Say I'm a bad guy and I want to simultaneously call 100,000 machines. I would have to spawn 100,000 connections to a voip server. Your voip server firewall has a threshold for dropping connections from a single IP address doesn't it? If the bad guy is using 100,000 zombies then the problem is not voip is it? You wouldn't have to spawn 100,000 connections to a single voip server, the botnet would already be running on an IRC server somewhere, awaiting orders. I just login to the IRC channel after making a few dozen ssh hops around my bots and through a TOR network somewhere. I send the command and the bots start cycling through commands to hijack the 10 most common VOIP apps and dial whatever number i have the bots set to dial.
It wouldn't be that hard. My original post was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I did mention avoiding the Windows platform for such a thing, again, with some sarcasm in the mix. I agree with you there, but I digress.
A serious botnet can have 50k-100k minion boxes out there...
Imagine if VOIP hit even 20% penetration, that would obviously be 10k-20k phones that botnet owner has access to.
If you were the type of slimeball or, gods forbid, terrorist, what would you do with 20 thousand phones you had access to? Think DDOS on 911? Think maybe just dialing pay phone services like the old auto-dialer spyware? People maybe shouldn't be allowed to run their VOIP systems on just any old machine... Perhaps all those writing VOIP code for Windows systems should just stop and burn all copies of their apps? That doesn't sound too bad:P
and here i had mod points a couple days ago....
of all the hair-brained analogies I've read, I have to say, yours comes closest!
I'd even push it a little further, in this case...(extraneous use of ellipses i might add)
Imagine instead of them checking-out at the walmart store, you had your own shopping cart that grabbed all their orders. Then (and yes, i realize the ridiculousness of this) Walmart sends out the order and you manage to get paid for it.
I hate the ruling, if you look at it skin-deep; but this is not as cut-and-dry as many here (unsurprisingly) are making it out to be.
Yes, but most likely it wont.
That said, the Zune does look quite wicked, besides the non-wheel wheel. They should have just avoided the style and went with straight-up buttons. I dont think anyone here would argue that MS makes good hardware, so far as joysticks, mice and keyboards are concerned. But this is Toshiba, will it be branded as Microsoft hardware or Toshiba? Toshiba doesn't have a terrible reputation, but it doesn't have the great rep that MS has in hardware.
It'll be interesting to watch.
I've been using Xara, and I'm still anxiously awaiting the GPL release. If you just want a simple photo editor with great features like red-eye reduction and a simple user interface, I'd suggest trying it out.
Like I said, they've announced that the whole suite is going GPL so it should end-up in most distros very quickly; but it's not released yet.
I wouldn't cheer that they're using the DMCA properly. I could cheer that they're coming down on illegal commercial pirating, which was already covered under old laws. No need for the DMCA at all in this. It's just another charge. Let's not herald it as a damned victory for the DMCA.
"the student told them he requested the book through the UMass Dartmouth library's interlibrary loan program"
He used the campus' library to request the book from another library.
Not that that makes it right.
... how about because THERE ARE NO F**KING BARRICADES?(censorship mine)
Um, how about the "Free Speech Zones"? You wouldn't consider that a barrier?
So, um, you can walk up to the White House, no problem, huh?
No security clearance needed? Hmm?
Get a F**KING CLUE MORON!!!
If the positions of the principals had been reversed and Gore ended up 100 votes ahead rather than behind, would the left be complaining that his election was illegitimate? Of course not.
That, sir, is the funniest thing I've read all day!
Thank you.
From the photos that were taken of the hunter with the catch, I find it hard to believe that a "domestic" style cat could ever get that large. It was huge! Damned, I better watch what I say around Shady. Come here Shady, OMG NO!
The concept of trusted supernodes comes to mind. Let's say you require one supernode per ten servers. The supernodes update each other as frequently as possible, use secure logins, and store your encumberance, your portable items and your traits. Depending on the style of game, how much you can carry with you could develop with character. These servers would also keep track of themed worlds and out-of-theme worlds and your personal config for each. For those who use the "standard" rule systems and themes, they would all share the default info. Those worlds that defined their own rules sets would set those up on the supernodes and could decide weather or not and with whom to connect.
This also takes care of the intermittant server crash/take-down problems. Just start-off on another server, keeping perpetuance; this could even be automated to be less annoying to the player.
Hmm, I've always thought I'd be good at designing this sort of thing. Too bad noone would listen to me as I can't code to save my life. sigh
Samba for roaming home directories
I thought that Roomba was for roaming home directories...
Sorry, I couldn't resist, Roombas are just so cute, aren't they?
Ouch my foot! No, No GET BACK!!!}&&4w?}'}"}(}"}.};~~^?}#@!}!a}NO CARRIER
RTWFA...
The tried to force the Calea networks to keep the C-tone timeout. Congress didn't allow the force, but most Calea networks keep it anyway. Those that keep the C-tone are vulnerable to the same exploit.
In other words: Most of the time, in current conditions, this will work.
The conclusion to make those changes came from a user study. They want this to be intuitive, but in the study, people didn't equate the far right close box with the tabs, and other things that might be second nature to an FF efficianado(sp?), but certainly not to a new user.
New users beign able to get around the interface easily is the concern. They are certainly not going to know to go to mozdev.org to spruce-up their experience.
It seems very nice so far. I'd been using RC3 for a few days now. All extensions carried over for me, although I had to reset my Tabbed Browser Preferences.
One of the nicest new features is the "Unable to Load" page that comes up instead of the alert that interupted your browsing, even while in another tab, on the older versions.
Some of the rumorous new tab features haven't made it in so far, which is a shame. They're supposed to make tabs work more like Opera: Close tab returns to previous tab, and close box on each tab, as well as cleaning up the text in tabs. Oh well, overall very nice though.
The company does not have the right to provide Microsoft's code, he said, adding it would be impossible to provide the names of every programmer who worked on Windows
Um, yeah, complete dodge. Of course they don't mean to turn over windows code.
For the real reason I'd suspect he doesn't want to show the code: blackboxvoting.org
I would also love to see your code and setup specs. If you could post them, as best you can, to a website I'd gladly work to clean it up/make it presentable. You could email me, if you wish, at bhsx72(/.)@(/.)gmail(/.).(/.)com.
Wow, we live in strange times. I just heard MS is offering free email hosting for your domains through live.com, and now this. MS may really begin a new corporate (for them) paradigm.
I was thinking about this after reading it on Digg. If they want to sue us for, what is it, $3,500US (or $50,000 per the mp3.com suit) per "infraction," can the Lame author do the same?
With 20 or so albums out there with the infringing software, let's say about 100,000 (conservative) runs of each album:
Low End:
20*10^6*3500 = $7,000,000,000USD
High End:
20*20^6*50000 = $100,000,000,000USD
I'd say let's do everything we can to encourage the LAME author to take this route.
I am a long-time fan of your electronic products, starting with the ubiquitous Walkman of the 80's. Sony had established itself as an inventive leader in the electronics space. I even held on to my BetaMax for years after it had lost the VCR wars because it was better technology.
I've owned a lemon of a Vaio for a few months, but had enough issues with it, that I had to hock it for a Dell. That didn't put me off from buying two PS ones and TWO PS2s, plus plenty of games.
System of a Down is a fantastically inventive band. True inovators and I was glad when they signed to such a major label as Columbia Records. I will not, however, be buying their new double-album. This has nothing to do with them, unfortunately, and everything to do with the rootkit fiasco Sony has brought upon itself. I know I'm not alone in deciding that Sony has made a terrible turn on its customers.
I will no longer be buying any Sony products and will pass this tip on to those who ask my opinion (which happens quite often as the main technology guy for a somewhat large community and family).
This can be remedied. You can regain our trust. You need to admit the error in judgement in a very open press release. You need to acknowledge that this will never happen again. You need to face the coming litigation with humility, and show that Sony understands what it did wrong. You need to put some rigid policies in place to make sure your entire image isn't squandered by the policy decisions of a VP or two.
Do these in earnest, do them honestly, and you will regain my faith in your brand name. Believe that I am not alone in that either.
The XBOX 360 is not a piece of tech that I look forward to. The PS3 has been in my mind's eye for way too long, please do your best to recover from this situation so that I can relish a new console purchase next year. Otherwise, you're lost plenty-a customer, probably for life.
This was my letter. I'm hoping to be diplomatic enough to get more than a form-letter response. We'll see; but, um, I kinda doubt it.
If you had RTFA, and g-d forbid, a couple of the links, you'd know that they gave a working demo. They will also be giving another "broader" demo next week. This is also backed by a Stanford prof who is taking a big risk here.
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A serious botnet can have 50k-100k minion boxes out there... Imagine if VOIP hit even 20% penetration, that would obviously be 10k-20k phones that botnet owner has access to. If you were the type of slimeball or, gods forbid, terrorist, what would you do with 20 thousand phones you had access to? Think DDOS on 911? Think maybe just dialing pay phone services like the old auto-dialer spyware? People maybe shouldn't be allowed to run their VOIP systems on just any old machine... Perhaps all those writing VOIP code for Windows systems should just stop and burn all copies of their apps? That doesn't sound too bad :P
and here i had mod points a couple days ago....
of all the hair-brained analogies I've read, I have to say, yours comes closest!
I'd even push it a little further, in this case...(extraneous use of ellipses i might add)
Imagine instead of them checking-out at the walmart store, you had your own shopping cart that
grabbed all their orders. Then (and yes, i realize the ridiculousness of this) Walmart sends
out the order and you manage to get paid for it.
I hate the ruling, if you look at it skin-deep; but this is not as cut-and-dry as many here
(unsurprisingly) are making it out to be.
I know, it's a joke; but i think he means Ted Turner.
Yes, but most likely it wont. That said, the Zune does look quite wicked, besides the non-wheel wheel. They should have just avoided the style and went with straight-up buttons. I dont think anyone here would argue that MS makes good hardware, so far as joysticks, mice and keyboards are concerned. But this is Toshiba, will it be branded as Microsoft hardware or Toshiba? Toshiba doesn't have a terrible reputation, but it doesn't have the great rep that MS has in hardware. It'll be interesting to watch.
I've been using Xara, and I'm still anxiously awaiting the GPL release. If you just want a simple photo editor with great features like red-eye reduction and a simple user interface, I'd suggest trying it out.
Like I said, they've announced that the whole suite is going GPL so it should end-up in most distros very quickly; but it's not released yet.
I wouldn't cheer that they're using the DMCA properly. I could cheer that they're coming down on illegal commercial pirating, which was already covered under old laws. No need for the DMCA at all in this. It's just another charge. Let's not herald it as a damned victory for the DMCA.
"the student told them he requested the book through the UMass Dartmouth library's interlibrary loan program"
He used the campus' library to request the book from another library.
Not that that makes it right.
... how about because THERE ARE NO F**KING BARRICADES?(censorship mine)
Um, how about the "Free Speech Zones"? You wouldn't consider that a barrier?
So, um, you can walk up to the White House, no problem, huh?
No security clearance needed? Hmm? Get a F**KING CLUE MORON!!!
If the positions of the principals had been reversed and Gore ended up 100 votes ahead rather than behind, would the left be complaining that his election was illegitimate? Of course not.
That, sir, is the funniest thing I've read all day!
Thank you.
From the photos that were taken of the hunter with the catch, I find it hard to believe that a "domestic" style cat could ever get that large. It was huge! Damned, I better watch what I say around Shady. Come here Shady, OMG NO!
The concept of trusted supernodes comes to mind. Let's say you require one supernode per ten servers. The supernodes update each other as frequently as possible, use secure logins, and store your encumberance, your portable items and your traits. Depending on the style of game, how much you can carry with you could develop with character. These servers would also keep track of themed worlds and out-of-theme worlds and your personal config for each. For those who use the "standard" rule systems and themes, they would all share the default info. Those worlds that defined their own rules sets would set those up on the supernodes and could decide weather or not and with whom to connect.
This also takes care of the intermittant server crash/take-down problems. Just start-off on another server, keeping perpetuance; this could even be automated to be less annoying to the player.
Hmm, I've always thought I'd be good at designing this sort of thing. Too bad noone would listen to me as I can't code to save my life. sigh
Like someone else said, freeze does this for unix executables. Py2Exe does this for windows exe files.
Hope that helps.
Samba for roaming home directories
I thought that Roomba was for roaming home directories...
Sorry, I couldn't resist, Roombas are just so cute, aren't they?
Ouch my foot! No, No GET BACK!!!}&&4w?}'}"}(}"}.};~~^?}#@!}!a}NO CARRIER
RTWFA... The tried to force the Calea networks to keep the C-tone timeout. Congress didn't allow the force, but most Calea networks keep it anyway. Those that keep the C-tone are vulnerable to the same exploit.
In other words: Most of the time, in current conditions, this will work.
The conclusion to make those changes came from a user study. They want this to be intuitive, but in the study, people didn't equate the far right close box with the tabs, and other things that might be second nature to an FF efficianado(sp?), but certainly not to a new user.
New users beign able to get around the interface easily is the concern. They are certainly not going to know to go to mozdev.org to spruce-up their experience.
It seems very nice so far. I'd been using RC3 for a few days now. All extensions carried over for me, although I had to reset my Tabbed Browser Preferences.
One of the nicest new features is the "Unable to Load" page that comes up instead of the alert that interupted your browsing, even while in another tab, on the older versions.
Some of the rumorous new tab features haven't made it in so far, which is a shame. They're supposed to make tabs work more like Opera: Close tab returns to previous tab, and close box on each tab, as well as cleaning up the text in tabs. Oh well, overall very nice though.
The company does not have the right to provide Microsoft's code, he said, adding it would be impossible to provide the names of every programmer who worked on Windows
Um, yeah, complete dodge. Of course they don't mean to turn over windows code.
For the real reason I'd suspect he doesn't want to show the code: blackboxvoting.org
I would also love to see your code and setup specs. If you could post them, as best you can, to a website I'd gladly work to clean it up/make it presentable. You could email me, if you wish, at bhsx72(/.)@(/.)gmail(/.).(/.)com.
Wow, we live in strange times. I just heard MS is offering free email hosting for your domains through live.com, and now this. MS may really begin a new corporate (for them) paradigm.
That's all well and good until Microsoft shows-up with a couple tanks. They'll wave the white flags faster than a, uh, Frenchman.
Thank you. That was extremely articulate.
Mods?
I was thinking about this after reading it on Digg. If they want to sue us for, what is it, $3,500US (or $50,000 per the mp3.com suit) per "infraction," can the Lame author do the same? With 20 or so albums out there with the infringing software, let's say about 100,000 (conservative) runs of each album:
Low End:
20*10^6*3500 = $7,000,000,000USD
High End:
20*20^6*50000 = $100,000,000,000USD
I'd say let's do everything we can to encourage the LAME author to take this route.
I am a long-time fan of your electronic products, starting with the ubiquitous Walkman of the 80's. Sony had established itself as an inventive leader in the electronics space. I even held on to my BetaMax for years after it had lost the VCR wars because it was better technology. I've owned a lemon of a Vaio for a few months, but had enough issues with it, that I had to hock it for a Dell. That didn't put me off from buying two PS ones and TWO PS2s, plus plenty of games. System of a Down is a fantastically inventive band. True inovators and I was glad when they signed to such a major label as Columbia Records. I will not, however, be buying their new double-album. This has nothing to do with them, unfortunately, and everything to do with the rootkit fiasco Sony has brought upon itself. I know I'm not alone in deciding that Sony has made a terrible turn on its customers. I will no longer be buying any Sony products and will pass this tip on to those who ask my opinion (which happens quite often as the main technology guy for a somewhat large community and family). This can be remedied. You can regain our trust. You need to admit the error in judgement in a very open press release. You need to acknowledge that this will never happen again. You need to face the coming litigation with humility, and show that Sony understands what it did wrong. You need to put some rigid policies in place to make sure your entire image isn't squandered by the policy decisions of a VP or two. Do these in earnest, do them honestly, and you will regain my faith in your brand name. Believe that I am not alone in that either. The XBOX 360 is not a piece of tech that I look forward to. The PS3 has been in my mind's eye for way too long, please do your best to recover from this situation so that I can relish a new console purchase next year. Otherwise, you're lost plenty-a customer, probably for life. This was my letter. I'm hoping to be diplomatic enough to get more than a form-letter response. We'll see; but, um, I kinda doubt it.
If you had RTFA, and g-d forbid, a couple of the links, you'd know that they gave a working demo. They will also be giving another "broader" demo next week. This is also backed by a Stanford prof who is taking a big risk here.