When code red hit, I started pulling out home pages. I was hit by three different Cisco Call Mangers playing host to code red. I'm guessing cisco blew their reputation with this product. We were about ready to put in an order to. So much for that crud. Then can call back when they have it running on unix. Till then, well keep using the 3com nbx 100. Its sad because 3com's support of the nbx sucks (look for support online for details) and nbx corp worked with cisco. It would have been nice if cisco had bought out nbx instead of 3com.
Can you back that up with case law? I don't think you can but I would be happy if you could. DMCA removes the ability to hack the binary and GPL doesn't provide that right (it clearly allows you to modify the source)
A common trick for export approved crypto is that the checksum (MD5/SHA/WhateverMD) is outside of the encrypted packet. That way if you can guess at whats inside, you can verify whats there without decrypting it. Once you have the plain text and the cypher text, the game is over for the rest of the data stream.
Thanks to the DMCA you can't touch the binary code. You have the right to source but the GPL does not explicity give you the right to reverse engineer the binary and the DMCA takes that right away.
I know this because I've had a quick look at another product thats in the same boat just with less GNUisms but its all one big binary so there is the issue of GNU contamination. I got explicit permission to reversen engineer the program from the only person mentiond in the binary so I think I've covered myself in the USA. I did the work in Australia where this week its still legal to check a device for compatibitlity and security holes.
Once the company involved digs its self in a bit deeper, then I'm sure everyone who reads/. will hear about it. I'm working on the paper work shut down their web server since they were a supporter of the DMCA, they are going to have to explain why their web site went down to Sr managment:-) I expect many of their cusotmers will know first.
The scary thing is I've sent in patches to code they have solen.
Egypt as we know it today was named by Napolian in the 1800's. The Egypt and Pharo stuff in the bible was based about stuff from an area in Iraq near Bablyon.
History tells us of an Airline called Egypt Air that had pilot that killed him self along with a large number of other people (including friends of my parents).
None of the solutions people have proposed about automated systems deal with the situation where the pilot decides to hit a target close to a flight path. At 500mph, every major airport is
very close to potential targets. How about the case of going from cruise altitude to a power dive. Starting at 500mph at 5 miles up it won't take long to hit something under the flight path.
What might help is more flight deck crew (most planes these days have 2 and are often flown enroute with one person while the other rests)
Better doors would be a good start. At altitude the plane already has sleeping gas. Its a little knob on the pressureizaion system. Drop the air pressure to 18,000 ft and most people just pass out unless they trained at a high mountain camp in Afghanistan.
The most effective thing: throw the airport manager and security managment from Logan in prison for the rest of their lives. That would make damn sure that no other airport manager would ever skimp on security again. He broke the law and he should do the time. 14 CFR is clear about such things.
Egypt hasn't tried to "destroy Israel utterly".
They had the option and didn't take it. Remember at in a few hours they destroyed more American built jets (F4 Phantoms) than anyone ever has. At the same time they also trashed more tanks since WWII.
Egypt currently has 750+ M1 tanks as well as a large number of Patroit anti-aircraft weapons systems. Egypt's 70 million people can put together an Army that is twice the total population of Israel according to the cia (I think we can trust this info from them).
If Egypt (well Cairo) is attacked by Israel and any of the old temples or pyramids were damaged, I could see the US support for Isreal to drop very quickly. There are just more metaphysics people in the US than there are Jews.
Lately Egypt has been making noise about the Palistine issues and have made comments that if they have to act, they are not going to quit until Israel is back to its pre 67 borders. Since making such comments, the US has provided additional military support for Egypt. For thouse following with info from the US tv...The pre-67 borders mean Isreal would not have control of Jerusalem and which the Jews feel strongly about.
Of course Egypt has its problems as well. I was almost kicked out of the mesuem at the Citidel. I was in in one of the most elegant halls I've seen with its red velvet carpet, nice wooden panelling and real black marble. One the marble slates they have words about their past leaders. On the last one in gold mylar rub on lettering (in English) it said something like "Egypt will defeat its enemys through the use of seperior artilery". If you go there, don't laugh at it as they may ask you to leave.
I find most Americans have no clue whats going on outside their borders. Its amazing what travel will do to open the mind.
The only way the US would consider nukes now is if they are used aginst a large stockpile of very dangerous bio weapons and the nuke is the only way to take it out and be sure.
If the US nukes an area where the fall out will drift to Europe, a number of countires will have an immediate halt of trading with the US. This includes Sweeden and Germany, most Baltic states, followed quickly by New Zealand and maybe Australia. The British support for the US actions would drop to the point where the goverment would get worried. The rest of the world will not allow the US to used its big bombs.
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Police work...
like the security police at the Logan airport.
I guess that ones out (and the jerks aren't even being balmed?)
Special Operation... you didn't mention the CIA... but they have a very large specails ops force.
In fact they have trinaed most of the people we are now pointing figers at.
Diplomacy? Look at Cuba. The rest of the world sees that Castro has been trying to patch things up for over a decade. The US is waiting for him to die and their next civil war.
The Taliban seemed to have had bin Laden under a type of house arrest. He has caused them a great deal of grief but he is a hero to many of the people who faught the Russians. They took away his coms devices for a reason and that should be investigated. The question I've been looking at is how many of the bin Laden family are involved in that area. His father was very rich and may have had 50 wives. That family has disowned him but is there more going on. Its quite reasonable to think that he may have over 250 brothers and sisters in the area.
Maybe you should read the DMCA and see if there is something there to use aginst them. Its got engouh crud in it that there should be something.
I've found another GPL violation and right now I'm waiting for the very well known company to dig themselves in a bit deeper but I ran into a problem. How do I know its GPL'ed? I can't reverse engineer their code so how would I ever know? If they have as part of their license that I can't run "strings" on the code and I do, I can go to jail for using a hacking tool on their binary image. The GPL does not give you the rights most people here think it does and it only gives your rights to change a program if you have the full source code and can compile it from scratch. The GPL needs to be extended so to explicitly allow thouse bits that the DMCA have now made illegal such as the ability to take a debugger to the resulting code.
This was just part of the plan. The attacks were intended to invoke a quick heavy handed response. The people who did this have nothing we can take away from them. We've tried to bomb groups in the past and all it did was reinforce them (with the exception of Lybia which sort of worked)
What I want to know is when are formal charges going to be filed against staff members at the Logan airport? We already have systems in place that would stop this but they were "too expensive" or "too inconvenient" and now 5000 people are dead. Thats criminal neglect on the part of security at Logan and the Federal Aviation Regs (FAR -- also 14 CFR) already describe the penalties for inactions resulting the the deaths of passengers. We don't need any new laws, we just need to stop ignoring some of the ones we have.
This attack was not about killing people and it wasn't about putting fear in the hearts of Americans, it was about getting the USA to destory itself. A common trick used in part of Europe before WW2 was to attack something in a way that the goverment would then attack back. Goverments are very bad at selective attacks and always hit more than they should. The result is that goverment starts making life unbearable for its citizens. In the past people have used these attacks to take over goverments.
The US's reaction to total lack of security at a few airports will to bring in a new world order but that isn't going to keep from happing again. Now that its clear what a jet will do to a building, when will someone try to steal a UPS jet to do the same thing? Most cargo planes are stitting around unlocked and with enough fuel to get in the air.
So the hijackers carried knives on the plane. How you ask? Simple, put it on the bottom of the shoe. Most FAA approved metal detectors DO NOT detect them or they will be ignored if the shoes look like they are steel toed. If the FAA is serious, they will xray shoes of everyone when the planes start up again until they can prove every metal detector works they way they should.
This is well known (I was told about it in about 1987) by a friend who managed to find ways of getting guns through some of the detectors while working as a security guard at an airport.
Call your local FAA FSDO office and ask them about it.
If you use existing tools, you may not have to make that decision. Remember that unix is a collection of tools that are each designed to to part of the job and do that job very well.
There are also other things that the DMCA makes illegal that I don't think many people have considered. One example is can you reverse engineer a GNU program? The answer is not unless you have permission of the author. You can modify the source code, but you can't mess with the output code. That means you can't disassemble the code to try to speed it up. The GNU license does not give you thouse rights and the DMCA have taken them away.
If the kids average 110 lbs they are massivly over weight. If it was just highschool kids, this might be about close but I don't see anyone getting 1 million high school kids jumping up and down for a minute. 110 kilos (243lbs) might be about right of an average weight of American high school kids.
Just about any way they were going to split M$, would just be converted into to new monopolys. The only way to split up M$ in a way that would allow competition would be force the new compaines to compete with each other. That would require one company for Wince, one for for Win 2000 and one for Win ME. The problem is if you have a Word company competing aginst Works (does it still exist?) would simply result in the Works company going under.
In Australia they tend to use a fair amount of NTSC processing and they tend to show a large number of US shows. US shows suck at 50 hz because the motion isn't smooth.
Whats best is the remote sports shows. The highlights from cricket (a game that moves slower than baseball) looks like its converted from 50hz to 60hz, then run through a mpeg type compressor, transmitted 1/3 around the world, decoded and converted back. Early southpark has better motion. Just to add to the fun, there are nice blockly artifacts as well.
As far as the better color, I don't think PAL has better color. In the US I had a nice hitichi tv hooked to a dish network sat reciver. I have never seen that good of picture on any TV here including the ones at the high end TV shops.
Until the digital TV mess started, There were more NTSC tvs made every year than there are PAL tvs in existance. Right now a junk TV in Australia only cost 3x what a good TV would cost in the US or Japan. Thats down from 5x two years ago.
Have you ever put a GSM phone next to a monitor when it started broadcasting? These things interfeer with everything and do not play well with other equipment. There have been cases where GSM phones have caused gas pumps crash and keep pumping fuel. They cause problems in hostpitals with lots of equipment. GSM was designed so every little country in Europe could control their local phone comapines so you don't have a phone company in Germany providing service in France. The result is that the system is completely unsuable in low density areas. GSM phones are junk and they shouldn't be allowed to exist anywhere.
It more like two open networks. One is the test network in our lab which isn't connected to anything other than other devices were playing with and the other is a point to point lan between a linux box and a solaris box. The solaris box is currently undergoing an audit but its going to live oustside of the firewall which is kind of where it is now. AT work I've had to make it very clear that If I catch any of this wireless stuff pluged into my network, I'll turn off their port. I may have gottent my point accross or maybe not but I still scan for arp traffic of the ether address ranges of the offending devices.
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When code red hit, I started pulling out home pages. I was hit by three different Cisco Call Mangers playing host to code red. I'm guessing cisco blew their reputation with this product. We were about ready to put in an order to. So much for that crud. Then can call back when they have it running on unix. Till then, well keep using the 3com nbx 100. Its sad because 3com's support of the nbx sucks (look for support online for details) and nbx corp worked with cisco. It would have been nice if cisco had bought out nbx instead of 3com.
Can you back that up with case law? I don't think you can but I would be happy if you could. DMCA removes the ability to hack the binary and GPL doesn't provide that right (it clearly allows you to modify the source)
A common trick for export approved crypto is that the checksum (MD5/SHA/WhateverMD) is outside of the encrypted packet. That way if you can guess at whats inside, you can verify whats there without decrypting it. Once you have the plain text and the cypher text, the game is over for the rest of the data stream.
Thanks to the DMCA you can't touch the binary code. You have the right to source but the GPL does not explicity give you the right to reverse engineer the binary and the DMCA takes that right away.
/. will hear about it. I'm working on the paper work shut down their web server since they were a supporter of the DMCA, they are going to have to explain why their web site went down to Sr managment :-) I expect many of their cusotmers will know first.
I know this because I've had a quick look at another product thats in the same boat just with less GNUisms but its all one big binary so there is the issue of GNU contamination. I got explicit permission to reversen engineer the program from the only person mentiond in the binary so I think I've covered myself in the USA. I did the work in Australia where this week its still legal to check a device for compatibitlity and security holes.
Once the company involved digs its self in a bit deeper, then I'm sure everyone who reads
The scary thing is I've sent in patches to code they have solen.
Class A/B/C died a long long time ago.
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Class A now means
Class B now means
Class C now means
Class D still means the multicast stuff.
Remember words change meaning over time. Same in the networking world.
you've been watching too much TV.
Bullet holes in the skin aren't a problem. Its bullet holes in the hydrolic system thats the risk.
Egypt as we know it today was named by Napolian in the 1800's. The Egypt and Pharo stuff in the bible was based about stuff from an area in Iraq near Bablyon.
History tells us of an Airline called Egypt Air that had pilot that killed him self along with a large number of other people (including friends of my parents).
None of the solutions people have proposed about automated systems deal with the situation where the pilot decides to hit a target close to a flight path. At 500mph, every major airport is
very close to potential targets. How about the case of going from cruise altitude to a power dive. Starting at 500mph at 5 miles up it won't take long to hit something under the flight path.
What might help is more flight deck crew (most planes these days have 2 and are often flown enroute with one person while the other rests)
Better doors would be a good start. At altitude the plane already has sleeping gas. Its a little knob on the pressureizaion system. Drop the air pressure to 18,000 ft and most people just pass out unless they trained at a high mountain camp in Afghanistan.
The most effective thing: throw the airport manager and security managment from Logan in prison for the rest of their lives. That would make damn sure that no other airport manager would ever skimp on security again. He broke the law and he should do the time. 14 CFR is clear about such things.
Egypt hasn't tried to "destroy Israel utterly".
They had the option and didn't take it. Remember at in a few hours they destroyed more American built jets (F4 Phantoms) than anyone ever has. At the same time they also trashed more tanks since WWII.
Egypt currently has 750+ M1 tanks as well as a large number of Patroit anti-aircraft weapons systems. Egypt's 70 million people can put together an Army that is twice the total population of Israel according to the cia (I think we can trust this info from them).
If Egypt (well Cairo) is attacked by Israel and any of the old temples or pyramids were damaged, I could see the US support for Isreal to drop very quickly. There are just more metaphysics people in the US than there are Jews.
Lately Egypt has been making noise about the Palistine issues and have made comments that if they have to act, they are not going to quit until Israel is back to its pre 67 borders. Since making such comments, the US has provided additional military support for Egypt. For thouse following with info from the US tv...The pre-67 borders mean Isreal would not have control of Jerusalem and which the Jews feel strongly about.
Of course Egypt has its problems as well. I was almost kicked out of the mesuem at the Citidel. I was in in one of the most elegant halls I've seen with its red velvet carpet, nice wooden panelling and real black marble. One the marble slates they have words about their past leaders. On the last one in gold mylar rub on lettering (in English) it said something like "Egypt will defeat its enemys through the use of seperior artilery". If you go there, don't laugh at it as they may ask you to leave.
I find most Americans have no clue whats going on outside their borders. Its amazing what travel will do to open the mind.
The only way the US would consider nukes now is if they are used aginst a large stockpile of very dangerous bio weapons and the nuke is the only way to take it out and be sure.
If the US nukes an area where the fall out will drift to Europe, a number of countires will have an immediate halt of trading with the US. This includes Sweeden and Germany, most Baltic states, followed quickly by New Zealand and maybe Australia. The British support for the US actions would drop to the point where the goverment would get worried. The rest of the world will not allow the US to used its big bombs.
Police work...
like the security police at the Logan airport.
I guess that ones out (and the jerks aren't even being balmed?)
Special Operation... you didn't mention the CIA... but they have a very large specails ops force.
In fact they have trinaed most of the people we are now pointing figers at.
Diplomacy? Look at Cuba. The rest of the world sees that Castro has been trying to patch things up for over a decade. The US is waiting for him to die and their next civil war.
The Taliban seemed to have had bin Laden under a type of house arrest. He has caused them a great deal of grief but he is a hero to many of the people who faught the Russians. They took away his coms devices for a reason and that should be investigated. The question I've been looking at is how many of the bin Laden family are involved in that area. His father was very rich and may have had 50 wives. That family has disowned him but is there more going on. Its quite reasonable to think that he may have over 250 brothers and sisters in the area.
The body and blood of christ concepts came out of Egypt. Blood is quite impure according to old Jewish (and Islamic) rules.
Maybe you should read the DMCA and see if there is something there to use aginst them. Its got engouh crud in it that there should be something.
I've found another GPL violation and right now I'm waiting for the very well known company to dig themselves in a bit deeper but I ran into a problem. How do I know its GPL'ed? I can't reverse engineer their code so how would I ever know? If they have as part of their license that I can't run "strings" on the code and I do, I can go to jail for using a hacking tool on their binary image. The GPL does not give you the rights most people here think it does and it only gives your rights to change a program if you have the full source code and can compile it from scratch. The GPL needs to be extended so to explicitly allow thouse bits that the DMCA have now made illegal such as the ability to take a debugger to the resulting code.
This was just part of the plan. The attacks were intended to invoke a quick heavy handed response. The people who did this have nothing we can take away from them. We've tried to bomb groups in the past and all it did was reinforce them (with the exception of Lybia which sort of worked)
What I want to know is when are formal charges going to be filed against staff members at the Logan airport? We already have systems in place that would stop this but they were "too expensive" or "too inconvenient" and now 5000 people are dead. Thats criminal neglect on the part of security at Logan and the Federal Aviation Regs (FAR -- also 14 CFR) already describe the penalties for inactions resulting the the deaths of passengers. We don't need any new laws, we just need to stop ignoring some of the ones we have.
This attack was not about killing people and it wasn't about putting fear in the hearts of Americans, it was about getting the USA to destory itself. A common trick used in part of Europe before WW2 was to attack something in a way that the goverment would then attack back. Goverments are very bad at selective attacks and always hit more than they should. The result is that goverment starts making life unbearable for its citizens. In the past people have used these attacks to take over goverments.
The US's reaction to total lack of security at a few airports will to bring in a new world order but that isn't going to keep from happing again. Now that its clear what a jet will do to a building, when will someone try to steal a UPS jet to do the same thing? Most cargo planes are stitting around unlocked and with enough fuel to get in the air.
So the hijackers carried knives on the plane. How you ask? Simple, put it on the bottom of the shoe. Most FAA approved metal detectors DO NOT detect them or they will be ignored if the shoes look like they are steel toed. If the FAA is serious, they will xray shoes of everyone when the planes start up again until they can prove every metal detector works they way they should.
This is well known (I was told about it in about 1987) by a friend who managed to find ways of getting guns through some of the detectors while working as a security guard at an airport.
Call your local FAA FSDO office and ask them about it.
They can do that with their transponders.
This is what a class action suit is for.
If you use existing tools, you may not have to make that decision. Remember that unix is a collection of tools that are each designed to to part of the job and do that job very well.
There are also other things that the DMCA makes illegal that I don't think many people have considered. One example is can you reverse engineer a GNU program? The answer is not unless you have permission of the author. You can modify the source code, but you can't mess with the output code. That means you can't disassemble the code to try to speed it up. The GNU license does not give you thouse rights and the DMCA have taken them away.
If the kids average 110 lbs they are massivly over weight. If it was just highschool kids, this might be about close but I don't see anyone getting 1 million high school kids jumping up and down for a minute. 110 kilos (243lbs) might be about right of an average weight of American high school kids.
Just about any way they were going to split M$, would just be converted into to new monopolys. The only way to split up M$ in a way that would allow competition would be force the new compaines to compete with each other. That would require one company for Wince, one for for Win 2000 and one for Win ME. The problem is if you have a Word company competing aginst Works (does it still exist?) would simply result in the Works company going under.
In Australia they tend to use a fair amount of NTSC processing and they tend to show a large number of US shows. US shows suck at 50 hz because the motion isn't smooth.
Whats best is the remote sports shows. The highlights from cricket (a game that moves slower than baseball) looks like its converted from 50hz to 60hz, then run through a mpeg type compressor, transmitted 1/3 around the world, decoded and converted back. Early southpark has better motion. Just to add to the fun, there are nice blockly artifacts as well.
As far as the better color, I don't think PAL has better color. In the US I had a nice hitichi tv hooked to a dish network sat reciver. I have never seen that good of picture on any TV here including the ones at the high end TV shops.
Until the digital TV mess started, There were more NTSC tvs made every year than there are PAL tvs in existance. Right now a junk TV in Australia only cost 3x what a good TV would cost in the US or Japan. Thats down from 5x two years ago.
Have you ever put a GSM phone next to a monitor when it started broadcasting? These things interfeer with everything and do not play well with other equipment. There have been cases where GSM phones have caused gas pumps crash and keep pumping fuel. They cause problems in hostpitals with lots of equipment. GSM was designed so every little country in Europe could control their local phone comapines so you don't have a phone company in Germany providing service in France. The result is that the system is completely unsuable in low density areas. GSM phones are junk and they shouldn't be allowed to exist anywhere.
It more like two open networks. One is the test network in our lab which isn't connected to anything other than other devices were playing with and the other is a point to point lan between a linux box and a solaris box. The solaris box is currently undergoing an audit but its going to live oustside of the firewall which is kind of where it is now. AT work I've had to make it very clear that If I catch any of this wireless stuff pluged into my network, I'll turn off their port. I may have gottent my point accross or maybe not but I still scan for arp traffic of the ether address ranges of the offending devices.