Actually, U3 based USB devices will still autorun, since the whole point of U3 is to have the 2nd partition look like a CDROM drive (non-writable as far as the OS is concerned) so that Windows will parse the autorun.inf the same as any non-writable removable media.
So obviously U3 has a lot more uses than just password protecting the "writable" partition, it's also great for spreading malware by replacing the firmware on the U3 partition (we're doing a social engineering pentest on Friday and one of the things we will be using are U3 capable USB thumb drives for just this purpose).
Age should never be a factor since it's illegal to even bring it up... (I knew that since 1997). Sex is also, but easier to figure that out without asking (Unless you're in Seattle)
This is just wrong. Even in the Windows world. You don't need to be root to "install" a program (and what is with the "install" mentality anyhow?) Someone can happily place a binary in their home directory, or/tmp, or wherever they have write permissions and run it (note the next paragraph).
And relying on noexec?/usr/bin/perl is usually executable, as is/usr/bin/php,/placeyourfavoriteinterprethere and can run any script you tell it to regardless of the noexec bit on the partition you mounted. For that matter, there's always ld.so, ld-linux.so, ld-linux-x86-64.so or whatnot (depending on your Linux distribution and hardware) if you want to load a binary (/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 binarynamehere). And note, ld.so will bypass any noexec bit on a partition (and also don't care if the binary is set executable or not)
And I bought a 65" DLP from CC that was $2699 on newegg, $2899 at Costco and I paid CC $1299, set for instore pickup, paid another $79 for delivery, they delivered it, I found a problem two hours later, and two hours after that they brought me another one. No fix, just replaced it the same day (I mention the same day? 4 hours after they delivered the first one?). No silly return crap that I'd have to do with newegg, or pick it up myself and take it back with Costco.
When I signed up for Verizon Wireless in November the contract came with a page about their information sharing and how to opt out (which I did on the day I signed up). Plus I got another letter about it in December. So this is old news.
Companies sell your personally information all the time, I give props to Verizon to at least notifying me and giving me the option to opt out of it. I've had one other company (I forget it's name) tell me they were selling my personal information without any opt out option, how many others just sell it outright? (note, the one I work for)
So I don't see how this is a big deal (even 5 months late at the least) when it takes 2 minutes or so to opt out.
Now I'm going to go read more of my mail addressed to be offering magazine subscriptions and credit cards...
They've been doing it for a long time, when I signed up with Verizon in November it came with a piece of paper telling about the information sharing and how to opt out. This article seems at least 5 months to late.
Also, I did get a letter in December about it (but I'd opted out when I first signed up).
Personally, I give them kudos for even notifying me (at the signing of the contract even), and more so for the option to opt out (I've had other companies notify me, but no opt-out option, and it's rare that a company even notifies you, they just sell it).
When I worked for *unnamed nw regional backbone here* we had peering agreements with everyone except uunet that we connected to, and it was pretty known that if we spat out an bad BGP route we could bring down the whole net by hitting enter ('cept uunet, although I'm pretty sure uunet woulda went down from everyone else routing around them to us)
How is this new? That was the 90's. and when we spent 100k+ on a Cisco 7513 with 64megs of ram so it could hold the BGP tables...
We even wrote our own manual ('cause none existed) on how to deal with BGP tables so junior admins working for us wouldn't fuq it up. (and on top of that, we wouldn't let them touch the routers either)
Back around 1996 or so I had someone show up my house after retrieving my address from my domains WHOIS record.
They'd received some bounced emails from an email address they didn't recognize (mine), assumed they're emails were being 'hijacked' (as they put it). They then looked up the WHOIS information for my domain (which included the same email address in the record), realized it was local and drove out to my house.
Of course, I was the system admin for their upstream provider... and they already knew me in person since I was the one who installed the router on their end of the pipe. But at the time it was kind of odd having them show on my doorstep out of the blue like that.
Oddly, I have an unlocked KRZR K1 that I imported. And as of today it appears bothGoogle Maps and Opera Mini no longer have working network connectivity on my phone.
Although, I've never paid T-Mobile for a data plan (they know, I've talked to them about it) so maybe that has something to do with it?
Of course it could just be a fluke, this isn't the first time I've lost my networking for a bit (although this is the first time the it's been more than an hour or two)
It's not like the phone doesn't have network connectivity to begin with, it's just that the built in browser went through a T-Mobile owned proxy. Other apps could access the internet just fine. And of course, if you have a phone where the WebSessions settings are not disabled, you could change the default proxy to another and also bypass T-Mobiles wish for you to pay for a data plan.
As of right now, that no longer seems to be working for me (again, it could just be a fluke but the article makes me think otherwise).
Oh, and when I talked to T-Mobile (I was pretty surprised when I found out 3rd party networked apps were working on my phone) they told me that it'd "possibly" be charged as text messaging. But I have unlimited text messaging so that's moot.
For funny, way back when (mid-90's or so) I worked for IXA (now part of Savvis) as a network engineer. There were 2 of us, me and Nikos Moaut (or however you spell his name)
Anyhow, we were the uplink for Amazon and I had to deal with them quite often. One day I asked Nik what "Amazon" was and he told me it was a book store.
I told him it was a really stupid name for a bookstore. Shows what I knew.
I think people are being to broad with their interpretation of VOIP. When I think of VOIP I think of SIP, H232, Telephony over IP, etc. I don't consider say, Unreal Tournament 2004's voice support as VOIP.
In that regard, if they want to tax VOIP providers as they do normal telco's I don't have a complaint, I'd assume that'd just be a given. But if they want to try and tax every program that could possibly send speech over the net then I'd be a bit annoyed (to put it lightly)
I wouldn't consider Skype, Teamspeak, etc as VOIP from my point of view, I think of them as just another chat program. If it can tie into my phone, or someone elses, then it's VOIP.
My Vonage account has recently had a new $1 tax added to it, so...
Look at an original 84 key keyboard (which is what the original PC shipped with), Control and Alt weren't duplicated on the right side of the keyboard (for that matter, control was where we expect capslock now). It would have been really hard to hit it with a single hand.
As I understand it they mean for their haiku to be placed in the headers. Then you set your filters to block any email message that doesn't have said haiku.
You're only allowed permission to use their haiku if you aren't sending spam (per the holders of the copyrighted haiku's definition of what spam is)
If you send spam (by their definition) and include their haiku, then you're violating the terms of using their copyrighted works and they'll get pissy and sue for violation of their copyright and stuff.
That's my understanding of it anyhow. (Copyright law having more impact than current anti-spam laws...)
I remember efnet having a nickserv way back when (I forget when it stopped running, 1992 or so? It was a long time ago, hard to remember). But I don't remember it doing much more than using/notice to tell you you were using someone elses nick. (based on userid@domain)
I know in some US states you still have to have a "Traditional" wedding to make it legal and all.
(A certain under water wedding comes to mind where they had to have a "traditional" wedding afterwards to make it legal. And true to me next comment, I don't remember where that was. (Florida?))
But don't even ask me to remember which states, because that isn't going to happen.
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I'm sorry, but Windows 7's media center is no different than Vista's except for the "splash screen". You sure you aren't thinking XP's media center?
Actually, U3 based USB devices will still autorun, since the whole point of U3 is to have the 2nd partition look like a CDROM drive (non-writable as far as the OS is concerned) so that Windows will parse the autorun.inf the same as any non-writable removable media.
So obviously U3 has a lot more uses than just password protecting the "writable" partition, it's also great for spreading malware by replacing the firmware on the U3 partition (we're doing a social engineering pentest on Friday and one of the things we will be using are U3 capable USB thumb drives for just this purpose).
I just read tfa... and how is this different than any other 301/302 redirect, or mod_rewrite rule I can put on my own site?
I'm sorry, but why should I have to change my URL just because of twitter?
There's the 160 char limit of SMS messages and Opera Mini is limited to what, 214 chars for a URL? Or something like that.
Not my fault, and no reason I should fall within their limitations. Tell them to fix their side.
(note, someone who is getting really annoyed at some browsers suddenly having a limit to the length of a URL)
Age should never be a factor since it's illegal to even bring it up... (I knew that since 1997). Sex is also, but easier to figure that out without asking (Unless you're in Seattle)
You have seen their original car, right?
Except bike == on same roads as cars. I'm been hit by cards twice just walking down the sidewalk, I don't think I'd want to try a bike.
This is just wrong. Even in the Windows world. You don't need to be root to "install" a program (and what is with the "install" mentality anyhow?) Someone can happily place a binary in their home directory, or /tmp, or wherever they have write permissions and run it (note the next paragraph).
And relying on noexec? /usr/bin/perl is usually executable, as is /usr/bin/php, /placeyourfavoriteinterprethere and can run any script you tell it to regardless of the noexec bit on the partition you mounted. For that matter, there's always ld.so, ld-linux.so, ld-linux-x86-64.so or whatnot (depending on your Linux distribution and hardware) if you want to load a binary (/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 binarynamehere). And note, ld.so will bypass any noexec bit on a partition (and also don't care if the binary is set executable or not)
Replying to my own post, but this was over a year ago.
And I bought a 65" DLP from CC that was $2699 on newegg, $2899 at Costco and I paid CC $1299, set for instore pickup, paid another $79 for delivery, they delivered it, I found a problem two hours later, and two hours after that they brought me another one. No fix, just replaced it the same day (I mention the same day? 4 hours after they delivered the first one?). No silly return crap that I'd have to do with newegg, or pick it up myself and take it back with Costco.
I'll miss CC a bit.
When I signed up for Verizon Wireless in November the contract came with a page about their information sharing and how to opt out (which I did on the day I signed up). Plus I got another letter about it in December. So this is old news.
Companies sell your personally information all the time, I give props to Verizon to at least notifying me and giving me the option to opt out of it. I've had one other company (I forget it's name) tell me they were selling my personal information without any opt out option, how many others just sell it outright? (note, the one I work for)
So I don't see how this is a big deal (even 5 months late at the least) when it takes 2 minutes or so to opt out.
Now I'm going to go read more of my mail addressed to be offering magazine subscriptions and credit cards...
They've been doing it for a long time, when I signed up with Verizon in November it came with a piece of paper telling about the information sharing and how to opt out. This article seems at least 5 months to late.
Also, I did get a letter in December about it (but I'd opted out when I first signed up).
Personally, I give them kudos for even notifying me (at the signing of the contract even), and more so for the option to opt out (I've had other companies notify me, but no opt-out option, and it's rare that a company even notifies you, they just sell it).
When I worked for *unnamed nw regional backbone here* we had peering agreements with everyone except uunet that we connected to, and it was pretty known that if we spat out an bad BGP route we could bring down the whole net by hitting enter ('cept uunet, although I'm pretty sure uunet woulda went down from everyone else routing around them to us)
How is this new? That was the 90's. and when we spent 100k+ on a Cisco 7513 with 64megs of ram so it could hold the BGP tables...
We even wrote our own manual ('cause none existed) on how to deal with BGP tables so junior admins working for us wouldn't fuq it up. (and on top of that, we wouldn't let them touch the routers either)
-meetme room in the westin in Seattle-
Uhm, this was done before, and done as how we charged Amazon (as their sole uplink) for their... well uplink.
We call it billing.
(IXA, Seattle, 1997)
I run my cable over a sony location free just fine over my blackberry to my laptop... try that. :P
Back around 1996 or so I had someone show up my house after retrieving my address from my domains WHOIS record.
They'd received some bounced emails from an email address they didn't recognize (mine), assumed they're emails were being 'hijacked' (as they put it). They then looked up the WHOIS information for my domain (which included the same email address in the record), realized it was local and drove out to my house.
Of course, I was the system admin for their upstream provider... and they already knew me in person since I was the one who installed the router on their end of the pipe. But at the time it was kind of odd having them show on my doorstep out of the blue like that.
Oddly, I have an unlocked KRZR K1 that I imported. And as of today it appears bothGoogle Maps and Opera Mini no longer have working network connectivity on my phone.
Although, I've never paid T-Mobile for a data plan (they know, I've talked to them about it) so maybe that has something to do with it?
Of course it could just be a fluke, this isn't the first time I've lost my networking for a bit (although this is the first time the it's been more than an hour or two)
It's not like the phone doesn't have network connectivity to begin with, it's just that the built in browser went through a T-Mobile owned proxy. Other apps could access the internet just fine. And of course, if you have a phone where the WebSessions settings are not disabled, you could change the default proxy to another and also bypass T-Mobiles wish for you to pay for a data plan.
As of right now, that no longer seems to be working for me (again, it could just be a fluke but the article makes me think otherwise).
Oh, and when I talked to T-Mobile (I was pretty surprised when I found out 3rd party networked apps were working on my phone) they told me that it'd "possibly" be charged as text messaging. But I have unlimited text messaging so that's moot.
That and the fact Japan is mostly CDMA.
But I imported a black GSM KRZR K1 from Thailand to the US and it works fine (I'm a T-Mobile customer).
And it supports GSM 850,900,1800 and 1900.
On the article topic itself. Opera Mini and Google Maps both appeared to have stopped working on my phone as of today.
For funny, way back when (mid-90's or so) I worked for IXA (now part of Savvis) as a network engineer. There were 2 of us, me and Nikos Moaut (or however you spell his name)
Anyhow, we were the uplink for Amazon and I had to deal with them quite often. One day I asked Nik what "Amazon" was and he told me it was a book store.
I told him it was a really stupid name for a bookstore. Shows what I knew.
I think people are being to broad with their interpretation of VOIP. When I think of VOIP I think of SIP, H232, Telephony over IP, etc. I don't consider say, Unreal Tournament 2004's voice support as VOIP.
In that regard, if they want to tax VOIP providers as they do normal telco's I don't have a complaint, I'd assume that'd just be a given. But if they want to try and tax every program that could possibly send speech over the net then I'd be a bit annoyed (to put it lightly)
I wouldn't consider Skype, Teamspeak, etc as VOIP from my point of view, I think of them as just another chat program. If it can tie into my phone, or someone elses, then it's VOIP.
My Vonage account has recently had a new $1 tax added to it, so...
Look at an original 84 key keyboard (which is what the original PC shipped with), Control and Alt weren't duplicated on the right side of the keyboard (for that matter, control was where we expect capslock now). It would have been really hard to hit it with a single hand.
As I understand it they mean for their haiku to be placed in the headers. Then you set your filters to block any email message that doesn't have said haiku.
You're only allowed permission to use their haiku if you aren't sending spam (per the holders of the copyrighted haiku's definition of what spam is)
If you send spam (by their definition) and include their haiku, then you're violating the terms of using their copyrighted works and they'll get pissy and sue for violation of their copyright and stuff.
That's my understanding of it anyhow. (Copyright law having more impact than current anti-spam laws...)
I remember efnet having a nickserv way back when (I forget when it stopped running, 1992 or so? It was a long time ago, hard to remember). But I don't remember it doing much more than using /notice to tell you you were using someone elses nick. (based on userid@domain)
I know in some US states you still have to have a "Traditional" wedding to make it legal and all.
(A certain under water wedding comes to mind where they had to have a "traditional" wedding afterwards to make it legal. And true to me next comment, I don't remember where that was. (Florida?))
But don't even ask me to remember which states, because that isn't going to happen.