Most schools have strict rules against bullying, and yet it occurs in almost every school daily. In many places it is not only tolerated but actually encouraged as 'motivation' or 'school spirit' when the jocks gets a free pass in tormenting geeks or other outcasts. This directly caused the Columbine school shooting and despite the lessons learned nothing changed.
On Columbine they denied all accusations of school supported bullying, but ended up having to admit the existence of a cruel system where both jocks and top students were given free reins in 'showing school spirit', which included daily bullying of outcasts and other misfits, some one which became the Trench-coat Mafia, from which two went postal. Teachers often witnessed this bullying and either did nothing or encouraged it in various ways. The school also participated through severely skewed differential treatment. The outcast group was consistently denied access to rooms for their clubs (gaming, role playing, music/film clubs) but no less than 13 rooms were made available to church groups despite the federal laws banning church activities on public school grounds.
In other words - school do as they please and if possible make up rules to protect the status quo.
I don't know if it exists everywhere but in many places there are a dead zone in the timing sequence of traffic lights where all directions are showing full stop (red light). The usual argumentation is that it is needed to 'clear the intersection' but that is nonsense as this is done during the yellow period. The result is a lot of wasted time if you pass many red lights as the light could turn green faster and still let exactly the same number of cars through in any direction if the dead zone was reduced to zero. This of course requires that the yellow period is indeed long enough to clear the intersection.
The basic rhythm is this:
red - green red - yellow red - red (red +) yellow - red green - red yellow - red red - red red - (red +) yellow
Respecting the pure yellow as "stop unless you cannot do it safely" would mean that the "red - red" steps can be removed, thus saving time.
Morale of the story, planet gets hotter, planet gets colder. Everything else sorts its self out.
Yes, but this time we're doing it deliberately and we have a lot of people/cities on the coasts.
Does that seem smart to you?
Living on the coast might have its benefits but it certainly also have its drawbacks. I'm constantly amazed at the countless number of people that keep coming back to areas repeatedly hit by massive flooding. Unless you have gills you really should stay out of the path of massive amounts of water.
There are a lot of progressives around here, and many of them are opposed to personal firearms ownership.
Certainly not all of us. I'm very much for gun ownership for one reason: As long as we cannot prevent criminals from having guns (most do, even in countries where gun possession is highly restricted), and cannot guarantee against the authorities abusing their armed power against the people (this has happened countless times already), people need to be armed in order to meet the challenge on an equal footing.
Which of course makes for easy detection (lsattr -R), if you don't use chattr yourself.
Exactly. Almost all rooted servers I've seen have the modified binaries (that hide things) made immutable. Insanely stupid. I don't know anyone that uses immutability for anything under normal circumstances so immutable files will stand out.
A daily scan like this: find / -type f -exec lsattr -a {} \; | grep -- '----i'
will find all immutable files on your system.
Run it from a crontab and you'll get notified by mail. It produces no output when it doesn't find anything so you'll only get a mail when something is found.
Of course a rootkit may also modify lsattr and chattr but I've never heard of that (yet).
Apart from hobby drones (like quadcopters) it's fairly limited what drones you'll encounter around where you live. Unless you live where the wild Predator drones roam... there you'll most likely hear the sound of missiles detonating before you hear the drone itself.
Isn't this simply a Darwin test? - You know to test if you're too stupid to be allowed to procreate?
I know that small children may be unable to read the warning etc. but the parents sure aren't and thus we simply catch up with the test, removing the children of too stupid parents later than per-conception...
Seriously! Greenland is still an autonomous country, they should be able to make that decision, not a domain name broker.
Not quite... Greenland is part of Denmark but has extended 'home rule'. It is independent enough to have it's own legal system, but the it is the danish Police that does the police work.
The ruling from the danish "Fogedretten" regarding TPB (forcing the ISPs to DNS-block TPB) has no validity in Greenland and there has been no other legal precent regarding torrents or similar in Greenland. It is therefore not illegal to run a torrent tracker in Greenland and thus it is not "using the.gl domains for illegal purposes". I recommend that TPB sues the domain provider in Greenland in order to get the domains restored.
That, plus precious little Bobby and Suzie spend all of their time on 4chan and have seen more horrifying things than their parents even knew existed. And laughed over it.
Honestly, if my siblings knew the shit my nieces and nephews see online the kids would never see the light of day again. Being an uncle is awesome.
"Think of the children!"
The most over-abused excuse to introduce censorship to an even younger crowd. Children can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, and by shielding them from the real world until legally mature, the impressions of the real world are likely to cause a severe chock and erratic behavior - which I guess explains a lot when it comes to over-protective parents.
Too bad there is no possible way for them to actually figure out who is responsible for a DDOS attack, because the headers are spoofed.
Actually it's often easy because it's only Anonymous and similar that does DDoS for purely political reasons. Most DDoS are cybercriminals extorting money in some way or disgruntled customers seeking revenge, and both can be identified outside the attack itself using regular investigative methods.
Also, why the fuck does DNS run on UDP?
Legacy. It also runs on TCP now but started out UDP only.
If this actually sticks, they need to go after the automotive industry next. I can guarantee that there's a car involved in every major crime, from burglary over drug trafficking to murder and terrorism. And while we're at it, grab the road builders as well - they provide what the cars drive on so they're as much part of it as the car builders. It should be fairly easy to prove that if all vehicles were outlawed most crime would drop significantly, proving the direct connection and the extreme importance of car and road to the criminals.
Or perhaps we need to get this: Just because an object CAN be used for crime doesn't mean it will or has been. Sure, stuff like lock picks are kinda hard to explain away, but a car is rather innocent - it can be used simply to transport someone from A to B. So is a secret compartment. The most obvious use would be to hide valuables from thieves or would-be thieves, like a friend who might be borrowing the car. It could be really wise if that friend didn't find the hidden gun or the emergency cash or whatever. I know many people who have a secret safe in their house. One thing is a safe that can't easily be cracked, but if the thieves can't find it, they certainly can't crack it. Same thing with a secret compartment in a car. If the police can't find it even if they know it's there filled with drugs and the drug sniffing dogs can't find it either then some random car thief or carjacker sure ain't gonna find it either.
This punishment is way over the top, bordering on cruel and unusual.
First of all, the pilots are not in danger. Unless we're talking about a new type of laser with a beam that can zig-zag and go around corners, it is never ever going to hit the pilots in the eyes. Helicopters are different of course as most have some kind of downfacing windows.
A bit of green light reflecting around the cockpit is not going to pose any danger either, both because there's a lot of other light sources in the cockpit that's also bouncing light around, and second because most landings today are mostly automated, either completely or as an assistance. Besides, the pilots are probably half asleep anyway due to the horrendous long hours the commercial airlines force them to work these days.
So please relax. This laser-thing is not a big deal. I guess the pilots are bored since they overreact this way. Think about it. A much more potent light source bounce much more powerful light around the cockpit daily, including directly into the eyes of the pilots, but you don't hear them whine about that. It is of course also rather hard putting the Sun in jail for 30 months...
Anything silent, no problem; but if air travel features the TSA, little kids kicking the back of your seat, and cellphone chatter, it isn't going to be pretty.
You missed one... Babies crying non-stop, kids kicking the back of your seat and cellphone chatter, all at once... The plane might even blow up, no explosives required, just because of this.
" It's a textbook case of giving an important job to an idiot crony."
This explains the FAA, the FCC, HomeLand Security, the TSA, and pretty much every other government agency.
Want to know why we have to be enhanced searched to get on a plane? An idiot crony though it was a good idea.
Obviously - as none of the current measures work (pure security theater designed to make you 'feel safe') it has to be a stupid person that decided to waste billions on pure uselessness.
The pipe organ is the only instrument able to play a warm deep bass where only the harmonics extend up into the audible range. Several organs have had pipes producing clean notes below 10 Hz, including the infamous "brown note" which is supposed to be around 7 Hz. The test Mythbusters performed to bust this myth used only a clean frequency (sinus tone), not a real tone with harmonics. They also did the test outside, not in a closed space with echo and reverberation.
Personally I think that DMCA and the IP laws are perfectly fine..
You are entitled to your opinion of course, but with valid DMCA legal activity being less than 5% of all DMCA legal activity, there's something seriously wrong.
The DMCA has been abused for almost everything, from censorship to harassment. Almost none of the DMCA takedown notices have been valid and yet most have been honored (and usually met with counterclaims), wasting even more time (and thus money).
Nobody bothers to actually provide proof of ownership of the IP in question, or even to specify it in details as required. They just say "DMCA" and the ISP folds, usually without even considering anything. This is probably due to the possibility of being on the receiving end of the draconian punishments the DMCA offers.
MySQL was only usable due to InnoDB (also owned by Oracle), a third party MySQL database storage engine that reimplemented everything since MySQL did it wrong.
InnoDB is crap! - Major headache to maintain compared to MyISAM tables which clearly separates each table into separate files. Much easier to shrink (optimize) tables as well as it doesn't require all data of all other tables to be reprocessed as well.
That's basically what this ruling says. Sure it targets a specific site, but it doesn't differ from the thousands exactly like it and the even bigger number almost like it.
The core issue is that it states that by linking to resources that brings you closer to commit copyright infringement, you enable infringement and thus commit it yourself. All sites on the Internet do this - by choice or by proxy. Nothing is more than a few clicks away from any page so any click might bring you closer to something illegal and thus that link and the site it's on are enabling it.
The ruling does not distinguish between deliberate links and generated links, like the result of a search or other form of automated indexing (like what was used on Isohunt), nor the link depth involved. Unless there's a least a clear ruling on how many clicks represents a 'safe distance', any link is potentially leading to something bad and thus a part of this badness, and this means that every single link on the entire Internet is enabling and thus part of everything illegal.
Training only goes so far. Even the best-trained user will make a mistake.
"Oh, I didn't mean to click that".
It will happen - but doesn't have to. There are three factors at play here: The training, the setup and the users themselves. The right kind of user doesn't need training as such, just some basic on a piece of paper (or similar electronic analogy).
I will use myself as an example.
I have been in IT since before the first virus or worm. I have been exchanging emails for several decades. I've pirated PC-games and downloaded cracks and keygens. I've used (among others) Windows since version 3.11 daily. I websurf for several hours each day, often venturing deep into black hat territory, but I have never ever been infected with anything. A good firewall, proper updated anti-virus and consistent patching, a real browser (= not MSIE) plus obligatory use of NoScript and AdBlock, have kept my machines clean over the years. It's really not that hard.
I'd venture out to say that some users are just too naive or dumb to be allowed on the Internet. I've seen countless of installations where dozens of toolbars take up 90% of the available browser-space and yet the user still installs more when some stupid ad or 'free'ware program offers it. The user simply believes everything on the screen and think every offer is a gift. Such users are completely impossible to train, no matter what. And they are abundant out there.
Most users are not quite that stupid; most have some common sense (which isn't exactly common) but will still fall for some tricks. These users cannot be trained either but should be restricted in what they can do. Trojans that open a reverse shell or similar are very common and they rely on these users to be tricked into installing the trojan. These users often sit behind firewalls that usually will protect them against connections from the outside, but not from other machines on the local network and not against evil stuff on their machines connecting outwards. So one wrong click and the hacker owns the LAN and soon all the machines on it.
So picking the right kind of people and having a secure setup will go a long way. And this kind of users rarely need long expensive training; they just need to be informed and then they'll do the right thing. Even if they do make a mistake it won't matter much - maybe a workstation needs re-installing at worst, and that can be a simple thing, provided the setup is right and proper backups exists.
Simple fix: If the list of ISPs really is that short, just block their prefixes in the core infrastructure and announce this. This way the genuine customers would flee and the ISPs would wise up and kick the spammers. Once unblocked the genuine customers would return (or stop fleeing).
If we're talking about zombie armies doing direct-to-MX spamming, just block that port 25 outbound dammit! - It's a painfully simple fix for any ISP-sysadm. If a zombie cannot spam it's a lot less interesting. If it's located in a BRIC country, chances are there's no money to steal from an online bank, so its only remaining use is as a DDoS participant.
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Most schools have strict rules against bullying, and yet it occurs in almost every school daily. In many places it is not only tolerated but actually encouraged as 'motivation' or 'school spirit' when the jocks gets a free pass in tormenting geeks or other outcasts. This directly caused the Columbine school shooting and despite the lessons learned nothing changed.
On Columbine they denied all accusations of school supported bullying, but ended up having to admit the existence of a cruel system where both jocks and top students were given free reins in 'showing school spirit', which included daily bullying of outcasts and other misfits, some one which became the Trench-coat Mafia, from which two went postal. Teachers often witnessed this bullying and either did nothing or encouraged it in various ways. The school also participated through severely skewed differential treatment. The outcast group was consistently denied access to rooms for their clubs (gaming, role playing, music/film clubs) but no less than 13 rooms were made available to church groups despite the federal laws banning church activities on public school grounds.
In other words - school do as they please and if possible make up rules to protect the status quo.
People kill people.
Seriously - if you want to kill someone there's both cheaper and more readily available weapons than 3D-printed guns. It's a huge non-problem.
I don't know if it exists everywhere but in many places there are a dead zone in the timing sequence of traffic lights where all directions are showing full stop (red light). The usual argumentation is that it is needed to 'clear the intersection' but that is nonsense as this is done during the yellow period. The result is a lot of wasted time if you pass many red lights as the light could turn green faster and still let exactly the same number of cars through in any direction if the dead zone was reduced to zero. This of course requires that the yellow period is indeed long enough to clear the intersection.
The basic rhythm is this:
red - green
red - yellow
red - red
(red +) yellow - red
green - red
yellow - red
red - red
red - (red +) yellow
Respecting the pure yellow as "stop unless you cannot do it safely" would mean that the "red - red" steps can be removed, thus saving time.
Morale of the story, planet gets hotter, planet gets colder. Everything else sorts its self out.
Yes, but this time we're doing it deliberately and we have a lot of people/cities on the coasts.
Does that seem smart to you?
Living on the coast might have its benefits but it certainly also have its drawbacks. I'm constantly amazed at the countless number of people that keep coming back to areas repeatedly hit by massive flooding. Unless you have gills you really should stay out of the path of massive amounts of water.
There are a lot of progressives around here, and many of them are opposed to personal firearms ownership.
Certainly not all of us. I'm very much for gun ownership for one reason: As long as we cannot prevent criminals from having guns (most do, even in countries where gun possession is highly restricted), and cannot guarantee against the authorities abusing their armed power against the people (this has happened countless times already), people need to be armed in order to meet the challenge on an equal footing.
Which of course makes for easy detection (lsattr -R), if you don't use chattr yourself.
Exactly. Almost all rooted servers I've seen have the modified binaries (that hide things) made immutable. Insanely stupid. I don't know anyone that uses immutability for anything under normal circumstances so immutable files will stand out.
A daily scan like this:
find / -type f -exec lsattr -a {} \; | grep -- '----i'
will find all immutable files on your system.
Run it from a crontab and you'll get notified by mail. It produces no output when it doesn't find anything so you'll only get a mail when something is found.
Of course a rootkit may also modify lsattr and chattr but I've never heard of that (yet).
A lot of apps are like this: Free and full-featured but with ads. Buy the 'premium version' and remove the ads.
It works for the apps - it will also work for Facebook.
Apart from hobby drones (like quadcopters) it's fairly limited what drones you'll encounter around where you live. Unless you live where the wild Predator drones roam... there you'll most likely hear the sound of missiles detonating before you hear the drone itself.
Isn't this simply a Darwin test? - You know to test if you're too stupid to be allowed to procreate?
I know that small children may be unable to read the warning etc. but the parents sure aren't and thus we simply catch up with the test, removing the children of too stupid parents later than per-conception...
Seriously! Greenland is still an autonomous country, they should be able to make that decision, not a domain name broker.
Not quite... Greenland is part of Denmark but has extended 'home rule'. It is independent enough to have it's own legal system, but the it is the danish Police that does the police work.
The ruling from the danish "Fogedretten" regarding TPB (forcing the ISPs to DNS-block TPB) has no validity in Greenland and there has been no other legal precent regarding torrents or similar in Greenland. It is therefore not illegal to run a torrent tracker in Greenland and thus it is not "using the .gl domains for illegal purposes". I recommend that TPB sues the domain provider in Greenland in order to get the domains restored.
That, plus precious little Bobby and Suzie spend all of their time on 4chan and have seen more horrifying things than their parents even knew existed. And laughed over it.
Honestly, if my siblings knew the shit my nieces and nephews see online the kids would never see the light of day again. Being an uncle is awesome.
"Think of the children!"
The most over-abused excuse to introduce censorship to an even younger crowd. Children can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, and by shielding them from the real world until legally mature, the impressions of the real world are likely to cause a severe chock and erratic behavior - which I guess explains a lot when it comes to over-protective parents.
CW? - It's not used much on those vhf/uhf bands. CW or radiotelegraphy is mostly used on the short wave bands.
Bring back airships! - Perhaps equipped with jet engines... They are not susceptible to air turbulence as far as I know.
Too bad there is no possible way for them to actually figure out who is responsible for a DDOS attack, because the headers are spoofed.
Actually it's often easy because it's only Anonymous and similar that does DDoS for purely political reasons. Most DDoS are cybercriminals extorting money in some way or disgruntled customers seeking revenge, and both can be identified outside the attack itself using regular investigative methods.
Also, why the fuck does DNS run on UDP?
Legacy. It also runs on TCP now but started out UDP only.
If this actually sticks, they need to go after the automotive industry next. I can guarantee that there's a car involved in every major crime, from burglary over drug trafficking to murder and terrorism. And while we're at it, grab the road builders as well - they provide what the cars drive on so they're as much part of it as the car builders. It should be fairly easy to prove that if all vehicles were outlawed most crime would drop significantly, proving the direct connection and the extreme importance of car and road to the criminals.
Or perhaps we need to get this: Just because an object CAN be used for crime doesn't mean it will or has been. Sure, stuff like lock picks are kinda hard to explain away, but a car is rather innocent - it can be used simply to transport someone from A to B. So is a secret compartment. The most obvious use would be to hide valuables from thieves or would-be thieves, like a friend who might be borrowing the car. It could be really wise if that friend didn't find the hidden gun or the emergency cash or whatever. I know many people who have a secret safe in their house. One thing is a safe that can't easily be cracked, but if the thieves can't find it, they certainly can't crack it. Same thing with a secret compartment in a car. If the police can't find it even if they know it's there filled with drugs and the drug sniffing dogs can't find it either then some random car thief or carjacker sure ain't gonna find it either.
This punishment is way over the top, bordering on cruel and unusual.
First of all, the pilots are not in danger. Unless we're talking about a new type of laser with a beam that can zig-zag and go around corners, it is never ever going to hit the pilots in the eyes. Helicopters are different of course as most have some kind of downfacing windows.
A bit of green light reflecting around the cockpit is not going to pose any danger either, both because there's a lot of other light sources in the cockpit that's also bouncing light around, and second because most landings today are mostly automated, either completely or as an assistance. Besides, the pilots are probably half asleep anyway due to the horrendous long hours the commercial airlines force them to work these days.
So please relax. This laser-thing is not a big deal. I guess the pilots are bored since they overreact this way. Think about it. A much more potent light source bounce much more powerful light around the cockpit daily, including directly into the eyes of the pilots, but you don't hear them whine about that. It is of course also rather hard putting the Sun in jail for 30 months...
Anything silent, no problem; but if air travel features the TSA, little kids kicking the back of your seat, and cellphone chatter, it isn't going to be pretty.
You missed one... Babies crying non-stop, kids kicking the back of your seat and cellphone chatter, all at once... The plane might even blow up, no explosives required, just because of this.
" It's a textbook case of giving an important job to an idiot crony."
This explains the FAA, the FCC, HomeLand Security, the TSA, and pretty much every other government agency.
Want to know why we have to be enhanced searched to get on a plane? An idiot crony though it was a good idea.
Obviously - as none of the current measures work (pure security theater designed to make you 'feel safe') it has to be a stupid person that decided to waste billions on pure uselessness.
The pipe organ is the only instrument able to play a warm deep bass where only the harmonics extend up into the audible range. Several organs have had pipes producing clean notes below 10 Hz, including the infamous "brown note" which is supposed to be around 7 Hz. The test Mythbusters performed to bust this myth used only a clean frequency (sinus tone), not a real tone with harmonics. They also did the test outside, not in a closed space with echo and reverberation.
Personally I think that DMCA and the IP laws are perfectly fine..
You are entitled to your opinion of course, but with valid DMCA legal activity being less than 5% of all DMCA legal activity, there's something seriously wrong.
The DMCA has been abused for almost everything, from censorship to harassment. Almost none of the DMCA takedown notices have been valid and yet most have been honored (and usually met with counterclaims), wasting even more time (and thus money).
Nobody bothers to actually provide proof of ownership of the IP in question, or even to specify it in details as required. They just say "DMCA" and the ISP folds, usually without even considering anything. This is probably due to the possibility of being on the receiving end of the draconian punishments the DMCA offers.
MySQL was only usable due to InnoDB (also owned by Oracle), a third party MySQL database storage engine that reimplemented everything since MySQL did it wrong.
InnoDB is crap! - Major headache to maintain compared to MyISAM tables which clearly separates each table into separate files. Much easier to shrink (optimize) tables as well as it doesn't require all data of all other tables to be reprocessed as well.
That's basically what this ruling says. Sure it targets a specific site, but it doesn't differ from the thousands exactly like it and the even bigger number almost like it.
The core issue is that it states that by linking to resources that brings you closer to commit copyright infringement, you enable infringement and thus commit it yourself. All sites on the Internet do this - by choice or by proxy. Nothing is more than a few clicks away from any page so any click might bring you closer to something illegal and thus that link and the site it's on are enabling it.
The ruling does not distinguish between deliberate links and generated links, like the result of a search or other form of automated indexing (like what was used on Isohunt), nor the link depth involved. Unless there's a least a clear ruling on how many clicks represents a 'safe distance', any link is potentially leading to something bad and thus a part of this badness, and this means that every single link on the entire Internet is enabling and thus part of everything illegal.
Training only goes so far. Even the best-trained user will make a mistake.
"Oh, I didn't mean to click that".
It will happen - but doesn't have to. There are three factors at play here: The training, the setup and the users themselves. The right kind of user doesn't need training as such, just some basic on a piece of paper (or similar electronic analogy).
I will use myself as an example.
I have been in IT since before the first virus or worm. I have been exchanging emails for several decades. I've pirated PC-games and downloaded cracks and keygens. I've used (among others) Windows since version 3.11 daily. I websurf for several hours each day, often venturing deep into black hat territory, but I have never ever been infected with anything. A good firewall, proper updated anti-virus and consistent patching, a real browser (= not MSIE) plus obligatory use of NoScript and AdBlock, have kept my machines clean over the years. It's really not that hard.
I'd venture out to say that some users are just too naive or dumb to be allowed on the Internet. I've seen countless of installations where dozens of toolbars take up 90% of the available browser-space and yet the user still installs more when some stupid ad or 'free'ware program offers it. The user simply believes everything on the screen and think every offer is a gift. Such users are completely impossible to train, no matter what. And they are abundant out there.
Most users are not quite that stupid; most have some common sense (which isn't exactly common) but will still fall for some tricks. These users cannot be trained either but should be restricted in what they can do. Trojans that open a reverse shell or similar are very common and they rely on these users to be tricked into installing the trojan. These users often sit behind firewalls that usually will protect them against connections from the outside, but not from other machines on the local network and not against evil stuff on their machines connecting outwards. So one wrong click and the hacker owns the LAN and soon all the machines on it.
So picking the right kind of people and having a secure setup will go a long way. And this kind of users rarely need long expensive training; they just need to be informed and then they'll do the right thing. Even if they do make a mistake it won't matter much - maybe a workstation needs re-installing at worst, and that can be a simple thing, provided the setup is right and proper backups exists.
http://www.nirsoft.net/countryip/
Done!
I prefer to use: http://www.ipdeny.com/ - YMMV...
Simple fix: If the list of ISPs really is that short, just block their prefixes in the core infrastructure and announce this. This way the genuine customers would flee and the ISPs would wise up and kick the spammers. Once unblocked the genuine customers would return (or stop fleeing).
If we're talking about zombie armies doing direct-to-MX spamming, just block that port 25 outbound dammit! - It's a painfully simple fix for any ISP-sysadm. If a zombie cannot spam it's a lot less interesting. If it's located in a BRIC country, chances are there's no money to steal from an online bank, so its only remaining use is as a DDoS participant.