I've heard a lot of stories of cellphones accidently dialing
numbers when in someone's pocket or bag. Sometimes this occurs
during incriminating or embarrassing situations, and typically
the number on the other end will be a friend or relative since
they are going to be the last dialed number, or someone on a
speed dial entry.
Now pause for a moment, and imagine the implications of a
video-cellphone accidently dialing your parents at a bad
time...
On a more serious note, I've also read about cell phones being
used intentionally for this sort of spying. Ones that can
auto-answer calls silently are inconspicuously left in a board
room or someone's office, and then later, can be called in order
to eavesdrop.
They typcially dont raise any concerns because, hey "Its just a
cell phone, someone probably forgot it, and will come back to get
it".
Now... adding video to the technique may prove to be interesting
or problematic (depending on which side you are on).
The first time I installed Windows XP, then Mozilla, my browser and IMAP client of choice, and set each to the defaults using the built in preferences (set as default browser), I noticed the icon on the start menu changed to show mozilla, along with the Gecko icon. I was sincerely shocked and amazed.
Microsoft, however, took issue with the group's claims.
"We had a whole beta process for Service Pack 1 where we sought and received feedback from
industry and government," said Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler. "It's unfortunate, by hardly surprising, that this group, which is backed by our competitors, chose to play politics rather than participate in the process."
According to an article at ZDNet, a
trade group partly funded, not surprisingly, by Microsoft's competitors is claiming that WinXP
SP1 and Win2k SP3 contain 6 separate violations of
both the letter and spirit of the proposed DOJ Settlement.
Why wasn't this reviewed prior to release?
It's a little late now to "take it back", and microsoft will just defend their actions saying it is "vital to the core operation of the operating system" or some such nonsense.
What a nice trip down memory lane. Sitting at home with a Apple//e, a 300 baud Hayes modem (It was important to remind people that it was a genuine Hayes), and a big gulp from 7-11 autodialing a half dozen BBSs trying to get in.
Oh my god. The memories. The wierd thing is, the early days of the crappy ISP I first got onto the internet with was just like the BBS days. I'd come home from school, hit enter and watch TV till I got a connect, download my bluewave mail packet, queue up my downloads, and let 'er rip while I read mail (it hadn't yet called "email" I don't think).
With "cool" aliases like Lord Nikon and Zer0 C00l they often can't be found in a phone book.
Oh, and let's not forget:
"Crash Override" and "Acid Burn"
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What compelling reason is there to buy a Sun box over a the umpteen beige box vendors, IBM, Compaq, Dell, etc? Linux is only part of a low-priced solution. Does Sun think they can make a box cheaper than Dell?
Dude, Sun boxes are cool, then come in sweet colors, and have cool names like Onyx and Oxygen...
For now, the glitch prevents viewers from digitally taping any cable show using a next-generation digital videotape recorder called DVHS, the HDTV Insider newsletter reported. These devices recognize the programming as copy-blocked -- and turn off.
Black market mod chips and/or reprogrammed ROMS will be available shortly.
You can piss off a whole lot of people, but you can never stop everyone. And it only takes one.
YES! I've been wanting to do this. It makes me wish that there was a way to better integrate the concept with things like PGP/GPG, etc.
To the best of my knowledge, PGP looks at a path you specify for the keyring files, now on windows I imagine when you stick the USB keychain disk in, it gets whatever available drive letter it gets. So them you have to go set PGP to look at the right drive.
Under linux I guess it would always mount to the same path, but how does the system know what user inserted the card? Would it mount as UID root? Thats not good. If it's formatted ext2 I guess the UIDs would have to match. But thats weak.
What i'm thinking is PGP (etc) need an API so you can press a button that says "I am going to stick in my keychain with my keyrings on it now", and when the device is detected, the system only allows PGP access to read it, and only to the current user.
Dunno if that makes sense, but the USB keychains are perfect for that sort of thing, cause your private never needs to be readily available unless you're actively using it. And then only breifly. Leaving it sitting in ~/.pgp (or "C:\Documents And Settings\Application Data\Network Associates\PGP") is just uneeded risk.
Ok, a poll: how many of you went into the source code today and fixed the vulnerability on your own? Come on, raise your hands...
That's what I thought. People just have to wait for either the distribution to release an updated package, or at the least the package maintainer to release a patch or updated release. NOBODY (ok, not many) people go in and hack the source themseleves to fix it. It's better than closed source, but not as much as you make it apear to be.
Yes, you can coordinate with others to make a fix, but you can't sit there and tell me Joe Sysadmin will sit there and craft his own patch to close a hole. It doesn't work that way.
The nearly exact same question was asked a while back, which turned up many excellent suggestions.
Since that article was posted, I was asked by my company to do some load and scalability testing and I've had great success with OpenSTA. Give it a chance. It's awkward at once but once you get a feel for the HTTP/S (http scripting) language, you can do some very complicated scripting with it.
For example I wrote a script which interacts with one of our web products and navigates through several pages, submitting queries, retrieving 'wait' pages, and continuing on when the results are ready. Can't do that with wget... heh. And it gives excellent feeback on timing and can remotely monitor CPU and memory usage.
As far as I know it is only available on windows, though it is open source.
Will this all work out in the long run? Well, it depends on how people react. If they continue to reject hightly restricted content, we should be fine. If not, well, say goodbye to the Open Internet. It was fun while it lasted.
Simple solution: I will not buy anything that is copy restricted(*). They cannot force me to buy these locked down peices of media. I do not need them to survive. It will encourage me to spend my money on less mainstream, more meaningful things, like independent music artists & independant film perhaps.
(*): My copy of Warcraft III has Piracy protection, which I am fine with. If my OS bites it or my pc catches fire, and I lose everything, I have not lost my ability to play Warcraft III. I can even back up the CD in case it gets scratched.
What people are talking about here, is media that is locked down, only available as licensed for a certain period of time, tied to your cryptographic identity (unique to your installation of windows), and generally lacking and provisions for fair use. Not even mentioning the licensee's ability to track usage patterns, and dictate where and when content can be used.
That is just not acceptable. Vote with your wallet. May the best solution win.
For god's sake, please supply an officially supported build of Apache 2 for Win32 with SSL support.
Unless i'm horrbily mistaken there exists no build w/SSL and compiling it myself resulted in a very unstable mess that crashed 1 out of 10 times after requesting an https url.
By "scaling" I mean, it benefits far greater from an increase in bandwidth than MP3. It's more efficient, it can do more with the extra bits.
I'm guessing you find 128k MP3s 'acceptable' quality. Personally, to be tolerable I only generally rip to 160-170 VBR MP3. I could go bigger but it starts to get to ridiculous sizes. For my ears, it sounds LOTS better.
Now contrast that with an Ogg Vorbis file encoded at around 140k. Amazing differerence. By going from 128 to 140, you acheive an even greater increase is sound quality than taking an MP3 from 128 to 170+. But to me Ogg is noticebly better than MP3 even at 128.
Personally, I find the bass (kick drums) to sound a lot tighter. The sound spectrum seems to open up, in comparison the MP3 sounds muffled. MP3 steals some impact from the music, sort of how just slightly blurring a jpeg can acheive higher compression. The MP3 sounds blurred to me. Ogg sounds tighter, sharper, and more clear. For reference, I primarily listen on a Cambridge Soundworks Digital using w/SPDIF inputs.
Music listening is very subjective, but theres just no doubt that Ogg Vorbis does represent a much more efficient encoding algorithm.
Wow, that Awari game looks quite cool. Does anyone know where I can get one, possibly hand made (doesn't need to be 3500 years old though). It seems way cooler than just a basic chess board (though its cool to have a nice one of those too).
The stones look like those that you can buy, just polished rocks. But the cool fold-up game board is nice. Carved from wood, it would be damn nice to have in the living room. You could even bring it down to the local coffee shop instead of a deck of cards;-)
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numbers when in someone's pocket or bag. Sometimes this occurs
during incriminating or embarrassing situations, and typically
the number on the other end will be a friend or relative since
they are going to be the last dialed number, or someone on a
speed dial entry.
Now pause for a moment, and imagine the implications of a
video-cellphone accidently dialing your parents at a bad
time...
On a more serious note, I've also read about cell phones being
used intentionally for this sort of spying. Ones that can
auto-answer calls silently are inconspicuously left in a board
room or someone's office, and then later, can be called in order
to eavesdrop.
They typcially dont raise any concerns because, hey "Its just a
cell phone, someone probably forgot it, and will come back to get
it".
Now... adding video to the technique may prove to be interesting
or problematic (depending on which side you are on).
I'm so happy, the smaller (but nice) independent/alternative film theater right nearby me is showing this, I saw the poster for it today. =D
This is without any service pack installed.
microsoft will just defend their actions saying it is "vital to the core operation of
the operating system" or some such nonsense.
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"Crash Override" and "Acid Burn"
Oh wait, I'm thinking of SGI ;-)
You can piss off a whole lot of people, but you can never stop everyone. And it only takes one.
The PS2 has Component output, and can support HDTV resolutions.
Something tells me an encrypted secret key is easier to break than a public key encrypted message.
Of course, my passphrase is over 50 chars long. Good luck with it. I'll keep it safe though just the same.
To the best of my knowledge, PGP looks at a path you specify for the keyring files, now on windows I imagine when you stick the USB keychain disk in, it gets whatever available drive letter it gets. So them you have to go set PGP to look at the right drive.
Under linux I guess it would always mount to the same path, but how does the system know what user inserted the card? Would it mount as UID root? Thats not good. If it's formatted ext2 I guess the UIDs would have to match. But thats weak.
What i'm thinking is PGP (etc) need an API so you can press a button that says "I am going to stick in my keychain with my keyrings on it now", and when the device is detected, the system only allows PGP access to read it, and only to the current user.
Dunno if that makes sense, but the USB keychains are perfect for that sort of thing, cause your private never needs to be readily available unless you're actively using it. And then only breifly. Leaving it sitting in ~/.pgp (or "C:\Documents And Settings\Application Data\Network Associates\PGP") is just uneeded risk.
You should ALREADY be blocking ALL unknown incoming ports. ESPECIALLY UDP.
No, really.
Ok, a poll: how many of you went into the source code today and fixed the vulnerability on your own? Come on, raise your hands...
That's what I thought. People just have to wait for either the distribution to release an updated package, or at the least the package maintainer to release a patch or updated release. NOBODY (ok, not many) people go in and hack the source themseleves to fix it. It's better than closed source, but not as much as you make it apear to be.
Yes, you can coordinate with others to make a fix, but you can't sit there and tell me Joe Sysadmin will sit there and craft his own patch to close a hole. It doesn't work that way.
Go ahead, take my karma...
Since that article was posted, I was asked by my company to do some load and scalability testing and I've had great success with OpenSTA. Give it a chance. It's awkward at once but once you get a feel for the HTTP/S (http scripting) language, you can do some very complicated scripting with it.
For example I wrote a script which interacts with one of our web products and navigates through several pages, submitting queries, retrieving 'wait' pages, and continuing on when the results are ready. Can't do that with wget... heh. And it gives excellent feeback on timing and can remotely monitor CPU and memory usage.
As far as I know it is only available on windows, though it is open source.
Please, the world has enough "Gates" already ;-)
Will this all work out in the long run? Well, it depends on how people react. If they continue to reject hightly restricted content, we should be fine. If not, well, say goodbye to the Open Internet. It was fun while it lasted.
Simple solution:
I will not buy anything that is copy restricted(*). They cannot force me to buy these locked down peices of media. I do not need them to survive. It will encourage me to spend my money on less mainstream, more meaningful things, like independent music artists & independant film perhaps.
(*): My copy of Warcraft III has Piracy protection, which I am fine with. If my OS bites it or my pc catches fire, and I lose everything, I have not lost my ability to play Warcraft III. I can even back up the CD in case it gets scratched.
What people are talking about here, is media that is locked down, only available as licensed for a certain period of time, tied to your cryptographic identity (unique to your installation of windows), and generally lacking and provisions for fair use. Not even mentioning the licensee's ability to track usage patterns, and dictate where and when content can be used.
That is just not acceptable. Vote with your wallet. May the best solution win.
Unless i'm horrbily mistaken there exists no build w/SSL and compiling it myself resulted in a very unstable mess that crashed 1 out of 10 times after requesting an https url.
fp yay!
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I'm guessing you find 128k MP3s 'acceptable' quality. Personally, to be tolerable I only generally rip to 160-170 VBR MP3. I could go bigger but it starts to get to ridiculous sizes. For my ears, it sounds LOTS better.
Now contrast that with an Ogg Vorbis file encoded at around 140k. Amazing differerence. By going from 128 to 140, you acheive an even greater increase is sound quality than taking an MP3 from 128 to 170+. But to me Ogg is noticebly better than MP3 even at 128.
Personally, I find the bass (kick drums) to sound a lot tighter. The sound spectrum seems to open up, in comparison the MP3 sounds muffled. MP3 steals some impact from the music, sort of how just slightly blurring a jpeg can acheive higher compression. The MP3 sounds blurred to me. Ogg sounds tighter, sharper, and more clear. For reference, I primarily listen on a Cambridge Soundworks Digital using w/SPDIF inputs.
Music listening is very subjective, but theres just no doubt that Ogg Vorbis does represent a much more efficient encoding algorithm.
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~awari/
Wow, that Awari game looks quite cool. Does anyone know where I can get one, possibly hand made (doesn't need to be 3500 years old though). It seems way cooler than just a basic chess board (though its cool to have a nice one of those too).
The stones look like those that you can buy, just polished rocks. But the cool fold-up game board is nice. Carved from wood, it would be damn nice to have in the living room. You could even bring it down to the local coffee shop instead of a deck of cards ;-)