Did infoSync verify all specifications? And how thoroughly did they verify them?
Re:It's not like they haven't announced the patch
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> And if you know how to do that, you're not a 'stoopid mcse'.
True, a "stoopid mcse" could never design anything like that. But the problem is, he thinks he can... and will always find a gullible boss to believe him...
Shouldn't we first see Micro$oft Strikes Back, and the The Return of the Code Red? And then, the prequels: The Phantom Incompatibility (You remember, the AARD code that faked an incompatibility with DR DOS), and then Attack of the Browsers (yeah, I know. That title sucks. Browser Wars would sound much better...). In the meantime, the original episode Code Red will be renamed A New Worm...
> Linux and Apache are compatible. I'm running Apache on Linux right now.:)
The comment you were replying too was moderated as funny, so it must be some kind of joke. Don't worry though, I don't get the joke either... Or is this just a parady of the "The next version of Linux will support SCSI", "Linux doesn't have a GUI", "Word is so much better at typesetting math than LaTeX" or "IE outperforms all Linux browsers, even when running in VMware" type affirmations that you still occasionnally see in some traderags of ill repute?
Re:Microsoft should be sued
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> but even I will say that a maker of a defective gun should be liable.
But the point of most of these lawsuits against gun makers is that the plaintiffs want to hold the manufacturers liable even if the gun works as expected, i.e. kills when somebody pulls the trigger, which is kinda ridiculous... It's a little bit as if Microsoft got sued by the MPAA, because an IIS somewhere is serving up DeCSS...
Re:Buffer overflow vulnerabilities
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The buffer overflow we're talking about is not in an OS kernel (Windows), but in an application (the IIS webserver), for chrissakes! And yes, there are webservers coded entirely in Perl. For example, webmin's miniserv. And I'm sure, there are webservers entirely coded in Java too (tomcat?).
The thing is, with Perl and Java, the language's runtime handles memory allocation/de-allocation. And barring a bug in the language itself, there's no way an app written in such language can overflow a buffer.
Either the buffer will be grown dynamically to fit the data, or the app will get an exception.
But corruption of unrelated data cannot happen in this way.
The guy does have a point
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Certain Cisco routers crash when they get a Code Red probe. Supposedly, they have a builtin webserver for configuration purposes. So unplugging/replugging the router may occasionnally be necessary.
I think you need to reboot the machine first, in order to remove file protections, which would otherwise prevent the disk from being formatted.
And for some stoopid reason, GET/script/root.exe?+%2fc+iisreset+reboot doesn't seem to work...
Re:It's not like they haven't announced the patch
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> There's also the subtle difference that flaws in Microsoft products don't kill people.
Not yet.
What if some stoopid MCSE gets the idea of designing a medical life-support system around an NT PC? Or until he uses an Win2000 PC to command door opening/closing in a prison? Or until he uses NT to steer a ship? Or until he uses a SQL-server to manage a nuclear power plant? In all those situations, failure can potentially have deadly consequences. Sure, in peace time the ship just gets towed to port, but imagine a failure happening during combat? I know, Microsoft specifically disclaims any warranties for such uses, but has that stopped anybody?
Re:Buffer overflow vulnerabilities
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> It is possible to do the same think with any programming language I can think of (even basic but you would have to write your own routine for it).
Show me how to do it in Java, or in Perl? And no, using JNI (or XS) is cheating.
Re:make some money off banner ads
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> host banner ads on your server with the file name of/default.ida.
Won't work. The worm won't follow redirects nor download any pictures (banners) from the page.
Re:Yet another uninformative top-level post.
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> And FYI branding means that even if your product is crap it will still sell, want an example, look at MS.
And so does Accenture's. Oops, the Accenture brand is not really that well known, at least not as well as Andersen Consulting, hehe...
Re:Yet another uninformative top-level post.
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Shouldn't that be "Intel, a microprocessor manufacturer"; "Microsquish, a crashware products company";...
> They had a photo of a man who was sitting at a cafe in Tamapa. The police were then able to track him down?
Good question. Maybe he was a regular at the cafe, and the owner knew where he was working?
Or maybe he had paid his meal with his credit card, and they dug out the logs?
> What was the connection? The name the wife would of accused him with would not have matched up.
He was not (mis)identified by name but by his face. And it was not the software that screwed up, but... "his" wife. As for non-matching names: they probably assumed that he lived under a false name, in order to escape his debt?
> If his name was linked to the photo wouldn't he of questioned where the photo was going to be used?
His name was (probably) not used together with the photo, and it is highly probably that his photo was used without his permission... The photo was part of a demo movie shown "privately" to some journalists. Somehow, one of them must have gotten a hardcopy of it, and used it on the front cover of his paper...
> This doesn't sound quite right somehow. Can anyone offer some insight?
Short summary:
Guy eats his lunch somewhere.
Restaurant is equipped with those new-fangled cameras.
The implementors of the system are asked to demo it to a panel of journalists, and out of poor jugement, they use actual footage from the system...
More poor jugement: they let one of the journalists have a hardcopy...
The journalist uses the photo as an illustration for the story.
Weeks later, the "wife" sees the paper (with photo), and thinks it's her deathbeat husband. Yes, the wife misidentified him, not the face recognition software! Oh, the irony!
She files charges...
Police somehow manage to tie a name to the picture, and pay the guy a visit...
> In traditional media outlets, particularly newspaper and radio, companies can specifically request or be GUARANTEED that advertisements for competing products or services will NOT appear within x-many column inches of newspaper or x-minutes of radio play.
This gatoring is actually much worse: it's more like the consumer unknowingly bought "special" batteries for his radio, which have the interesting property of changing your ad into an ad for your compitor, without your consent nor the station's.
Or like the consumer unknowingly bought "special" sunglasses which make him see poster ads for your competitor on your shop's walls that are not really there.
Or more realistically: like a billboard company that, instead of having its own billboards, just "uses" its competitors by sneaking up at night and replacing their posters...
People were outraged at smart tags, because of the rather theoretical possibility that some content of their pages might be misinterpreted due to the presence of the tags. However, this gatoring is much worse: it specifically targets the type of contents that the webmaster cares most about monetarily: ads. This plugin masterfully not only defrauds the original advertiser but also the webmaster! And all this without contributing as much as one dime to the content of the sites it defaces in such a way! At least, in the playboy case, the search engine chose to run those ads, rather than having them forced upon itself using some sneeky ActiveX.
Good for you that your geek classmates in highschool didn't have easy access to shotguns!
Splattered jock brains (isn't that an oxymoron?) make a real mess on the library floor...
AFAIK, you can't patent software in Australia, where Samba is developped. So, even if there were such a (US) patent, it would not stop Samba. Well, there might be a small period where Samba would not work while they are busy catching up (i.e. implementing the new algorithm), but the next version all would be back to normal.
> Fisher is, well, seriously loopy. He'd most likely never play in a tournament, or under any other circumstance where he didnt have total control of the playing conditions.
From what I understand, at that time, it was' the world master's privilege to fix the tournament conditions (prize money, who would put how much into the pool, etc.) for any challenger. Bobby Fischer figured out that he could stay World Master forever by making his conditions unacceptable enough that nobody would challenge him.
> Of course, since he'll be snagging $800k for a draw, and $600k for a loss...
This is nothing unusual. In many chess tournaments, even the loser still wins a sizeable amount of money. Consider it as a kind of gage to remunerate their willingness to participate (and to risk some of their prestige if losing).
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...if each individual instruction takes up to three times as much cycles to execute. We've been having 667 Mhz Pentium III's for ages...
Did infoSync verify all specifications? And how thoroughly did they verify them?
True, a "stoopid mcse" could never design anything like that. But the problem is, he thinks he can... and will always find a gullible boss to believe him...
Shouldn't we first see Micro$oft Strikes Back, and the The Return of the Code Red? And then, the prequels: The Phantom Incompatibility (You remember, the AARD code that faked an incompatibility with DR DOS), and then Attack of the Browsers (yeah, I know. That title sucks. Browser Wars would sound much better...). In the meantime, the original episode Code Red will be renamed A New Worm...
The comment you were replying too was moderated as funny, so it must be some kind of joke. Don't worry though, I don't get the joke either... Or is this just a parady of the "The next version of Linux will support SCSI", "Linux doesn't have a GUI", "Word is so much better at typesetting math than LaTeX" or "IE outperforms all Linux browsers, even when running in VMware" type affirmations that you still occasionnally see in some traderags of ill repute?
But the point of most of these lawsuits against gun makers is that the plaintiffs want to hold the manufacturers liable even if the gun works as expected, i.e. kills when somebody pulls the trigger, which is kinda ridiculous... It's a little bit as if Microsoft got sued by the MPAA, because an IIS somewhere is serving up DeCSS...
The thing is, with Perl and Java, the language's runtime handles memory allocation/de-allocation. And barring a bug in the language itself, there's no way an app written in such language can overflow a buffer. Either the buffer will be grown dynamically to fit the data, or the app will get an exception. But corruption of unrelated data cannot happen in this way.
Certain Cisco routers crash when they get a Code Red probe. Supposedly, they have a builtin webserver for configuration purposes. So unplugging/replugging the router may occasionnally be necessary.
I think you need to reboot the machine first, in order to remove file protections, which would otherwise prevent the disk from being formatted. And for some stoopid reason, GET /script/root.exe?+%2fc+iisreset+reboot doesn't seem to work...
Not yet.
What if some stoopid MCSE gets the idea of designing a medical life-support system around an NT PC? Or until he uses an Win2000 PC to command door opening/closing in a prison? Or until he uses NT to steer a ship? Or until he uses a SQL-server to manage a nuclear power plant? In all those situations, failure can potentially have deadly consequences. Sure, in peace time the ship just gets towed to port, but imagine a failure happening during combat? I know, Microsoft specifically disclaims any warranties for such uses, but has that stopped anybody?
Show me how to do it in Java, or in Perl? And no, using JNI (or XS) is cheating.
Won't work. The worm won't follow redirects nor download any pictures (banners) from the page.
And so does Accenture's. Oops, the Accenture brand is not really that well known, at least not as well as Andersen Consulting, hehe...
Shouldn't that be "Intel, a microprocessor manufacturer"; "Microsquish, a crashware products company"; ...
Any bets about for how much it will sell for the two last weeks of next April...?
Too bad it says: "no porno, photos in bad taste, etc.", or else we could send in some Columbine footage...
Good question. Maybe he was a regular at the cafe, and the owner knew where he was working? Or maybe he had paid his meal with his credit card, and they dug out the logs?
> What was the connection? The name the wife would of accused him with would not have matched up.
He was not (mis)identified by name but by his face. And it was not the software that screwed up, but ... "his" wife. As for non-matching names: they probably assumed that he lived under a false name, in order to escape his debt?
> If his name was linked to the photo wouldn't he of questioned where the photo was going to be used?
His name was (probably) not used together with the photo, and it is highly probably that his photo was used without his permission... The photo was part of a demo movie shown "privately" to some journalists. Somehow, one of them must have gotten a hardcopy of it, and used it on the front cover of his paper...
> This doesn't sound quite right somehow. Can anyone offer some insight?
Short summary:
So, what's Hemos doing here? Well, at least he signed his article.
This gatoring is actually much worse: it's more like the consumer unknowingly bought "special" batteries for his radio, which have the interesting property of changing your ad into an ad for your compitor, without your consent nor the station's.
Or like the consumer unknowingly bought "special" sunglasses which make him see poster ads for your competitor on your shop's walls that are not really there.
Or more realistically: like a billboard company that, instead of having its own billboards, just "uses" its competitors by sneaking up at night and replacing their posters...
People were outraged at smart tags, because of the rather theoretical possibility that some content of their pages might be misinterpreted due to the presence of the tags. However, this gatoring is much worse: it specifically targets the type of contents that the webmaster cares most about monetarily: ads. This plugin masterfully not only defrauds the original advertiser but also the webmaster! And all this without contributing as much as one dime to the content of the sites it defaces in such a way! At least, in the playboy case, the search engine chose to run those ads, rather than having them forced upon itself using some sneeky ActiveX.
Good for you that your geek classmates in highschool didn't have easy access to shotguns! Splattered jock brains (isn't that an oxymoron?) make a real mess on the library floor...
Do publish home addresses. We are in 2001 after all.
AFAIK, you can't patent software in Australia, where Samba is developped. So, even if there were such a (US) patent, it would not stop Samba. Well, there might be a small period where Samba would not work while they are busy catching up (i.e. implementing the new algorithm), but the next version all would be back to normal.
Oh great! That means that now you can store five moves rather than four... Indeed, storage need increases exponentially with number of moves.
From what I understand, at that time, it was' the world master's privilege to fix the tournament conditions (prize money, who would put how much into the pool, etc.) for any challenger. Bobby Fischer figured out that he could stay World Master forever by making his conditions unacceptable enough that nobody would challenge him.
Result: the other guys just played without him...
This is nothing unusual. In many chess tournaments, even the loser still wins a sizeable amount of money. Consider it as a kind of gage to remunerate their willingness to participate (and to risk some of their prestige if losing).