that's not what he said. he love the eye candy, but having to switch back to linux and losing time reinstalling everything because the hardware is too crappy to whistand normal use is aggravating him... too bad really i was considering buying a powerbook
had he not gone for the 10000$ bounty first, he could have kept his domain AFAIK. from what i remember, in canada you can have a company named after yourself (ie your name is Doug McDonald, you could have a company including McDonald in its name)
unless they can prove you are acting in bad faith (a fast food chain named McDonald and Sons)
that's because doubleclick and their customers are selling products that wouldn't sell otherwise: it's crap pure and simple, so they have to be maximally annoying so as to deceptively lure customers to buy their products
i never got what was so hard about debian installer. sure it doesn't have a flashy X intaller with pretty graphics, but it work and is easy to use as long as you're not trying to use LVM or software raid (which most people aren't)
care to give more explanation as to why google is being forced for accounting reasons? that's the first time i hear this one (not that i've been following it much)
this hack doesn't even use brute force. they just found the bytes in the word file where the password is store.
zero'ing those bytes with an hex editor allow you to modify the document password-free. you then replace the original hex in the bytes you modified to "reactivate" the protection.
we don't tell them to bring it here. in fact we don't want them to. some insist and we charge them 65$/hr but most ask someone they know, or send it to some computer shop in town
recently i've taken to doing just that as well. whenever i receive a virus (just doing it for email atm) from one of our customer. i shut off their internet access. they can call back to have it reactivated but one of our tech will tell them to clean it up. if i have to deactivate them a second time, we don't reactivate until they sent it to someone competent to get it fixed.
haven't had a third time yet.. and i don't receive viruses anymore from our customers
altough not directly related to the original post. if you want to save on power, get rid of your hard drive!. these days they can be replaced (pretty cheaply) with flash memory which consume a lot less power.
sure you can't store your 80 gigs of porn/mp3, but you'll save a lot on power
also there's one guy on #linux on freenode that runs his house on solar power. (sorry i can't remember the name). you might want to ask there, there could be a few tricks to gain
i'll admit i had never heard of sybil attacks before now. i just read about them a bit
at first i thought "hey, no big deal it looks just like a ddos" but i see the anonymity issue with such an attack now, you'd need an inordinate ammount of nodes for an effective attack of that type though (depending on the size of the anonymizing groups i guess)
there's multiple problems with anonymous, encrypted peer to peer whitout users oversights.
1. your IP address is still visible (lesser of all) 2. WHO are you trusting to view your files? who's to say it's not a RIAA-mandated agency ?
3. WHO are you trusting to download from?
4. even if you KNOW who you're talking to, if you don't manually verify, on a secure medium, the key used. how do you know there's no middle-man? the dsniff tool widely show this (sshmitm) by assuming users always click "yes" when prompted about unknown or changed hosts keys, that's sysadmins we're talking about, imagine joe-nowhere now?
i don't think movies/comics/sci-fi/fantasy defines you as a nerd/geek.
i do use linux, thinker with the toaster and have tendencies to do non-mainstream things. but that's because i sort en enjoy having a good challenge
but on the other hand all that "cultural" stuff (movies, comics, animes, roleplaying etc..) won't touch me. sure i'll enjoy the occasional sci-fi movie, for the movie that it is. you won't ever see me at a star trek convention with spock ears (or whatever his name is).
am i a geek? probably. why do i care? i could probably be defined as a goth too, but again what is in a label but that, a label. it's for the unnassuming masses who feel a need to associate themselves with a predefined group so they can feel better about themselves
let the cool kids rot in hell, whatever they call themselves or not.
btw Existenz was, IMO, one of the worst movie of all time
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it's not quite there yet, but it's useable. i have for the last year or so
that's not what he said. he love the eye candy, but having to switch back to linux and losing time reinstalling everything because the hardware is too crappy to whistand normal use is aggravating him... too bad really i was considering buying a powerbook
that's giving too much credit to lawyers
i thought they didn't have any more programmers onboard anyway?
computer that can drum? we had that 20 years ago, it's called midi
those looks like US rules, even the domain name is registered in the US (florida)
it's still his name, "soft" is generic enough to not matter
had he not gone for the 10000$ bounty first, he could have kept his domain AFAIK. from what i remember, in canada you can have a company named after yourself (ie your name is Doug McDonald, you could have a company including McDonald in its name)
unless they can prove you are acting in bad faith (a fast food chain named McDonald and Sons)
because you'd be back to self-inflicted pain, but now you get to feel it too which isn't as fun
self-inflicted isn't nearly as fun as inflicting it yourself!
that's because doubleclick and their customers are selling products that wouldn't sell otherwise: it's crap pure and simple, so they have to be maximally annoying so as to deceptively lure customers to buy their products
making it spread spectrum doesn't really protect you form eavesdroppers. you can still sniff it out, it just take some more expensive equipments
no bad jokes intended, but the russians did it
actually no since it also count the ESTABLISHED connections, not just the LISTENing ones
netstat -an | grep tcp | grep LISTEN | wc -l
would be the proper command
debian is pretty nice in the aspect. it has for all intent and purpose 0 open (discard, echo and the likes don't count, they're not really services)
i never got what was so hard about debian installer. sure it doesn't have a flashy X intaller with pretty graphics, but it work and is easy to use as long as you're not trying to use LVM or software raid (which most people aren't)
it's it... ironic.
when they "steal" music like this, it's a product
when you "steal" music, it's a service
care to give more explanation as to why google is being forced for accounting reasons? that's the first time i hear this one (not that i've been following it much)
this hack doesn't even use brute force. they just found the bytes in the word file where the password is store.
zero'ing those bytes with an hex editor allow you to modify the document password-free. you then replace the original hex in the bytes you modified to "reactivate" the protection.
we don't tell them to bring it here. in fact we don't want them to. some insist and we charge them 65$/hr but most ask someone they know, or send it to some computer shop in town
recently i've taken to doing just that as well. whenever i receive a virus (just doing it for email atm) from one of our customer. i shut off their internet access. they can call back to have it reactivated but one of our tech will tell them to clean it up. if i have to deactivate them a second time, we don't reactivate until they sent it to someone competent to get it fixed.
haven't had a third time yet.. and i don't receive viruses anymore from our customers
sucks for the grandmother though... but eh
altough not directly related to the original post. if you want to save on power, get rid of your hard drive!. these days they can be replaced (pretty cheaply) with flash memory which consume a lot less power.
sure you can't store your 80 gigs of porn/mp3, but you'll save a lot on power
also there's one guy on #linux on freenode that runs his house on solar power. (sorry i can't remember the name). you might want to ask there, there could be a few tricks to gain
i'll admit i had never heard of sybil attacks before now. i just read about them a bit
at first i thought "hey, no big deal it looks just like a ddos" but i see the anonymity issue with such an attack now, you'd need an inordinate ammount of nodes for an effective attack of that type though (depending on the size of the anonymizing groups i guess)
thanks for pointing it out
there's multiple problems with anonymous, encrypted peer to peer whitout users oversights.
1. your IP address is still visible (lesser of all)
2. WHO are you trusting to view your files? who's to say it's not a RIAA-mandated agency ?
3. WHO are you trusting to download from?
4. even if you KNOW who you're talking to, if you don't manually verify, on a secure medium, the key used. how do you know there's no middle-man? the dsniff tool widely show this (sshmitm) by assuming users always click "yes" when prompted about unknown or changed hosts keys, that's sysadmins we're talking about, imagine joe-nowhere now?
i know who he is, doesn't mean i care enough to know how to spell his name.
i don't think movies/comics/sci-fi/fantasy defines you as a nerd/geek.
i do use linux, thinker with the toaster and have tendencies to do non-mainstream things. but that's because i sort en enjoy having a good challenge
but on the other hand all that "cultural" stuff (movies, comics, animes, roleplaying etc..) won't touch me. sure i'll enjoy the occasional sci-fi movie, for the movie that it is. you won't ever see me at a star trek convention with spock ears (or whatever his name is).
am i a geek? probably. why do i care? i could probably be defined as a goth too, but again what is in a label but that, a label. it's for the unnassuming masses who feel a need to associate themselves with a predefined group so they can feel better about themselves
let the cool kids rot in hell, whatever they call themselves or not.
btw Existenz was, IMO, one of the worst movie of all time
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/347098/2003 -12-08/2003-12-14/0
i haven't tested myself, and it might be an old version as i don't follow mozilla development myself.