`I've never been able to understand why it's the 'good' IRC networks that suffer this way.' Good IRC Networks have many users. Many users means many lusers. They get into trouble on IRC and want usually want to annoy a certain individual and are not really aware they're also annoying other IRC-users.
This specific attack is - in my opinion - an extraordinary one; it's target is the IRC-network itself and the one doing the attack is perfectly aware of the harm he or she is causing. I don't think you can compare this attack to the `everyday-attacks'.
At a resolution of 3000x2000 with 24 bits color at 30 frames per second you'd be able to store about 53 hours of video in 100TB. That's without compression. 53 hours is not very much for a movie and 30 fps might even be a bit too few. They'll probably use some compression but also a higher framerate as well as more bits per color so I don't think 100TB is that much.
I have one question: how on earth can you see they're using Linux?! Why cannot this be *BSD, Solaris or whatever?
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And parallel offcourse:)
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According to what I've learned, when you've solved one NP complete problem, you've solved them all since all NP complete can somehow be converted into all others. Usually (in class) we converted them into the Travelling Salesman Problem. If you can solve that, you can solve them all and you're THE MAN. Or - preferably - THE WOMAN offcourse.
Not that it matters with such a small number of hits, but you cannot just divide by 24*3600; it's about the peaks. Most hits are during office-times and usually there's a peak early in the morning (depending on the type of website).
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thnx:)
and ofcourse: it lacks descructors #)%&#)%^
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Are you willing to share with us why you don't like Java ?
It's rather nice that the recipients get the message in plain text, but what you forgot to mention here is that certain attachments are also embedded in the winmail.dat so they're not readable without OL2000.
I have a question...if the elevator pushes itself up along the cable, won't the cable be pushed towards the earth? I suppose this will especially happen with light cables so one will 1) need heavy cables and 2) have to move the cable higher into orbit every now and then...how does this work? The way I look at it, the amount of energy needed to get and keep the system in orbit is incredibly huge. I suppose the scientists must have thought about this, so can someone try to explain?
I suppose the elevator will not only be pushed away from earth, but it will also pull towards the object on the other end. With a flexible `cable', won't the object be pulled towards earth?
Do you know anything about the precision of the corner cube they use? I can imagine that over such distances when the edges of the cube are not exactly 90 degrees, when the beam comes back on earth, it might have a huge deviation. How large is the receiver?
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Well on a local (yes it's 10.0.0.something) network it shouldn't be too much of a problem. And I don't think you want to run ssh(d) on the thing if you want your coffee to be ready in a day or two:)
1) If alcohol isn't addictive, are alcoholics psychologically addicted?
2) Marijuana definately isn't a downer, but I and none of my many zmoocing friends have never ever seen or heard things actually. And I can't say that would be because I haven't zmooced enough:)
And since when is beer not a drug? Alcohol is considered a hard-drug; it's more addictive than soft-drugs like marihuana and also has a worse effect on your behavior than marihuana. The fact that US-law threats it different, doesn't make the effect any different. So it's rather hypocritical of you to say you're clean when you like to use some kind of hard-drug every now and then...
By the way #1: The same for coffee (although coffee isn't addictive I believe)...
By the way #2: apart from this itsy pitsy little thing: good post!
By the way #3: I'm an absolutely-not-clean-geek. I use alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and mariuhana on a rather regular base.
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I already see more and more people running their own DNS services with fake names. It's just a matter of setting up a common pirate root dns system and letting the pirates use those.
`I consider pinging my system to be the electronic equivalent of jiggling my front doorknob to see if the door will open: Is it "fair use" of my front door?'
I consider pinging my system to be the electronic equivalent of looking at my house to see if it is still there.
Portscanning though...that's jiggling your front doorknop and all of your windows.
If you view this from the point of freedom, you're damn right; shutting down telnet conflicts with your right to be able to logon to a unix server from random Windows machines. On the other hand I think rresponsible sysadmins have the task to keep their systems secure in order to protect their user's data. Since it's almost impossible to do so when the users send their passwords cleartext over the internet telnet and ftp, I think telnet etc. should already have been shut down a long time ago.
My university has been deniying ftp and telnet from outside it's domain for about 2 years now and when they did, `suddenly' the usenet-posts with lists of passwords stopped appearying. Now the only hole left is pop3...
Maybe if you use an electrical relais-like device to switch the train on and off, it'll work; there's a lot less power required to make simple electronics `do' something... By the way...you know the sounds speakers make when a cellphone is nearby...there must go a rather large current through them to do that...I guess such current is waaaay enough to make electrical devices do really weird things.
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This specific attack is - in my opinion - an extraordinary one; it's target is the IRC-network itself and the one doing the attack is perfectly aware of the harm he or she is causing. I don't think you can compare this attack to the `everyday-attacks'.
What's 31337?
Beware, it's ASP!
At a resolution of 3000x2000 with 24 bits color at 30 frames per second you'd be able to store about 53 hours of video in 100TB. That's without compression. 53 hours is not very much for a movie and 30 fps might even be a bit too few. They'll probably use some compression but also a higher framerate as well as more bits per color so I don't think 100TB is that much.
I have one question: how on earth can you see they're using Linux?! Why cannot this be *BSD, Solaris or whatever?
And parallel offcourse :)
According to what I've learned, when you've solved one NP complete problem, you've solved them all since all NP complete can somehow be converted into all others. Usually (in class) we converted them into the Travelling Salesman Problem. If you can solve that, you can solve them all and you're THE MAN. Or - preferably - THE WOMAN offcourse.
Not that it matters with such a small number of hits, but you cannot just divide by 24*3600; it's about the peaks. Most hits are during office-times and usually there's a peak early in the morning (depending on the type of website).
thnx :)
and ofcourse: it lacks descructors #)%&#)%^
Are you willing to share with us why you don't like Java ?
LWN?
It's rather nice that the recipients get the message in plain text, but what you forgot to mention here is that certain attachments are also embedded in the winmail.dat so they're not readable without OL2000.
I have a question...if the elevator pushes itself up along the cable, won't the cable be pushed towards the earth? I suppose this will especially happen with light cables so one will 1) need heavy cables and 2) have to move the cable higher into orbit every now and then...how does this work? The way I look at it, the amount of energy needed to get and keep the system in orbit is incredibly huge. I suppose the scientists must have thought about this, so can someone try to explain?
I suppose the elevator will not only be pushed away from earth, but it will also pull towards the object on the other end. With a flexible `cable', won't the object be pulled towards earth?
Do you know anything about the precision of the corner cube they use? I can imagine that over such distances when the edges of the cube are not exactly 90 degrees, when the beam comes back on earth, it might have a huge deviation. How large is the receiver?
Well on a local (yes it's 10.0.0.something) network it shouldn't be too much of a problem. And I don't think you want to run ssh(d) on the thing if you want your coffee to be ready in a day or two :)
Thank you for your explanation. I never have those sympthoms by the way :) Guess I would be a bad alcoholic then.
1) If alcohol isn't addictive, are alcoholics psychologically addicted?
2) Marijuana definately isn't a downer, but I and none of my many zmoocing friends have never ever seen or heard things actually. And I can't say that would be because I haven't zmooced enough :)
By the way #1: The same for coffee (although coffee isn't addictive I believe)...
By the way #2: apart from this itsy pitsy little thing: good post!
By the way #3: I'm an absolutely-not-clean-geek. I use alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and mariuhana on a rather regular base.
I already see more and more people running their own DNS services with fake names. It's just a matter of setting up a common pirate root dns system and letting the pirates use those.
I consider pinging my system to be the electronic equivalent of looking at my house to see if it is still there.
Portscanning though...that's jiggling your front doorknop and all of your windows.
I wouldn't mind having breasts and/or an extra head :)
I know - I mentioned that already in some sort of vague way :)
My university has been deniying ftp and telnet from outside it's domain for about 2 years now and when they did, `suddenly' the usenet-posts with lists of passwords stopped appearying. Now the only hole left is pop3...
This could be the first time something not a website gets slashdotted :)
Maybe if you use an electrical relais-like device to switch the train on and off, it'll work; there's a lot less power required to make simple electronics `do' something... By the way...you know the sounds speakers make when a cellphone is nearby...there must go a rather large current through them to do that...I guess such current is waaaay enough to make electrical devices do really weird things.