If you are afraid your boss will read your hard disk writing zeroes to it might be safe. if you are afraid the FBI will read it you sould probably shred it or use somthing corrosive. (a thermite charge would be real nice;) the DOD standard for erasure of _unclassified_ data requiers that it be overwritten several times with differant patterns. (It speciies which patterns and how many times but I don't remember) simply writing zeros is not goot enough. of course that standard is outdated. today the FBI has Atomic Force Miroscopes which are much better at this then older ways.
One other thing you might try is sending all the spam you recive from A to B. Or better yet grep for the 'unsubscribe' link from spam message A and try to unsubscribe the reply-to address from spam letter B.
-who knows maybe they _WILL_ remover him from the list:)
(this might not be leagal - but you might not realy care)
I just got a new domain. Which means that every email to that domain goes to me. Every time I give my Email online I give a diff name, for instance if I buy at yahoo I give "yahoo-shopping@mydomain.com". If I get spam to this address I know who gave it to the spammers. - only been doing this for a week, no spam so far but there is still hope;-)
Note: I am not actively looking to be spamed, just doing my usual stuff.
You probably meant to ask "does it speek Ethernet?" since that is what will determin if it messes your network os not. as long as thay stick to ethernet, you are probably safe. (However there are no guranties about leaving any bandwidth for your other uses) I would assume the answer is, that the cheapest way to add networking capabilities to a device is to use off-the-shelf componants (probably one of the cheap realteck controllers) - which would mean that they will respect the ethernet protocol.
The Hotmail site in Israel failed to load on Mozilla. You would get part of the page and then wait for the rest untill the connection timed out. If you open it in Explorer and save it, it loads perfectly in Mozilla. Using Ethereal to compare the requests the browsers sent, revailed nothing obvius execept the browser Id. Was this deliberate or a mistake? I don't know, but I have a bad fealing about it....
Thay are working on a hack that will allow you to boot emacs directly from lilo. no more need to fight over wether it's called GNU/Linux or Linux/GNU !
you forgot that hardware is implemeted using software. (in fact it is "written" using a programming language just like software) hance it we will have hardware bugs as well. (just grep the linux kernel source for "bugfix" for some great examples and whitty remarks on hardware design...)
Consider what happens if only the cpu fan stops (thay are often simpler fans = more prone to failure) you have a fire inside you case and the case fan is stil working, giving us lots of fresh O2. most cases have plastic parts that burn quit well. you could easly start a cascade the will end up in a nice office fire. (water cooling shuld help thogh..:)
I work for a company that makes routers, and on most of our costumer's instalations (I am talking a bout small to medium ISPs) I have found that the default root password remaind unchanged (a one letter password!) (on the newer software update we changed it to somthing a little more secure and didn't give it to the users)
semi-polling mode
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AFAIK selected polling mode means that after an interupt the driver switches to poling mode to avoid the interrupt overhead. Some of Donald Becker's linux driver have this feature. This improves system stabillity and responsivenes under high nework loads, and avoides the so called 'livelock' where the system isn't hung but it is wasting so much time doing interupt handling that it can't do anything else. This is a GOOD THING but it won't help much against DDOS
All the mathematical theorems used in public key cryptography have a fine print clause saying: "Assuming factoring/[other oroblem] is hard" this makes you think maybe it isn't
Actually it happens in humans. male children born from in-vitro insamination using micromanipulation, where the father is otherwise sterile, quite often have the same problem. Inharited sterility !
of course you know that the conservation of angular momentume means that the biger the astroied is, and the faster is comes the harder it is for it to hit.
(yes I know that in all the movies you have to push the astriod away from earth to prevent a collision, but in the real world what you would do,is add to the astriod's momentume to make shure it misses!)
News agancies in Israel are reporting that the palastinien's armed fources have kidnapde an AP camraman and demanded that AP not publish picturs of the celebration.
As a result BBC stoped showing the film.
A french reporter was interviewed on israeli radio and said he is going to report on the amount of pressure he was subjected to, trying to cause hime to chang his line.
High ranking Palastinian officials were reported making threat calls to local heads of news agencies.
By the way, allmost all CNN, BBC and CBS people in Israel are palastinians. (Next time you hear a report from Gaza, listen to the accent.)
And now I ask again is CNN Manipulating the Population ?
-YES
I agree to what you said but you have to add to that the advances in atomic scale microscopy.
you see, the hard drive heads _NERVER_ cover exactly the same track and with an atomic force microscope (AFM) that has a magnetic head (actualy it is called a cantileaver) you will be able to read alot of data of a drive that has been formated. (a 'cheap' AFM goes for about 50k$ not to much if you are realy looking for somthing).
( and a lesson to all of us if you have somthing to hide phisicaly destroy the drive just erasing is probably no worth much )
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If you are afraid your boss will read your hard disk writing zeroes to it might be safe. ;)
if you are afraid the FBI will read it you sould probably shred it or use somthing corrosive.
(a thermite charge would be real nice
the DOD standard for erasure of _unclassified_ data requiers that it be overwritten several times with differant patterns.
(It speciies which patterns and how many times but I don't remember)
simply writing zeros is not goot enough.
of course that standard is outdated. today the FBI has Atomic Force Miroscopes which are much better at this then older ways.
One other thing you might try is sending all the spam you recive from A to B. :)
Or better yet grep for the 'unsubscribe' link from spam message A and try to unsubscribe the reply-to address from spam letter B.
-who knows maybe they _WILL_ remover him from the list
(this might not be leagal - but you might not realy care)
I just got a new domain. ;-)
Which means that every email to that domain goes to me.
Every time I give my Email online I give a diff name, for instance if I buy at yahoo I give "yahoo-shopping@mydomain.com".
If I get spam to this address I know who gave it to the spammers.
- only been doing this for a week, no spam so far but there is still hope
Note: I am not actively looking to be spamed, just doing my usual stuff.
You probably meant to ask "does it speek Ethernet?"
since that is what will determin if it messes your network os not. as long as thay stick to ethernet, you are probably safe.
(However there are no guranties about leaving any bandwidth for your other uses)
I would assume the answer is, that the cheapest way to add networking capabilities to a device is to use off-the-shelf componants (probably one of the cheap realteck controllers) - which would mean that they will respect the ethernet protocol.
Maybe Slashdot will locally cache the sites they are about to slashdot.
I think people would be willing to subscribe to such a service.
If you can't use OpenDOS or FreeDOS you can always DDOS ....
The Hotmail site in Israel failed to load on Mozilla.
You would get part of the page and then wait for the rest untill the connection timed out. If you open it in Explorer and save it, it loads perfectly in Mozilla. Using Ethereal to compare the requests the browsers sent, revailed nothing obvius execept the browser Id. Was this deliberate or a mistake? I don't know, but I have a bad fealing about it....
Thay are working on a hack that will allow you to boot emacs directly from lilo.
no more need to fight over wether it's called GNU/Linux or Linux/GNU !
you forgot that hardware is implemeted using software. (in fact it is "written" using a programming language just like software)
hance it we will have hardware bugs as well.
(just grep the linux kernel source for "bugfix" for some great examples and whitty remarks on hardware design...)
Get your friendly neighborhood hacker to DDOS you.
That will make sure the line is used to its full capacity
you have all read "so long and thanks for all the fish"
you know that it's the rats that are in control.
That must be more then 0.14 on any damage scale, metric or not.
(I know It woun't be here untill 2119 at least.)
right out of the M$ advanteges over linux list
"clarity of intellectual property ownership."
how about Clarity of EULA ?
Consider what happens if only the cpu fan stops (thay are often simpler fans = more prone to failure)
you have a fire inside you case and the case fan is stil working, giving us lots of fresh O2.
most cases have plastic parts that burn quit well.
you could easly start a cascade the will end up in a nice office fire.
(water cooling shuld help thogh..:)
I work for a company that makes routers, and on most of our costumer's instalations (I am talking a bout small to medium ISPs) I have found that the default root password remaind unchanged (a one letter password!)
(on the newer software update we changed it to somthing a little more secure and didn't give it to the users)
AFAIK selected polling mode means that after an interupt the driver switches to poling mode to avoid the interrupt overhead.
Some of Donald Becker's linux driver have this feature.
This improves system stabillity and responsivenes under high nework loads, and avoides the so called 'livelock' where the system isn't hung but it is wasting so much time doing interupt handling that it can't do anything else.
This is a GOOD THING but it won't help much against DDOS
All the mathematical theorems used in public key cryptography have a fine print clause saying:
"Assuming factoring/[other oroblem] is hard"
this makes you think maybe it isn't
Actually it happens in humans.
male children born from in-vitro insamination using micromanipulation, where the father is otherwise sterile, quite often have the same problem.
Inharited sterility !
of course you know that the conservation of angular momentume means that the biger the astroied is, and the faster is comes the harder it is for it to hit.
(yes I know that in all the movies you have to push the astriod away from earth to prevent a collision, but in the real world what you would do,is add to the astriod's momentume to make shure it misses!)
I wonder how long it takes befor somone invents a cruise missle to home in on one of thoes things.
(That would make them vary popular...)
Anonymous Coward writes: "People at the at Chinese University of Hong Kong ..."
--> Shuld't it be "The People's University of China"?
(8-)
You forgot Daylight saving time which makes it 5 PM
- well befor sunset
News agancies in Israel are reporting that the palastinien's armed fources have kidnapde an AP camraman and demanded that AP not publish picturs of the celebration.
As a result BBC stoped showing the film.
A french reporter was interviewed on israeli radio and said he is going to report on the amount of pressure he was subjected to, trying to cause hime to chang his line.
High ranking Palastinian officials were reported making threat calls to local heads of news agencies.
By the way, allmost all CNN, BBC and CBS people in Israel are palastinians. (Next time you hear a report from Gaza, listen to the accent.)
And now I ask again is CNN Manipulating the Population ?
-YES
I agree to what you said but you have to add to that the advances in atomic scale microscopy. you see, the hard drive heads _NERVER_ cover exactly the same track and with an atomic force microscope (AFM) that has a magnetic head (actualy it is called a cantileaver) you will be able to read alot of data of a drive that has been formated. (a 'cheap' AFM goes for about 50k$ not to much if you are realy looking for somthing). ( and a lesson to all of us if you have somthing to hide phisicaly destroy the drive just erasing is probably no worth much )