Some TV forges bonds, browsing mostly doesn't
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Browsing Alone
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· Score: 2, Interesting
TV shows like "Seinfeld" transcend the sit at home alone experience.
Many shows do not, however. When Seinfeld was at its peak, I remember
everyone was talking about it, at least everyone that I knew.
X-Files, had the same effect.
Browsing, OTOH, rarely does this. I forward URLs to friends, but
that's via email, and rarely discussed "live". Browsing is a loner
sport, IMO.
If the source address is usually (always?) spoofed in a DDOS attack,
the solution is simple: ISP's should never let a packet out of their
routers that has a source address that is spoofed. If I have DSL, and
I'm connected to a router owned by my ISP, they KNOW what my source
address is and they could prevent me from spoofing.
In my mind, the ISPs are all lazy. They could prevent a lot of this,
but they don't care.
How about instead of a coredump a stack trace? You can install a general error handler around any application that does this, or anything else for that matter. You can write application specific data dumps at the time of unknown errors.
Then, when the program exits, something else (a shell script, or whatever) can restart it.
$60k/user... no, you are insane. What are you talking about?? Now, if you meant $6k/user that would be more in the ballpark, though it doesn't take into account site licenses, which could be significantly lower than that.
Re:Fine, deploy the tech, but...
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The Eyes Have It
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True, Big Brother only doles out our cash. However, Big Brother likes to spend the cash on pork, and spending it on fines would make them unpopular. It would be a kind of barometer of bogosity for this freakin' lie detector.
Fine, deploy the tech, but...
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The Eyes Have It
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There has to be serious compensation when the test fails. That is, when I go to the airport and I fail whatever "test" they give me and I'm "detained" for a few days, I want some serious cash as a result. Let's say $100,000 or more. That'll make Big Brother think twice about testing me.
You make the mistake of defining a terrorist as someone that kills 3000+ people. Before the WTC disaster, did terrorists exist? Of course! You can be a terrorist and kill NO ONE. It has to do with the act you perpetrate, not how many people you kill.
He wasn't the sysadmin for the computers he was cracking. Everyone reading this should ask themselves: if you were a guest on a system would you feel it was legal or illegal to run pw cracking programs on that computer?
This is the most important point in showing his state of mind. Either he is stupid or he was clearly doing something he knew was wrong. Take your pick. Since I don't know the guy, I can't tell which it is.
Stick with the distro kernel???? You gotta be kidding me. That means I'll upgrade my kernel once a year (or less). What about the security fixes I need to make my site safe? THAT is why people upgrade (and to get support for new devices). THAT is why better changelogs or summaries of what is in a kernel need to be written, because there are a vast number of people that upgrade but are not kernel hackers.
I know what SMP is. That's not the issue. Can you tell from that snippet why the change might be important to me? What causes the race condition? Under what conditions will I see the race conditions?
One thing that is really missing is a list of changes in each kernel
release that is meant to be consumed by the masses. The "changelogs"
that are offered up are sorely lacking for us non-kernel hackers.
What I'd like to see is a prose description of the changes in each
version. Something like
Release notes for 2.2.18 by Alan Cox
is a step in the right direction, but some of it is even a little too
technical. For example, in the above document,
set_current_state
Fixed potential SMP race
means little to me and probably a lot of other people. Under what
condition does this occur? The question why should I care about this
change? should be answered for each entry.
... they are pining for the bad old days when each piece of information need a different program to access it.
Microsoft does this because they are afraid they can only remain a powerful company through these closed minded tactics and not by being open and fair.
My method for dealing with telemarketers: the second you know they're one, say "Excuse me, could you hold on a second?" and put down the phone. I few minutes later I hang it up.
they're doing this because it's probably this or close up shop. It's pretty obvious they are desparate. The started charging for premium content. They've been begging people to sign up for premium content. The new web ads show up.
The best thing about this, IMO, is the ad is a Sprint ad. I'm actually happy Salon is getting money out of Sprint, who suck more than any company should be allowed to suck. More power to them. I hope they're getting a gang of cash.
Re:It all seemed so clear the first time through..
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Brian West Update
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Possession IS intent? I don't think so. Possession is proof of theft, not intent to use the passwords. Do you also think my possessing a gun is proof I'm going to rob a bank?
Dan White got about 4 years for killing two people (mayor of SF, George Moscone, and a supervisor, Harvey Milk).
Tell me how cracking into someone's computer is 5 times worse than this?
Even Dan White saw the stupidity of his sentence. He committed suicide shortly after he was paroled. OK, he might have done the (good) deed for some other reason. Perhaps it was the twinkies.
When will people realize the obvious: the republicans are using this as an excuse to get their dreams come true. I'm always said (and now feel completely justified in saying it): if the republicans got everything they wanted, we would live in a facist state. WAKE UP PEOPLE.
1. We outlaw backdoorless crypto in the US, so terrorists purchase
non-US crypto w/o backdoors. I know, I know, if X is outlawed, only
outlaws will have X.
2. Let's say there is no crypto w/o a backdoor around anywhere.
So, our terrorist does a google search on "blowfish" and finds the
source code to the algorithm. No UI, just a couple of pages of C
code. (It's currently the 3rd link returned by google, after 2 sex
links.) He may not make some wiz bang UI on top of it, but he can
surely hack something together quickly so he can send encrypted
messages that no one can crack.
I just don't see how backdoors will improve our chances of catching anyone.
Unlikely. It's very difficult to fix bogus laws. Look at the abortion issue. That's one law the republicans, who have a majority, have been trying to change for quite some time. They have completely failed.
Perhaps you have some cases in point where laws where repealed? The only one I can think of is prohibition, and that is a fundamentally different sort of thing than we're talking here.
Point three -- Jets at Andrews were not on ready status even though the Mossad and NSA both had strong indications of a major attack coming. Are Washington and NY not considered targets anymore? Let's rethink our air defense, even though the next attack will likely be different.
This was a miscalculation (I'm not defending them, just stating their error). Alerts were on in Saudi Arabia, where they thought the attack would be. The reason (for the mistake): lots of people traveling from Afganistan to Saudi Arabia were talking of "something big" happening. It was assumed that the something would happen there not here.
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TV shows like "Seinfeld" transcend the sit at home alone experience.
Many shows do not, however. When Seinfeld was at its peak, I remember
everyone was talking about it, at least everyone that I knew.
X-Files, had the same effect.
Browsing, OTOH, rarely does this. I forward URLs to friends, but
that's via email, and rarely discussed "live". Browsing is a loner
sport, IMO.
If the source address is usually (always?) spoofed in a DDOS attack,
the solution is simple: ISP's should never let a packet out of their
routers that has a source address that is spoofed. If I have DSL, and
I'm connected to a router owned by my ISP, they KNOW what my source
address is and they could prevent me from spoofing.
In my mind, the ISPs are all lazy. They could prevent a lot of this,
but they don't care.
OK, what's wrong with my argument?
How about instead of a coredump a stack trace? You can install a general error handler around any application that does this, or anything else for that matter. You can write application specific data dumps at the time of unknown errors.
Then, when the program exits, something else (a shell script, or whatever) can restart it.
Also, "Franz Lisp" is something else. You meant "Franz' Lisp", or Allegro Common Lisp.
Franz Lisp was a dialect of Lisp that predates Common Lisp, born at UC Berkeley in the late 70's. It was distributed with BSD (on the VAX).
$60k/user... no, you are insane. What are you talking about?? Now, if you meant $6k/user that would be more in the ballpark, though it doesn't take into account site licenses, which could be significantly lower than that.
True, Big Brother only doles out our cash. However, Big Brother likes to spend the cash on pork, and spending it on fines would make them unpopular. It would be a kind of barometer of bogosity for this freakin' lie detector.
There has to be serious compensation when the test fails. That is, when I go to the airport and I fail whatever "test" they give me and I'm "detained" for a few days, I want some serious cash as a result. Let's say $100,000 or more. That'll make Big Brother think twice about testing me.
You make the mistake of defining a terrorist as someone that kills 3000+ people. Before the WTC disaster, did terrorists exist? Of course! You can be a terrorist and kill NO ONE. It has to do with the act you perpetrate, not how many people you kill.
He wasn't the sysadmin for the computers he was cracking. Everyone reading this should ask themselves: if you were a guest on a system would you feel it was legal or illegal to run pw cracking programs on that computer?
This is the most important point in showing his state of mind. Either he is stupid or he was clearly doing something he knew was wrong. Take your pick. Since I don't know the guy, I can't tell which it is.
When you can put a hard drive into a DVD player, let me know...
Funny??!!? Crikey, the parent post was the opposite of funny and dead accurate to boot.
Stick with the distro kernel???? You gotta be kidding me. That means I'll upgrade my kernel once a year (or less). What about the security fixes I need to make my site safe? THAT is why people upgrade (and to get support for new devices). THAT is why better changelogs or summaries of what is in a kernel need to be written, because there are a vast number of people that upgrade but are not kernel hackers.
By masses I meant the set of people that kernel releases are targeted to.
I know what SMP is. That's not the issue. Can you tell from that snippet why the change might be important to me? What causes the race condition? Under what conditions will I see the race conditions?
One thing that is really missing is a list of changes in each kernel release that is meant to be consumed by the masses. The "changelogs" that are offered up are sorely lacking for us non-kernel hackers. What I'd like to see is a prose description of the changes in each version. Something like Release notes for 2.2.18 by Alan Cox is a step in the right direction, but some of it is even a little too technical. For example, in the above document,
means little to me and probably a lot of other people. Under what condition does this occur? The question why should I care about this change? should be answered for each entry.How do you feel about doing something like this?
Microsoft does this because they are afraid they can only remain a powerful company through these closed minded tactics and not by being open and fair.
Word up, AC.
My method for dealing with telemarketers: the second you know they're one, say "Excuse me, could you hold on a second?" and put down the phone. I few minutes later I hang it up.
What, the original story or the retraction?
Personally, I think the retraction is the fictitious one. I mean, who'd believe the RIAA would come to their senses?
they're doing this because it's probably this or close up shop. It's pretty obvious they are desparate. The started charging for premium content. They've been begging people to sign up for premium content. The new web ads show up.
The best thing about this, IMO, is the ad is a Sprint ad. I'm actually happy Salon is getting money out of Sprint, who suck more than any company should be allowed to suck. More power to them. I hope they're getting a gang of cash.
Possession IS intent? I don't think so. Possession is proof of theft, not intent to use the passwords. Do you also think my possessing a gun is proof I'm going to rob a bank?
Dan White got about 4 years for killing two people (mayor of SF, George Moscone, and a supervisor, Harvey Milk).
Tell me how cracking into someone's computer is 5 times worse than this?
Even Dan White saw the stupidity of his sentence. He committed suicide shortly after he was paroled. OK, he might have done the (good) deed for some other reason. Perhaps it was the twinkies.
When will people realize the obvious: the republicans are using this as an excuse to get their dreams come true. I'm always said (and now feel completely justified in saying it): if the republicans got everything they wanted, we would live in a facist state. WAKE UP PEOPLE.
1. We outlaw backdoorless crypto in the US, so terrorists purchase non-US crypto w/o backdoors. I know, I know, if X is outlawed, only outlaws will have X.
2. Let's say there is no crypto w/o a backdoor around anywhere. So, our terrorist does a google search on "blowfish" and finds the source code to the algorithm. No UI, just a couple of pages of C code. (It's currently the 3rd link returned by google, after 2 sex links.) He may not make some wiz bang UI on top of it, but he can surely hack something together quickly so he can send encrypted messages that no one can crack.
I just don't see how backdoors will improve our chances of catching anyone.
Unlikely. It's very difficult to fix bogus laws. Look at the abortion issue. That's one law the republicans, who have a majority, have been trying to change for quite some time. They have completely failed.
Perhaps you have some cases in point where laws where repealed? The only one I can think of is prohibition, and that is a fundamentally different sort of thing than we're talking here.
This was a miscalculation (I'm not defending them, just stating their error). Alerts were on in Saudi Arabia, where they thought the attack would be. The reason (for the mistake): lots of people traveling from Afganistan to Saudi Arabia were talking of "something big" happening. It was assumed that the something would happen there not here.
I agree with everything else you said.