Anyway, I seriously doubt that this will be done in California until the power problem is resolved. It would be really stupid to provide this service which would increase costs for the power companies and most likely increases power usage in a place where power is in short supply and expensive.
I'm not so sure about that. As far as I understand it (and, no i'm not from california....hell, i'm not even american so please correct me if i'm spouting bull*), the source of the california power shortages is due to dumbo regulations which mean the power companies have to sell power to the cuystomer for less than they buy it.
Obviously, there wouldn't be such silly restrictions on the sale of internet access over the same powerlines. Therefore, this could potentially be a real lifesaver for californian power co's. I believe there is quite a high demand for internet access in california....
Remeber sourceforge getting cracked a couple of months back?
Apparantly, the guy who did this spoke to securityfocus.com about th attack.
In this article he says:
"i hack, dot slash or whatever you might want to call it, i do not write my own exploits, i use other people's stuff, and no im
not anti-open source, i am however anti-sec. i support the anti-disclosure movement among the computer and network security
communities,"
Furthermore, the cracker said he
works as a contractor in the field of security, and perhaps it is the ease of cracking so many sites using nothing but published exploits that
makes him support the "anti-disclosure movement."
Although I am personally not against full- or partial- disclosure per se, I do think the anti-disclosure movement has a valid point. There does seem to have been a huge increase in cracking activities recently, and although the script-kiddie phenomenon is at least partially due to the rise of the internet/home computer (i.e. more kids with cheap pc's in their bedrooms), I do think that the current fashion for open-disclosure means that security holes spread into the black-hat community faster than most sysadmins apply patches.
On the other hand, if we go back to the anti-disclosure, it will be like pre 90s. The white hats will know one set of holes. The black hats will know a differnet (far more limited) set of security holes. This scenario obviously poses a whole set of different problems.
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The downside of course is that spammers never set their reply correctly.... so this is probably more academic then useful
Yeah, but its pretty easy to find the server from which the email originated from the full email header, heck, even a perl script could do this... (although i guess there are ways of even spoofing this????).
Then you just get the script to respond to postmoster or root@offenfing.machine, stating that spam was originating from it. If you include the message ID in the email, the admin can determine the spammer and hopefully will suspend their account. The again, it might be the admin doing the spamming....
I think the points made in that thread (about code red) also apply here...
This TV program was headline news for like 3 days. Haven't they got something better to report?
Nonetheless, the program was as funny as f*ck. I am glad that alot of the Americans enjoyed it. This suprised me, as I have had embarrising incidents using sarcasm/satire with americans.....
I think the media need it pointed out to them that the net was designed by DARPA to withstand NUCLEAR WAR. I reckons it will take a little more than a slightly original-thinking s'kiddie (yes, that is an oxymoron) to bring it down!
...Then again, lets hope someone didnt go and assign a port number for the Big Red Button...
In the UK, this time of year is sometimes refered to as "The Silly Season" in the media.
All the poloticians are away on summer holidays.... most of the decent journalists take a break aswell. This leaves the papers a little thin on decent news (er, like, theres nothing happening in the world at all. honest guv. No civil war in sri lanka. No erupting volcano on sicily. No siree). Basically, its the time of year when two-bit journalists regurgitate 2-week old stories, and the papers are full of "and-finally" articles....
...but as ever there is no mention of the european launch. Despite the fact europe is a very lucrative market & will undoubtadly produce some fantastic games for this platform, once again we have to wait untill last....
Has nobody else noticed that the Code Red worm was timed to attack whitehouse.org at the same time as the G7 summit started in Genoa?
There has been romours about some activists (anti-capatalist, pro-environment, anti-globilisation, whatever, etc) gaining technical knowledge to launch DDoS attacks against their targets. Perhaps this was the beggining?
Goerge Bush is particulrly unpopular with these groups, particularly due to the "Son of Star Wars" project and his attitude to the Kyoto agreement. The target of this worm, the timing of the attack and the "red" agenda all suggest to me that this is a political attack. When will the next one strike?
I agree with what you are saying, but I cant help feeling you are missing my point:
First:- If someone asks me a "can you advise a good book on linux?", I will be more than happy to help them. I will probably point them in the direction of O'Reilly, explaining that this publisher does not only publish fantastic books, but also gives back to the community. Furthermore, these books will point them in the direction of further repositories of Good documentation.
Second:- If somebody asks me a specific technical question which is not a common trap, I probably wont be able to help anyway, but for what its worth, I will try my hardest or point them in another direction where they may get some help.
Third:- If someone "got stuck configuring X-windows and his mouse", as the parent says, I would get slightly annoyed. The fact that they have got this far with their installation shows they must have some basic grasp, and they need just a little patience to be able to manage it themselves, rather than wasting ppls time.
I am trying really hard not to troll, but posts like this really wind me up. One thing about linux is there is a HUGE archive of very good documentation (some of it very well written), which exists both on and off-line.
Oh yeah. Its also VERY easy to find. Try these:
1. Your nearest good bookstore with a computer section
2. www.google.com
Please dont tell me you have to go to an IRC channel to know about that!
{You: Where do I find TFM?
l33t: TF bookshop
You: Where do I find the bookshop??
}
Linux: No one ever said it was gonna be easy. Your have to use YFB. Try it, it really aint that hard....
If you are considering downloading this program (and if your into file sharing I seriously sdvise you to - i've been through a few and this is my favourite), you will get ALOT more mileage if you get a decent serverlist. The default one sucks, and getting a new one in place isnt exactly intuitive. I cant find the links right now, but just google it yourself.
p.s. WinMx doesnt contain any spyware (yipee!)
p.p.s I dont work for winmx (honest guv), I just want that critical mass that nap used to have....
Who needs napster when you've got this.
-supports their own p2p protocol and multiple OpenNap servers, all at the same time. Its one of the few things I reboot into windows for these days (p.s. anyone know of anything as good for linux???).
Why are the RIAA still hounding Napster when the game has clearly evolved on to the next level?
Napster is dead, long live OpenNap
....(or at least untill one of the P2P protocols proclaims itself king...)
Michael seems to think it possible:
"...is controlled off a laptop with quake-style controls!"
Like yeah right. I would love to see a BattleBot that could strafe or rocket-jump, cycle through a variety of weapons AND go mental with a quad damage, all at the same time...
If caffine was just recently discovered it would likely have laws regulating it...
And if alcohol was just recently discovered it would undeniably be a Class A drug.
It's funny that the Thai drink red-bull is under investigation, when Alcohol causes thousands of deaths world-wide every year but is still perfectly legal in most non-islamic countries.
Yep, I pretty much completely agree with what you are saying.
I hear people in England say thet they enjoy the *security* of these cameras, but at what cost?
I'm not so sure about that. I think 90% of people have no opinion whatsoever, and 10% (me included) dont like the implications of being constantly watched. However, they have been implimented widescale as they are cost-effective, and also the recently departed home secretary, Jack Straw, was a real authoratarian. He's the kind of guy who read 1984 and thought "hmmn, thats not a bad idea...".
On the other hand, there is a real consensus in the UK that we would like "bobbies on the beat" (ie cops patrolling) like we used to have, but we got rid of them because they cost to much (and replaced them with CCTV). I think we may see a swing back to this policy in the next 5 or so years, but the camera's will remain....
The UK is the most under-survelliance country in the world. If I take a trip into central london, I am apparantly filmed over 300 times by CCTV cameras. This is also true for most major towns/cities in the country. Personally, I do not like this fact, even though I have absolutley no intention of breaking the law (at least not in front of a CCTV camera;-).
Interestingly, the recent Regulatory and Investigatory Powers (RIP) bill included a law which makes this data available for all. Any organisation (company, government etc) which holds data on you must issue with this data, if you send a request letter and £10 (for administration costs.)
Therefore, if the police, for example, beat me up on a London street, I could demand a copy of the inevitable CCTV recordings.
So this means I can flame as much and make up completely libellous material and post it on slashdot?
Er, you guys all suck. And, er, I saw you all with a prostitute yesterday. Yep was definitely you - yep that one right there sitting in front of the monitor. Mod me up or I the wife knows everything
The press release also says that you can now "remove" Internet (sic) Exlporer...
Fantastic - I was having problems with this. Being a netscape guy, I uninstalled IE from my work machine. Then I got passed a copy of Office2000 professional. During Install, I chose not to install IE. However, after installation - huh? whats that on my desktop? Yep. It had gone right on ahead and installed IE. Then I uninstalled IE again, and installed some components from disk 2 of Office2000 (which (supposedly) doesnt contain IE). You guessed it. After that, IE was back again, like a little lost flea-ridden dog.
Please excuse my bad analogy and random ramblings, but this really wound me up.
Anyways, this all stinks of coporatations trying to force their products on you. I wouldnt mind windows if it wasnt so intrusive. Adverts on the desktop anyone?
I dont think this shift in policy will make alot of difference to the consumer: It will just be someone else's products being forced down your neck. However, it is probably a good idea for business, stopping monopolies etc.
It is currently vastly more expensive to render a character than hire some actor (NOT A-list though...). However, very few films have been produced in this way. Surely this is very pioneering stuff. I really dont know how much this stuff will cost in 10 years? 20 years? 50 years? I do however believe that costs will come down - once the road is a little more worn in.
Yeah, I was thinking about this recently, after having gone to see Shrek (great film, btw:-). Although the non-human characters were superbly rendered, the "human" characters weren't quite there yet. There was something missing from the manner & expression that you can only get (at the moment) from flesh & blood.
However, things are improving in this respect, and i'm sure one day they will be able to render every minitatue of human expression. The place where the computerised-film industry is still completely lacking is the Voice.
I think (voice) actors will have a job for a while, at least untill they manage to progress computers past talking in Stephen Hawking mode.
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I'm not so sure about that. As far as I understand it (and, no i'm not from california....hell, i'm not even american so please correct me if i'm spouting bull*), the source of the california power shortages is due to dumbo regulations which mean the power companies have to sell power to the cuystomer for less than they buy it.
Obviously, there wouldn't be such silly restrictions on the sale of internet access over the same powerlines. Therefore, this could potentially be a real lifesaver for californian power co's. I believe there is quite a high demand for internet access in california....
Remeber sourceforge getting cracked a couple of months back? Apparantly, the guy who did this spoke to securityfocus.com about th attack. In this article he says:
"i hack, dot slash or whatever you might want to call it, i do not write my own exploits, i use other people's stuff, and no im not anti-open source, i am however anti-sec. i support the anti-disclosure movement among the computer and network security communities,"
Furthermore, the cracker said he works as a contractor in the field of security, and perhaps it is the ease of cracking so many sites using nothing but published exploits that makes him support the "anti-disclosure movement."
Although I am personally not against full- or partial- disclosure per se, I do think the anti-disclosure movement has a valid point. There does seem to have been a huge increase in cracking activities recently, and although the script-kiddie phenomenon is at least partially due to the rise of the internet/home computer (i.e. more kids with cheap pc's in their bedrooms), I do think that the current fashion for open-disclosure means that security holes spread into the black-hat community faster than most sysadmins apply patches.
On the other hand, if we go back to the anti-disclosure, it will be like pre 90s. The white hats will know one set of holes. The black hats will know a differnet (far more limited) set of security holes. This scenario obviously poses a whole set of different problems.
Yeah, but its pretty easy to find the server from which the email originated from the full email header, heck, even a perl script could do this... (although i guess there are ways of even spoofing this????).
Then you just get the script to respond to postmoster or root@offenfing.machine, stating that spam was originating from it. If you include the message ID in the email, the admin can determine the spammer and hopefully will suspend their account. The again, it might be the admin doing the spamming....I think the points made in that thread (about code red) also apply here...
This TV program was headline news for like 3 days. Haven't they got something better to report?
Nonetheless, the program was as funny as f*ck. I am glad that alot of the Americans enjoyed it. This suprised me, as I have had embarrising incidents using sarcasm/satire with americans.....
Yes, good point my friend.
I think the media need it pointed out to them that the net was designed by DARPA to withstand NUCLEAR WAR. I reckons it will take a little more than a slightly original-thinking s'kiddie (yes, that is an oxymoron) to bring it down!
...Then again, lets hope someone didnt go and assign a port number for the Big Red Button...
In the UK, this time of year is sometimes refered to as "The Silly Season" in the media.
All the poloticians are away on summer holidays.... most of the decent journalists take a break aswell. This leaves the papers a little thin on decent news (er, like, theres nothing happening in the world at all. honest guv. No civil war in sri lanka. No erupting volcano on sicily. No siree). Basically, its the time of year when two-bit journalists regurgitate 2-week old stories, and the papers are full of "and-finally" articles....
...but as ever there is no mention of the european launch. Despite the fact europe is a very lucrative market & will undoubtadly produce some fantastic games for this platform, once again we have to wait untill last....
"The results were scary"
There has been romours about some activists (anti-capatalist, pro-environment, anti-globilisation, whatever, etc) gaining technical knowledge to launch DDoS attacks against their targets. Perhaps this was the beggining?
Goerge Bush is particulrly unpopular with these groups, particularly due to the "Son of Star Wars" project and his attitude to the Kyoto agreement. The target of this worm, the timing of the attack and the "red" agenda all suggest to me that this is a political attack. When will the next one strike?
Hey, I might even be able to run Office 2000 now....
First:- If someone asks me a "can you advise a good book on linux?", I will be more than happy to help them. I will probably point them in the direction of O'Reilly, explaining that this publisher does not only publish fantastic books, but also gives back to the community. Furthermore, these books will point them in the direction of further repositories of Good documentation.
Second:- If somebody asks me a specific technical question which is not a common trap, I probably wont be able to help anyway, but for what its worth, I will try my hardest or point them in another direction where they may get some help.
Third:- If someone "got stuck configuring X-windows and his mouse", as the parent says, I would get slightly annoyed. The fact that they have got this far with their installation shows they must have some basic grasp, and they need just a little patience to be able to manage it themselves, rather than wasting ppls time.
RTFM != "Read The F***** Manual"
RTFM = "The Manual Is Easy To Find"Oh yeah. Its also VERY easy to find. Try these:
1. Your nearest good bookstore with a computer section
2. www.google.comPlease dont tell me you have to go to an IRC channel to know about that!
{You: Where do I find TFM?
l33t: TF bookshop You: Where do I find the bookshop?? }Linux: No one ever said it was gonna be easy. Your have to use YFB. Try it, it really aint that hard....
It is not pronounced linux you dumbass, it's pronounced lai-ya-nhooks.
Jus kiddin. Sorry, really couldnt help myself!
"Data protection is an oxymoron" - David Rushkoff
p.s. WinMx doesnt contain any spyware (yipee!)
p.p.s I dont work for winmx (honest guv), I just want that critical mass that nap used to have....Why are the RIAA still hounding Napster when the game has clearly evolved on to the next level?
Napster is dead, long live OpenNap
Like yeah right. I would love to see a BattleBot that could strafe or rocket-jump, cycle through a variety of weapons AND go mental with a quad damage, all at the same time...
And if alcohol was just recently discovered it would undeniably be a Class A drug.
It's funny that the Thai drink red-bull is under investigation, when Alcohol causes thousands of deaths world-wide every year but is still perfectly legal in most non-islamic countries.Right. I'm off for a pint...
I hear people in England say thet they enjoy the *security* of these cameras, but at what cost?
I'm not so sure about that. I think 90% of people have no opinion whatsoever, and 10% (me included) dont like the implications of being constantly watched. However, they have been implimented widescale as they are cost-effective, and also the recently departed home secretary, Jack Straw, was a real authoratarian. He's the kind of guy who read 1984 and thought "hmmn, thats not a bad idea...".On the other hand, there is a real consensus in the UK that we would like "bobbies on the beat" (ie cops patrolling) like we used to have, but we got rid of them because they cost to much (and replaced them with CCTV). I think we may see a swing back to this policy in the next 5 or so years, but the camera's will remain....
That's the theory anyhow.
Problem solved:
"Excuse me officer, do you mind if I film you whilst you give me a good beating?"
Er, you guys all suck. And, er, I saw you all with a prostitute yesterday. Yep was definitely you - yep that one right there sitting in front of the monitor. Mod me up or I the wife knows everything
HA! Now try and sue me!
Fantastic - I was having problems with this. Being a netscape guy, I uninstalled IE from my work machine. Then I got passed a copy of Office2000 professional. During Install, I chose not to install IE. However, after installation - huh? whats that on my desktop? Yep. It had gone right on ahead and installed IE. Then I uninstalled IE again, and installed some components from disk 2 of Office2000 (which (supposedly) doesnt contain IE). You guessed it. After that, IE was back again, like a little lost flea-ridden dog.
Please excuse my bad analogy and random ramblings, but this really wound me up.
Anyways, this all stinks of coporatations trying to force their products on you. I wouldnt mind windows if it wasnt so intrusive. Adverts on the desktop anyone?
I dont think this shift in policy will make alot of difference to the consumer: It will just be someone else's products being forced down your neck. However, it is probably a good idea for business, stopping monopolies etc.
It is currently vastly more expensive to render a character than hire some actor (NOT A-list though...). However, very few films have been produced in this way. Surely this is very pioneering stuff. I really dont know how much this stuff will cost in 10 years? 20 years? 50 years? I do however believe that costs will come down - once the road is a little more worn in.
However, things are improving in this respect, and i'm sure one day they will be able to render every minitatue of human expression. The place where the computerised-film industry is still completely lacking is the Voice.
I think (voice) actors will have a job for a while, at least untill they manage to progress computers past talking in Stephen Hawking mode.