As I haven't upgraded, I don't know what the process is like, but what I don't understand is why anyone would ever put thier name in the OS to begin with. When it asks for your name can't you just enter John Doe?
from the article:
Intruders had to work hard to deploy large DDoS attacks networks; much
work was done to avoid detection and compromise of deployed attack
networks and to provide for easier maintenance.
OK, here's the dumb question: Who is working so hard? Kids on IRC???
his web site makes mention of readerware and that the guy wants $50 for it. that sounds a bit steap. I was thinking this could be the killer app for the cat. If you could scan the bar code on that empty box of Weaties (tm) just before you throw it into the trash, then take you pilot with you to the grocery store and be reminded to pick up a box of Weaties (tm), that would be pretty damn nifty.
if would have to be more accurate than a standard cue cat though I would think.
I live in Augusta, GA and purchased wire tap connectors last Saturday at the radidio shaq in the mall and I was in fact asked for my name.
When I refused the register-guy continued to ring me up but I once encountered an employee (different radio shack tho) who momentarily refused to sell me something equally cheap unless I provided my name. She was evidently new there. Getting back to my story, I usually make a point to complain that I don't like to be asked for my name when I make a $0.50 purchase. Register-guy laughed and said they did promotions and sent catalogs and coupons to customers in the mail.
So, I don't know where you live, but in my neck of the woods they ask for name - not zip - and they admit that they want your name so they can spam you.
Dude, neither Afghanistan, nor any of the surrounding states have any significant Arab population at all.
Arabia is just the peninsula and not the surrounding area. You got me "dude". That's one point for you. Congratulations.
Your correction however is irrelevant. Let me help you stay focused on the following fact. The US is going to retaliate and people are going to die. This particular thread is about what can be done to limit the destruction by removing the incentive for the survivors to grow up to become terrorists. What I suggest is rebuilding the country or countries that will be destroyed. This seems to have worked well for Germany and Japan. It may not work well in the Middle East because there is so much resentment of the US there. What I suggest is turning over reconstruction to the Arab states - Saudi Arabia for example.
Somehow I doubt you'll have anything intelligent to add but I invite you to surprise me.
What about cooperating with the other Arab states?
We kill the Taliban then you guys split up the country or administer it or whatever you want. The US is happy because OBL is gone. These other Arab states would presumably be happy for the chance to improve the lives of their fellow Arabs.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety
Look I'm sorry but that quote, eloquent though it may be, appears in just about every discussion. It's starting to sound like the first post thing. May I suggest a new all-purpose quote:
"Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire: a dangerous servant and a terrible master".
But do they have the computational power to actually break every message just to see if it isn't doubly encrypted?
And anyway, the technology is out there - all this law will change is that criminals will need to hide thier messages as well. There are a million places to hide encrypted messages. What's to stop me from appending a message to the end of a jpeg and attaching it to an email that reads 'here is a picture of me and the baby'
Additionally, I imagine terrorists of the future will be sent to school to become mathematicians instead of pilots and that the attacks of the future will be against financial infrastructures that depended on the government's approved and guaranteed technology.
I find I need a chair to put the laptop on... the problem is that I'm too lazy to remove the chair from the bathroom when I leave. Have you ever tried to explain why there is a chair in your bathroom facing the toilet?
So the structure itself was insured + each of the tenants probably had insurance + life insurance payments + the capital the tenants will have to come up with to quickly move operations + loss of revenue resulting from inability to travel while airports are closed + loss of revenue opportunity + cleanup/repair + things I can't imagine...
Would you care to speculate as to the near-term financial consequences?
Thanks to the variety of physical conditions people come in
and once the quantity and potency of gas were published terrorist leaders would simply recruit people for hijacking duty who fit the physical profile of someone who would be unharmed.
Yes, precisely. This attack worked because it was the first of its kind, noone could expect it to happen.
I've been thinking about this and I know it sounds morbid but these hijackers were in fact hackers - all they did really was find a previously unknown security hole.
I don't remember any Americans dancing in the street when we bombed the Chinese embasy, or shot down the Iranian airliner. The only time I've ever seen Americans dancing in the streets is when our troops come home. I know some people are pretty screwed up but there is no fucking way we would be celebrating 10k+ dead people.
And before anyone brings it up. 114,000 people died (immediately) in Hiroshima and no Americans danced in the streets. The debate as to if this saved more lives than it took is not my point although the death toll for Operation Olympic would have been millions. We only celebrated when the soldiers came home.
I once had a four inch blade in a bag that, like you, I'd forgotten about. I went the metal detectors the first time with no problem. While waiting at the terminal the flight was delayed so I left all the way back through the detectors to a restaurant or something - I can't remember. The second time through the metal detectors they spotted it. I thought I was in big trouble, but they just put it into a box.
Since then, I've never really taken airport security successfully. When they ask me to turn on my palm pilot I use the tricorder app and pretend to scan them with it. I guess it wouldn't be smart to do that any more!
I don't think skimming a flight manual in arabic 20 minutes before boarding the aircraft would really be enough to pull off what they did.
This is the part that I don't understand. Why was the manual in the car at all? You'd think the terrorists would be committed enough to have studied enough prior to leaving their house that they wouldn't need to take the manual with them. What could they have been looking up or reviewing on the drive to the airport??
I guess they were at least smart enough not to be reading it in the terminal!
He means the horizontal center. A glancing blow on one of the corners wouldn't have done it. Remember, the buildings withstood the kinetic energy of the impact. What collapsed them was the burning jet fuel that eventually melted the superstructure. In other words, they had to hit the center in order to put as much fuel within the building as possible.
Imagine that, to pick a band completely not at random, that Metallica decided to tell their current distributor to go to hell.
Their contract prohibits them from doing this. In case you didn't know contracts are very limiting - they prevent the artists from distributing their own music or someone else's music - and these contracts never expire. To be released from them (and still be able to write music) the artist has to buy the contract back. If metalica gave theier publisher the finger, the publisher would give metalica a hefty lawsuit. Even metalica cant afford that.
By the way, there is another and I think more important barrier to entry for a small publisher. Radio. Most people hear new bands on the radio or MTV. I cant imagine how a band could ever get really popular without being played on the radio. And I dont know this for sure, but I suspect the RIAA has deals with radio stations similar to what coke/pepsi have with restaurants. "Play only our music and we will cut you a deal on the licensing fees." So, for the same reason that some restaurants only have coke products and others only have pepsi, radio stations only play approved RIAA songs.
I always had so much more fun combining my two hobbies by automating these games. I wrote programs for Starfleet battles, battletech, and harpoon to do things like track ships (or mechs) datasheets, compute damage amounts and locations, and in the case of harpoon, to keep track of missile intercepts. It removed a little of the tedium (especially in sfb) and let us concentrate on the game.
Maybe rpgs were better because they never got so tedious as to require this kind of automation. At any rate I agree that the best part of all non-computer games is the ability to bend the rules to make gameplay more fun.
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As I haven't upgraded, I don't know what the process is like, but what I don't understand is why anyone would ever put thier name in the OS to begin with. When it asks for your name can't you just enter John Doe?
I didn't say astalavista, I said HastaLaVista!
here is a slightly slower alternative to altavista:
HastaLaVista Searches
From the site: HastaLaVista receives over 12 million queries a day. As of last Thursday, we had responded to quite a few of them
from the article:
Intruders had to work hard to deploy large DDoS attacks networks; much
work was done to avoid detection and compromise of deployed attack
networks and to provide for easier maintenance.
OK, here's the dumb question: Who is working so hard? Kids on IRC???
Outlook uses Secure Password Authentication (SPA). Some weird protocol that only microsoft knows. No other programs that I am aware of support it.
a desktop version of his list software
his web site makes mention of readerware and that the guy wants $50 for it. that sounds a bit steap. I was thinking this could be the killer app for the cat. If you could scan the bar code on that empty box of Weaties (tm) just before you throw it into the trash, then take you pilot with you to the grocery store and be reminded to pick up a box of Weaties (tm), that would be pretty damn nifty.
if would have to be more accurate than a standard cue cat though I would think.
All they ask you for is your zip code around here
I live in Augusta, GA and purchased wire tap connectors last Saturday at the radidio shaq in the mall and I was in fact asked for my name.
When I refused the register-guy continued to ring me up but I once encountered an employee (different radio shack tho) who momentarily refused to sell me something equally cheap unless I provided my name. She was evidently new there. Getting back to my story, I usually make a point to complain that I don't like to be asked for my name when I make a $0.50 purchase. Register-guy laughed and said they did promotions and sent catalogs and coupons to customers in the mail.
So, I don't know where you live, but in my neck of the woods they ask for name - not zip - and they admit that they want your name so they can spam you.
Obviously these people were wanted
Are you sure the FBI didn't just look for four or five people with Middle-Eastern names who all sat together on the plane?
Dude, neither Afghanistan, nor any of the surrounding states have any significant Arab population at all.
Arabia is just the peninsula and not the surrounding area. You got me "dude". That's one point for you. Congratulations.
Your correction however is irrelevant. Let me help you stay focused on the following fact. The US is going to retaliate and people are going to die. This particular thread is about what can be done to limit the destruction by removing the incentive for the survivors to grow up to become terrorists. What I suggest is rebuilding the country or countries that will be destroyed. This seems to have worked well for Germany and Japan. It may not work well in the Middle East because there is so much resentment of the US there. What I suggest is turning over reconstruction to the Arab states - Saudi Arabia for example.
Somehow I doubt you'll have anything intelligent to add but I invite you to surprise me.
What about cooperating with the other Arab states?
We kill the Taliban then you guys split up the country or administer it or whatever you want. The US is happy because OBL is gone. These other Arab states would presumably be happy for the chance to improve the lives of their fellow Arabs.
we'll all be eating with plastic spoons next
you may have a fork, so long as there is a cork on the end of it.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety
Look I'm sorry but that quote, eloquent though it may be, appears in just about every discussion. It's starting to sound like the first post thing. May I suggest a new all-purpose quote:
"Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire: a dangerous servant and a terrible master".
-George Washington
They see crypto they can't break
But do they have the computational power to actually break every message just to see if it isn't doubly encrypted?
And anyway, the technology is out there - all this law will change is that criminals will need to hide thier messages as well. There are a million places to hide encrypted messages. What's to stop me from appending a message to the end of a jpeg and attaching it to an email that reads 'here is a picture of me and the baby'
Additionally, I imagine terrorists of the future will be sent to school to become mathematicians instead of pilots and that the attacks of the future will be against financial infrastructures that depended on the government's approved and guaranteed technology.
while you're pooping
I find I need a chair to put the laptop on... the problem is that I'm too lazy to remove the chair from the bathroom when I leave. Have you ever tried to explain why there is a chair in your bathroom facing the toilet?
So the structure itself was insured + each of the tenants probably had insurance + life insurance payments + the capital the tenants will have to come up with to quickly move operations + loss of revenue resulting from inability to travel while airports are closed + loss of revenue opportunity + cleanup/repair + things I can't imagine...
Would you care to speculate as to the near-term financial consequences?
Thanks to the variety of physical conditions people come in
and once the quantity and potency of gas were published terrorist leaders would simply recruit people for hijacking duty who fit the physical profile of someone who would be unharmed.
maybe we could beam the hijackers to the brig. ;)
Does anyone know if the Port Authority had an insurance policy on the complex?
I wonder what the combined cost of insurance claims for property and from the victims will be
I doubt this or even something similar will ever happen again - but, how about giving the pilots the ability to flood the cabin with sleeping gas?
I've been thinking about this and I know it sounds morbid but these hijackers were in fact hackers - all they did really was find a previously unknown security hole.
I don't remember any Americans dancing in the street when we bombed the Chinese embasy, or shot down the Iranian airliner. The only time I've ever seen Americans dancing in the streets is when our troops come home. I know some people are pretty screwed up but there is no fucking way we would be celebrating 10k+ dead people.
And before anyone brings it up. 114,000 people died (immediately) in Hiroshima and no Americans danced in the streets. The debate as to if this saved more lives than it took is not my point although the death toll for Operation Olympic would have been millions. We only celebrated when the soldiers came home.
Since then, I've never really taken airport security successfully. When they ask me to turn on my palm pilot I use the tricorder app and pretend to scan them with it. I guess it wouldn't be smart to do that any more!
This is the part that I don't understand. Why was the manual in the car at all? You'd think the terrorists would be committed enough to have studied enough prior to leaving their house that they wouldn't need to take the manual with them. What could they have been looking up or reviewing on the drive to the airport??
I guess they were at least smart enough not to be reading it in the terminal!
He means the horizontal center. A glancing blow on one of the corners wouldn't have done it. Remember, the buildings withstood the kinetic energy of the impact. What collapsed them was the burning jet fuel that eventually melted the superstructure. In other words, they had to hit the center in order to put as much fuel within the building as possible.
Their contract prohibits them from doing this. In case you didn't know contracts are very limiting - they prevent the artists from distributing their own music or someone else's music - and these contracts never expire. To be released from them (and still be able to write music) the artist has to buy the contract back. If metalica gave theier publisher the finger, the publisher would give metalica a hefty lawsuit. Even metalica cant afford that.
By the way, there is another and I think more important barrier to entry for a small publisher. Radio. Most people hear new bands on the radio or MTV. I cant imagine how a band could ever get really popular without being played on the radio. And I dont know this for sure, but I suspect the RIAA has deals with radio stations similar to what coke/pepsi have with restaurants. "Play only our music and we will cut you a deal on the licensing fees." So, for the same reason that some restaurants only have coke products and others only have pepsi, radio stations only play approved RIAA songs.
sucks - doesn't it?
I always had so much more fun combining my two hobbies by automating these games. I wrote programs for Starfleet battles, battletech, and harpoon to do things like track ships (or mechs) datasheets, compute damage amounts and locations, and in the case of harpoon, to keep track of missile intercepts. It removed a little of the tedium (especially in sfb) and let us concentrate on the game.
Maybe rpgs were better because they never got so tedious as to require this kind of automation. At any rate I agree that the best part of all non-computer games is the ability to bend the rules to make gameplay more fun.