Guiliani got bigger by the hour. Defying advice that he hide out until the shooting stopped, he rushed to the scene, was nearly killed, calmed the city down and took charge of the clean-up and rescue.
Guiliani did not rush to the scene. He rushed to the city's emergency operations center, which was located adjacent to the WTC, where he was nearly killed in the collapse. That is his place in a situation like this. It is unfortunate (and in hindsight, perhaps stupid) that it was located where it was.
My own city has had similar situations. The city's EOC was previously located in a flood-prone area and the current one is located in an area that would be surrounded by water in the not unlikely event of a serious storm.
I've heard reports that the perps took over the planes with *knives*, not guns.
I'm amazed at how easy it is to fly with a knife, especially one that's not just a swiss army knife. I've flown with a coworker several times who carries on a Spyderco folder with a 4" blade. (It's apparently FAA legal, but most airlines set tighter limits on blade length.) The crack X-ray security troops never even notice the knife because he packs it so it's vertical on the X-ray machine and they don't see a classic blade shape. I've personally flown a dozen legs with a 3" Spyderco folder and with only one exception, I have been able to simply walk through metal detectors without setting them off. (On that exception, the security tech inspected the knife and gave it back to me.)
I'm not suprised at all if these guys got knives on the planes. I'm just suprised that they were able to gain control of the planes with knives.
I can not understand how one individual with a knife could take over a cockpit and either force a pilot to fly into a building or disable everyone and fly the plane himself. I've seen report after report where some drunk a-hole acts up on a plane and a half dozen guys beat him down. Where were those guys on these flights?
This is nothing new. Cyrix used to do this. My OpenBSD firewall runs on a Cyrix P-120, which is 100 MHz chip they claimed performed equally to a 120 MHz Pentium.
I'm amazed at how many people know what's wrong with Lego. Or rather, I'm amazed at how Lego doesn't do something like people are suggesting.
I've got two of the most generic Lego sets (the blue tub and another "basic" set). It's hard to use them to build anything like what I built as a kid. Sure, there are plenty of really basic bricks in the blue tub, all full-height. But there isn't a single plate or any other 1/3 height brick. No doors, windows, roof pieces, wheels, etc. Nothing. In the other "basic" set, I got some of those things, but nowhere near enough plates to do anything significant and not enough roof pieces to cover anything larger than about 16x16.
I was just looking at sets last night at the mall. Nothing was that interesting. A dozen Lego soccer sets, a few movie sets, a bunch of Star Wars sets on clearance (half of which were unrecognizable to me), an assortment of pirate/racecar/superhero/mineshaft/arctic themed sets, some new dinosaur sets, a bunch of those Fosters can sized figure sets, and some new sets that look more like a collectable card game. Nothing was worth buying. The only things worth it were some clearance Duplo sets I already got my kid (an american indian set, some Pooh crap).
Give kids what they want. Make a $20-30 blue tub sized set that lets kids build cars and houses. Make another one that lets them build planes and spaceships to crash into the buildings. There you go.
Give "adult" geeks what they want. Classic Star Wars stuff. Something we'd be happy to plop on our desk at work.
Stop giving us what we don't want. Lego Soccer in the U.S.?
I don't think you can say that unless you've had the cube that everyone laughs at.
In one of the monthly reorg shuffles, I got a cube right next to two doors. One lead to the bathrooms. The other lead to the stairs and the loading dock / smoking area. To top it off, instead of having a regular 1 panel opening, it was a 3x2 panel rectangle where someone lopped off one whole corner (3 panels), so there was a more than 2 panel opening facing these doors. I don't think I could go more than 5 minutes without someone walking almost through my cube.
Before I even unpacked, the guys in my group were laughing at me. One of them relocated two dusty plastic trees from the hallway to help close in the open side of the cube, but my new boss (who hand-selected my cube assignment) removed them the next day.
I must have a mental block. When I first scanned the story, I thought that $199 was a decent price for a box like that. Imagine my suprise when I finally realized it was $1999. For that price I could build a monster homebrew version with IDE RAID and Hauppage's card, spend a couple hundred on beer and pizza to fuel my development time to build a slick interface, and still have enough cash to order enough pay-per-view porn to find something worth recording.
Same here. I run a P3-500 with 512 megs and it'll run a couple copies of Visual C++, VB6, a database, web server, TV tuner, Photoshop, Outlook, a dozen browser windows, and one or two copies of VMWare without frustrating me. What's frustrating is when all I have open is one friggen browser window and it's constantly churning the disk. Seems like Microsoft needs to put some effort into doing better rolling/cleaning of the browser cache.
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...Detroit's a great place to locate NOCs...
I dunno. I've been to Detroit and I'd rather live underground.
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Anybody know where I can find a copy of that?
I'm sure some enterprising leech^H^H^H^H^Hpeople will be selling it on eBay real soon.
I work in a shop that has a lot of IBM stuff going on. We don't have any customers talking about replacing AIX with Linux on existing hardware. We do have one signed customer doing Linux and others in the sales stage.
I doubt customers will accept Linux as a replacement for AIX until they've got Linux deployed on Intel/AMD boxes.
He used the GNU project's tools. Linux is built upon a foundation of GNU tools. That's why the Stallman can claim the GNU project has a valid claim to share the Linux title.
Then why isn't GCC called AT&T/GCC, after whatever commercial Unix it was originally built on?
The greedy commercial compiler companies like Borland or Microsoft have never even suggested that they own any rights to the work produced with their tools.
rms and the FSF elected to give away their software with few restrictions. Frankly, I remember waiting year after year after year for the GNU kernel while writing donation checks to the FSF and running Minix on my PC hardware. rms can stuff it. He and the GNU guys had their chance for the better part of a decade.
The term "protected" in this section of the U.S. Code refers not to whether there was a password, but whether the federal government has jurisdiction over crimes involving it. If the computer belongs to a federal government agency, is involved in banking, or (and here's the kicker) is used in interstate or foreign commerce. That last one is what catches ya. If it's attached to the internet, it is considered to be involved in interstate commerce.
Let me set this up. I'm not a lawyer, but I was charged with, took a plea deal for, and served time for a violation of 1030(a)(5).
He is expected to be charged with a violation of Title 18, Section 1030. If we have all the facts, the closest charge would be under one of the subsections of 1030(a)(5):
knowingly causes the transmission of a program,
information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct,
intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected
computer;
intentionally accesses a protected computer without
authorization, and as a result of such conduct, recklessly causes
damage; or
intentionally accesses a protected computer without
authorization, and as a result of such conduct, causes damage;
It's not enough to merely access a "protected" computer. He has to have either intentionally caused damage or been "reckless" and unintentionally caused damage. He also has to have caused $5,000 or more in damage, which can include the time taken to detect and clean up after the intruder.
Now if he did not change any of their existing files, only created a new file to see if they were vulnerable, and notified them himself, there is certainly some doubt that he caused more than $5,000 in damage.
The government also has the burden of proving his criminal intent. This is exactly what will cause the judge to throw out the case, if it ever gets there. From the article, it appears clear that his intent was not to cause damage. If he can support that claim, he'll win. Heck, he should consider filing a suit of his own.
This case is almost certainly the result of an overly enthusiastic FBI Special Agent and/or Assistant U.S. Attorney. They are under pressure to build their expertise prosecuting computer crime cases and they are very actively seeking cases to try. They could very well proceed with this case just to gain the experience.
I've got a "purple" book, out in the garage with my box full of Lotus and Borland products. Unlike what the article's author says (twice even), it's not "plastic-covered" unless you count the shrink-wrap it came it. It's cloth-covered, just like all the old IBM manuals.
I think what people are missing is how many companies sprang up that built things for the IBM PC. Sure there were companies that built clones, some violating IBM's license by using the purple book information. But more importantly, there were a thousand times more companies that used that information to built hardware and software. All the technical specs were laid out for your right there. If you wanted to make a BIOS call or even bypass BIOS and talk right to the hardware, the purple book had the ASM source.
What we need is to solve the long-haul problem. In this guy's case, he appears to be "sharing" NYU's connection. What would be cool is if he used a long-haul wireless bridge to link to someone else up to several miles away. Even if they needed a couple wireless bridge hops to reach someone with a legitimate, legal connection that could be shared, it would be worth it.
What we need is for the wireless bridge costs to continue to come down, a cheap source of antennas, and enough people to be interested in setting up a web of wirelessly linked sites. I really do believe this could happen. I'm just not sure that it will.
All the Web Services development I've done so far has involved Apache, whether it's called Apache or IBM Websphere. I code using JSP and servlets under Tomcat and we deploy on a WebSphere application server. (Someone argued with me two weeks ago that Websphere's app server is just Tomcat under the covers, but I didn't believe him. Maybe I'm wrong.)
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Guiliani got bigger by the hour. Defying advice that he hide out until the shooting stopped, he rushed to the scene, was nearly killed, calmed the city down and took charge of the clean-up and rescue.
Guiliani did not rush to the scene. He rushed to the city's emergency operations center, which was located adjacent to the WTC, where he was nearly killed in the collapse. That is his place in a situation like this. It is unfortunate (and in hindsight, perhaps stupid) that it was located where it was.
My own city has had similar situations. The city's EOC was previously located in a flood-prone area and the current one is located in an area that would be surrounded by water in the not unlikely event of a serious storm.
I've heard reports that the perps took over the planes with *knives*, not guns.
I'm amazed at how easy it is to fly with a knife, especially one that's not just a swiss army knife. I've flown with a coworker several times who carries on a Spyderco folder with a 4" blade. (It's apparently FAA legal, but most airlines set tighter limits on blade length.) The crack X-ray security troops never even notice the knife because he packs it so it's vertical on the X-ray machine and they don't see a classic blade shape. I've personally flown a dozen legs with a 3" Spyderco folder and with only one exception, I have been able to simply walk through metal detectors without setting them off. (On that exception, the security tech inspected the knife and gave it back to me.)
I'm not suprised at all if these guys got knives on the planes. I'm just suprised that they were able to gain control of the planes with knives.
I can not understand how one individual with a knife could take over a cockpit and either force a pilot to fly into a building or disable everyone and fly the plane himself. I've seen report after report where some drunk a-hole acts up on a plane and a half dozen guys beat him down. Where were those guys on these flights?
I can hear Joe Lieberman now, blaming companies like Microsoft for publishing violent computer games.
Reasonable predictions. I'll add one: we'll occupy Afganistan by the end of the year.
One of the stations reported that September 11th is the anniversary of the 1978 Camp David peace accord. It doesn't appear to be true though.
I'm betting this will work out only a bit better than the Burroughs-Sperry merger (aka Unisys) did.
I'll say it again: The only company that can make an internet appliance that sells is AOL.
I doubt it, since Sony also sells boxes that run PalmOS.
This is nothing new. Cyrix used to do this. My OpenBSD firewall runs on a Cyrix P-120, which is 100 MHz chip they claimed performed equally to a 120 MHz Pentium.
At least Cyrix was more open about doing this.
I'm amazed at how many people know what's wrong with Lego. Or rather, I'm amazed at how Lego doesn't do something like people are suggesting.
I've got two of the most generic Lego sets (the blue tub and another "basic" set). It's hard to use them to build anything like what I built as a kid. Sure, there are plenty of really basic bricks in the blue tub, all full-height. But there isn't a single plate or any other 1/3 height brick. No doors, windows, roof pieces, wheels, etc. Nothing. In the other "basic" set, I got some of those things, but nowhere near enough plates to do anything significant and not enough roof pieces to cover anything larger than about 16x16.
I was just looking at sets last night at the mall. Nothing was that interesting. A dozen Lego soccer sets, a few movie sets, a bunch of Star Wars sets on clearance (half of which were unrecognizable to me), an assortment of pirate/racecar/superhero/mineshaft/arctic themed sets, some new dinosaur sets, a bunch of those Fosters can sized figure sets, and some new sets that look more like a collectable card game. Nothing was worth buying. The only things worth it were some clearance Duplo sets I already got my kid (an american indian set, some Pooh crap).
Give kids what they want. Make a $20-30 blue tub sized set that lets kids build cars and houses. Make another one that lets them build planes and spaceships to crash into the buildings. There you go.
Give "adult" geeks what they want. Classic Star Wars stuff. Something we'd be happy to plop on our desk at work.
Stop giving us what we don't want. Lego Soccer in the U.S.?
It isn't all that bad...
I don't think you can say that unless you've had the cube that everyone laughs at.
In one of the monthly reorg shuffles, I got a cube right next to two doors. One lead to the bathrooms. The other lead to the stairs and the loading dock / smoking area. To top it off, instead of having a regular 1 panel opening, it was a 3x2 panel rectangle where someone lopped off one whole corner (3 panels), so there was a more than 2 panel opening facing these doors. I don't think I could go more than 5 minutes without someone walking almost through my cube.
Before I even unpacked, the guys in my group were laughing at me. One of them relocated two dusty plastic trees from the hallway to help close in the open side of the cube, but my new boss (who hand-selected my cube assignment) removed them the next day.
I just taped the post-its and picture of the kid onto the sides of my laptop screen.
I must have a mental block. When I first scanned the story, I thought that $199 was a decent price for a box like that. Imagine my suprise when I finally realized it was $1999. For that price I could build a monster homebrew version with IDE RAID and Hauppage's card, spend a couple hundred on beer and pizza to fuel my development time to build a slick interface, and still have enough cash to order enough pay-per-view porn to find something worth recording.
Same here. I run a P3-500 with 512 megs and it'll run a couple copies of Visual C++, VB6, a database, web server, TV tuner, Photoshop, Outlook, a dozen browser windows, and one or two copies of VMWare without frustrating me. What's frustrating is when all I have open is one friggen browser window and it's constantly churning the disk. Seems like Microsoft needs to put some effort into doing better rolling/cleaning of the browser cache.
I dunno. I've been to Detroit and I'd rather live underground.
Anybody know where I can find a copy of that?
I'm sure some enterprising leech^H^H^H^H^Hpeople will be selling it on eBay real soon.
Does that mean McAfee is going to try to shut down Slashdot?
I work in a shop that has a lot of IBM stuff going on. We don't have any customers talking about replacing AIX with Linux on existing hardware. We do have one signed customer doing Linux and others in the sales stage.
I doubt customers will accept Linux as a replacement for AIX until they've got Linux deployed on Intel/AMD boxes.
He used the GNU project's tools. Linux is built upon a foundation of GNU tools. That's why the Stallman can claim the GNU project has a valid claim to share the Linux title.
Then why isn't GCC called AT&T/GCC, after whatever commercial Unix it was originally built on?
The greedy commercial compiler companies like Borland or Microsoft have never even suggested that they own any rights to the work produced with their tools.
rms and the FSF elected to give away their software with few restrictions. Frankly, I remember waiting year after year after year for the GNU kernel while writing donation checks to the FSF and running Minix on my PC hardware. rms can stuff it. He and the GNU guys had their chance for the better part of a decade.
Did you copy financial information, copy other files, or do damage in excess of $5,000? No. You'd never be charged under this law.
The term "protected" in this section of the U.S. Code refers not to whether there was a password, but whether the federal government has jurisdiction over crimes involving it. If the computer belongs to a federal government agency, is involved in banking, or (and here's the kicker) is used in interstate or foreign commerce. That last one is what catches ya. If it's attached to the internet, it is considered to be involved in interstate commerce.
Let me set this up. I'm not a lawyer, but I was charged with, took a plea deal for, and served time for a violation of 1030(a)(5).
He is expected to be charged with a violation of Title 18, Section 1030. If we have all the facts, the closest charge would be under one of the subsections of 1030(a)(5):
knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;
intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, recklessly causes damage; or
intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, causes damage;
It's not enough to merely access a "protected" computer. He has to have either intentionally caused damage or been "reckless" and unintentionally caused damage. He also has to have caused $5,000 or more in damage, which can include the time taken to detect and clean up after the intruder.
Now if he did not change any of their existing files, only created a new file to see if they were vulnerable, and notified them himself, there is certainly some doubt that he caused more than $5,000 in damage.
The government also has the burden of proving his criminal intent. This is exactly what will cause the judge to throw out the case, if it ever gets there. From the article, it appears clear that his intent was not to cause damage. If he can support that claim, he'll win. Heck, he should consider filing a suit of his own.
This case is almost certainly the result of an overly enthusiastic FBI Special Agent and/or Assistant U.S. Attorney. They are under pressure to build their expertise prosecuting computer crime cases and they are very actively seeking cases to try. They could very well proceed with this case just to gain the experience.
I've got a "purple" book, out in the garage with my box full of Lotus and Borland products. Unlike what the article's author says (twice even), it's not "plastic-covered" unless you count the shrink-wrap it came it. It's cloth-covered, just like all the old IBM manuals.
I think what people are missing is how many companies sprang up that built things for the IBM PC. Sure there were companies that built clones, some violating IBM's license by using the purple book information. But more importantly, there were a thousand times more companies that used that information to built hardware and software. All the technical specs were laid out for your right there. If you wanted to make a BIOS call or even bypass BIOS and talk right to the hardware, the purple book had the ASM source.
What we need is to solve the long-haul problem. In this guy's case, he appears to be "sharing" NYU's connection. What would be cool is if he used a long-haul wireless bridge to link to someone else up to several miles away. Even if they needed a couple wireless bridge hops to reach someone with a legitimate, legal connection that could be shared, it would be worth it.
What we need is for the wireless bridge costs to continue to come down, a cheap source of antennas, and enough people to be interested in setting up a web of wirelessly linked sites. I really do believe this could happen. I'm just not sure that it will.
Apache's not an app server. It's a HTML server.
All the Web Services development I've done so far has involved Apache, whether it's called Apache or IBM Websphere. I code using JSP and servlets under Tomcat and we deploy on a WebSphere application server. (Someone argued with me two weeks ago that Websphere's app server is just Tomcat under the covers, but I didn't believe him. Maybe I'm wrong.)