ok , so it gets made legal in the US , does that mean that it then becomes legal to 'disable' machines in say.... China as well, how do you determine the machines physical location (machine location not IP address) and which countries law is actually applies.
blinded by the flash?
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I thought that if you were looking at the flash of the explosion he would have been blinded (or at least those convicts the US military got to stare at the flash were , they were testing to see what effect the flash would have on pilots dropping nukes would have)
XP has a host of these in the EULA to name a few..
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for instance , you're not supposed to connect to the remote assistance feature using VNC. M$ also reserve the right to inspect the contents of your hard drive and disable unlicensed software (also on behalf of other firms). There is a whole host of this in the EULA which is why I won't use XP for home use and limit what I'm prepared to use XP and.NET for at work. Netstat your machine every once in a while and check out what state various ports are in (i do it habitually)
f they're right, then Xbox is probably confirming the classic Microsoft consumer sales profile. The company is generally extremely good at hyping a product at the start, and getting retailers fired-up and stuffed with stock, but tends not to be able to sustain the momentum achieved over the first couple of weeks. When it comes to Windows, of course, this is easily masked by 'sales' obtained via the OEM franchise, which is most of them.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/24789.ht ml
I work for a daily financial paper and a hell of a lot of software is unlicensed. Now they subcontract to another firm for software licensing to keep them out of trouble (i.e we pay you to ensure our licensing fees are correct). Strangely the BSA know about this and we simply have an 'arrangement' with them that we are working on it.no fines , fees nothin'
Although DOS attacks are simple it would be harder and potentially ver profitable to hold websites to ransom with it. a DDOS attack against charles schwab the online share trading exchange took their systems down for 3 days , (their weekely turnover is approx 2bn USD) , other e-tailers could also be held to ransom over this as well. Additionally , government websites have been DDOS'd by activists (i believe recently the FBI i response to one of their sites being attacked in this manner crashed the clients web browsers). Anyway DDOS can be much more than a lame piece of vandalism.
yeah , i am a lecturer , sometimes it's a requirement of the course that certain guidelines are followed to complete the module. also many syllabuses are deliberately slanted towards a certain vendor (usually M$) it can't be helped. people want to learn skills that are used commonly in industry.learn the stuff you want to know (perl, EMACS, compiling under whatever) when you leave in industry or in your own time. I do and i'm still learning (i make a point "If you know what your doing your not learning anything"). some of the newer courses like CIW are platform independent (I teach building both IIS and ZEUS webservers, i like to show alternatives, some websites use *nix ) personally i'd like to teach what students want to know (and sometimes i'll indulge myself and will teach what people want)but more often course contents are governed by the syllabus and examination body.
Jonathan Zittrain, an assistant law professor at Harvard, pointed out in a recent New York Times editorial that what Eisner's really saying is that the most dangerous threat to his industry is the American consumer. If that's really the case, what Eisner needs to do is rethink his business model rather than look for a way to outsmart his customers.
there was a variant of this in 2000ad (english comic) they had a miracle plastic called 'boing' if i recall correctly that the 200ad law enforcement used to coat protestors with as well. Wonder if they (the comic book) can claim credit for the idea? (kinda like bt claim the patent for hyperlinks):)
"Paul Thurrott
Paul Thurrott is the news editor for Windows &.NET Magazine. He writes a weekly editorial for Windows &.NET Magazine UPDATE (http://www.win2000mag.net/email) and writes a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE "
could be used as a defence in court....
well it's like this your honour , i was showing him my new phone and he like, took offence , and it all went downhill from then onwards.....
There already is one , it's called lexis nexis, used prolifically by the media also law firms , for indexing all stories printed in most papers etc.and law cases. also you can get reuters newsfeed from it , it could be adopted by 'the public' but industry would'nt use i guess most reporters here use google.
back in '98 (i think), Charles Schwab and i believe Amazon (or e-bay) got DDos. Apparently for ransom. what is remarkable is that Schwab do about 2 billion USD e-commerce per week. And declared no loss from it, even though there web site was down for 3 trading days.
Clearly DDOS can be used for ransoming/ extortion........
c'mon most of us prob read el reg as well so read the article this morning. why bother repeating the story and then everone posts an opinin and most of the original text?.
you may remember back in the 90's when challenger
went down and the US space program was set back to no more shuttle launches.
meaning their spy satelite programs fell way behind the soviets. well just so happens that some old weather satellites changed their orbits..... right into the russian spy satellites
sorry guys already been done. I could post proof but then i'd have to tell you where it came from and then get shot by MI5 or someone
when discussing hacking what's important is the target resource. This is the data / resources that you intend to acquire.
methods change of protecting data common exploits
change.
The data to go after is always research data as it's most valuable. prime targets are small players researching 'edge' technology that will get to market b 4 the big boys.
the big boys will pay a lotta dosh for that kind of info.
remember as well that all fortune 500 companies are always monitoring each other some ways legal
i.e what colour is the smoke coming out of your factory what trucks are delivering where are the company execs travelling to etc. seems like small things but i promise you it's done all the time.
what with the state of play with WEP and wireless in general i guess anyone can harvest a few logons for spoofed ISP access , now where's my wireless card and laptop........
Usually it's incompetent admin that makes the system unsafe. require admins to be certified (like accountant , barristers et al) require the company who want a website to have it externally audited for security in order for them to be allowed a website.
This will also make me and others loads of money
and give me a license to print more
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ok , so it gets made legal in the US , does that mean that it then becomes legal to 'disable' machines in say.... China as well, how do you determine the machines physical location (machine location not IP address) and which countries law is actually applies.
I thought that if you were looking at the flash of the explosion he would have been blinded (or at least those convicts the US military got to stare at the flash were , they were testing to see what effect the flash would have on pilots dropping nukes would have)
for instance , you're not supposed to connect to the remote assistance feature using VNC. M$ also reserve the right to inspect the contents of your hard drive and disable unlicensed software (also on behalf of other firms). There is a whole host of this in the EULA which is why I won't use XP for home use and limit what I'm prepared to use XP and .NET for at work.
Netstat your machine every once in a while and check out what state various ports are in (i do it habitually)
f they're right, then Xbox is probably confirming the classic Microsoft consumer sales profile. The company is generally extremely good at hyping a product at the start, and getting retailers fired-up and stuffed with stock, but tends not to be able to sustain the momentum achieved over the first couple of weeks. When it comes to Windows, of course, this is easily masked by 'sales' obtained via the OEM franchise, which is most of them.
t ml
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/24789.h
I work for a daily financial paper and a hell of a lot of software is unlicensed. Now they subcontract to another firm for software licensing to keep them out of trouble (i.e we pay you to ensure our licensing fees are correct). Strangely the BSA know about this and we simply have an 'arrangement' with them that we are working on it.no fines , fees nothin'
Although DOS attacks are simple it would be harder and potentially ver profitable to hold websites to ransom with it.
a DDOS attack against charles schwab the online share trading exchange took their systems down for 3 days , (their weekely turnover is approx 2bn USD) , other e-tailers could also be held to ransom over this as well.
Additionally , government websites have been DDOS'd by activists (i believe recently the FBI i response to one of their sites being attacked in this manner crashed the clients web browsers).
Anyway DDOS can be much more than a lame piece of vandalism.
yeah , i am a lecturer , sometimes it's a requirement of the course that certain guidelines are followed to complete the module. also many syllabuses are deliberately slanted towards a certain vendor (usually M$) it can't be helped. people want to learn skills that are used commonly in industry.learn the stuff you want to know (perl, EMACS, compiling under whatever) when you leave in industry or in your own time. I do and i'm still learning (i make a point "If you know what your doing your not learning anything").
some of the newer courses like CIW are platform independent (I teach building both IIS and ZEUS webservers, i like to show alternatives, some websites use *nix ) personally i'd like to teach what students want to know (and sometimes i'll indulge myself and will teach what people want)but more often course contents are governed by the syllabus and examination body.
for those without NYTimes accts:
Jonathan Zittrain, an assistant law professor at Harvard, pointed out in a recent New York Times editorial that what Eisner's really saying is that the most dangerous threat to his industry is the American consumer. If that's really the case, what Eisner needs to do is rethink his business model rather than look for a way to outsmart his customers.
which really sums it up for me
how about building a gauss rifle!!t s/gauss.h tml
http://scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/magne
there was a variant of this in 2000ad (english comic) they had a miracle plastic called 'boing' if i recall correctly that the 200ad law enforcement used to coat protestors with as well. Wonder if they (the comic book) can claim credit for the idea? (kinda like bt claim the patent for hyperlinks) :)
The court ruled it legal to fuck the voters by running out the clock, and demonstrated how to do it
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
"Paul Thurrott .NET Magazine. He writes a weekly editorial for Windows & .NET Magazine UPDATE (http://www.win2000mag.net/email) and writes a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE "
Paul Thurrott is the news editor for Windows &
nice timing with the windows security initiative
a language that can be unleashed rather than released , leaving a bloody trail of project mangers and sales people in it's wake..
could be used as a defence in court....
well it's like this your honour , i was showing him my new phone and he like, took offence , and it all went downhill from then onwards.....
There already is one , it's called lexis nexis, used prolifically by the media also law firms , for indexing all stories printed in most papers etc.and law cases. also you can get reuters newsfeed from it , it could be adopted by 'the public' but industry would'nt use i guess most reporters here use google.
>>Search results on the preview site are identical to those found on the paid search service offered on Northern Light's home page.
right - so the search engine is not superior so results won't be better
I also do't see how they can charge for web content that does'nt belong to them. If it's some elses copyrighted material,
stil....
perhaps they could charge for decent links to
"index of \admin"
back in '98 (i think), Charles Schwab and i believe Amazon (or e-bay) got DDos. Apparently for ransom. what is remarkable is that Schwab do about 2 billion USD e-commerce per week. And declared no loss from it, even though there web site was down for 3 trading days.
Clearly DDOS can be used for ransoming/ extortion........
c'mon most of us prob read el reg as well so read the article this morning. why bother repeating the story and then everone posts an opinin and most of the original text?.
oh hang on......
you may remember back in the 90's when challenger ..... right into the russian spy satellites
went down and the US space program was set back to no more shuttle launches.
meaning their spy satelite programs fell way behind the soviets. well just so happens that some old weather satellites changed their orbits
sorry guys already been done. I could post proof but then i'd have to tell you where it came from and then get shot by MI5 or someone
when discussing hacking what's important is the target resource. This is the data / resources that you intend to acquire.
methods change of protecting data common exploits
change.
The data to go after is always research data as it's most valuable. prime targets are small players researching 'edge' technology that will get to market b 4 the big boys.
the big boys will pay a lotta dosh for that kind of info.
remember as well that all fortune 500 companies are always monitoring each other some ways legal
i.e what colour is the smoke coming out of your factory what trucks are delivering where are the company execs travelling to etc. seems like small things but i promise you it's done all the time.
what with the state of play with WEP and wireless in general i guess anyone can harvest a few logons for spoofed ISP access , now where's my wireless card and laptop........
you can prob find all sorts of stuff. remember that backdoor in Quake that lets you root other machines in online play......
I went to school in Bahrain , at age 6 i was taught to field strip AK 74 assault rifles as well as make explosives.
Wanna know what i got for XMAS this year
Usually it's incompetent admin that makes the system unsafe. require admins to be certified (like accountant , barristers et al) require the company who want a website to have it externally audited for security in order for them to be allowed a website.
This will also make me and others loads of money
and give me a license to print more