My question is then, why is this done selectively? It would seem to me that since guns and ammo can be (and frequently are)used to commit violent crimes, why aren't they illegal as well??
Guns and ammo have several legal uses--target practice, self-defense, hunting, law enforcement, etc. DVD ripping software (to name another example) can be used to copy that Di$ney movie that your kids watch three times a day to VCD or SVCD so that when they trash that disc through fumble-fingered handling, you can burn another copy instead of forking out more $$$ for another DVD. (Likewise with Macrovision scrubbers, if you want to copy to tape instead.)
Drug paraphernalia, on the other hand, has no purpose other than to facilitate the use of illegal drugs.
I'd like to know if there's any kindo of economic issue. I know that today is much more expensive, but what about in the future, is it a technology that worth?
Unless they come up with some radical new insight, this will more than likely end up as a "because we can" type of project. Off the top of my head, I can't think of applications where this would displace the types of aircraft we already use. Still, you can't deny the hack value...it's like the totally useless demos that are still interesting to watch.
Only problem is that it is near impossible to get into the Yahoo directory.
Does anybody still use Yahoo? I can't remember the last time I found a site through Yahoo...it's almost all Google now, with the occasional side trip to AltaVista (though that usually doesn't turn up anything more relevant than what Google finds).
Aren't those mainly recruiting sites? Comparing the Air Force's.mil and.com sites, one of them seems aimed more at real info about the Air Force (what it is, what it's done, what it's doing, who's calling the shots, etc.), while the other looks like something that might've been put together by an ad agency or a marketing department (sign up now!).
I really like one of the
police departments in my area.
I thought it a bit strange at first that Metro considered itself a dot-com. Then again, I guess they figure it's easier to remember something short like that than something like www.lvmpd.co.clark.nv.us (which would stretch all across the trunk of their squad cars if they wanted it to be readable). The.us domains are laid out logically enough, but the hierarchical structure is probably too much for your average drooling idiot to remember.
I wouldn't give a @#$^^ for new.net except for their paid flacks popping up arroung the net to shill for them.
The big problem I have with them is that they think it's necessary to fsck with your IP stack. AFAIK, they don't use standard DNS; for their system to work, you need a DLL that gets called before the standard name-resolver DLLs. If it somehow gets screwed up, you're stuck with hacking the registry (in a non-trivial manner...been there, done that) to clean up the mess as it can leave your computer unable to resolve any names.
If you noticed that the above is somewhat Windows-centric, you're correct...with a system like this, would new.net's domains even be accessible from other systems? If they were cross-platform, they would just stick their DNS server ahead of whatever others you're using, whether in/etc/resolv.conf, TCP/IP properties for whatever NIC you're using, etc.
Combine that with their getting software vendors to bundle the new.net DLL as "foistware" and they can FOAD, for all I care.
2) Web users don't grok it. Let's face it, most Web users think AOL is the Web. They don't know about.gov or.org, they don't even know.mil exists, and if you throw a.ru or a.uk at them, they can't cope.
I bet these are the same people think that www.whitehouse.com is the correct page for the real White House in Washington D.C. instead of www.whitehouse.gov.
After the past eight years, can you blame them?:-|
are you counting each of the attacks seperatly or are you counting each group of attacks as 1 attack?
Each counter is generated by a different MySQL query. The Code Red counter pulls every request for/default.ida; that was the only request that it tries to make. The Nimda counter pulls every request that includes cmd.exe and that happened since this morning. Since Nimda includes some other requests, my counter is probably understating the amount of traffic I'm getting. I need to look at the other requests that Nimda makes and add them to the query. I'd fix it now, but my system must be taking a pounding right now. I was able to log in, but when you enter a command, you don't even see it echoed back for maybe half a minute or so. Even a simple ls takes a minute or two to send its results out...my cable modem might as well be a 300-bps acoustic coupler, as slow as it's going. Hell, the acoustic coupler would probably be faster right now.:-( This damn worm has brought the entire Internet to a crawl...both/. and MSNBC are hella sluggish right now (MSNBC more so than/.).
Green ketchup is one thing (at least there are fucking green tomatoes), but purple? No.
You could make purple ketchup by adding blue food coloring to ordinary red ketchup (blue+red=purple). I don't know why you would want to do this, but at least it could start out as a normal product. I doubt that green tomatoes are going into the green "ketchup," so it's anybody's guess as to what's used to make that stuff. If forced to choose between them, I think I would be more inclined to take the purple stuff.
Peru has over a hundred varieties of potato - if the British had brought back a decent assortment of potatos, instead of just the quick-buck high-yield-but-blight-sensitive variety, there would never have been an Irish potato famine.
Who says the English wouldn't have wanted the Irish potato famine to happen? They weren't exactly the nicest people in the world at the time...consider the events that led to American independence in the late 18th century, or that led to independence in Scotland in the early 14th century. (I just watched Braveheart last night, so it's still somewhat in mind at this time.)
I remember reading something about someone doing this back when CodeRed II came out. He had a simple CGI to submit a shutdown command to the inquiring machine. Cool.:)
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It's SSI and not CGI, and it only generates a pop-up (shutting down a host, while admittedly more useful, has some potential legal issues attached to it), but I have something similar here. I also have a shell script that runs down a list of infected hosts (yanked from a MySQL database, though you could modify it for a flat-file Apache log with judicious use of grep, sed, and/or awk) and sends a pop-up to those hosts.
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I also have running totals of Code Red hits and of this new attack (the numbers for the Unicode vulnerability are pretty shocking by comparison).
What about something less intrusive?
Pop up a message box with a notice that someone broke into the computer, perhaps with a message beep every minute?
Something like this? I've been doing that with Code Red for the past few weeks. Time to fix it to deal with this new attack (and fix my website so it doesn't bother with listing all Code Red attacks, as it has to be somewhere close to 10k hits now:-P ).
I checked my logs for requests that include "cmd.exe" in the URL. Before today, I had 30 hits going back to the beginning of the year, and some of those were from a Nessus scan I initiated. As of this writing, I've had another 1850 hits in a little over three hours (first hit @ 0634 PDT; it's currently 0942 PDT). The first few were from out-of-country, but the vast majority are other hosts in lvcm.com.
Given the sudden uptick in activity, I'd say this qualifies as a new attack. I should probably cross-reference the new attacks with Code Red attacks...anyone want to bet against lots of hosts in common between the two?
I've also just cracked the core on my current 1.33 T-Bird, and I've just picked up a 1.4 at lunch today. Is this some sort of marketing scheme by AMD?!!?
What are you doing that's caused you to break so many processors? I had to remove/reinstall the heatsinks on three Duron systems recently because they had been put in backwards. I started into the job with some trepidation because of everyone else's comments, but all it takes is a moderate amount of care (and a couple of flat-bladed screwdrivers...one to press down on the retaining clip and another to flex it out so it'll clear the tab on the socket). They're all running fine, with no cracked cores.
Show me the part of the Constitution that guarantees citizens the right to travel
How about the right to freedom of assembly? Yah, that's in there, and it means I have the right to travel to assemble with like-minded colleages to protest congress for a redress of grievances.
The AC's question was rhetorical. There is no "part of the Constitution that guarantees citizens the right to travel," or any of the other things he enumerated. The reason for this is that the Constitution grants no rights. Rights aren't granted by governments; they exist independent of the government, which is created to safeguard those rights. The Constitution (more specifically, the Bill of Rights) is an affirmation that the government will not interfere with your rights--"Congress shall make no law abridging the right to x," or something to that effect.
I remember when they first got started...they trawled eBay for email addresses and proceeded to spam everybody. You don't get much lower on the food chain than that.
At that point, I vowed to never buy a thing from Onsale. I've done just fine without them (their prices usually weren't all that great anyway...ditto for Egghead), and it's somewhat comforting that their "bad karma" is about to catch up with them.
(eBay long ago fixed its system to make what Onsale did nearly impossible...you can still retrieve other users' email addresses, but you have to be logged in to do that, and I suspect that all address requests are logged. A bot trawling for addresses now would stick out like a sore thumb.)
Will the moderators please blast this twit(ter) back to the Stone Age? Even in our nation's darkest hour, he can't help but blather on with his mindless "Linux good, Microsoft bad" drivel. There is a time and place for most things, and this is absolutely not it.
There are lots of external drive boxes that have low wattage power supplies (I've seen 30W-80W for single bay, 70W-125W for dual bay). You'd have to modify the connectors to power an AT motherboard, but I've seen it done.
These typically provide only +5 and +12. How would you get -5 and -12 out of them, as an AT motherboard needs those as well? (ATX also requires +3.3, but ATX didn't come along until near the end of the "P5 era," so any ATX motherboard would be extreme overkill for a router or firewall.)
I've spent dozens of hours trying to get LRP working, and it's still rather scratchy and ipmasqadm doesn't work (2.9.8 with 2.2.16). Nobody is supporting it anymore; and the other similar distros (LOAF, floppyfw, etc.) don't have NAT and portforwarding at all.
Try out Coyote Linux...I had to scratch together a temporary firewall when the motherboard in our normal firewall box crapped out. It has a Windows-based configurator that assembles a boot disk with ipmasq, a DHCP client, and whatever else you might need for your connection. It's much simpler to get going than plain LRP, and it got the job done until the firewall computer was fixed.
It will...I set up a 386SX-25 with a couple of NE2K clones and an LRP boot floppy for a customer who had the machine collecting dust in a warehouse. It has no problems keeping up with a cable-modem connection. If it goes haywire, all they need to do to get it going is shut it off, turn it back on, and wait 5 minutes for it to start up.
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One of the reasons air travel has become so painful is the ridiculous amount of luggage people are trying to cram in to their overhead bins.
It's only become that way because of morons who believe the rules don't apply to them, and then proceed to try to schlep some outrageously huge item into the plane. Sometimes the flight crew lets them get away with it.
On some trips I've traveled with nothing more than a backpack...not the huge ones for hiking and such, but the size of pack you'd use for schoolbooks. It saves the trip to baggage claim, and it's small enough to be easily handled, stored, etc. (under a seat if necessary). Is this something that you would ban as "non-essential?"
That said, your point of beefing up security is a good one. Do we really want airport security left up to a bunch of minimum-wage rent-a-cops whose only other employment opportunity is the McDonald's in the food court? Putting in people with a bit more of an interest in their job would be a good idea...and if that causes a Las Vegas-to-Phoenix ticket to rise from $40 to $50, so be it.
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Drug paraphernalia, on the other hand, has no purpose other than to facilitate the use of illegal drugs.
If you noticed that the above is somewhat Windows-centric, you're correct...with a system like this, would new.net's domains even be accessible from other systems? If they were cross-platform, they would just stick their DNS server ahead of whatever others you're using, whether in /etc/resolv.conf, TCP/IP properties for whatever NIC you're using, etc.
Combine that with their getting software vendors to bundle the new.net DLL as "foistware" and they can FOAD, for all I care.
It's SSI and not CGI, and it only generates a pop-up (shutting down a host, while admittedly more useful, has some potential legal issues attached to it), but I have something similar here. I also have a shell script that runs down a list of infected hosts (yanked from a MySQL database, though you could modify it for a flat-file Apache log with judicious use of grep, sed, and/or awk) and sends a pop-up to those hosts.
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I also have running totals of Code Red hits and of this new attack (the numbers for the Unicode vulnerability are pretty shocking by comparison).
Given the sudden uptick in activity, I'd say this qualifies as a new attack. I should probably cross-reference the new attacks with Code Red attacks...anyone want to bet against lots of hosts in common between the two?
At that point, I vowed to never buy a thing from Onsale. I've done just fine without them (their prices usually weren't all that great anyway...ditto for Egghead), and it's somewhat comforting that their "bad karma" is about to catch up with them.
(eBay long ago fixed its system to make what Onsale did nearly impossible...you can still retrieve other users' email addresses, but you have to be logged in to do that, and I suspect that all address requests are logged. A bot trawling for addresses now would stick out like a sore thumb.)
Will the moderators please blast this twit(ter) back to the Stone Age? Even in our nation's darkest hour, he can't help but blather on with his mindless "Linux good, Microsoft bad" drivel. There is a time and place for most things, and this is absolutely not it.
This popped up on a local radio station's website. Enjoy! :-)
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On some trips I've traveled with nothing more than a backpack...not the huge ones for hiking and such, but the size of pack you'd use for schoolbooks. It saves the trip to baggage claim, and it's small enough to be easily handled, stored, etc. (under a seat if necessary). Is this something that you would ban as "non-essential?"
That said, your point of beefing up security is a good one. Do we really want airport security left up to a bunch of minimum-wage rent-a-cops whose only other employment opportunity is the McDonald's in the food court? Putting in people with a bit more of an interest in their job would be a good idea...and if that causes a Las Vegas-to-Phoenix ticket to rise from $40 to $50, so be it.