My old boss (tech guy, really no PHB) had a bunch of remote terminals open, all running root (of course).. then he (obviously) typed a shutdown command in the wrong window.
That shutdown an applicance in a powerplant, and suddently loosing this connection, everything triggered the way it was supposed to: The plant was shutdown with the emergency signal.
It takes serveral hours to bring a powerplant back online.
A short time later, the shutdown command was re-fitted to ask for the password - which throughout the site was changed to contain the name of the server.
They store all this stuff in a table, and now getting passwords to most systems is nothing more than a quick table lookup.
Yeah, right after they aquire the hash using a root expliot?:D
I can't think of any obvious way I'd get any password-hashes that matters, without having compromised something first, or being the admin, which kinda defeats the purpose.
It's really not that simple. The way these people make money, it by providing telephone service to certain numbers in a remote.
A few years back, in Denmark, there was a big deal around calls to St. Helena. The provider for these islands is British Telecom, so these were routed through London, and ran at about 20 dkr/min (=$3-4). About 1 or 2 dkr was the cost of the call to britain, and thus shared by the danish and british (legit) telcos. The rest of the money were paid to the malware-people to whom BT apparently had outsourced the connection to these numbers in St. Helena - except they didn't go there. The call gave you a normal PPP connection to a London ISP.
I worked on a project a while back for a guy who build [a specific kind of house enhancement, don't know english term], and wanted a 'live' 3D visualisation on his website/shop, where customers could enter basic dimensions of their house, and then tweak parameters for their extention, and see what it would like.. but as we skecthed it out, this single feature would bloat the development by about 160%, so he dropped it.
I definately see visulisations like this happening in the future - as internet bandwidth and computer-power allows it.
Whatever you do, don't attempt to filter out the vocals..
I once sat through about half of Eric Claptons Chronicles, with the voice filtered out, and interrupted every 17 seconds (yes, I timed it..) by a inane message that I was still holding.
I don't think I've heard the album since (yeah, I own it.. it'sfrom back when it was OK to buy music;) )
A solution could be to make the customers who need to send a lot of email sign up at a special page. Joe Sixpack would not the option even existed, much less ever need it.
In exchange they could for an example be hold legally responsible or accept a fine in case they (or their systems) were caught spamming..
How is this substantially different from what bluetooth is supposed to do? I click the icon, see all units within reach, pick one, and send an object to that unit. Even works with non-pen-enabled devices.
Or for longer distances, your preferred instant messaging protocol has a feature for instant peer-to-peer transfer.. altough, in MSN Messenger (yeah, so shoot me), it's painfully slow.. I'd like to be able to assign my own proxy...
Most browsers will open multiple TCP sessions to to do these gets in parallel "to apear faster".
It will not only appear faster.. it will be faster in most cases.
There is a lantency, of as much as 500-1000ms for each item on the page (200 or more is a bit steep for an average page, but 20 is easily in the range) - the latency doesn't take up any bandwidth, and waiting in parallel scales really well.
There are no absolutes in this game, but you can't say that China is better than the US, just because they don't have a few very horrible incidents that are currently blown up in the media.
US is considered a resonable country, human rights wise. China is not even close to that yet. Yes, getting better, but it is still only 15 years ago the military opened fire on civilians in the centre of Beijing.
So, really, you need to take your anonymous self-rightious preaching elsewhere.
Look and feel are cheap. The question is whether it will work and sound as good.
Not on the iPod. Style is 80% of that player.. It is a piece of art. Even if it had mediore sound and the the tech sepcs was genarally bad, the iPod would still sell.
The Sony device is not even halfway there on style. It looks like any other portable player.
Well, that's not isolated to store-front businesses..
You can have, say, two OSS consulting businesses, selling essentially the same product, but they will by definistion differ in areas like pricing, people (leadership/support), websitedesign, phone-number/website-address rememberability, proximity and all over karma..
I ditched KVMs about a year ago. Now I have Xinerama multihead setup (number of heads vary with varying number of monitors, videoadapters and deskspace available), and use X on *nix boxes and vnc to windows boxes.
Much easier than KVM-switches.. really.. they are a thing of the past.. and perhaps serverroom.
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Real makes its money through sales of its "professional" player, with features you can't get from the free player.
I believe Real makes money from a superior streaming audio server software-suite.. The player is just milking the cow.
But, if people are demanding free content without paying for a player, (how many people actually pay for it), they are going to look for free alternatives.
A lot of people pay for it. They use it, and they are too stuck in the Microsoft-mantra that software costs money that they feel the have to support poor Real that obviously can't make money from providing free software..
Slashdot Mirror
1. Scan slashdot.org for new stories every five minute.
2. Scan new story for links.
3. Cash[sic] those pages.
4. PROFIT!
Assembler, I laugh at you..
:D
I had "I Love You" faxed to me over a mail-to-fax gateway back in the day
Complete with VB-script sourcecode.
My old boss (tech guy, really no PHB) had a bunch of remote terminals open, all running root (of course) .. then he (obviously) typed a shutdown command in the wrong window.
That shutdown an applicance in a powerplant, and suddently loosing this connection, everything triggered the way it was supposed to: The plant was shutdown with the emergency signal.
It takes serveral hours to bring a powerplant back online.
A short time later, the shutdown command was re-fitted to ask for the password - which throughout the site was changed to contain the name of the server.
They store all this stuff in a table, and now getting passwords to most systems is nothing more than a quick table lookup.
:D
Yeah, right after they aquire the hash using a root expliot?
I can't think of any obvious way I'd get any password-hashes that matters, without having compromised something first, or being the admin, which kinda defeats the purpose.
I hope you're kidding, however:
Not good: Bad.
This would be bad for the anti-DMCA community, in excatly the same way MyDoom was bad for the Linux community.
It's really not that simple. The way these people make money, it by providing telephone service to certain numbers in a remote.
A few years back, in Denmark, there was a big deal around calls to St. Helena. The provider for these islands is British Telecom, so these were routed through London, and ran at about 20 dkr/min (=$3-4). About 1 or 2 dkr was the cost of the call to britain, and thus shared by the danish and british (legit) telcos. The rest of the money were paid to the malware-people to whom BT apparently had outsourced the connection to these numbers in St. Helena - except they didn't go there. The call gave you a normal PPP connection to a London ISP.
I worked on a project a while back for a guy who build [a specific kind of house enhancement, don't know english term], and wanted a 'live' 3D visualisation on his website/shop, where customers could enter basic dimensions of their house, and then tweak parameters for their extention, and see what it would like .. but as we skecthed it out, this single feature would bloat the development by about 160%, so he dropped it.
I definately see visulisations like this happening in the future - as internet bandwidth and computer-power allows it.
I certainly hope they dont let the use of underlying systems influence their decisions.
.. give the courts a little credit..
;)
Please
"This legal pad is yellow with horizontal lines - so I sentence you to death!"
Whatever you do, don't attempt to filter out the vocals..
;) )
I once sat through about half of Eric Claptons Chronicles, with the voice filtered out, and interrupted every 17 seconds (yes, I timed it..) by a inane message that I was still holding.
I don't think I've heard the album since (yeah, I own it.. it'sfrom back when it was OK to buy music
A solution could be to make the customers who need to send a lot of email sign up at a special page. Joe Sixpack would not the option even existed, much less ever need it.
In exchange they could for an example be hold legally responsible or accept a fine in case they (or their systems) were caught spamming..
Well, then you should really reconsider your brewing methods. A properly made shot of espresso contains virtually no caffeine.
Granted.. this is definatly more true for high-pressure café-brewers than (relatively) low pressure homemacines...
How is this substantially different from what bluetooth is supposed to do? I click the icon, see all units within reach, pick one, and send an object to that unit. Even works with non-pen-enabled devices.
.. altough, in MSN Messenger (yeah, so shoot me), it's painfully slow .. I'd like to be able to assign my own proxy...
Or for longer distances, your preferred instant messaging protocol has a feature for instant peer-to-peer transfer
I've been using Fire[bird|fox] for about a year - and I just can't get over the fact that the installer is so tiny: 4.7 mb ..
...the whole of European history could be summed up in two words...
;)
And US history is much, much more complex than that?
I could send a message to anyone I know, saying "XXXXX just forced me to have sex with him".
Yeah, but if you wrote "I just had sex with Kobe Bryant, and it was totally great", then it's kinda hard to plea rape, now, isn't it?
Press the ESC ... sure it's a long way from the numerical keyboard, but it's there...
Most browsers will open multiple TCP sessions to to do these gets in parallel "to apear faster".
It will not only appear faster.. it will be faster in most cases.
There is a lantency, of as much as 500-1000ms for each item on the page (200 or more is a bit steep for an average page, but 20 is easily in the range) - the latency doesn't take up any bandwidth, and waiting in parallel scales really well.
at least they are free of Warcrimes unlike the USA
Sure, why go to war when you have a billion of your own people to slaughter brutally?
There are no absolutes in this game, but you can't say that China is better than the US, just because they don't have a few very horrible incidents that are currently blown up in the media.
US is considered a resonable country, human rights wise. China is not even close to that yet. Yes, getting better, but it is still only 15 years ago the military opened fire on civilians in the centre of Beijing.
So, really, you need to take your anonymous self-rightious preaching elsewhere.
Repeat after me: GMOs will not kill me.
There can be so many other things wrong with GMOs (most scary is various pests inheriting resistancy), but they do not kill you per se.
Look and feel are cheap. The question is whether it will work and sound as good.
Not on the iPod. Style is 80% of that player.. It is a piece of art. Even if it had mediore sound and the the tech sepcs was genarally bad, the iPod would still sell.
The Sony device is not even halfway there on style. It looks like any other portable player.
Well, that's not isolated to store-front businesses..
You can have, say, two OSS consulting businesses, selling essentially the same product, but they will by definistion differ in areas like pricing, people (leadership/support), websitedesign, phone-number/website-address rememberability, proximity and all over karma..
I ditched KVMs about a year ago. Now I have Xinerama multihead setup (number of heads vary with varying number of monitors, videoadapters and deskspace available), and use X on *nix boxes and vnc to windows boxes.
.. they are a thing of the past .. and perhaps serverroom.
Much easier than KVM-switches.. really
Real makes its money through sales of its "professional" player, with features you can't get from the free player.
I believe Real makes money from a superior streaming audio server software-suite.. The player is just milking the cow.
But, if people are demanding free content without paying for a player, (how many people actually pay for it), they are going to look for free alternatives.
A lot of people pay for it. They use it, and they are too stuck in the Microsoft-mantra that software costs money that they feel the have to support poor Real that obviously can't make money from providing free software..
Although dead now, it was alive at its 21st birthday.
A mighty fine piece of hardware. Might still have been running, had I not driven it into another car.
How much for the visible light part? If someone bought that part, could they sue you for seeing?
.. you can listen in on anything you want (howeven decryption is illegal). The problem is transmitting, so you'd be in trouble for being visible.(*)
No
uh! I want a visibility scrambler! Cool! Oh wait.. That'd just be a really bright light, blinding everyone.
(*) I know that is not transmitting. Just mod me funny now, ok!?