I saw "John Entwhistle's Ox" back in 74/75. Luckily I was working in the restaurant/bar at the concert hall and had time to - literally - run like hell back to the bar when he asked 'do you want it any louder?' and the fools present shouted 'yes'. A wave of sound helped carry me back:-) We were all around 18 years old and we ended up listening to the concert from behind a closed door.
The promoter had actually only allowed him to set up half of his amplification, the concert hall was only about 30 yards by 30 yards (at a guess) + the stage area and with a low roof. His equipment was probably what The Who used to play stadiums with.
This has happened, an alert came around about a week ago. Nokia and one or two other mobile companies have issued software upgrades for some of their phones to fix the exploit.
I don't need Bluetooth normally so I just turned it off.
Your phone rings. Once. No way can you be fast enough to pick it up on time. No problem, you have the caller's number and can ring back.
Now, most people in Germany know that a number which starts with 019 is the equivalent of an 900 number in the US - it can cost serious money. Not many adults fall for that one and ring back.
That is why people pulling this scam started faking (?) 013 numbers. 013 numbers can also cost you far more than the price of a call to a 'normal' number.
The Germans allegedly voted against the position of their own goverment (although not that of the Minister of Justice).
The Poles apparently did the same thing. You have also nominated the Dutch.
Why? Are they all that stupid?
Another sub-plot is that there was a general move to the right in the recent elections and the right-wing parties are generally for SW patents. In Germany, the CDU/CSU (right) are for, the SPD (left) are split and the three smaller parties are all dead against. Then again, after the most recent elections, the SPD can hardly be rated as a large party.
Bottom line is, I won't trust any of them unless or until this beast is killed with a stake through it's heart to stop it reappearing at the next full moon.
Wait a minute, I'm Vlad_the_Inhaler here. Scrub that last statement;-)
Virtually all of the spam SMS-messages I get are from phone companies themselves.
My own 'provider' (Vodaphone) broadcasts the occasional multimedia message so I can see how unspeakably wonderful they are, but that is a relatively minor irritant.
Whenever I leave the country - Germany - the local providers all send me messages in German welcoming me to their networks and suggesting ways I can enhance my experience there by dialing certain numbers. You get one of these messages each week (Sunday to Saturday) so a weekend somewhere will generate one message when I get there and another one on Sunday for each network my phone happens to roam into. This is annoying enough when I am not at the wheel, but goes way beyond that when I am driving and expecting a serious message. No, I do not want to pull over and check my mobile every time some cretinous phone company wants me to check out their 'recipe of the week'.
Anything that allows me to whack them with a big stick is welcome by me.
A couple of years ago, I gave someone my e-mail address over the phone as 'first-name dot last-name at provider dot net'. Luckily they read it back to me.
firstname.lastname@provider.net
I had to point out that my first name was Vlad and last name Inhaler (ok, I'm lying but you get the point). That is probably another address each provider has which gets a lot of spam:-)
Paraphrasing, it was something like: Jealous Slashdot trollers with nothing else going on in their lives.
Even apart from that (mis)quote, that guy is certainly not short of self-confidence. As to the NYT, I wonder how long it will be before they issue a public apology in that case as well. I suppose it could happen in a couple of years.
It seems that even business people start seeing the insanity of the current patent system.
As long as 'business people' in the form of very large companies are trying to get something similar to US patent law into European Union law, I won't believe in a change of opinion at the top. Everyone knows that the US system is broken, but the odds are still on it being adopted in the EU.
You are forgetting the cost of the software licences for all that stuff they have installed. Most of that software will be from Redmond, but some will be from SCO (hey, they paid a lot for those licenses so someone must be using something).
I would rather like to know just who (as in: which sites / organisations) are blocking these IPs.
Name names, supply urls.
As to using proxy servers (someone said the article suggested it but I did not find the reference), I would expect Macedonian computer magazines - if they exist - to carry suggestions. Some German ISPs routinely ban neo-nazi sites and those guys give very simple and detailed instructions on how to set up proxies so as to access their sites.
1. Infection of the site 2. Detection by a visitor or a visitor's virus scanner 3. Reporting this back to the site 4. Getting this information to the webmasters 5. Fixing it
to take quite some time. In particular, the intervals between 1 and 2, and between 3 and 4 could be pretty long.
Something like ZoneAlarm would probably allow the infection to be detected quite quickly if the user was sufficiently awake, and telling the webmasters means it has to happen during working hours with the webmaster functions not having being outsourced to another timezone.
I would not expect a site having 50 hits a day (or even an hour) to have it's own webmasters.
Jennifer Scharff, vice president of marketing for MinervaHealth, said some of the company's clients reported the problem on Thursday. The company has since fixed its site, she said. Scharff said no more than 50 visitors browsed the Web site during the time it was serving up the hostile code.
I had never heard of the company, but is it realistic that only 50 visitors browsed the site after it had been cracked? That seems very low, especially for a problem which was previously unknown to the Virus scanners.
Slashdot Mirror
SLDT02004071000001
gerroff my back.
it wasn't me, there were no witnesses and you can't prove it
I saw "John Entwhistle's Ox" back in 74/75. Luckily I was working in the restaurant/bar at the concert hall and had time to - literally - run like hell back to the bar when he asked 'do you want it any louder?' and the fools present shouted 'yes'. A wave of sound helped carry me back :-) We were all around 18 years old and we ended up listening to the concert from behind a closed door.
The promoter had actually only allowed him to set up half of his amplification, the concert hall was only about 30 yards by 30 yards (at a guess) + the stage area and with a low roof. His equipment was probably what The Who used to play stadiums with.
There is nothing recent about that trend.
You had me worried for a bit there. No, that was not what I was describing. Nor is this although it is related. It is also a couple of years old.
This appears to be what I was thinking of although it is not my original source. Sorry, can't find it now, it was probably in German anyhow.
This has happened, an alert came around about a week ago. Nokia and one or two other mobile companies have issued software upgrades for some of their phones to fix the exploit.
I don't need Bluetooth normally so I just turned it off.
That works a bit differently here in Germany.
Your phone rings. Once. No way can you be fast enough to pick it up on time. No problem, you have the caller's number and can ring back.
Now, most people in Germany know that a number which starts with 019 is the equivalent of an 900 number in the US - it can cost serious money. Not many adults fall for that one and ring back.
That is why people pulling this scam started faking (?) 013 numbers. 013 numbers can also cost you far more than the price of a call to a 'normal' number.
Will ICQ allow you to send text messages in Europe? I thought none of the freebies did that any more because of the cost.
The Germans allegedly voted against the position of their own goverment (although not that of the Minister of Justice).
;-)
The Poles apparently did the same thing. You have also nominated the Dutch.
Why? Are they all that stupid?
Another sub-plot is that there was a general move to the right in the recent elections and the right-wing parties are generally for SW patents. In Germany, the CDU/CSU (right) are for, the SPD (left) are split and the three smaller parties are all dead against. Then again, after the most recent elections, the SPD can hardly be rated as a large party.
Bottom line is, I won't trust any of them unless or until this beast is killed with a stake through it's heart to stop it reappearing at the next full moon.
Wait a minute, I'm Vlad_the_Inhaler here. Scrub that last statement
Virtually all of the spam SMS-messages I get are from phone companies themselves.
My own 'provider' (Vodaphone) broadcasts the occasional multimedia message so I can see how unspeakably wonderful they are, but that is a relatively minor irritant.
Whenever I leave the country - Germany - the local providers all send me messages in German welcoming me to their networks and suggesting ways I can enhance my experience there by dialing certain numbers. You get one of these messages each week (Sunday to Saturday) so a weekend somewhere will generate one message when I get there and another one on Sunday for each network my phone happens to roam into. This is annoying enough when I am not at the wheel, but goes way beyond that when I am driving and expecting a serious message. No, I do not want to pull over and check my mobile every time some cretinous phone company wants me to check out their 'recipe of the week'.
Anything that allows me to whack them with a big stick is welcome by me.
A couple of years ago, I gave someone my e-mail address over the phone as 'first-name dot last-name at provider dot net'. Luckily they read it back to me.
:-)
firstname.lastname@provider.net
I had to point out that my first name was Vlad and last name Inhaler (ok, I'm lying but you get the point). That is probably another address each provider has which gets a lot of spam
I have heard that as well, but I heard similar things before the critical vote a few weeks ago and we know how that panned out.
Incomplete :-)
Paraphrasing, it was something like: Jealous Slashdot trollers with nothing else going on in their lives.
Even apart from that (mis)quote, that guy is certainly not short of self-confidence. As to the NYT, I wonder how long it will be before they issue a public apology in that case as well. I suppose it could happen in a couple of years.
It seems that even business people start seeing the insanity of the current patent system.
As long as 'business people' in the form of very large companies are trying to get something similar to US patent law into European Union law, I won't believe in a change of opinion at the top. Everyone knows that the US system is broken, but the odds are still on it being adopted in the EU.
The site is totally slashdotted so I can't RTFA. Tell me someone, is it about telemarketeering as a career alternative to programming?
including the dynamic pages?
Just think of the overhead for babelfish or the translators to Pig Latin.
Just think of the overhead for Auto or Computer manufacturers: build your dream car/pc online and then order it. They would have to save the lot.
Nah - GM would make sure lawmakers knew exactly what this would mean and would blow this baby out of the water before it ever got passed.
Just thought of another one: tha Yahoo or Microsoft online game zones.
You are forgetting the cost of the software licences for all that stuff they have installed. Most of that software will be from Redmond, but some will be from SCO (hey, they paid a lot for those licenses so someone must be using something).
That surprised me - yes, the project appears to be operating out of Munich, if traceroute is any guide.
sweet.
Validation is an expensive process, the vendors had to pay for it themselves so they were not necessarily 'ripping the government off'.
The article did not say that /. was one of the sites blocking their traffic. Dream on!
I would rather like to know just who (as in: which sites / organisations) are blocking these IPs.
Name names, supply urls.
As to using proxy servers (someone said the article suggested it but I did not find the reference), I would expect Macedonian computer magazines - if they exist - to carry suggestions. Some German ISPs routinely ban neo-nazi sites and those guys give very simple and detailed instructions on how to set up proxies so as to access their sites.
This story has nothing to do with SMTP, it is web browsing they are being cut off from.
The chance of Germany pulling a stunt like that is zero.
Weapons of Mass Corruption.
AMD would presumably love this - their Opterons are produced in Dresden and I can't see the Germans joining in on this.
I would expect the cycle:
1. Infection of the site
2. Detection by a visitor or a visitor's virus scanner
3. Reporting this back to the site
4. Getting this information to the webmasters
5. Fixing it
to take quite some time.
In particular, the intervals between 1 and 2, and between 3 and 4 could be pretty long.
Something like ZoneAlarm would probably allow the infection to be detected quite quickly if the user was sufficiently awake, and telling the webmasters means it has to happen during working hours with the webmaster functions not having being outsourced to another timezone.
I would not expect a site having 50 hits a day (or even an hour) to have it's own webmasters.
Jennifer Scharff, vice president of marketing for MinervaHealth, said some of the company's clients reported the problem on Thursday. The company has since fixed its site, she said. Scharff said no more than 50 visitors browsed the Web site during the time it was serving up the hostile code.
I had never heard of the company, but is it realistic that only 50 visitors browsed the site after it had been cracked? That seems very low, especially for a problem which was previously unknown to the Virus scanners.