My partner had his OSX system fully 0wn3d by opening an email. The attacker obtained his email and ebay accounts and used them to open multiple fraud auctions. It took him more than two hours with Earthlink's customer service just to get his email account back, and the auctions closed before ebay took action. Earthlink is the ISP which supposedly blocks malware ports. This happened about two weeks ago. I would guess this is happening because attackers are not getting in windoze systems as easily as last year - and the systems they are getting are not as valuable. This is not confined to OS - I notice with Firefox I am seeing more popups than I ever did with IE+ popup cop. I wish there was an easy way, or some third party add-on, to shut off javascript and dhtml floaters in Firefox - I am about to go back to IE at this rate. So yes, make the switch, but don't do it for security.
That's being helped along by Nasdaq delisting those bad dot.com stocks and getting solid new ones. If those were still included, the index would probably be below 1,000.
Use SpamPal. It comes with blacklists, but you can turn it off because the reg expressions that came with it are very effective. There are also modules to decode base64, filter on spammed URLs, clean up web bug crap, block by country etc. & it's free.
That's not true. Vector graphics, for a start (and that can speed up download times, not slow them down). Can't the latest versions use sockets and connect to databases from the client too?
I have no idea how all that benefits me. All I know is how beautiful it is to see a popup that manages to evade all my anti-popup stuff - but is blank b/c no Flash installed.
I haven't installed Flash in a long time. There is nothing Flash can do that html cannot, except make the page cutesy and ten times longer to load. It also makes it impossible to navigate.
But the big bonus is just by not installing Flash, at least half of ads don't load -- in particular, the most obnoxious ones.
The Mustek DV4000 looks the same thing but records only 10 frames/sec at highest resoultion. But even this Samsung does not record DVD quality (Mpeg2). In fact the only Mpeg 2 flash-based camcorder is made by Panasonic (av100) which chose to use SD cards (as in 1 gb max). Meaning 20 minutes best of recording. For reference uncompressed DV videotape rips to disk at about 10gb/hr. These guys need to wake up and use CF.
I've never had any trouble with WD's. I have had a lot of them, them going back to 400mb. & now have a stack of four 250gbs, never a single failure. OTOH Deskstars have been nothing but trouble. I don't trust Hitachis either, after a new 160 gig unit to which I had ripped several hours of dv tape to lost its format all by itself. I don't know anything about Maxtors. This Seagate 300 gig I just got is really quiet & if it proves out I'll start using those. For laptops, Travelstars have proved to be less than reliable for me, but at least they die slowly enough I can get my data off in time. Hitachis are annoyingly loud on thermal recalibration -- people will actually look at your machine like there's something wrong. Toshibas seem to hold together though this 60gb unit sometimes reads slowly.
This suggests that some mail systems are already parsing links in emails and rejecting those which are to known spamvertisers? That's a good idea, but it must put a bit of a load on a mail server.
It does, but it's worth it.
Windows users have SpamPal which does lookups on spammed URLs. You can use the RegEx & URL Body filters and get 99% of spam with no falses. If you're getting hard core spammed, add the RBL lists. & it's free.
These damages must be made enforceable against the beneficiaries of the spam.
For instance, for the Viagra spams, Pfizer has enough to cover the award in this case.
Having to spend a billion (or at least a million in attorney's fees fighting it) should make them a little more picky about who distributes their pills.
These cd protection schemes prove the RIAA is effectively insane, the definition of crazy being they want something so badly they think the whole world ought to change to accomodate them.
The guys above who say XCP will work because the Average Joe is too lazy to press Shift and type the song names forget that it only takes one guy to do that and post the file before copies multiply like bacteria.
In the end DRM only pisses off the paying customer, the guys who are willing to pay for cds. It has no effect on the downloaders. The willingness of the RIAA to punish the paying customer has always puzzled me. Why would a guy come back after blowing $20 on a DRM-infested semi-CD with only two good songs which are already played over and over on the radio anyway, when he could simply download the song in usable format without ever leaving the house.
As for the music industry, they've had a great ride for the last few decades. Honestly, there's no other industry like it. It's been as simple as an artist going into a studio, working for three weeks, and making tens of millions in royalty (not just for themselves, but for their parasites, and their descendants, yea, unto the third generation) are over. But those days are over.
Youre' not getting Spanish spam from Argentina? I got on a list down there, & get a lot of n00b spam with real email addresses for the responses. I like to fill up their hotmail boxes with a lot of 900kb responses, with their own email as the sender and reply-to in case it bounces. But getting off that list is like trying to get rid of herpes.
Why is it these articles come out every 2-3 weeks, other than to cause panic.
Also every 2-3 weeks, we hear how how forensic techniques make it impossible to destroy data once it has been recorded -- also to cause panic.
I remember one that suggested the only way to truly destroy digital data so it couldn;'t be recovered was to break the hard drive into pieces with a sledge, and then heat the remains in a cauldron until the glass platters melted.
So which is it? Is data easily destroyed or is it not?
Are we actually to believe your boss makes 100 million people wait through meetings. NO. JUST YOU AND YOU ARE GETTING PAID FOR YUOR TIME. What he is talking about is the collective drain by spammers on society.
ONE SINGLE SPAMMER IN PURSUIT OF $200-$300 COSTS UPWARD OF $100,000 IN LOST TIME AND PRODUCTIVITY.
Life is finite, and I do not need to waste even one second to hear your pitches for third-world vigra or lame-ass fake rolex watches.
We'll all get through Google's slow index, somehow,...
Ten years ago, we all got thru Webcrawler's slow searches and Yahoo's impossible submission process by switching to Altavista.
Eight years ago, we all dealt with Altavista's slow search and jerkish rank changes (and resultant bogus results) by switching to the Inktomi based engines like Hotbot/Excite.
Five years ago, we got thru Inktomi's muddy indexing and submission process by switching to Google.
Now Google's sot with slackers, while the old guard flees with their stock options. Their index has filled with porn and spam, while legitimate new sites get "sandboxed" for months (they do not get indexed).
After a while, even the unwashed masses recognize Google is only spitting out garbage and will switch search engines - as they have done repeatedly in the past. Ironically Yahoo once again looks good. There are many others just about as good, for instance Teoma and Alltheweb.
Google has a lot of momentum. For instance, Firefox comes with Google search as default. But that can be changed by left clicking the search engine icon and selecting another from the drop-down box.
I agree, but the article is talking about merchant account fraud (where companies go to a special type of bank account to accept credit card payments). Unlike personal credit card accounts, this process is vetted at all levels. Like you said, fraud at cardholder level is unlikely to provoke a useful response. But this article is talking about fraud at the level of the credit card acceptor - a much higher level. I was suggesting that the merchant bank who provides this service to these companies is risking its entire ability to open merchant accounts -- that VISA and MasterCard would literally put it out of business if they felt they were being defrauded, since they're who pays for this type of fraud.
I'm not so sure it would be as easy as mentioned in the article. Banks pay VERY CLOSE attention to new merchant accounts. In this case there would be a discrepancy between the company's Dun & Bradstreet, and what the income the scammers stated would be anticipated from the cards. Such a brand-new account suddenly receiving tens of thousands in a few days (the only way the scam would be worth it) followed by a quick attempt to transfer those funds would trigger an investigation and have the funds held. Banks DO NOT like to lose this kind of money, and a merchant account provider which made it this easy for scammers would find its balls permanently cut off by VISA and MasterCard.
When an electron annihilates a positron (anti-electron) the process yields pure energy in a form of gamma rays, see Electron-positron annihilation. When a proton annihilates an antiproton they produce gamma rays and a swarm of secondary particles, like pairs of top-anti-top quarks. The secondary particles will eventually decay into neutrinos and low-energy gamma rays. Knowing that neutrinos could hold some mass, it could mean that the annihilation doesn't transform all the mass into energy.
While an atomic explosion is released mostly as thermal energy, an antimatter annihilation releases 82 terajoules of gamma ray energy per pound. Thus, barbecued planet.
Paraphrasing the article: "Oh, they're safer, there'll be no fallout..." A couple pounds of antimatter, combined with matter, and there'll be no earth to fall to. If they succeed, this is it. In 10 billion years, some future race will detect a gamma ray burst from the Milky Way Galaxy...
I remember that globe logo -- much better than a butterfly. My 1998 acct is still capped at 2mb tho -- which sucks because it is always nearly full, because I tried to get a free ipod and now get tons of spam, big ones too.
What I'd like to see is some technology for easing traffic jams. Traffic flow is similar to fluid dynamics, except the repulsion properties of each car vary from driver to driver, making for unpredictable situations in heavy traffic. Since drivers tend to err on the side of caution (god damn it!!) a single error by one driver in heavy traffic can cause cascading consequences that reverberate for hours on the road -- none of them good. The most visible effect is precautionary slowing, which quickly reduces the vehicle capacity of a road. Additional effects include "rubbernecking" or other timewasting enjoyment of the accident scene by drivers at the front.
Road capacity varies by speed and slowing kills this. A 5-lane freeway (common in Calif, as are cars -- very big cars) that can carry 70,000 vehicles per hour at 65 mph, can only carry 2,500 cph at 25 mph.
The idea is to get rid of the personal repulsion properties of the drivers.
What about implementing separation techniques (much like IFR flying) that would permit vehicles, first in specialty lanes and then later on the road at alrge, to operate safely at predetermined distances.
Together with reversible-direction lanes, we could save many of the billions
of hours (how many human lifetimes is that) wasted sitting in traffic each year.
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My partner had his OSX system fully 0wn3d by opening an email. The attacker obtained his email and ebay accounts and used them to open multiple fraud auctions. It took him more than two hours with Earthlink's customer service just to get his email account back, and the auctions closed before ebay took action. Earthlink is the ISP which supposedly blocks malware ports.
This happened about two weeks ago.
I would guess this is happening because attackers are not getting in windoze systems as easily as last year - and the systems they are getting are not as valuable. This is not confined to OS - I notice with Firefox I am seeing more popups than I ever did with IE+ popup cop. I wish there was an easy way, or some third party add-on, to shut off javascript and dhtml floaters in Firefox - I am about to go back to IE at this rate.
So yes, make the switch, but don't do it for security.
That's being helped along by Nasdaq delisting those bad dot.com stocks and getting solid new ones. If those were still included, the index would probably be below 1,000.
For instance, WinMX doesn't install anything but the p2p program. Where is it on this list?
Use SpamPal. It comes with blacklists, but you can turn it off because the reg expressions that came with it are very effective. There are also modules to decode base64, filter on spammed URLs, clean up web bug crap, block by country etc. & it's free.
I have no idea how all that benefits me. All I know is how beautiful it is to see a popup that manages to evade all my anti-popup stuff - but is blank b/c no Flash installed.
I haven't installed Flash in a long time. There is nothing Flash can do that html cannot, except make the page cutesy and ten times longer to load. It also makes it impossible to navigate.
But the big bonus is just by not installing Flash, at least half of ads don't load -- in particular, the most obnoxious ones.
That's exactly what this is!
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/01/28 /news/local/nws05.txt
The Mustek DV4000 looks the same thing but records only 10 frames/sec at highest resoultion. But even this Samsung does not record DVD quality (Mpeg2). In fact the only Mpeg 2 flash-based camcorder is made by Panasonic (av100) which chose to use SD cards (as in 1 gb max). Meaning 20 minutes best of recording. For reference uncompressed DV videotape rips to disk at about 10gb/hr.
These guys need to wake up and use CF.
I've never had any trouble with WD's. I have had a lot of them, them going back to 400mb. & now have a stack of four 250gbs, never a single failure. OTOH Deskstars have been nothing but trouble. I don't trust Hitachis either, after a new 160 gig unit to which I had ripped several hours of dv tape to lost its format all by itself. I don't know anything about Maxtors. This Seagate 300 gig I just got is really quiet & if it proves out I'll start using those. For laptops, Travelstars have proved to be less than reliable for me, but at least they die slowly enough I can get my data off in time. Hitachis are annoyingly loud on thermal recalibration -- people will actually look at your machine like there's something wrong. Toshibas seem to hold together though this 60gb unit sometimes reads slowly.
It does, but it's worth it.
Windows users have SpamPal which does lookups on spammed URLs. You can use the RegEx & URL Body filters and get 99% of spam with no falses. If you're getting hard core spammed, add the RBL lists. & it's free.
But given our culture, penis pills will still outsell brain enlargement pills 10-1
These damages must be made enforceable against the beneficiaries of the spam.
For instance, for the Viagra spams, Pfizer has enough to cover the award in this case.
Having to spend a billion (or at least a million in attorney's fees fighting it) should make them a little more picky about who distributes their pills.
These cd protection schemes prove the RIAA is effectively insane, the definition of crazy being they want something so badly they think the whole world ought to change to accomodate them.
The guys above who say XCP will work because the Average Joe is too lazy to press Shift and type the song names forget that it only takes one guy to do that and post the file before copies multiply like bacteria.
In the end DRM only pisses off the paying customer, the guys who are willing to pay for cds. It has no effect on the downloaders. The willingness of the RIAA to punish the paying customer has always puzzled me. Why would a guy come back after blowing $20 on a DRM-infested semi-CD with only two good songs which are already played over and over on the radio anyway, when he could simply download the song in usable format without ever leaving the house.
As for the music industry, they've had a great ride for the last few decades. Honestly, there's no other industry like it. It's been as simple as an artist going into a studio, working for three weeks, and making tens of millions in royalty (not just for themselves, but for their parasites, and their descendants, yea, unto the third generation) are over. But those days are over.
Youre' not getting Spanish spam from Argentina? I got on a list down there, & get a lot of n00b spam with real email addresses for the responses. I like to fill up their hotmail boxes with a lot of 900kb responses, with their own email as the sender and reply-to in case it bounces. But getting off that list is like trying to get rid of herpes.
That's ethanol cut with wood alcohol (methanol) you'll go blind!
Why is it these articles come out every 2-3 weeks, other than to cause panic.
Also every 2-3 weeks, we hear how how forensic techniques make it impossible to destroy data once it has been recorded -- also to cause panic.
I remember one that suggested the only way to truly destroy digital data so it couldn;'t be recovered was to break the hard drive into pieces with a sledge, and then heat the remains in a cauldron until the glass platters melted.
So which is it? Is data easily destroyed or is it not?
Are we actually to believe your boss makes 100 million people wait through meetings. NO. JUST YOU AND YOU ARE GETTING PAID FOR YUOR TIME. What he is talking about is the collective drain by spammers on society.
ONE SINGLE SPAMMER IN PURSUIT OF $200-$300 COSTS UPWARD OF $100,000 IN LOST TIME AND PRODUCTIVITY.
Life is finite, and I do not need to waste even one second to hear your pitches for third-world vigra or lame-ass fake rolex watches.
Ten years ago, we all got thru Webcrawler's slow searches and Yahoo's impossible submission process by switching to Altavista.
Eight years ago, we all dealt with Altavista's slow search and jerkish rank changes (and resultant bogus results) by switching to the Inktomi based engines like Hotbot/Excite.
Five years ago, we got thru Inktomi's muddy indexing and submission process by switching to Google.
Now Google's sot with slackers, while the old guard flees with their stock options. Their index has filled with porn and spam, while legitimate new sites get "sandboxed" for months (they do not get indexed).
After a while, even the unwashed masses recognize Google is only spitting out garbage and will switch search engines - as they have done repeatedly in the past. Ironically Yahoo once again looks good. There are many others just about as good, for instance Teoma and Alltheweb.
Google has a lot of momentum. For instance, Firefox comes with Google search as default. But that can be changed by left clicking the search engine icon and selecting another from the drop-down box.
I agree, but the article is talking about merchant account fraud (where companies go to a special type of bank account to accept credit card payments). Unlike personal credit card accounts, this process is vetted at all levels. Like you said, fraud at cardholder level is unlikely to provoke a useful response. But this article is talking about fraud at the level of the credit card acceptor - a much higher level. I was suggesting that the merchant bank who provides this service to these companies is risking its entire ability to open merchant accounts -- that VISA and MasterCard would literally put it out of business if they felt they were being defrauded, since they're who pays for this type of fraud.
I'm not so sure it would be as easy as mentioned in the article. Banks pay VERY CLOSE attention to new merchant accounts. In this case there would be a discrepancy between the company's Dun & Bradstreet, and what the income the scammers stated would be anticipated from the cards.
Such a brand-new account suddenly receiving tens of thousands in a few days (the only way the scam would be worth it) followed by a quick attempt to transfer those funds would trigger an investigation and have the funds held. Banks DO NOT like to lose this kind of money, and a merchant account provider which made it this easy for scammers would find its balls permanently cut off by VISA and MasterCard.
When an electron annihilates a positron (anti-electron) the process yields pure energy in a form of gamma rays, see Electron-positron annihilation. When a proton annihilates an antiproton they produce gamma rays and a swarm of secondary particles, like pairs of top-anti-top quarks. The secondary particles will eventually decay into neutrinos and low-energy gamma rays. Knowing that neutrinos could hold some mass, it could mean that the annihilation doesn't transform all the mass into energy.
While an atomic explosion is released mostly as thermal energy, an antimatter annihilation releases 82 terajoules of gamma ray energy per pound. Thus, barbecued planet.
Paraphrasing the article:
"Oh, they're safer, there'll be no fallout..."
A couple pounds of antimatter, combined with matter, and there'll be no earth to fall to.
If they succeed, this is it.
In 10 billion years, some future race will detect a gamma ray burst from the Milky Way Galaxy...
I remember that globe logo -- much better than a butterfly. My 1998 acct is still capped at 2mb tho -- which sucks because it is always nearly full, because I tried to get a free ipod and now get tons of spam, big ones too.
The idea is to get rid of the personal repulsion properties of the drivers.
What about implementing separation techniques (much like IFR flying) that would permit vehicles, first in specialty lanes and then later on the road at alrge, to operate safely at predetermined distances.
Together with reversible-direction lanes, we could save many of the billions of hours (how many human lifetimes is that) wasted sitting in traffic each year.