At the world trade protest in Melbourne last year, I did not know what many of the people were prostesting. They were there in large numbers but very few knew what they were protesting.
The current www.s11.org web site seems to be about protesting but they are not very clear on what they object to. Their "facts" on the web site are about as old as the vague ones on the mcliabel site. The vatican is listed for owning stock in Pan Am. Why?
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This should not be a problem if there is blank space between songs that were recored live becuase the codec will adjust to the background noise of and throw out all the other bits it had collected before. This will be a problem if one song flows into another and they have the same sort of sound.
If everyone that is so aginst this stuff got together and came up with a few hundred thousand ways of doing copy protect as well as ways of defeating that copy protection and then patented it, then the group as a patent owner could keep sony from ever using it.
Funny, In El Maddi there seems to be enough wind. Of course thats far enough away that the smog makes it hard to see the pyramids. The last sand storm I was in was blwoing around 2 gallon cans that were full of liquid.
The valves described are only kind of like one door on one pyramid. There are about 40 stone pyramids in Egypt and most don't have any features like their valves/doors.
Also they mention the huge "paving stones" which implies they have never seen the pyramids up close because then they would have seen that the paving stones are the natural limestone and it was flattened and the natural cracks are rounded. You can take nice pictures to show these huge blocks but when you start following the cracks, its quite clear, its natural.
The water table at Giza is quite high and the 'hidden chambers' under the Sphinx lead to water. I suspect the out cropping was used to mark a well and over the thousands of years, several people spent a great deal of time refining it till a king decided to do some major work.
Most people talk about the large stones on the pyramids but the obelisks are the interesting problems. Some of them weigh about 65 tons while the pyramid stones are typically the weight of a large car. In my studies of the assembly of stuff in Egypt, the main problem with finding out how they did things was they didn't write it down (the had less interesting things to write about) and the second problem is that they used wood tools that were recycled into firewood just as soon as they broke.
There were theories that the boats pictured in the tombs could not be built and were just artistic drawings until they found the boat in the sand at Giza. That boat is about the same size as the Mayflower and it looked like it had hauled some heavy loads.
The oldest storeys about building the pyramids said it was built using machines made of planks. This has been discounted because the source is known to stretch the truth and no one has found a machine in the sand (because it would become firewood!)
While looking at the Red Pyramid, I found that some of the casing stones had rings on their bottoms as if they had been propped up with logs. The next time I go there, I intend to get a good tracing of the rings (I'm not sure how) and see if the age of the logs can be determined.
We do know they used piles of mud bricks and sand as scaffolding. Some of it is still in place at Karnak.
Remember that there is so much sand in Northern Africa that if you spread it all out, it would completely cover the Sarah Desert
This isn't going to fix the current problem (which is the router tables are too large to deal with properly) and all it does is push it away a bit and attempt to hide it.
This and every other Ip address scheme is based on the concept that the end user is a leaf node and has one upstream and that is the root of the problem since the "Internet" is about having multi-homed hosts which have 1 or more upstream connections.
The current mess with ip v4 could be fixed by telling every ISP that they will have to return 10% of their address space per year and then only allocate/22 (or larger) blocks to two ISPs at a time. This way every ISP will have a block that they must share with a different ISP and it allows small groups to dual home. Right now to properly dual home you have to pay thousands per year and you get a very wasteful/20.
I've been hot swapping ide drives for quite some time with the cheap (US$10) drive caddies. So far I've only had one drive die and I suspect that was due to other abuse like being dropped.
On a box with a 2.2.* kernel, I've got a small c program that reloads the ide hd info and then I can mount a drive. I use the drives for backup since they are much cheaper than any tape/tape drive combo I could find.
The problem is the hotswap program won't work on 2.4.
If anyone wants the program, email me but its basicly:
exit(ioctl(fopen("/dev/hda", O_RDONLY),HDIO_SCAN_HWIF,atoi(argv[1])));
with error checks.
That 4% is also a major player in the countries GDP and has nothing to do with 99.99+% of the people in the country. Have you noticed that all of the poorest countries are in places where the weather won't kill you? Have you been to any of these places? They all seem to have a cultural lazyness that they have had for thousands of years if not longer.
Stop bitching about it and start listing the titles that are published (I have yet to see one named) and once people start returning them in numbers, the greedy record compaines will stop paying macrovision and it will die.
The stolen passwords are worth quite a bit in the right hands. ADSL business users pay about AU$.20 per 1000kbyte. That turns out to be about US$100 per gigabyte or about 33x more than standard rates.
The man-in-the-middle attack only works in some very carefuly crafted situations. The script kiddie must be in control of something on the transmission line so they have to control a router, or another host on a non-switched lan. The tools will help in some switching situations but this messes up the switches so bad (as well as solaris boxes) that by the time the guy has the password, you can't log in since they can no longer forward the connections properly.
If the script kiddie has control of the router, its all over.
I think ssh 3.0 was to version 1.5 out of existance. Many places can be convinced to go with a prior version but most won't go with a very old version.
This has happened before and programs that didn't come from the OS vendor may not know that NP means no password.
Back in the days when Sun and AT&T got into bed on SysVR4, someone decided to change the '*' that was commonly used to a 'NP' since '*' had a wildcard meaning. The problem is that NP is a vaild (and sometimes even used) seed so now programs much check for the two letter 'NP' and treat is special, while the old programs used to take the password string, pass that as one arg to crypt and the plain text as a second and if the result mached you let them in. This is about the same time that people started looking at buffer overflows and the result was people would go clean up code and make bad assumptions about how long the bits that came back from crypt were and tried to fix it but got it wrong.
I guess it was just time for history to repeat its self again.
This is why you don't own a sail boat:-)
Nice boats are very expensive. One of my hobbies it flying small planes. They are cheap compared to a decent sailboat. While on a diving trip in Cairns Australia, I meet a guy with a nice 45 ft sailboat that only set him back about us$2m but he was taking it back to France to trade it in on a nicer boat. It did have some cool features like it could automaticly bring in the sails if it got too close to any other boats and its auto pilot was smart enough to sail it by its self on the open ocean.
I'm so close to simply rejecting anything that has 1618 and the word Senate or Bill in the same line. I have patches for sendmail with regex matching in the body but I don't want to reject the email, I just want to hang the connection forever and my patches don't do that. the patches are here but please seend feedback.
Part of the real problem is spamers computers are told to go away nicly and not delt with properly. Most spaming programs are multi-threaded but if 1 out of 100 boxes they touched just held the connections open, it would quickly bog down their efforts.
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At the world trade protest in Melbourne last year, I did not know what many of the people were prostesting. They were there in large numbers but very few knew what they were protesting.
The current www.s11.org web site seems to be about protesting but they are not very clear on what they object to. Their "facts" on the web site are about as old as the vague ones on the mcliabel site. The vatican is listed for owning stock in Pan Am. Why?
This should not be a problem if there is blank space between songs that were recored live becuase the codec will adjust to the background noise of and throw out all the other bits it had collected before. This will be a problem if one song flows into another and they have the same sort of sound.
If everyone that is so aginst this stuff got together and came up with a few hundred thousand ways of doing copy protect as well as ways of defeating that copy protection and then patented it, then the group as a patent owner could keep sony from ever using it.
Why ban it. Can't we just change it to someting simple like 3.000?
I had a special license that excludes Unisys. They don't care and are still in violation of my copyright but I can't do a thing about it.
Funny, In El Maddi there seems to be enough wind. Of course thats far enough away that the smog makes it hard to see the pyramids. The last sand storm I was in was blwoing around 2 gallon cans that were full of liquid.
The valves described are only kind of like one door on one pyramid. There are about 40 stone pyramids in Egypt and most don't have any features like their valves/doors.
Also they mention the huge "paving stones" which implies they have never seen the pyramids up close because then they would have seen that the paving stones are the natural limestone and it was flattened and the natural cracks are rounded. You can take nice pictures to show these huge blocks but when you start following the cracks, its quite clear, its natural.
The water table at Giza is quite high and the 'hidden chambers' under the Sphinx lead to water. I suspect the out cropping was used to mark a well and over the thousands of years, several people spent a great deal of time refining it till a king decided to do some major work.
Most people talk about the large stones on the pyramids but the obelisks are the interesting problems. Some of them weigh about 65 tons while the pyramid stones are typically the weight of a large car. In my studies of the assembly of stuff in Egypt, the main problem with finding out how they did things was they didn't write it down (the had less interesting things to write about) and the second problem is that they used wood tools that were recycled into firewood just as soon as they broke.
There were theories that the boats pictured in the tombs could not be built and were just artistic drawings until they found the boat in the sand at Giza. That boat is about the same size as the Mayflower and it looked like it had hauled some heavy loads.
The oldest storeys about building the pyramids said it was built using machines made of planks. This has been discounted because the source is known to stretch the truth and no one has found a machine in the sand (because it would become firewood!)
While looking at the Red Pyramid, I found that some of the casing stones had rings on their bottoms as if they had been propped up with logs. The next time I go there, I intend to get a good tracing of the rings (I'm not sure how) and see if the age of the logs can be determined.
We do know they used piles of mud bricks and sand as scaffolding. Some of it is still in place at Karnak.
Remember that there is so much sand in Northern Africa that if you spread it all out, it would completely cover the Sarah Desert
This isn't going to fix the current problem (which is the router tables are too large to deal with properly) and all it does is push it away a bit and attempt to hide it.
/22 (or larger) blocks to two ISPs at a time. This way every ISP will have a block that they must share with a different ISP and it allows small groups to dual home. Right now to properly dual home you have to pay thousands per year and you get a very wasteful /20.
This and every other Ip address scheme is based on the concept that the end user is a leaf node and has one upstream and that is the root of the problem since the "Internet" is about having multi-homed hosts which have 1 or more upstream connections.
The current mess with ip v4 could be fixed by telling every ISP that they will have to return 10% of their address space per year and then only allocate
I've been hot swapping ide drives for quite some time with the cheap (US$10) drive caddies. So far I've only had one drive die and I suspect that was due to other abuse like being dropped.
On a box with a 2.2.* kernel, I've got a small c program that reloads the ide hd info and then I can mount a drive. I use the drives for backup since they are much cheaper than any tape/tape drive combo I could find.
The problem is the hotswap program won't work on 2.4.
If anyone wants the program, email me but its basicly:
exit(ioctl(fopen("/dev/hda", O_RDONLY),HDIO_SCAN_HWIF,atoi(argv[1])));
with error checks.
That 4% is also a major player in the countries GDP and has nothing to do with 99.99+% of the people in the country. Have you noticed that all of the poorest countries are in places where the weather won't kill you? Have you been to any of these places? They all seem to have a cultural lazyness that they have had for thousands of years if not longer.
I'm not sure that concrete would cause a problem for a PC. I think I'll need to try it.
Stop bitching about it and start listing the titles that are published (I have yet to see one named) and once people start returning them in numbers, the greedy record compaines will stop paying macrovision and it will die.
you haven't checked a modern cracking dictonary yet have you?
Ask for an appointment to talk with the Senator...
that will get attention but not the meeting.
The stolen passwords are worth quite a bit in the right hands. ADSL business users pay about AU$.20 per 1000kbyte. That turns out to be about US$100 per gigabyte or about 33x more than standard rates.
From what I can tell, if Telstra resets your password its to something like "adsl####". Someone told me that they pick a new password every day.
Its also a real mess to change since theres broken software there too!
Its just how things are done on the Information Super Outback!
The man-in-the-middle attack only works in some very carefuly crafted situations. The script kiddie must be in control of something on the transmission line so they have to control a router, or another host on a non-switched lan. The tools will help in some switching situations but this messes up the switches so bad (as well as solaris boxes) that by the time the guy has the password, you can't log in since they can no longer forward the connections properly.
If the script kiddie has control of the router, its all over.
I think ssh 3.0 was to version 1.5 out of existance. Many places can be convinced to go with a prior version but most won't go with a very old version.
This has happened before and programs that didn't come from the OS vendor may not know that NP means no password.
Back in the days when Sun and AT&T got into bed on SysVR4, someone decided to change the '*' that was commonly used to a 'NP' since '*' had a wildcard meaning. The problem is that NP is a vaild (and sometimes even used) seed so now programs much check for the two letter 'NP' and treat is special, while the old programs used to take the password string, pass that as one arg to crypt and the plain text as a second and if the result mached you let them in. This is about the same time that people started looking at buffer overflows and the result was people would go clean up code and make bad assumptions about how long the bits that came back from crypt were and tried to fix it but got it wrong.
I guess it was just time for history to repeat its self again.
At better way may be to mention the decryption puzze found in many news papers and mention that the letter substution never changes so A is always M.
This is why you don't own a sail boat :-)
Nice boats are very expensive. One of my hobbies it flying small planes. They are cheap compared to a decent sailboat. While on a diving trip in Cairns Australia, I meet a guy with a nice 45 ft sailboat that only set him back about us$2m but he was taking it back to France to trade it in on a nicer boat. It did have some cool features like it could automaticly bring in the sails if it got too close to any other boats and its auto pilot was smart enough to sail it by its self on the open ocean.
All of thouse use much cheaper intergrated processors.
Pi seconds is about a nanocentury.
I'm so close to simply rejecting anything that has 1618 and the word Senate or Bill in the same line. I have patches for sendmail with regex matching in the body but I don't want to reject the email, I just want to hang the connection forever and my patches don't do that. the patches are here but please seend feedback.
Part of the real problem is spamers computers are told to go away nicly and not delt with properly. Most spaming programs are multi-threaded but if 1 out of 100 boxes they touched just held the connections open, it would quickly bog down their efforts.
I guess you haven't seen to many compaines die have you? This is an early sign of impending doom.