Any system which fails permanently due to a single bit error is unstable and not robust (in the numeric sense). If the system is really critical, you should better be ready for bit errors.
Newsflash - 99.99999999% of all CPUs in use won't tolerate bit errors. Get a jump address or opcode wrong, and the program you're running is toast.
How are these stats measured? Piratebay doesn't have any "Number of times downloaded" stat, so I'm insterested in how they arrived at those numbers. Some sites have a "downloaded" stat, but that number seems to only be connected to the number of downloads of the ".torrent" metafile itself.
Hmmm. Bullshit detector's gone off the scale on this one. I think this is the work of industry lobbyists playing the child porn card to sell snakeoil to clueless, greedy politicians.
Well, if you exclude piracy (which any sane person would do anyway), I think they might be somewhere in the vicinity of reality.
After all, it's not like you'd look in your carryon half-way through the flight, find a gun you didn't expect there, and go "OMG! Got to hijack the plane!"...unless someone asked you to, starting the sentence with "Would you kindly..."
I can confirm heightened script attacks on port 139 from our IDS. I suspect that your average Joe doesn't have the same level of protection that is afforded by a good IT department - the amount of times this has been exploited could be surprising. Sounds like a good way to increase a botnet.
Almost every average Joe is behind the NAT of a router nowadays. Now, NAT is problematic in many ways, but it does act like a very simple firewall, and therefore makes Joe practically immune to SMB attacks from the outside.
I think this snipplet from the article also refers to you: "One thing that a lot of developers seem to forget is that PlayStation Network is free," he explained. "Consumers do not have to pay a monthly fee... game developers should create games for local markets." .
It is definitely open, perhaps a bit limited in publishing or distributing options.
We're talking about the PS2 here. That one is not connected to the Playstation Network in any way. The only/i> "legit" way of gettig your software to run on a standard PS2 is to print Sony-approved discs.
On the other hand, since Twitter is a broadcast-style service that anyone can subscribe to, there could be hundreds of people subscribed to a particular feed, and no way to tell which one of them can understand the hidden message (using pre-arranged code words, etc.).
In a few months, someone at Pentagon will "realize" that the time and place of bombings back in Iraq might be used to send hidden messages to terrorist cells in the U.S.
Two hours later, all journalists will be ordered to leave Iraq.
"A couple years ago a wiki page was created about a friend of mine who ran a website, in addition to a wiki page about the website itself. It appeared to have been made by some fan who never made themselves known.
It wasn't long of course before these deletion-happy admins nominated it for speedy deletion. The decision was proving to be unanimous. And, I for one didn't blame them. A wiki page for an administrator of a website seemed rather silly.
My friend agreed. He didn't feel that he really should be on the site and decided to go to the deletion page and weigh in on the issue. He told the wiki admins who he was and that he wanted the page deleted thinking this would solidify the consensus that had for the most part already been reached. I think the quote was something along the lines of "I don't want to be on your gay-ass site, so I'd appreciate it if you just hurried up and deleted it before I leave you all with a fist-sized, mushroom-shaped bruise on all of your faces."
Not surprisingly, all of the admins had a change of heart and all decided they wanted to keep the page."
Actually it runs a modified version of the original Xbox OS, which was based on Windows 2000. But it is very stable and any cheap pot-shots at Microsoft regarding 360 software stability should shot down the moment they appear.
On the other hand, 360 hardware stability is still a completely legitimate target for mockery.
Actually I used to write disk encryption software(For NT/9X) and that was one of our (minor) features. We figured when we wanted to sell to military it might be cute to have a duress passpharse that would shred designated files but boot the OS as if nothing had happened. Alas we never had anyone who was interested.
And it wouldn't have mattered, because anyone with half a brain would have created an image of the PC the moment it was delivered as evidence.
A few months ago I tried to post on a blog (sorry, I forget which one), entered the CAPTCHA and got a message that I was a suspected bot and my IP address was banned from posting for 48 hours.
I went back and carefully read the terms of use (just above the posting window) and buried in the middle of the terms was the phrase, "Do not enter the captcha, instead enter the first three letters of the fifteenth word in the second paragraph followed by the third word after the eighth word in the first paragraph in all capital letters."
A neat idea, but I suppose it won't be long before that one is cracked as well.
No, it is a stupid idea. Not even humans read the terms of use, so unless the text is bolded or highlighted in any way, it will be really easy to miss.
I don't know when you switched, but during the C64's golden years (1985-1990) there were tons of copy protections in use. Normal users just didn't notice. Here's a bit more info: http://c64preservation.com/protection.html
thanks for the clarification. I distinctly remember Fairlight's demos on various C64 games. In fact, I can't specifically remember which games they were, but the demos stand out. (I didn't even remember they were called "demos" until reading the above comment!)
Those were the days -- raw artistic talent that would crush 90% of the crap you see on YouTube nowadays.
(ahhh, crap, I'm gunna get Rickrolled® for that, huh?)
Those are called "intros", not "demos". Demos are completely standalone and have nothing to do with games at all.
The universe is complicated. A supreme being who created the universe would be at least as complicated, and probably much more so.
This is a flawed assumption. The Mandelbrot set is infinitely complex. But the math behind it is surprisingly simple. Complex things can arise from simpler ones.
It seems to be more lenient, though. Lapsiporno isn't blocked, and out of a sampling of the least offensive sounding sites, "only" three out of eight were blocked.
In the case of a large botnet, instead of each security company trying to compete for user downloads (e.g. Symantec, AVG, Kapersky, Microsoft OneCare, etc) they should all get together, make one free download that specifically targets and eradicates the botnet source on the computer (on any OS) and ensure it gets shoved through all the distrubution channels like Microsoft download, Linux package installers, other tool updates, etc. Maybe the botnet is too complicated for this. I don't know the detials. However I know it's within the software companies' reaches to work together in spcial situations.
I was going to travel outside of the country in November 2005. I applied for my passport in September 2005.
No problem, right?
Wrong! I was born in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
Katrina, for those that need the memory jog.
I had never needed my birth certificate before this. I had gone through school, joined and served in the military with only my California Drivers License prior to this. The Postal Service balked at first but eventually just caved in and granted me a Passport that is valid until 2010.
Now, let's say I'm Timothy McVeigh or your hypothetical Muhammed. I just need to wait for another disaster to strike some region of the U. S. and then declare that I was born there. Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and other fun stuff from Mother Nature is just what I want when I need a false ID or two.
Wait...are you saying there's no central database of births in the US? So if some catastrophy comes and wipes your birth town away, there's no evidence left of you actually being born?
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Any system which fails permanently due to a single bit error is unstable and not robust (in the numeric sense). If the system is really critical, you should better be ready for bit errors.
Newsflash - 99.99999999% of all CPUs in use won't tolerate bit errors. Get a jump address or opcode wrong, and the program you're running is toast.
They should just publish their code.
They did.
The Full Disclosure link contains the source code of their program.
How are these stats measured? Piratebay doesn't have any "Number of times downloaded" stat, so I'm insterested in how they arrived at those numbers. Some sites have a "downloaded" stat, but that number seems to only be connected to the number of downloads of the ".torrent" metafile itself.
What? Half of all internet crime??
Hmmm. Bullshit detector's gone off the scale on this one. I think this is the work of industry lobbyists playing the child porn card to sell snakeoil to clueless, greedy politicians.
Well, if you exclude piracy (which any sane person would do anyway), I think they might be somewhere in the vicinity of reality.
After all, it's not like you'd look in your carryon half-way through the flight, find a gun you didn't expect there, and go "OMG! Got to hijack the plane!" ...unless someone asked you to, starting the sentence with "Would you kindly..."
And now any supposedly hidden message has been completely destroyed by all the sites picking up the story.
I can confirm heightened script attacks on port 139 from our IDS. I suspect that your average Joe doesn't have the same level of protection that is afforded by a good IT department - the amount of times this has been exploited could be surprising. Sounds like a good way to increase a botnet.
Almost every average Joe is behind the NAT of a router nowadays. Now, NAT is problematic in many ways, but it does act like a very simple firewall, and therefore makes Joe practically immune to SMB attacks from the outside.
I think this snipplet from the article also refers to you: "One thing that a lot of developers seem to forget is that PlayStation Network is free," he explained. "Consumers do not have to pay a monthly fee... game developers should create games for local markets." .
It is definitely open, perhaps a bit limited in publishing or distributing options.
We're talking about the PS2 here. That one is not connected to the Playstation Network in any way. The only/i> "legit" way of gettig your software to run on a standard PS2 is to print Sony-approved discs.
Make it a TSR, and watch for all files in a directory. Sell it, profit.
TSR? What?! Are you still using DOS as your main OS in 2008?
Today we call stuff that run in the background while you do other stuff "Programs", "Services" or "Daemons". Get with the times, man.
On the other hand, since Twitter is a broadcast-style service that anyone can subscribe to, there could be hundreds of people subscribed to a particular feed, and no way to tell which one of them can understand the hidden message (using pre-arranged code words, etc.).
In a few months, someone at Pentagon will "realize" that the time and place of bombings back in Iraq might be used to send hidden messages to terrorist cells in the U.S.
Two hours later, all journalists will be ordered to leave Iraq.
"A couple years ago a wiki page was created about a friend of mine who ran a website, in addition to a wiki page about the website itself. It appeared to have been made by some fan who never made themselves known.
It wasn't long of course before these deletion-happy admins nominated it for speedy deletion. The decision was proving to be unanimous. And, I for one didn't blame them. A wiki page for an administrator of a website seemed rather silly.
My friend agreed. He didn't feel that he really should be on the site and decided to go to the deletion page and weigh in on the issue. He told the wiki admins who he was and that he wanted the page deleted thinking this would solidify the consensus that had for the most part already been reached. I think the quote was something along the lines of "I don't want to be on your gay-ass site, so I'd appreciate it if you just hurried up and deleted it before I leave you all with a fist-sized, mushroom-shaped bruise on all of your faces."
Not surprisingly, all of the admins had a change of heart and all decided they wanted to keep the page."
[citation needed]
Actually it runs a modified version of the original Xbox OS, which was based on Windows 2000. But it is very stable and any cheap pot-shots at Microsoft regarding 360 software stability should shot down the moment they appear.
On the other hand, 360 hardware stability is still a completely legitimate target for mockery.
Actually I used to write disk encryption software(For NT/9X) and that was one of our (minor) features. We figured when we wanted to sell to military it might be cute to have a duress passpharse that would shred designated files but boot the OS as if nothing had happened. Alas we never had anyone who was interested.
And it wouldn't have mattered, because anyone with half a brain would have created an image of the PC the moment it was delivered as evidence.
Interesting.
A few months ago I tried to post on a blog (sorry, I forget which one), entered the CAPTCHA and got a message that I was a suspected bot and my IP address was banned from posting for 48 hours.
I went back and carefully read the terms of use (just above the posting window) and buried in the middle of the terms was the phrase, "Do not enter the captcha, instead enter the first three letters of the fifteenth word in the second paragraph followed by the third word after the eighth word in the first paragraph in all capital letters."
A neat idea, but I suppose it won't be long before that one is cracked as well.
No, it is a stupid idea. Not even humans read the terms of use, so unless the text is bolded or highlighted in any way, it will be really easy to miss.
So, they get SSL on their site. That doesn't do anything to hide the fact that you were visiting The Pirate Bay, only what you did when there.
Depending on the circumstances, that visit might be enough probable cause for "further investigation", even if you just hit their front page.
The PS3 itself is so locked down nobody has actually managed 'homebrew' on it yet.
I would say that "nearly anything that compiles on Linux" classifies as homebrew, don't you?
I think I have seen these blueprints before, I think they were named something like
Pakistani.Nuke.Blueprints.2004.REPACK.READNFO.KHaNDOX.torrent
I don't know when you switched, but during the C64's golden years (1985-1990) there were tons of copy protections in use. Normal users just didn't notice. Here's a bit more info: http://c64preservation.com/protection.html
thanks for the clarification. I distinctly remember Fairlight's demos on various C64 games. In fact, I can't specifically remember which games they were, but the demos stand out. (I didn't even remember they were called "demos" until reading the above comment!)
Those were the days -- raw artistic talent that would crush 90% of the crap you see on YouTube nowadays.
(ahhh, crap, I'm gunna get Rickrolled® for that, huh?)
Those are called "intros", not "demos". Demos are completely standalone and have nothing to do with games at all.
Correcting myself, I meant 40-byte, not bit. Still just as weak, though.
It's a good thing the storm "encryption" is just plain XOR with a 40-bit string that hasn't changed in half a year, then.
The universe is complicated. A supreme being who created the universe would be at least as complicated, and probably much more so.
This is a flawed assumption. The Mandelbrot set is infinitely complex. But the math behind it is surprisingly simple. Complex things can arise from simpler ones.
Norway has the same kind of list.
It seems to be more lenient, though. Lapsiporno isn't blocked, and out of a sampling of the least offensive sounding sites, "only" three out of eight were blocked.
In the case of a large botnet, instead of each security company trying to compete for user downloads (e.g. Symantec, AVG, Kapersky, Microsoft OneCare, etc) they should all get together, make one free download that specifically targets and eradicates the botnet source on the computer (on any OS) and ensure it gets shoved through all the distrubution channels like Microsoft download, Linux package installers, other tool updates, etc. Maybe the botnet is too complicated for this. I don't know the detials. However I know it's within the software companies' reaches to work together in spcial situations.
Something like Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool, you mean? Sure, it's not crossplatform, but really, what other platforms have serious virus problems?
You are so right!
Case in point:
I was going to travel outside of the country in November 2005. I applied for my passport in September 2005.
No problem, right?
Wrong! I was born in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
Katrina, for those that need the memory jog.
I had never needed my birth certificate before this. I had gone through school, joined and served in the military with only my California Drivers License prior to this. The Postal Service balked at first but eventually just caved in and granted me a Passport that is valid until 2010.
Now, let's say I'm Timothy McVeigh or your hypothetical Muhammed. I just need to wait for another disaster to strike some region of the U. S. and then declare that I was born there. Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and other fun stuff from Mother Nature is just what I want when I need a false ID or two.
Wait...are you saying there's no central database of births in the US? So if some catastrophy comes and wipes your birth town away, there's no evidence left of you actually being born?