I am also in Chicago, but my network is the old Prime Cable (COM-21 modem based) network. For over 2 years, we are "supposed" to be getting @Home (Hmmm... wonder how long they plan on keeping that page up? I would love to have this, they have the cap set for me @ 512/128, and with their exceptionally poor line quality (10% packet loss routinely) A 1.Anything cap would be better...
A Slackware user myself, I am somewhat used to retrieving the source of my updates and compiling them myself. Although I don't check all of the PGP keys, most of the source I update regularly DOES have a digital signature.
Technically, Windows Update could insert something that removes the need for Microsoft's signatures and the Debian example would work just as well for our friends at M$.
As a similar matter of example: With W2K SP/2, M$ decided to disable the ability to disable Windows File Protection. A nice concept in some respects, but forces you to keep whatever files M$ thinks you should have... say... NetMeeting (or any other program you no longer get to uninstall.)
A bit of research, and a good-ole 2 bytes of NOP carefully inserted disables WFP. I was a bit shocked when I realized it did work! I boot W2K now, and although no WFP causes an event log message, the only way to tell my SFC.DLL is hacked is to test the signature manually! No "A Windows File Fails Integrity Checks" error message comes up. It could have just as well been the FBI's hack. Or, worse yet, the FBI could use WFP to ASSURE that you can't replace their files with a clean, non-recording version!...
Shiver
P.S. Try using SSH + SFTP. Beats the WUFTP problems and the tricky firewall rules FTP bringeth.
From a we-are-going-to-play-this-disk-without-content-pro tection standpoint, how is this any different than CSS?
Assume that the average consumer purchases a non-upgradable DVD player containing CSS and WMA decoding algorithms. The consumer also buys a disk containing a non-changing image.
With both images static, if WMA is cracked, the cat is out of the bag. Again. And it's only a matter of time.
Even with the software, the database still has to be built... I assume some of the radical [domestic, non-terrorist] militias [/cults/political activists] the ATF would love to watch aren't going to be nice enough to forward dirt on themselves in electronic format...
If I recall correctly, one of our founding fathers (Ben?) said that governments must be completely overhauled every 200 years to eliminate damage by corruption...
Yes, Ameritech (Chicago) has this. It's not quite what you described, tho: Any non-caller IDable call gets routed first to the Telco computers, which act like a collect call operator. The caller gets to leave his name, and gets put on hold. Your phone then rings, and you get the option to accept the call, decline the call forcefully (caller gets a don't call back msg), or decline passively (the caller gets a message that you didn't answer, even if you did.)
Best $4.95 a month I spend. I haven't had a single telemarketer get through in over a year ! (Well, OK, a few do that actually have a caller-IDable number).
I agree that certain types of Bots will usually beat other types; (I also feel that the wedge-only bots are really lame. No offensive capability by anyones definition, no fight, no fun....) but how could you realistically define multiple types of competition in the same weight class? Anyone could enter and win by default if they were the only stomp-bot with six alternating hammers, gas drive, CO2 flipping-arm-equipped, kevlar _AND_ lexan _AND_ titanium shielded wedge with battery backup.
The goal is to fight against ALL the types of robots... The finals this year were actually really close... Biohazard's judge's premature judgement made it a entertaining fight (not-so-picture-book) and Biohazard did put up a decent fight... suffered damage but not as much as most of the other robots Wyatchi stomped on the way up there...
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HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Window Title
(It's a REG_SZ if you dont have it, and want to...)
I am also in Chicago, but my network is the old Prime Cable (COM-21 modem based) network. For over 2 years, we are "supposed" to be getting @Home (Hmmm... wonder how long they plan on keeping that page up? I would love to have this, they have the cap set for me @ 512/128, and with their exceptionally poor line quality (10% packet loss routinely) A 1.Anything cap would be better...
Does that mean Osama and his Boys are the Dwarfen Demolition Squad? ("I love blowin' things up...")
Technically, Windows Update could insert something that removes the need for Microsoft's signatures and the Debian example would work just as well for our friends at M$.
As a similar matter of example: With W2K SP/2, M$ decided to disable the ability to disable Windows File Protection. A nice concept in some respects, but forces you to keep whatever files M$ thinks you should have... say... NetMeeting (or any other program you no longer get to uninstall.)
A bit of research, and a good-ole 2 bytes of NOP carefully inserted disables WFP. I was a bit shocked when I realized it did work! I boot W2K now, and although no WFP causes an event log message, the only way to tell my SFC.DLL is hacked is to test the signature manually! No "A Windows File Fails Integrity Checks" error message comes up. It could have just as well been the FBI's hack. Or, worse yet, the FBI could use WFP to ASSURE that you can't replace their files with a clean, non-recording version!...
Shiver
P.S. Try using SSH + SFTP. Beats the WUFTP problems and the tricky firewall rules FTP bringeth.
Someday I'll bust out the ol' Commodore 64 and hook that up to my TV set, complete with tape drive, and let the kids see things the way I did...
Assume that the average consumer purchases a non-upgradable DVD player containing CSS and WMA decoding algorithms. The consumer also buys a disk containing a non-changing image.
With both images static, if WMA is cracked, the cat is out of the bag. Again. And it's only a matter of time.
So bring it on...
Even with the software, the database still has to be built... I assume some of the radical [domestic, non-terrorist] militias [/cults/political activists] the ATF would love to watch aren't going to be nice enough to forward dirt on themselves in electronic format...
Lets do the math here...
Best $4.95 a month I spend. I haven't had a single telemarketer get through in over a year ! (Well, OK, a few do that actually have a caller-IDable number).
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(i.e. not _EVERYTHING_ 1x1 is bad)
BTW I believe junkbuster lets you run it w/o needing admin access on Win32, so you could use it on your work machine..
The goal is to fight against ALL the types of robots... The finals this year were actually really close... Biohazard's judge's premature judgement made it a entertaining fight (not-so-picture-book) and Biohazard did put up a decent fight... suffered damage but not as much as most of the other robots Wyatchi stomped on the way up there...