Do I plan to think more about the more creative code and use highly-changed variations myself? Absolutely.
Well, then you have your work cut out for you for
the next couple of months. There are no device
specific files in the distribution so you can't
just go and build it for whatever PDA you happen
to use. I doubt that anybody who ever put out a
WinCE PDA is going to give you the sources to
their device adaptations.
This would be the largest scale PKI has ever been deployed on the planet and the CRLs for attribute certificates would probably get really large. I suppose they would turn to OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol), uh, I mean MSOCSP of course:-)
Well, what do you think will happen? They'll confiscate the device and wipe the recording. It's also doubtful whether they will give it back to you and they'll probably also feel the need to teach a lesson to an uppity ci-villian.
ICANN is definitely _not_ needed and I wouldn't
be leaning to far out of the window as to say
their money grubbing big business approach to the
net is definitely not appreciated.
I have a dns server that serves the.lan zone. This machine from where I'm posting this has the ip address 192.168.3.21 and goes (and resolves!)
by the name vmhost1.lan.
And getting there wasn't all that hard. First I set up a zone file for.lan and then I told
the dns server to relay anything it doesn't know about to a another dns server.
_Anybody_ can put up an alternate root, though I
guess it'll be illegal soon because it could
potentially wreck someone's business plan and prevent a couple of really obscenely rich people from becoming insanely rich at the expense and well-being of as ICANN puts it, that "broader community"...
... you could hear the screams and wails coming from Washington and Tokyo all the way in Berlin, Johannesburg and, of course, in Bejing.
Give X $3 million dollars and X will get you
anything and all DVD.. Some of that money will go
into bribes, some of it will go into you-dont-really-want-to-know, most of it will be the humble fee X collects but if it's out there X will definitely get it for you. I'm certain X will find someone who has access to the material and will cave in for a figure around $500,000.
The bottom line is, if China really wanted DVD "technology", or anything else for that matter all they have to do is write a check. If they really wanted to have a DVD factory on their turf then they'd just have pay a couple of Japs to set one up for them.
Re:With that kind of resolution...
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Oh well, all that means is that we need to build a Real World Automated Sniper (tm). (Don't bother patenting it, I already beat you to it:-)). Maybe we could use the face recognition software they use in Tampa, FL...:-).
There are a dozen useful applications I can think of right away: Assassination (In other news, Bush impersonator dies...), Intelligent Mine Field deployed by aircraft.. blows you away if you're not wearing the correct uniform. (Enforces proper dress code even in the heat of combat!), automated prison guard systems (fortress, anyone?), wearing a mask in a bank (Dear Customers: For your own safety please avoid obscuring your face with any object at all times. Remember, a running nose is always better than a bleeding head),...
I said:
if (defined referrer_header && referrer_header not =~/.+http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/.+/i) {
image = "goatsex.jpg"
} else {
image = "logo.jpg"
}
So if your proxy or firewall strips out the referrer header you still get logo.jpg and not goatsex.jpg. This only subtracts slightly from the overall punitive effect because most firewalls and proxies do not strip out the referrer header and a large percentage of surfers on the net don't use them anyway.
Major free web space providers (tm) like fortunecity do this so that they're not abused as image repositories for other websites. User pages that rely on stealing other people's bandwidth get fucked up so bad that they're unuseable and that's a good thing.
I can deny the holocaust all I want if I feel
like it and that wouldn't even be hate speech in
the sense that I was asking that a group of people
be injured, killed or otherwise treated unpleasantly.
There is a big difference between yelling "Kill all niggers!" and saying, "Gee officer, I don't know what happened to that boy. He must have tripped and fallen down a set of stairs. This is so awful, but I honestly don't think that Burt and Ray had anything to do with it."
You're a fine one to complain. Yes.. you do have
Freedom of Speech in Germany, as long as it's approved speech. You of all people should know what happens when you deny the holocaust in public.
Making someone both administrator and moderator
of replies to their postings would mean that you
could censor any opinion you don't like _as_
well as be legally responsible for their contents.
The software itself may be BETA alright, but the concept is alpha at best.
Nice try but you still lose...
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"(given that you believe the connection between CO2 and greenhouse gas)."
Nice try, confusing the issue. But you're right about one thing, there is definitely a connection between CO2 and greenhouse gas. Can you guess what it is? Yes! CO2 is one of many greenhouse gases!
What you are confusing is however the amount of CO2 which could potentially cause a greenhouse effect which in itself is a pretty iffy proposition. (You'd need a heck of a lot more than billion tons of CO2, even if also had lots of methane and fluor-carbon compounds at your disposal). Suffice it to say that we could raise the level of CO2 emission fifty times the estimated figures of the early eighties and we would not make a dent in this mythical limit how much the atmosphere is thought to be able to take before it "curls up and dies".
Volcanos and other geological phenomena like oceanic fissures release more CO2 each day than all of humanity in the entire last century so the point the Kyoto pseudo-scientists are trying to make is moot from the outset. Humans just don't really figure enough in the grand scheme of things to make a difference. Live with that.
Oh boy, you've been caught red handed and you have the nerve to complain! I double dare you to steal bandwidth from one of my sites, it'll be my pleasure to _really_ humiliate you.
BTW.. there's a way to automate that kind of behavior, i.e. remind people not to link directly by changing the image, kind of like an anti-theft device: Use the referrer http header field, check whether it's present and if it is and it's not your site then serve whatever you deem should go on their thiefing sites.
Not really, as a matter of fact 5250 terminals also have a raw mode where every key press is transmitted to the host. As a matter of fact there is even an Asynchronous Workstation Controller available which you could use to connect normal Unix terminals to the machine. (You might have to tweak the PL/8 written firmware of the controller to get raw mode:-))
OS/400's security mainly stems from obscurity. It's internal workings are totally undocumented, IBM exposes only very few kernel apis (Machine Interface) to developers. Even the machine code itself of the older CISC (they call it IMPI - Internal Microprogramming Interface) is totally undocumented. There are quiet a few products out there that will simulate an AS/400 environment to the point that you can run legacy RPG/400 or Cobol/400 applications.
I could imagine an Operating System that let's you run AS/400 applications (certainly after a recompile, I'm not so sure whether we can go from the Machine Interface Pseudo Code) but we'll never have that 48-bit address space where every persistent disk object, program image, vlic-kernel and everything else OS/400 lives in. I suppose we could emulate all that but the performance loss would be worth it.
As to what your P.S is concerned, again S/370/390 architecture offers a lot which MVS - OS/390 - zOS is built around. Again the best thing to do would be to create an emulation environment to run the apps in, the next best thing to do is build an OS which makes a MVS or later application happy.
Come to think of it.. being able to run applications which used to run on OS/400 or MVS-OS/390-zOS on Linux or BSD would be pretty cool. If something like that got adopted by the market maybe we could put IBM where we really want them: making great hardware instead of proprietary OS. Then they'd really have to embrace Linux and put some serious effort in it to keep selling.
As a matter of fact, just because the box runs a linux kernel doesn't mean it's _your_ box and you can immediately run whatever you want on it. Most of the set top boxes I have played around with can be reflashed via an RS232 or even an Ethernet interface.. only whatever image you want to flash has to have a valid cryptographic signature.
And even though it uses the Linux kernel, that doesn't mean that they have to publish source to the drivers for the specific hardware of the box. Not if they put that into kernel modules which are compiled and linked separately.
I find it kind of odd that people will embrace a certain device just because it runs the linux kernel. A device is cool in my book if it's totally documented so I could potentially do with it what I want.
I can't find any documentation on how Phoenixnet works myself but my guess is that it's an bios extension like pcibios or apmbios for which you can probe and get an entry point using int 0x1a or int 15. It's not something that could feasibly wrestle control over the machine away from the OS.
Like mysidia said, the phoenixnet bios simply can't come with drivers to support every network device (dsl..) or modem that is out there. Even more so it wont include filesystem code to actually store ads in _files_ on your computer. It could do so on a dedicated partition but accessing the same filesystem from to filesystem drivers at once is asking for trouble:-). For it to work it will definitely have to have help from the OS.
Fears that the bios will setup an internet connection three o'clock in the morning are therefore unfounded unless some dumbass windows driver actually gets the phoenixnet entrypoint and calls into romcode. I doubt that we're going to see Linux or *BSD drivers doing that anytime soon. The really paranoid among us could fix this for good by tracing the int 15 / 1a code till it gets to the phoenixnet bios extension probe and then nop that one out.
From a technical viewpoint, putting Phoenixnet into the rom really doesn't make any sense at all From the way marketing sees it, plenty. That way they have an application that is always installed on the computer, whether Microsoft wants it or not.
Here in the Reich, if the driver of the car can not be identified using their photo they will _try_ to bill the owner of the vehicle. The owner of the vehicle then has the option of naming the person who was using the vehicle at the time. If it goes to court and you play it smart it will get thrown out most of the time but the court might require you to keep a "Fahrtenbuch" log of the usage of your car from the on.
Personally, even though I don't get busted very often on the Autobahn even though they have a ridiculous 60 Mph speed limit on the stretch I go to work on every day. (60 Mph might sound reasonable to you, but hey, this is not just any old interstate in the US but the AUTOBAHN. If anything kills on the Autobahn then it's being too slow or dumbass idiots who without flashing pull out into left lane right in front of you.
I see it definitely your way: A speeding ticket is nothing more but an extended road usage tax which I will cheerfully pay. Same goes for parking violation or what have you.. Send me the bill. As long as I'm not 41 Km/h over posted limit I can afford to speed (being more than 41 Km/h or runing a red light gets you 1 month of license suspension).
Nonstd line modulation may make sense!
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Using nonstandard line modulation might make it more difficult for a third party to sniff data from off the wire. Maybe it's even possible to measure if the line has been compromised.
I have access to the German national programming and their pay tv monopoly. Let me tell you one thing: it is crap!. State television teaches you to be a good citizen, the commercial stations run the Americrap (tm) you were watching 3-5 years ago only that they take great pains to dub everything over to German in order to deny you the original sound track so you can't even use that to keep current on your language skills. Their PayTV "Premiere World" (what's so premiere about their small "world" of a paytv package?) while mostly free from commercials keeps repeating itself and they too deny access to the original sound track. I've stopped watching TV altogether and I have never listened to their Radio though I used to listen to your AFN propaganda station.
> they have great benefits lots of the time, but they don't make much, have longer hours that require them to do more work in their free time than most people in IT,
If they have longer hours, then they can't have much free time to do more work in.
Aside from your blunder in logic, what I think you are trying to say: "cops and teachers have to work more than IT people" is simply not true. Sorry, no banana.
Yes. They're all sooo incompatible aren't they? That's why Unix never took off and it's still only a nondescript specialized operating system telephone companies use to operate their analog phone networks.
Face it, NT is not a reliable platform. It's an incredibly expensive low reliablity file and print server at best and not something to run mission critcal apps on. I asked the people running the NT boxes in our department and they said they need to reboot their boxes wednesday and sunday or else all weird kind of stuff happens.
So you use more than the usual maximum of 6 base station. Great! You just made it easier to get an triangulation fix on you. What you would want to do is to only use 1 base station and live with the reduced reliability. That way they can still tell you're in the vicinity of base station X but that's just about it. They'd either have to get base station firmware that keeps track of GSM mobiles it isn't actively communicating with or hit the street with portable GSM sniffers.
My.02 are that I wouldn't trust the crypto in that device. A very hard to detect intentional flaw to put into an encryption device like that would be to make the random number generator predictable. What's more.. every GSM phone has an unique serial number (IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identification) that is registered somewhere and even encodes the type of device and manufacturer. Since not everyone has them because they're selling these devices at prohibitively high price, if you paid that kind of money for your mobile they would suspect you're up to no good and monitor all your communications, not only the ones from the mobile, more closely.
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Do I plan to think more about the more creative code and use highly-changed variations myself? Absolutely.
Well, then you have your work cut out for you for the next couple of months. There are no device specific files in the distribution so you can't just go and build it for whatever PDA you happen to use. I doubt that anybody who ever put out a WinCE PDA is going to give you the sources to their device adaptations.
This would be the largest scale PKI has ever been deployed on the planet and the CRLs for attribute certificates would probably get really large. I suppose they would turn to OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol), uh, I mean MSOCSP of course :-)
Well, what do you think will happen? They'll confiscate the device and wipe the recording. It's also doubtful whether they will give it back to you and they'll probably also feel the need to teach a lesson to an uppity ci-villian.
ICANN is definitely _not_ needed and I wouldn't be leaning to far out of the window as to say their money grubbing big business approach to the net is definitely not appreciated.
.lan zone. This machine from where I'm posting this has the ip address 192.168.3.21 and goes (and resolves!)
by the name vmhost1.lan.
And getting there wasn't all that hard. First I set up a zone file for .lan and then I told
the dns server to relay anything it doesn't know about to a another dns server.
I have a dns server that serves the
_Anybody_ can put up an alternate root, though I guess it'll be illegal soon because it could potentially wreck someone's business plan and prevent a couple of really obscenely rich people from becoming insanely rich at the expense and well-being of as ICANN puts it, that "broader community"...
... you could hear the screams and wails coming from Washington and Tokyo all the way in Berlin, Johannesburg and, of course, in Bejing.
Give X $3 million dollars and X will get you anything and all DVD.. Some of that money will go into bribes, some of it will go into you-dont-really-want-to-know, most of it will be the humble fee X collects but if it's out there X will definitely get it for you. I'm certain X will find someone who has access to the material and will cave in for a figure around $500,000.
The bottom line is, if China really wanted DVD "technology", or anything else for that matter all they have to do is write a check. If they really wanted to have a DVD factory on their turf then they'd just have pay a couple of Japs to set one up for them.
Where do you get a ten mile long tuna sandwich?
Oh well, all that means is that we need to build a Real World Automated Sniper (tm). (Don't bother patenting it, I already beat you to it :-)). Maybe we could use the face recognition software they use in Tampa, FL... :-).
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There are a dozen useful applications I can think of right away: Assassination (In other news, Bush impersonator dies...), Intelligent Mine Field deployed by aircraft.. blows you away if you're not wearing the correct uniform. (Enforces proper dress code even in the heat of combat!), automated prison guard systems (fortress, anyone?), wearing a mask in a bank (Dear Customers: For your own safety please avoid obscuring your face with any object at all times. Remember, a running nose is always better than a bleeding head),
I said: if (defined referrer_header && referrer_header not =~ /.+http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/.+/i) {
image = "goatsex.jpg"
} else {
image = "logo.jpg"
}
So if your proxy or firewall strips out the referrer header you still get logo.jpg and not goatsex.jpg. This only subtracts slightly from the overall punitive effect because most firewalls and proxies do not strip out the referrer header and a large percentage of surfers on the net don't use them anyway.
Major free web space providers (tm) like fortunecity do this so that they're not abused as image repositories for other websites. User pages that rely on stealing other people's bandwidth get fucked up so bad that they're unuseable and that's a good thing.
I can deny the holocaust all I want if I feel like it and that wouldn't even be hate speech in the sense that I was asking that a group of people be injured, killed or otherwise treated unpleasantly. There is a big difference between yelling "Kill all niggers!" and saying, "Gee officer, I don't know what happened to that boy. He must have tripped and fallen down a set of stairs. This is so awful, but I honestly don't think that Burt and Ray had anything to do with it."
You're a fine one to complain. Yes.. you do have Freedom of Speech in Germany, as long as it's approved speech. You of all people should know what happens when you deny the holocaust in public.
Making someone both administrator and moderator of replies to their postings would mean that you could censor any opinion you don't like _as_ well as be legally responsible for their contents. The software itself may be BETA alright, but the concept is alpha at best.
"(given that you believe the connection between CO2 and greenhouse gas)."
Nice try, confusing the issue. But you're right about one thing, there is definitely a connection between CO2 and greenhouse gas. Can you guess what it is? Yes! CO2 is one of many greenhouse gases!
What you are confusing is however the amount of CO2 which could potentially cause a greenhouse effect which in itself is a pretty iffy proposition. (You'd need a heck of a lot more than billion tons of CO2, even if also had lots of methane and fluor-carbon compounds at your disposal). Suffice it to say that we could raise the level of CO2 emission fifty times the estimated figures of the early eighties and we would not make a dent in this mythical limit how much the atmosphere is thought to be able to take before it "curls up and dies". Volcanos and other geological phenomena like oceanic fissures release more CO2 each day than all of humanity in the entire last century so the point the Kyoto pseudo-scientists are trying to make is moot from the outset. Humans just don't really figure enough in the grand scheme of things to make a difference. Live with that.
Oh boy, you've been caught red handed and you have the nerve to complain! I double dare you to steal bandwidth from one of my sites, it'll be my pleasure to _really_ humiliate you.
BTW.. there's a way to automate that kind of behavior, i.e. remind people not to link directly by changing the image, kind of like an anti-theft device: Use the referrer http header field, check whether it's present and if it is and it's not your site then serve whatever you deem should go on their thiefing sites.
Not really, as a matter of fact 5250 terminals also have a raw mode where every key press is transmitted to the host. As a matter of fact there is even an Asynchronous Workstation Controller available which you could use to connect normal Unix terminals to the machine. (You might have to tweak the PL/8 written firmware of the controller to get raw mode :-))
OS/400's security mainly stems from obscurity. It's internal workings are totally undocumented, IBM exposes only very few kernel apis (Machine Interface) to developers. Even the machine code itself of the older CISC (they call it IMPI - Internal Microprogramming Interface) is totally undocumented. There are quiet a few products out there that will simulate an AS/400 environment to the point that you can run legacy RPG/400 or Cobol/400 applications. I could imagine an Operating System that let's you run AS/400 applications (certainly after a recompile, I'm not so sure whether we can go from the Machine Interface Pseudo Code) but we'll never have that 48-bit address space where every persistent disk object, program image, vlic-kernel and everything else OS/400 lives in. I suppose we could emulate all that but the performance loss would be worth it. As to what your P.S is concerned, again S/370/390 architecture offers a lot which MVS - OS/390 - zOS is built around. Again the best thing to do would be to create an emulation environment to run the apps in, the next best thing to do is build an OS which makes a MVS or later application happy. Come to think of it.. being able to run applications which used to run on OS/400 or MVS-OS/390-zOS on Linux or BSD would be pretty cool. If something like that got adopted by the market maybe we could put IBM where we really want them: making great hardware instead of proprietary OS. Then they'd really have to embrace Linux and put some serious effort in it to keep selling.
As a matter of fact, just because the box runs a linux kernel doesn't mean it's _your_ box and you can immediately run whatever you want on it. Most of the set top boxes I have played around with can be reflashed via an RS232 or even an Ethernet interface.. only whatever image you want to flash has to have a valid cryptographic signature.
And even though it uses the Linux kernel, that doesn't mean that they have to publish source to the drivers for the specific hardware of the box. Not if they put that into kernel modules which are compiled and linked separately.
I find it kind of odd that people will embrace a certain device just because it runs the linux kernel. A device is cool in my book if it's totally documented so I could potentially do with it what I want.
I can't find any documentation on how Phoenixnet works myself but my guess is that it's an bios extension like pcibios or apmbios for which you can probe and get an entry point using int 0x1a or int 15. It's not something that could feasibly wrestle control over the machine away from the OS. Like mysidia said, the phoenixnet bios simply can't come with drivers to support every network device (dsl..) or modem that is out there. Even more so it wont include filesystem code to actually store ads in _files_ on your computer. It could do so on a dedicated partition but accessing the same filesystem from to filesystem drivers at once is asking for trouble :-). For it to work it will definitely have to have help from the OS.
Fears that the bios will setup an internet connection three o'clock in the morning are therefore unfounded unless some dumbass windows driver actually gets the phoenixnet entrypoint and calls into romcode. I doubt that we're going to see Linux or *BSD drivers doing that anytime soon. The really paranoid among us could fix this for good by tracing the int 15 / 1a code till it gets to the phoenixnet bios extension probe and then nop that one out.
From a technical viewpoint, putting Phoenixnet into the rom really doesn't make any sense at all From the way marketing sees it, plenty. That way they have an application that is always installed on the computer, whether Microsoft wants it or not.
Here in the Reich, if the driver of the car can not be identified using their photo they will _try_ to bill the owner of the vehicle. The owner of the vehicle then has the option of naming the person who was using the vehicle at the time. If it goes to court and you play it smart it will get thrown out most of the time but the court might require you to keep a "Fahrtenbuch" log of the usage of your car from the on. Personally, even though I don't get busted very often on the Autobahn even though they have a ridiculous 60 Mph speed limit on the stretch I go to work on every day. (60 Mph might sound reasonable to you, but hey, this is not just any old interstate in the US but the AUTOBAHN. If anything kills on the Autobahn then it's being too slow or dumbass idiots who without flashing pull out into left lane right in front of you. I see it definitely your way: A speeding ticket is nothing more but an extended road usage tax which I will cheerfully pay. Same goes for parking violation or what have you.. Send me the bill. As long as I'm not 41 Km/h over posted limit I can afford to speed (being more than 41 Km/h or runing a red light gets you 1 month of license suspension).
Using nonstandard line modulation might make it more difficult for a third party to sniff data from off the wire. Maybe it's even possible to measure if the line has been compromised.
I have access to the German national programming and their pay tv monopoly. Let me tell you one thing: it is crap!. State television teaches you to be a good citizen, the commercial stations run the Americrap (tm) you were watching 3-5 years ago only that they take great pains to dub everything over to German in order to deny you the original sound track so you can't even use that to keep current on your language skills. Their PayTV "Premiere World" (what's so premiere about their small "world" of a paytv package?) while mostly free from commercials keeps repeating itself and they too deny access to the original sound track. I've stopped watching TV altogether and I have never listened to their Radio though I used to listen to your AFN propaganda station.
> they have great benefits lots of the time, but they don't make much, have longer hours that require them to do more work in their free time than most people in IT, If they have longer hours, then they can't have much free time to do more work in. Aside from your blunder in logic, what I think you are trying to say: "cops and teachers have to work more than IT people" is simply not true. Sorry, no banana.
Let's play nice and allow NT machines to logon to Linux Domains and use Linux shares!
Yes. They're all sooo incompatible aren't they? That's why Unix never took off and it's still only a nondescript specialized operating system telephone companies use to operate their analog phone networks. Face it, NT is not a reliable platform. It's an incredibly expensive low reliablity file and print server at best and not something to run mission critcal apps on. I asked the people running the NT boxes in our department and they said they need to reboot their boxes wednesday and sunday or else all weird kind of stuff happens.
You have my unreserved sympathy.. This must be the most senseless and boring job there is. I hope you're making at least twice as much as I am :-)
So you use more than the usual maximum of 6 base station. Great! You just made it easier to get an triangulation fix on you. What you would want to do is to only use 1 base station and live with the reduced reliability. That way they can still tell you're in the vicinity of base station X but that's just about it. They'd either have to get base station firmware that keeps track of GSM mobiles it isn't actively communicating with or hit the street with portable GSM sniffers. My .02 are that I wouldn't trust the crypto in that device. A very hard to detect intentional flaw to put into an encryption device like that would be to make the random number generator predictable. What's more.. every GSM phone has an unique serial number (IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identification) that is registered somewhere and even encodes the type of device and manufacturer. Since not everyone has them because they're selling these devices at prohibitively high price, if you paid that kind of money for your mobile they would suspect you're up to no good and monitor all your communications, not only the ones from the mobile, more closely.