Back in '87 when I was in school, one of the other guys in the department was finding virus that he turned into companiens like Norton for $50 each. He "found" quite a number of them since he know how to code in assembly. Now that anti-virus software has made it so big, there are a number of small players tring to get in the game and some of them are still paying for unknow virii.
So get out that book on assembly and start cracking. There's money to be made all in the name of paranoia.
When I fly, I tend to use a white LED Photon Micro light to read the multi-colored charts. Its not too bright and I haven't replaced its battery yet after 3 years.
I also carry a Eveready 2AA light with lith Lithium batteries. Its light and very bright. It will light up reflectors at over a 1.5 miles. I also carry a one that has normal Alkaline batteries if I need a semi-bright light.
I've given up on the mag light junk. Sure the case is strong but any little bump and the light bulbs go out. You can't hold them in your teeth (sometimes you need to do that in a small plane). I'm not impressed with their switches and if you have a problem, you can't fix them in the dark. Once they get wet inside, they die. Other than use as weapon, I can't see any good. I have had several maglights and they all failed. The plastic everready is something like 10 years old.
For Diving, I like the Underwater Kenetics 4D cell model and have an 8 AA dual circut light bade by Technisub. Most dive lights use magnetic reed switches so they are completely sealed but if they don't have transistor switches, you burn out the reeds but if you have transistors, they are never off.
Out in the bush, the photon is great. It is easy to carry around (just clip to to your shirt) and it lights up about a 1m circle in complete darkness. Its not too bright so you don't lose your night vision.
Most computer breakins are inside jobs so the people you are protecting aginst do have access to such things as the post-it note on the monitor.
If you require a complex password, you must give people time to think about it and let them know the rules or else they will pick a bad password every time. Nothing will get a password written down faster than a computer insisting on complex password. The ones that won't tell you why a password is bad are even worse since people will give up and end up with "asdf" (which is in most crack dictionaries) and will be written down.
A written down password is a waste of time and effort -- you might as well just say the terimal is ok for that user and skip the user authentication step.
From time to time I have run experiments on getting users to gennerate their own good passwords. They tend to fail. In one US Gov department there were at least 25% of the people all picked (independatly as far as I could tell) "eagle1" as their password when given the wording "a password must be at least 5 characters and must contain a digit or a symbol".
Some rules for "good passwords" are just stupid. For example the rule that you can't use the same letter twice. That is a good way to keep the sholder surfers guessing.
If you start checking passwords aginst a dictionary, you end up getting most people that know a forien language to use a non-english word that is very likly to be "password" translated.
A friend of mine used to "hack" systems when he
was in high school. He had a list of 25 passwords that would get him in most places. He also is very good at socal engneering and had no real problem playing with anything he wanted.
I guess when it comes to passwords, we all know you can lose but it looks like you can't win either.
I can get any major telco in the US to terminate calls to Austrlia of just about the same price as int the US. Its the.000001 mile link to the Telstra system that costs so much.
In Australia you can expect a small business to pay about $1200/mo for 128 K isdn access. For that kind of money, you can call from the US to Australia for 24x7 on a good isdn plan.
I own geocache.org which I think I obtained before Jeremy started his site. I made some of the inital maps with locations. His inital source of data came from some where else and I'm going to send a message off to their maintainers to pull the use of it.
That database started out as a community effort, and the database should stay that way.
Now I'm going to have to build my own database front end.
It was designed for 12 shuttles at a cost of $500 mil each. Taht got cut to 6 at a billion each. The systems were designed for 20 shuttles and a luanch every two days.
The moon rocks are still in heavy confinement. Everything that went to the moon and came back was either still sealed up or was disinfected with some nasty chemicals. I've got a patch from Apollo 16 that went to the moon. It is made of a very light plastic and went in a metal can. It was sealed for the entire trip and when it got back, it was acid washed before the patches were given out. The only other things that came back were the command module and space suits, the air/dust that got tracked inside and a bit of equipment like cameras. Everything else was left on the moon or in the lunar module.
I wonder what kind of switches it uses. The IBM keyboard used switches where the key would bend a spring and that would cause the spring to make the switch contact, not the key its self. many of the newer "clicky" keyboards just have funny springs but they key still forces they keyswitche directly.
It ibm 3270 keyboard used fancy springs to get the feel right but used hall effect switches so there was no physical contact at all.
Of course, stand-up desks have been around for a long time, and some pretty famous people have used them. Sir Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Virginia Woolf, and even Thomas Jefferson worked at these unique desks.
I've also hears stories about a group of CEOs from years ago that didn't sit down at work.
I want a keyboard like on the old ibm 3270 or even an real IBM XT keybaord. It seems like no one makes thouse kinds of keyswitches anymore let alone in a PS2 type setup.
I'm currently typeing on one of the better cheap keyboards but I hate it since they keys just don't feel right.
If you always are looking at things close, you will have a tendacy towards nearsightness. A simple solution is get outside more offten. My eyes imporvied once I took up flying.
Back in about 1983 or so I could type words commonly found in basic at somewhere 240 words per minute but that was because things like "list" and "run" were one multi-key keystroke. 240 wpm turns out to be 4 words per second which is damn fast.
The Fosters brothers moved in the 1888 not the 1920s however it still might have been because of prohibition in their home county... it wasn't due to the nation wide prohibition like I had thought.
A few links:
http://www.australianbeers.com/history/history4. ht m
One titled:
Fosters - It's Australian for beer, mate! Or is it?
http://www.australianbeers.com/beers/fosters/fos te rs.htm
All I know is most pubs around here don't sell much fosters and I'm within walking distance of Collingwood where Fosters started. That area is now known for smack, brothels, gay bars and over priced yuppy warehouse conversion flats.
Maybe the side of the goverment that deals with cultral preservation might want to go in as well. Currently there are mnay DVD's made in Aisa that can not be read by typical players in Australia and that could denys access of thouse people to information about their past. Doing that just happens to be illegal in Australia and might even be illegal in the US. Will someone who wants to play Asian DVDs call the ACLU and claim that the MPAA's actions discriminate and might even fit under organized hate crimes?
Being an American in Australia, I am being isolated from my culture since American culture seems to revolve around real bad tv shows...maybe the ACCC will help. Now if they would get their act together about Telstra.... that would be real nice.
It turns out that movies in Oz must be approved by the censoring people who have to give it a stamp saying how bad it is. You can't show a movie without doing that. If it wasn't for that, the US studios could treat Australia just three more US cities with higher shipping costs. There are only 10 cities in the US biger than Sydney and only 13 bigger than Melbourne.
There is also the summer movie issue. If a movie is tied into summer releases, its winter downunder. Sure it won't make much difference in the real world but in the make beilve world of the high dollar marketteer it makes a world of differnce.
Today I bought a region selectable DVD player in Melbourne for AU$299 (US $155) and I'm typing this to the tunes of AC/DC (whos cd's cost less in the US than here even though they are a local band kind of)
Aussies don't drink fosters. You can't get fosters oil cans in Australia and the stuff sold as Fosters in the US was imported from Canada.
Fosters is an American company that was kicked out of the US durring proabition and went to Melbourne. Once the law was overturned, they moved to Canada.
The AU$ was propped up to keep the olympic real estate disaster from destroying the real estate market. When 95% of new properties are overvalued by 200% and owned by overseas investors, something had to give.
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Back in '87 when I was in school, one of the other guys in the department was finding virus that he turned into companiens like Norton for $50 each. He "found" quite a number of them since he know how to code in assembly. Now that anti-virus software has made it so big, there are a number of small players tring to get in the game and some of them are still paying for unknow virii.
So get out that book on assembly and start cracking. There's money to be made all in the name of paranoia.
These programs tend to make worthless passwords for people with weak vocabulary skills and as a result get written down.
people don't carry around their passwords, they leave them at work -- unless its an ATM pin, number. Thouse they carry around.
When I fly, I tend to use a white LED Photon Micro light to read the multi-colored charts. Its not too bright and I haven't replaced its battery yet after 3 years.
I also carry a Eveready 2AA light with lith Lithium batteries. Its light and very bright. It will light up reflectors at over a 1.5 miles. I also carry a one that has normal Alkaline batteries if I need a semi-bright light.
I've given up on the mag light junk. Sure the case is strong but any little bump and the light bulbs go out. You can't hold them in your teeth (sometimes you need to do that in a small plane). I'm not impressed with their switches and if you have a problem, you can't fix them in the dark. Once they get wet inside, they die. Other than use as weapon, I can't see any good. I have had several maglights and they all failed. The plastic everready is something like 10 years old.
For Diving, I like the Underwater Kenetics 4D cell model and have an 8 AA dual circut light bade by Technisub. Most dive lights use magnetic reed switches so they are completely sealed but if they don't have transistor switches, you burn out the reeds but if you have transistors, they are never off.
Out in the bush, the photon is great. It is easy to carry around (just clip to to your shirt) and it lights up about a 1m circle in complete darkness. Its not too bright so you don't lose your night vision.
Night vision is done with the rods, not the blue cones.
Most computer breakins are inside jobs so the people you are protecting aginst do have access to such things as the post-it note on the monitor.
If you require a complex password, you must give people time to think about it and let them know the rules or else they will pick a bad password every time. Nothing will get a password written down faster than a computer insisting on complex password. The ones that won't tell you why a password is bad are even worse since people will give up and end up with "asdf" (which is in most crack dictionaries) and will be written down.
A written down password is a waste of time and effort -- you might as well just say the terimal is ok for that user and skip the user authentication step.
From time to time I have run experiments on getting users to gennerate their own good passwords. They tend to fail. In one US Gov department there were at least 25% of the people all picked (independatly as far as I could tell) "eagle1" as their password when given the wording "a password must be at least 5 characters and must contain a digit or a symbol".
Some rules for "good passwords" are just stupid. For example the rule that you can't use the same letter twice. That is a good way to keep the sholder surfers guessing.
If you start checking passwords aginst a dictionary, you end up getting most people that know a forien language to use a non-english word that is very likly to be "password" translated.
A friend of mine used to "hack" systems when he
was in high school. He had a list of 25 passwords that would get him in most places. He also is very good at socal engneering and had no real problem playing with anything he wanted.
I guess when it comes to passwords, we all know you can lose but it looks like you can't win either.
There is a board that deals with false advertising. I'm going to start looking into that just as soon as I get the letter.
The other options is a class action suit against Telstra (and maybe the ACCC?)
Its the ACCC that sets the prices!
If ACCC would let competition work and not be so involved with price fixing, telco costs in Oz might just be reasonable.
I can get any major telco in the US to terminate calls to Austrlia of just about the same price as int the US. Its the .000001 mile link to the Telstra system that costs so much.
In Australia you can expect a small business to pay about $1200/mo for 128 K isdn access. For that kind of money, you can call from the US to Australia for 24x7 on a good isdn plan.
I own geocache.org which I think I obtained before Jeremy started his site. I made some of the inital maps with locations. His inital source of data came from some where else and I'm going to send a message off to their maintainers to pull the use of it.
That database started out as a community effort, and the database should stay that way.
Now I'm going to have to build my own database front end.
It was designed for 12 shuttles at a cost of $500 mil each. Taht got cut to 6 at a billion each. The systems were designed for 20 shuttles and a luanch every two days.
The moon rocks are still in heavy confinement. Everything that went to the moon and came back was either still sealed up or was disinfected with some nasty chemicals. I've got a patch from Apollo 16 that went to the moon. It is made of a very light plastic and went in a metal can. It was sealed for the entire trip and when it got back, it was acid washed before the patches were given out. The only other things that came back were the command module and space suits, the air/dust that got tracked inside and a bit of equipment like cameras. Everything else was left on the moon or in the lunar module.
I wonder what kind of switches it uses. The IBM keyboard used switches where the key would bend a spring and that would cause the spring to make the switch contact, not the key its self. many of the newer "clicky" keyboards just have funny springs but they key still forces they keyswitche directly.
It ibm 3270 keyboard used fancy springs to get the feel right but used hall effect switches so there was no physical contact at all.
Taken from the toggle web site
Of course, stand-up desks have been around for a long time, and some pretty famous people have used them. Sir Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Virginia Woolf, and even Thomas Jefferson worked at these unique desks.
I've also hears stories about a group of CEOs from years ago that didn't sit down at work.
I want a keyboard like on the old ibm 3270 or even an real IBM XT keybaord. It seems like no one makes thouse kinds of keyswitches anymore let alone in a PS2 type setup.
I'm currently typeing on one of the better cheap keyboards but I hate it since they keys just don't feel right.
http://www.USPTO.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/1999/fe e20001001.htm
says $15k is more like it...
The $500 will only get you in the queue.
If you always are looking at things close, you will have a tendacy towards nearsightness. A simple solution is get outside more offten. My eyes imporvied once I took up flying.
Back in about 1983 or so I could type words commonly found in basic at somewhere 240 words per minute but that was because things like "list" and "run" were one multi-key keystroke. 240 wpm turns out to be 4 words per second which is damn fast.
damn I hate when people disprove my point...
. ht m
s te rs.htm
The Fosters brothers moved in the 1888 not the 1920s however it still might have been because of prohibition in their home county... it wasn't due to the nation wide prohibition like I had thought.
A few links:
http://www.australianbeers.com/history/history4
One titled:
Fosters - It's Australian for beer, mate! Or is it?
http://www.australianbeers.com/beers/fosters/fo
All I know is most pubs around here don't sell much fosters and I'm within walking distance of Collingwood where Fosters started. That area is now known for smack, brothels, gay bars and over priced yuppy warehouse conversion flats.
Maybe the side of the goverment that deals with cultral preservation might want to go in as well. Currently there are mnay DVD's made in Aisa that can not be read by typical players in Australia and that could denys access of thouse people to information about their past. Doing that just happens to be illegal in Australia and might even be illegal in the US. Will someone who wants to play Asian DVDs call the ACLU and claim that the MPAA's actions discriminate and might even fit under organized hate crimes?
Being an American in Australia, I am being isolated from my culture since American culture seems to revolve around real bad tv shows...maybe the ACCC will help. Now if they would get their act together about Telstra.... that would be real nice.
I've heard it lots of places.... just no refernces to any offical publications. It looks like just another rumor.
If it where that easy...
It turns out that movies in Oz must be approved by the censoring people who have to give it a stamp saying how bad it is. You can't show a movie without doing that. If it wasn't for that, the US studios could treat Australia just three more US cities with higher shipping costs. There are only 10 cities in the US biger than Sydney and only 13 bigger than Melbourne.
There is also the summer movie issue. If a movie is tied into summer releases, its winter downunder. Sure it won't make much difference in the real world but in the make beilve world of the high dollar marketteer it makes a world of differnce.
Today I bought a region selectable DVD player in Melbourne for AU$299 (US $155) and I'm typing this to the tunes of AC/DC (whos cd's cost less in the US than here even though they are a local band kind of)
you mean "fosters: Canadian for beer!".
Aussies don't drink fosters. You can't get fosters oil cans in Australia and the stuff sold as Fosters in the US was imported from Canada.
Fosters is an American company that was kicked out of the US durring proabition and went to Melbourne. Once the law was overturned, they moved to Canada.
Some problems will have to be solved and this is in line with other research done in Australia. A different problem was discussed before on slasdot involving why bubbles appear to flow down in Guinness. This type of research is right in line with Aussie science.
The AU$ was propped up to keep the olympic real estate disaster from destroying the real estate market. When 95% of new properties are overvalued by 200% and owned by overseas investors, something had to give.