People in China should check out Spam Mimic which hides messages in what appears to be SPAM.
Example message: "Death to the facist regime"
Encrypted to read (paste the below in at their website and it will translate it for you):
Dear Friend , Thank-you for your interest in our publication
. We will comply with all removal requests . This mail
is being sent in compliance with Senate bill 1623 ;
Title 7 , Section 302 ! This is not a get rich scheme
! Why work for somebody else when you can become rich
within 58 MONTHS . Have you ever noticed people will
do almost anything to avoid mailing their bills plus
nearly every commercial on television has a.com on
in it . Well, now is your chance to capitalize on this
! We will help you use credit cards on your website
& deliver goods right to the customer's doorstep !
You can begin at absolutely no cost to you ! But don't
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"I was skeptical but it worked for me" ! We are licensed
to operate in all states ! If not for you then for
your loved ones - act now . Sign up a friend and you
get half off . Thank-you for your serious consideration
of our offer ! Dear Colleague , This letter was specially
selected to be sent to you . This is a one time mailing
there is no need to request removal if you won't want
any more . This mail is being sent in compliance with
Senate bill 1627 ; Title 4 ; Section 307 . This is
not a get rich scheme ! Why work for somebody else
when you can become rich within 58 MONTHS ! Have you
ever noticed nobody is getting any younger & more people
than ever are surfing the web ! Well, now is your chance
to capitalize on this ! WE will help YOU increase customer
response by 200% and deliver goods right to the customer's
doorstep . You can begin at absolutely no cost to you
. But don't believe us ! Prof Anderson who resides
in Wyoming tried us and says "I was skeptical but it
worked for me" . We are licensed to operate in all
states ! We urge you to contact us today for your own
future financial well-being ! Sign up a friend and
your friend will be rich too . Cheers !
The software, developed around 1993, detected similarities in the students' work in three computer coding assignments, Eislet said. It's unlikely that innocent students' work was detected by the program, he said.
1993? Think it was written in COBOL? Have they tested it for Y2K compliance?
Wasn't there something called "leech zmodem" back in the BBS days? This version of zmodem would abort the download at the very last byte, so as to fool the BBS's upload/download ratio tracking.
That's an interesting idea. After that file has been share a few million times, the download will fly! 100:1 compression eat your heart out.
Perhaps this was Lindows plan all along? Many on/. suggested that it seemed improbable that they had created something better than Wine in a very short time. Maybe they never intended to. They generated a lot of interest (and e-mail addresses) on Slashdot and other Linux forums. They picked a name that would get M$ attention. Now, they show M$ that tens of thousands (my guess) of the ubergeeks are going to leave M$ and sign up with them (by showing M$ the e-mail list). Perhaps this was a plan to get M$ to buy them out for a few million?
I'm not saying that it's likely, but some of the peices fit.
Well, I never got to read the first aritlce because it was slashdotted, and it looks like I won't be able to read this one. Maybe both of these sites should follow their own advice and build some beefier servers.
The game is afoot
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The Drone War
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· Score: 3, Funny
After doing a little research I've discovered that there are several research projects in process for robot warfare. See: www.battlebots.com for the full details. It appears that the most efficient stratedgy is to flip the opponent robot onto it's side or back. Most of the drones are unable to recover from this vicious attack.
Many of the robot builders really dislike this proven stratedgy saying that it's too easy and prefer to try bludgen their opponents instead. Those builders generally lose.
I was once able to achive 100:1 compression, here's how I did it. Remember back in the days that 14.4 modems were popular? The boxes would make the claim, (in huge writing) "SPEEDS UP TO 150,000 bytes per second!!!". Somewhere in small print it would mention that those speeds were under optimal conditions using compression (V.32bis? I can't remember now).
Well...having never seen my 14.4 modem move data that quickly I decided to do a test. A friend and I dialed into each other's modem. We created a 300k file consisting of nothing but upper-case "P". Guess what? We got that fabled 150,000 bytes/sec!
It goes to show, you can do amazing things with ramdom data as long as your random data is carefully selected. Don't tell me that an infinite number of monkeys couldn't produce a 300k file of upper-case "P".
I found that one of my Usenet predictions from 95 didn't come true:
From http://groups.google.com/groups?q=bryon.sutherland &start=400&scoring=d&selm=bryon.800579322%40jove&r num=402
I read several more chain mail for profit letters today and then I
realized something..... These chain mail letters might actually be
providing a valuable service on the net. The idiots who believe that
they can actually make $50,000 in 2 weeks by sitting on the couch in
their underwear will send their money in and eventually they will be so
broke that they can't afford their internet connection.
There was a similar article on Slashdot (a long time ago, not a dig at/. editors) which should have some good ideas for you. I only remember it because I was the one who asked the question.
It strikes me that there is a pretty easy test one could give to these machines. They talk about the database of millions of photos (of criminal, hopefully). Why don't they compare each of the photos to the others in the database? If there are many hits it's obvious that there is a big false positive problem....
Or, it might find that some people believed to be different people are actually the same person.
When you go to the article, please notice that there are 5 pages (I didn't think that was obvious).
Some other articles on the subject:
Like Parent, but without the confusing Next Page thing: http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsession id=FVCJFXYQCJMD0CRBAEOCFEYKEEARKIWD?type=sciencene ws&StoryID=488483
Background on Protein P53: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/disease/p53.html
A little more on P53: http://www.bioscience.org/news/scientis/p53.htm
Now we need a law in Texas that states that it's illegal for Spam subject lines to contain "ADV:". That way, the spammers will get sued either in TX or CA. That would put an end to Spam once and for all.
For more background info on how neurons work: see How stuff works sub-page on the brain. I was hoping that they would have a good discussion on how sodium and potasium ions move through the cell membranes creating a charge, but at least it's a good intro.
Meanwhile, the Canadian National Research Council has sent over some techs who have scanned the whole complex into super-accurate 3-D models as to be sure of rebuilding the temples precisely as they were.
Don't get me wrong, without physical security you have no security. However, I'm sure that all of the physical security impresses the pants off the Customer's Executives who aren't aware that their data is only as secure as the helpdesk.
l33t H4xor: This is Bob Bigswingingdick, could you reset my password for me?
Helpdesk: Sure thing, but I can't give you the password over the phone, I'll have to give it to your boss.
l33t H4xor: Did you not hear me correctly, This is Bob Bigswingingdick, I don't have a manager. By the way, tell me who your manager is.
Helpdesk: That won't be necessary sir, I'll take care of you.
In terms of raw performance, the Celeron 733 (4-way set associative L2) will outperform the PowerPC 750 running at 500MHz in any of the synthetic benchmarks we've seen. We can only assume that a 733MHz CPU with a 133MHz FSB and 8-way set associative L2 cache would only be faster than the Gekko giving the Xbox the CPU performance advantage.
Am I missing something? Why would you care which CPU is faster? As long as the CPU is fast enough to play the game, I don't give a rat's ass if it's a Cray. It's not like I'm folding@home on my Game Cube.
I am really sick of people on/. and elsewhere bashing MS admins for not patching their systems. There is a very good reason why I didn't patch my IIS servers until Code Red came out, and the same reason why I am always slow to roll out MS patches. BTW, I am a MCSE, and a damned good admin.
When I did start rolling out the patch for Code Red I lost two production servers because the patch was incompatible with older Compaq RAID controller drivers. Microsoft eventually made a note of this on the patch download page, but it was too late for me. If I had been able to wait even longer I would have known about it.
So, still to this day, I do not roll out Microsoft patches as soon as they are available. Not because I am not a good admin, but because I have a healty distrust of Microsoft patches. Please stop blaming the MCSE's, we are not all idiots.
It's truely sad that Ginger was listed as one of the inventions of the year when no one even knows for sure what It(TM) is, or if It(TM) even works. The blind leading the stupid.
Maybe someone can beam the power into the machine with lasers or something, but I wouldn't want to have to reboot every time a cat runs under the desk!
Slashdot Mirror
Example message: "Death to the facist regime" .com on
in it . Well, now is your chance to capitalize on this
! We will help you use credit cards on your website
& deliver goods right to the customer's doorstep !
You can begin at absolutely no cost to you ! But don't
believe us ! Mr Jones of Alabama tried us and says
"I was skeptical but it worked for me" ! We are licensed
to operate in all states ! If not for you then for
your loved ones - act now . Sign up a friend and you
get half off . Thank-you for your serious consideration
of our offer ! Dear Colleague , This letter was specially
selected to be sent to you . This is a one time mailing
there is no need to request removal if you won't want
any more . This mail is being sent in compliance with
Senate bill 1627 ; Title 4 ; Section 307 . This is
not a get rich scheme ! Why work for somebody else
when you can become rich within 58 MONTHS ! Have you
ever noticed nobody is getting any younger & more people
than ever are surfing the web ! Well, now is your chance
to capitalize on this ! WE will help YOU increase customer
response by 200% and deliver goods right to the customer's
doorstep . You can begin at absolutely no cost to you
. But don't believe us ! Prof Anderson who resides
in Wyoming tried us and says "I was skeptical but it
worked for me" . We are licensed to operate in all
states ! We urge you to contact us today for your own
future financial well-being ! Sign up a friend and
your friend will be rich too . Cheers !
Encrypted to read (paste the below in at their website and it will translate it for you):
Dear Friend , Thank-you for your interest in our publication . We will comply with all removal requests . This mail is being sent in compliance with Senate bill 1623 ; Title 7 , Section 302 ! This is not a get rich scheme ! Why work for somebody else when you can become rich within 58 MONTHS . Have you ever noticed people will do almost anything to avoid mailing their bills plus nearly every commercial on television has a
1993? Think it was written in COBOL? Have they tested it for Y2K compliance?
That's an interesting idea. After that file has been share a few million times, the download will fly! 100:1 compression eat your heart out.
I'm not saying that it's likely, but some of the peices fit.
Well, I never got to read the first aritlce because it was slashdotted, and it looks like I won't be able to read this one. Maybe both of these sites should follow their own advice and build some beefier servers.
Many of the robot builders really dislike this proven stratedgy saying that it's too easy and prefer to try bludgen their opponents instead. Those builders generally lose.
Well...having never seen my 14.4 modem move data that quickly I decided to do a test. A friend and I dialed into each other's modem. We created a 300k file consisting of nothing but upper-case "P". Guess what? We got that fabled 150,000 bytes/sec!
It goes to show, you can do amazing things with ramdom data as long as your random data is carefully selected. Don't tell me that an infinite number of monkeys couldn't produce a 300k file of upper-case "P".
From http://groups.google.com/groups?q=bryon.sutherland &start=400&scoring=d&selm=bryon.800579322%40jove&r num=402
I read several more chain mail for profit letters today and then I realized something..... These chain mail letters might actually be providing a valuable service on the net. The idiots who believe that they can actually make $50,000 in 2 weeks by sitting on the couch in their underwear will send their money in and eventually they will be so broke that they can't afford their internet connection.
There was a similar article on Slashdot (a long time ago, not a dig at /. editors) which should have some good ideas for you. I only remember it because I was the one who asked the question.
B r o w s e t o a w e b p a g e w i t h l o t s o f w o r d s o n i t a n d t h e n c u t a n d p a s t e e a c h l e t t e r y o u n e e d.
It strikes me that there is a pretty easy test one could give to these machines. They talk about the database of millions of photos (of criminal, hopefully). Why don't they compare each of the photos to the others in the database? If there are many hits it's obvious that there is a big false positive problem....
Or, it might find that some people believed to be different people are actually the same person.
Easy solution...just build the 207 km maglev track vertically, at the equator. :)
When you go to the article, please notice that there are 5 pages (I didn't think that was obvious).
n id=FVCJFXYQCJMD0CRBAEOCFEYKEEARKIWD?type=sciencene ws&StoryID=488483
Some other articles on the subject:
Like Parent, but without the confusing Next Page thing: http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessio
Background on Protein P53: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/disease/p53.html
A little more on P53: http://www.bioscience.org/news/scientis/p53.htm
Now we need a law in Texas that states that it's illegal for Spam subject lines to contain "ADV:". That way, the spammers will get sued either in TX or CA. That would put an end to Spam once and for all.
For more background info on how neurons work: see How stuff works sub-page on the brain. I was hoping that they would have a good discussion on how sodium and potasium ions move through the cell membranes creating a charge, but at least it's a good intro.
Quake mod coming soon.
I believe this is the Discover article everyone's referencing:
l33t H4xor: This is Bob Bigswingingdick, could you reset my password for me?
Helpdesk: Sure thing, but I can't give you the password over the phone, I'll have to give it to your boss.
l33t H4xor: Did you not hear me correctly, This is Bob Bigswingingdick, I don't have a manager. By the way, tell me who your manager is.
Helpdesk: That won't be necessary sir, I'll take care of you.
Perhaps to draw even more tourists they could create the world's largest sundial.
OS/2 on a PS/2, half an operating system on half a comptuer.
I am really sick of people on /. and elsewhere bashing MS admins for not patching their systems. There is a very good reason why I didn't patch my IIS servers until Code Red came out, and the same reason why I am always slow to roll out MS patches. BTW, I am a MCSE, and a damned good admin.
When I did start rolling out the patch for Code Red I lost two production servers because the patch was incompatible with older Compaq RAID controller drivers. Microsoft eventually made a note of this on the patch download page, but it was too late for me. If I had been able to wait even longer I would have known about it.
So, still to this day, I do not roll out Microsoft patches as soon as they are available. Not because I am not a good admin, but because I have a healty distrust of Microsoft patches. Please stop blaming the MCSE's, we are not all idiots.
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The justice has obviously been reading
It's truely sad that Ginger was listed as one of the inventions of the year when no one even knows for sure what It(TM) is, or if It(TM) even works. The blind leading the stupid.
Not to mention the terrible burning cat smell!