Good point... many of the homeless are quite content, unlike us wage slaves. Simply because we apply our values to their lifestyle, find it lacking, and wring our hands constantly over it, does not make it wrong.
There have been beggars since the earliest city states sprung up out of the Mesopotamian mud and it will never be cured.
My feeling is, if someone elects to "drop out" of society, he has the freedom to do so. Well, until this system is implemented, anyway.
What are bus benches for? I always thought they were for people waiting for buses. I guess the enlightened thing to do is to relabel bus stops as "homeless shelters" and relegate the paying bus patrons to standing as they wait.
Most users who are victims of this VIRUS are not computer experts. They use computers at work or home, in the course of their job or recreational pursuits. They are not into computers, or computing. Their ability to configure depends on default installs and clicking "next." Therefore, if the default installs are open to security exploits, it is NOT their fault.
It is a software problem. Filter on x-mailer: outlook express and see if ONE SINGLE virus message is received. No other mail program seems to be affected.
Now. Tell me again how this is the fault of the user and not software?
I thought social engineering was usually used for fraud, for personal monetary gain, and what the hell does a virus writer get out of releasing code other than assauging his Dr. evil tendencies.
The problem is Microsoft's bloated code contains rarely-used "features" which are always left wide-open to exploitation.
What is absolutely sickening is that this POS reproduced... his hellspawn child has probably already absorbed his father's amorality, if not by observation then by direct instruction.
This doubtless continues the chain -- the spammer's parents failed to give their child a conscience and a soul, probably for reasons of lacking those characteristics themselves.
Much like families where domestic violence is a tradition, we can be certain we have not seen the last of this from this family.
I'd agree with you if you were right. If everything was black and white -- if they did all this overnight -- then you would be correct.
Unfortunately, this has been slowly building, over some period of time, in incremental fashion.
It is the government's use of increnemtalism that prevents such outbursts as you propose. By using incrementalism, the revolution is prevented entirely, or at least postponed far into the future. Only when the sum of those changes reaches the point of intolerance, will people look up from their playstations and take to the streets.
And please read Ayn Rand with an open mind. Even if you do not believe in the basic goodness of mankind, as she does, it is refreshing and something to hope for.
There should be logic boards aplenty for those DeathStars. Failure rates for those were substantially above average; the reason for failure was almost always platter failure.
Check Ebay for dead drives with good pictures of the label. Pay no more than 10- 15 dollars. When you find one, bingo, and do not be afraid to try the board swap. It's trivial.
True... but if the guy has to sort for eight hours thru false data, that $20 doesn't look so good any more.
Plus, the mortgage company is going to get pissed off at all the false data the spammer is passing along, and probably fire the spammer for trying to get paid for faked leads.
The key is to generate really good fake data (i.e. area code matches state, zip matches city, and the numbers add up). Scripts exist for that. Simply stuffing the form with random characters, after turning off javascript won't do the trick (unless you like to re-write the form removing MAXLENGTH arguments, and send ~1meg form responses).
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The guy pleaded out for fear of an additional 19 years in the Pen. So the FBI gets their conviction, because of terrorism leverage.
Meanwhile, here in San Diego, enviro freaks burned down a $20 million condo project, and the owner is not going to get insurance because the policy didn't cover "terrorism." Probably 400 people out of work.
When gov't or anyone for that matter plays the terrorism card to its advantage, we ALL lose.
*After* SCO loses, the licensees (if any) will not only be due refunds, but the stockholders will also be able to press cases with the SEC for this obvious and illegal stock price manipulation.
It should be mentioned that the current film based 35mm "disposables" are also almost 100% recycled when you turn in the camera for photofinishing. I do not believe there is such a thing as a disposable camera.
You would think *corporations* would have a vested interest in the solvency of their *paying customers* also. But these days, you sue your customers -- or turn them in.
This happens on pretty much every long weekend, as people are away from their machines and doing things in the actual physical world. The traffic picks back up on Sunday afternoon as people return home to check their spam.
But this last weekend, IIRC, was also the hacker contest, which caused all kinds of update/patching/routing problems that I haven't seen reported yet. I know, for instance, billing service Verotel knocked themselves completely offline for a couple days preparing for the attack.
True... TIA would have been in the billions when the cost overruns were added in. But remember you're talking about the gov't here. When was the last time a gov't project was cheap? Or done on time? Remember the oracle fiasco in Calif? Know what is going on in Calif? You don't even want this discussion to go in that direction.
... has been put off for a little while. But it will come. Sorry, guys, but that's just the nature of information tech. The gov't is not needed for this.
Once info is collected, it can be collected, archived, sold under the table or social-engineered out of you or your bank's representative.
Then, it is simple a matter of storage. Even now, the credit records of all consumers in the United States can be fit onto a single hard disk (assume a 200mb disk, 200 million consumers, and 1000 bytes per record).
Not much can be done about that, except a Butlerian Jihad.
Someone in the media made up the word about six months ago and is now one of those "information superhighway" type terms that everybody except computer users use.
It is used in place of the word "diary," when one wishes to record their feelings without sounding feminine and frivolous.
However, it is an ugly word. To me, it sounds like one of those floating turds that refuses to get flushed down the toilet.
Well, if any data hidden in an image qualifies as stego, your common digital camera, which imprints EXIF and/or IPTC data on each photo taken, is suddenly a subversive tool.
Your sekrit message will be much more difficult to identify if it is hidden somehow among the image data, not just set in the header. Most image display programs will show it.
I suspect the author did not use "true" stego to hide the code because a) hidden like that, the code would not execute without some kind of wrapper to pull it out and b) he wanted to avoid being accused of potentially subversive acts such as steganography.
But I bet Microsoft will grab at any straw to protect the xbox fron Linux, even if it includes redefining stego to include that. And sorry if my offhand comment offends you. You really should stop worrying about what other people think about other people's posts. Even your argument is weak as stego is a common abbreviation for steganography. Do you ever use the word photo to describe a photograph or do you go through life insisting people say the entire word photography?
The code was "hidden" in the jfif header, therefore does not qualify as steganography in my opinion. But I bet MS jumps all over this and gets stego banned.
Depends on the distance from the source to the satellite. If the beam can be kept tight, say, a beam diameter within the length or diameter of the receiving antenna (about 2 inches?) it might do it.
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To be honest, Napster's not the problem, never was. The record industry's problem is too many execs are committed to a 50-year-old business model, and when the world changed, instead of changing with it, they are trying to change the world back to the 1950s.
AOL should have looked at an Itunes model to distribute licensed cuts online at a dollar a pop. Maybe they'll prove me wrong, but opening up distributing warehouses shipping and fulfillment, based on a dying business model, and against competition such as Amazon, seems to make very little sense to me.
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Check your mail again, please. Just for me. Find one viral message -- just one -- that doesn't say
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
or similar in the header. And then, we'll talk.
Good point... many of the homeless are quite content, unlike us wage slaves. Simply because we apply our values to their lifestyle, find it lacking, and wring our hands constantly over it, does not make it wrong.
There have been beggars since the earliest city states sprung up out of the Mesopotamian mud and it will never be cured.
My feeling is, if someone elects to "drop out" of society, he has the freedom to do so. Well, until this system is implemented, anyway.
What are bus benches for? I always thought they were for people waiting for buses. I guess the enlightened thing to do is to relabel bus stops as "homeless shelters" and relegate the paying bus patrons to standing as they wait.
Most users who are victims of this VIRUS are not computer experts. They use computers at work or home, in the course of their job or recreational pursuits. They are not into computers, or computing. Their ability to configure depends on default installs and clicking "next." Therefore, if the default installs are open to security exploits, it is NOT their fault.
It is a software problem. Filter on x-mailer: outlook express and see if ONE SINGLE virus message is received. No other mail program seems to be affected.
Now. Tell me again how this is the fault of the user and not software?
The problem is not so much social engineering...
I thought social engineering was usually used for fraud, for personal monetary gain, and what the hell does a virus writer get out of releasing code other than assauging his Dr. evil tendencies.
The problem is Microsoft's bloated code contains rarely-used "features" which are always left wide-open to exploitation.
They're also the only ones to have WORKING LAUNCH VEHICLES!!!
What is absolutely sickening is that this POS reproduced... his hellspawn child has probably already absorbed his father's amorality, if not by observation then by direct instruction.
This doubtless continues the chain -- the spammer's parents failed to give their child a conscience and a soul, probably for reasons of lacking those characteristics themselves.
Much like families where domestic violence is a tradition, we can be certain we have not seen the last of this from this family.
I'd agree with you if you were right. If everything was black and white -- if they did all this overnight -- then you would be correct.
Unfortunately, this has been slowly building, over some period of time, in incremental fashion.
It is the government's use of increnemtalism that prevents such outbursts as you propose. By using incrementalism, the revolution is prevented entirely, or at least postponed far into the future. Only when the sum of those changes reaches the point of intolerance, will people look up from their playstations and take to the streets.
And please read Ayn Rand with an open mind. Even if you do not believe in the basic goodness of mankind, as she does, it is refreshing and something to hope for.
There should be logic boards aplenty for those DeathStars. Failure rates for those were substantially above average; the reason for failure was almost always platter failure.
Check Ebay for dead drives with good pictures of the label. Pay no more than 10- 15 dollars. When you find one, bingo, and do not be afraid to try the board swap. It's trivial.
True... but if the guy has to sort for eight hours thru false data, that $20 doesn't look so good any more.
Plus, the mortgage company is going to get pissed off at all the false data the spammer is passing along, and probably fire the spammer for trying to get paid for faked leads.
The key is to generate really good fake data (i.e. area code matches state, zip matches city, and the numbers add up). Scripts exist for that. Simply stuffing the form with random characters, after turning off javascript won't do the trick (unless you like to re-write the form removing MAXLENGTH arguments, and send ~1meg form responses).
The guy pleaded out for fear of an additional 19 years in the Pen. So the FBI gets their conviction, because of terrorism leverage.
Meanwhile, here in San Diego, enviro freaks burned down a $20 million condo project, and the owner is not going to get insurance because the policy didn't cover "terrorism." Probably 400 people out of work.
When gov't or anyone for that matter plays the terrorism card to its advantage, we ALL lose.
*After* SCO loses, the licensees (if any) will not only be due refunds, but the stockholders will also be able to press cases with the SEC for this obvious and illegal stock price manipulation.
It should be mentioned that the current film based 35mm "disposables" are also almost 100% recycled when you turn in the camera for photofinishing. I do not believe there is such a thing as a disposable camera.
...abuse of which is a serious and growing problem
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You would think *corporations* would have a vested interest in the solvency of their *paying customers* also. But these days, you sue your customers -- or turn them in.
This happens on pretty much every long weekend, as people are away from their machines and doing things in the actual physical world. The traffic picks back up on Sunday afternoon as people return home to check their spam.
But this last weekend, IIRC, was also the hacker contest, which caused all kinds of update/patching/routing problems that I haven't seen reported yet. I know, for instance, billing service Verotel knocked themselves completely offline for a couple days preparing for the attack.
True... TIA would have been in the billions when the cost overruns were added in. But remember you're talking about the gov't here. When was the last time a gov't project was cheap? Or done on time? Remember the oracle fiasco in Calif? Know what is going on in Calif? You don't even want this discussion to go in that direction.
... has been put off for a little while. But it will come. Sorry, guys, but that's just the nature of information tech. The gov't is not needed for this.
Once info is collected, it can be collected, archived, sold under the table or social-engineered out of you or your bank's representative.
Then, it is simple a matter of storage. Even now, the credit records of all consumers in the United States can be fit onto a single hard disk (assume a 200mb disk, 200 million consumers, and 1000 bytes per record).
Not much can be done about that, except a Butlerian Jihad.
Someone in the media made up the word about six months ago and is now one of those "information superhighway" type terms that everybody except computer users use.
It is used in place of the word "diary," when one wishes to record their feelings without sounding feminine and frivolous.
However, it is an ugly word. To me, it sounds like one of those floating turds that refuses to get flushed down the toilet.
Well, if any data hidden in an image qualifies as stego, your common digital camera, which imprints EXIF and /or IPTC data on each photo taken, is suddenly a subversive tool.
Your sekrit message will be much more difficult to identify if it is hidden somehow among the image data, not just set in the header. Most image display programs will show it.
I suspect the author did not use "true" stego to hide the code because a) hidden like that, the code would not execute without some kind of wrapper to pull it out and b) he wanted to avoid being accused of potentially subversive acts such as steganography.
But I bet Microsoft will grab at any straw to protect the xbox fron Linux, even if it includes redefining stego to include that. And sorry if my offhand comment offends you. You really should stop worrying about what other people think about other people's posts. Even your argument is weak as stego is a common abbreviation for steganography. Do you ever use the word photo to describe a photograph or do you go through life insisting people say the entire word photography?
The code was "hidden" in the jfif header, therefore does not qualify as steganography in my opinion. But I bet MS jumps all over this and gets stego banned.
Guantanamo is in Cuba, is that not the source ot the signal that took out Iranian TV? Are you suggesting we might get sent there to *work* on it ?? :)
How about a "death star" setup where several *asers are aimed at the target from different angles.
Depends on the distance from the source to the satellite. If the beam can be kept tight, say, a beam diameter within the length or diameter of the receiving antenna (about 2 inches?) it might do it.
To be honest, Napster's not the problem, never was. The record industry's problem is too many execs are committed to a 50-year-old business model, and when the world changed, instead of changing with it, they are trying to change the world back to the 1950s.
AOL should have looked at an Itunes model to distribute licensed cuts online at a dollar a pop. Maybe they'll prove me wrong, but opening up distributing warehouses shipping and fulfillment, based on a dying business model, and against competition such as Amazon, seems to make very little sense to me.
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