listings pretty solid, so you should be very happy:-)
For the love of all that's holy, please put some passwords on the box! Tick that box that auto logs you in if you must, but no passwords is a recipe for pain and suffering.
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Unfortunately, you make space nice and accessible, its not just ground based attacks you have to worry about - whats to stop me parking a bunch of rocks in orbit then de-orbiting them shotgun style over the area? Or the white house for that matter? Not that I think this kind of defeatist attitude is ever useful - the whole "what if" and overreactive nature that pervades political thinking right now is more effective than a weekly terrorist strike.
:-)
I'm a huge fan of getting us off this fragile rock and spreading out to prevent a random occurance cleaning the slate. And if someone/thing dislikes us enough that they want to wipe us out, they gotta come a-hunting for us
Heads up on the parent link - not safe for work. Its all rendered, but you try explaining that to the feminazi who's walking past your desk when you click the link..... apparently thats WORSE than just plain old nudity. Go figure.....
Formal warning, here I come.
That being said... all you stickophiles, your virtual dreams are answered!
ISDN and Satellite are the two technologies of choice for those who are ADSL/Cable/Wifi challenged.
I use ISDN as I'm a gamer, and the pings are king for me. A few neighbours here have sat, and they get some bitching download speeds. Have a hunt around and see what you can get. Admittedly, often these techs cost more than an ADSL or cable service does (at least in Australia), but for me no neighbours within 150 meters of me, the rural lifestyle and $buttloads of cash saved living out of the city more than cover the additional costs.
I rate this up with security through obscurity as a strategy. It can work, for quite a while if you string it out or in a very small IT shop where there are few choices, but ultimately you are doing yourself more harm than good. Who are they going to give the new areas of technology? Why would they invest time and money into training you when you have shown such resistance to sharing your knowledge?
Start breaking laws like that, and fines and jail time follow. Your license plates will be linked with your license, so expect to be pulled over.
Driving while behind bars is quite an impressive trick.
You do have a choice - patch and virus scan, or not.
How many of the virus outbreaks in the past 5 years have been on 0 day vulnerabilities? All the ones I can recall use old vulnerabilities that are on well documented, already resolved issues.
And if there WAS a 0 day virus propogating over the network and my machine was infected, I'd WANT to be off the network...
Just to close off, if you have an illness, temporary or permanent, that prevents you from driving safely (epilepsy, narcolepsy, etc) then it is illegal to drive in Australia, and if you get caught, its the same as driving without a license - punishments such as larger fines and jail time start to come into play, depending on the severity and your criminal record.
Thats just wrong. Here in Australia, you lose your drivers license for drink driving, and you are not behind the wheel of a car for however long you get pinged (6 months being the minimum). You can plead the case in court, but there are very few exceptions made.
I fully support this policy - you decide to risk MY life on the roads, you pay the penalty. Can't get to work now that you've committed a crime and are doing the "time"? Well, hopefully you will realise how important having a license is to your life, and you won't ever drink/drive again. And also, be thankful you didn't injure or kill another road user, pedestrian or even yourself...
To segue this back onto topic, same rules should apply in this situation. You put others at risk or deny them access to the network due to your inability to load a freely available, well publicised and mandatory on the network you are using tool, then you do the "time". Access cut off and you can't work? Well, perhaps next time you will ensure the virus scanner and firewall software is running, you won't have the issue, and those around you are not impacted.
Now, admittedly more bandwidth = a better experience, but its quite playable and enjoyable on 128k.
Lunar Linux
:-)
Found via following his web link. Not mainstream at all, but looks interesting all the same. Thanks for trolling and giving me an excuse to stumble over another distro to have a play with
However what K'breel fails to understand is:
Biological life on mars --> fossils --> oil
therefore, I give Dubbya 5 days to declare a war on Martian WMD's, terrorism, or being anti freedom. And hey, if the above news about the asteroid comes to light, he'll have a 50% strike rate on invading for legitimate reasons!
Star Wars Kid got a girlfriend?
De facto is Latin for "in practice".
De jure is latin for "by law".
When you look at the context (comparing standards), Brontus3927 had it right first time around.
Check out mythtv - it strips out the ads for you, no more messing around for the same ad free goodness :-).
I notice in another reply you are saying you watch the shows using another machine - try the mythtv frontend. You can then stream them over your network, and watch them from another machine.
hint : ponzi, pyramid scheme(check under the "Examples of pyramid schemes" section) and Gratis Internet, the freeipods.com site owner
Ok, so it validates based on what its recieved from the site that sends it and/or the domain name. But if I've spoofed the DNS, I can now perform a man in the middle attack by passing on the requests from the target machine to the valid site, then pass the responses back to your browser.
Voila, you have a valid SSL connection, nice little lock in your browser window, and I can;
updates.microsoft.com --> install files, updates, etc
www.diners.com, www.citibank.com, etc --> get all your banking details (for even more fun, continue the man in the middle attack and show them the real details, then after a few days do a mass login and transfer on all the logins you have grabbed)
Worst thing is, get a half decent botnet and the sites you have poisoned won't even notice they are being hit, as the IP addresses connecting to them will be nice and distributed.
However, if they were to use the chip to translate infared (or thermal, or anything else we can currently view with instramentation) into colours, they COULD see in that wavelength. Same as how infared goggles work - translate the wavelength into a "visible" wavelength.
I just followed that link, and the following "Ads by gooooooogle" were present;
.... and so on. So 2 things that suprise me are
Beat the Adwords System
Access 100 Million People in 10 Min The Definitive Start Guide
Improve Your Rankings
Increase Link Pop. W/ relevant text on quality sites. See how!
a) google is letting people who offer google bombing services advertise through Adsense
b) this page, about a guy who is repenting for a previous google infraction is, due to the words in his page, providing links to the same sort of companies!
I only stumbled across EVE about a month ago - played the 14 day free trial and loved it. Have now signed up and have 4 mates who also weren't aware of it previously on trials, and looks like at least 2 of them will be signing up as well.
Its got everything I'm keen for - closest thing to MMO Elite I've seen.
Certainly as a very new player in an environment where most people have 1+ years of experience/training/$, I'm a minnow in a sea of sharks and whales (especially when their fully kitted out battle cruisers fly past my frigate or destroyer - you get some serious scale perspective!) but I'm enjoying that. Most people I've chatted to in game have been quite helpful, and give me some pointers or offer to help with missions or joint mining/trading trips.
The botnet writers could set it so a machine isn't accepted into the botnet until there is a verified secondary machine infected - use unique IDs submitted to an irc session, usenet channel, email address or web page to verify a secondary target, then allow access to the core botnet control areas. Once the initially infected machine has access to the botnet and has the latest software and target information, it could update the secondary machine while not revealling the main botnet information.
Sure, this won't stop people who are willing to let their machine infect other machines in the persuit of your botnet, but it would stop the current honeypot approach, and cause some serious moral dilemmas for those writing honeypots.
Its the software that does the skipping - Myth TV is my poison, and it works great :-)
The OzTiVo guys have both the cable and the sat data available for foxtel and optus, and the MythTV info can be grabbed using this beastie. Grabs foxtel, optus and all free to air around Australia.
:-)
Enjoy
It has hit AU, just not "retail". The OzTiVo crew have got the solution humming, and its a beautiful thing. :-) but I have set up OzTiVo's for friends and family who are less "techie", and just want something that works. Get the integrated network + cache card, a 200+ Gb hdd and a memory stick, and you are about $400 in for a solution that then costs $0/month down. The community group for OzTiVo keeps the listings pretty solid, so you should be very happy :-)
OzTiVo homepage
Personally I have a MythTV box, but thats because of the higher geek-quotient involved
For the love of all that's holy, please put some passwords on the box! Tick that box that auto logs you in if you must, but no passwords is a recipe for pain and suffering.