http://www.sysinternals.com has a bunch of great tools for debugging/reverse engineering. I use Filemon and Regmon all the time, to debug problems on NT servers.
I think this poster is right on the money. The reason it's less of an issue in Japan may just be that anime has gotten the country accustomed to the idea, hence it's no big deal.
Modifying a machine to be dual processor without swapping out the motherboard? Anyone have any more info on this? The article was kinda skimpy on the details, it assumed we knew already.
They also forgot about newton. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. (Yes, there is that pesky e=mc2 thing too.) So, imagine walking around in a body suit that struggles against your every move. Or running somewhere because you're late. Or...
I currently use a program that watches for any program that tries to register itself to run automatically named Startup Monitor. It works great against adware and other programs that aren't specifically viruses, but that do cause my computer to not work properly. Anyway, it catches the most annoying autoexec programs, but not VXDs or OCXs or certain other registered DLLs.
I wonder how script-kiddyish the actual Magic Lantern is, beyond the concept.
And Delphi (which is based on Pascal) from Borland is still alive and well. I haven't heard much about it, but I very frequently run across programs written in it.
Well, actually, according to the alchemical lore that I've read, it turns lead into gold, and that is a metaphor for finding spiritual purity, thus granting immortality. (Either christian immortality in heaven/the afterlife or physical immortality, depending on which version you prefer.)
In short, it does both, but the turning lead into gold is a byproduct of reaching spiritual perfection.
FWIW, looking it up,
http://cartoonnetwork.com/toonami/reactor/daftpunk/media/vid1.hi.ram
is
rtsp://demand2.stream.aol.com/demand/cartoon/toona mi/real/daftpunk/video1.hi.rm, so the vids are hosted by AOL. So, it should resist slashdotting fairly well.
Matsushita Unveils New Mega-DVD
New Disks Store 10X as Much Content
October 24, 2001
Video Business reports that Japanese electronics giant Matsushita has introduced a DVD disk that can store more than 50GB (gigabytes) of information on each side. Disks available today typically store about 5GB per side. The new disks should prove to be increasingly important in the era of high definition TV, since they will be able to store over four hours of high-def TV on each side. The disks should eventually also provide enormous potential for use in creation of collections of TV series that were not shot in high definition, since they can hold ten times as much as current disks, raising the prospect of a single DVD holding four or five seasons of Ranma ½ or some other long-running series.
While full exploitation of this new disk technology is clearly well in the future, the possibilities are mind-boggling. Unfortunately we may have to wait until the slow-developing market for high definition television finally takes off before this new disk technology is fully implemented, but early adoption for computer applications may hasten the day when a two-disk Seinfeld collection can encompass the entire series.
This happened to me about four years ago. I posted a message to Usenet (my first post to alt.discordia, among other groups), with a.sig containing "Filter bait: He will assassinate the president, but needs the password." followed by RC4 in 3 lines of Perl. The secret service obtained my (unlisted) home phone number, probably from my university, (probably not entirely legal, but I'm not pushing it,) and called me up at the ungodly hour of 9AM to question me about my website. They were referring to this post, which they had found using Dejanews.
My point being, I'm a bit afraid of the run of the mill agents having access to technical anti-privacy nukes that they don't quite know how to use.
The new performance standard codifies a change announced last year to discontinue DoD's ability to decrease GPS accuracy. See http://www.ostp.gov/html/0053_2.html
This announcement just when the ground war in Afghanistan is starting. Didn't they originally decrease the accuracy specifically for military reasons?
I coded up
a quick & simple project for Win32 that listens on port 80 for signs of Code Red 1 & 2, and Nimda. In the two weeks I was running it, I got one CR2 unique IP, and hundreds Nimda unique IPs on a DSL line. Most recently, on a T1, I saw the count go down from 30 to 20 Unique IPs for Nimda overnight, but I didn't see *any* CR2 hits.
(As a side note, I wasn't using the warn feature on the T1, but on DSL, about 50% of those warned, fixed their systems.)
Oh yeah, source code is included, but little to no documentation.
The application servers use "sticky" load balancing. That means that once a user goes to a particular app server, all of her subsequent requests during that session will also be passed to the same app server. The f5 hardware accomplishes this using browser cookies.
Doing something similar, I just hashed the users IP, mod by the number of servers, and sent it to that particular server. (ie. 10.0.0.1 = 0xA000001, 0xA000001 % 0x0A = 0x01, hence send to server #1)
In case of server failure, the sessions might get unstuck from the server, but that shouldn't happen often enough to be much of a performance hit.
Despite the repeated same sex propositions (I'm straight.) Despite having a friend of a friend pull a gun on me, as a joke. Despite having a friend OD on junk. Despite a non-user knowing where to get almost any drug known to mankind. Despite having seen more of the dirty underbelly of Chicago than most people can imagine, and still having seen only a small fraction of it. Despite all that.
A bunker deep beneath an unnamed mountain somewhere in the western US.
Sir, we've had all of our top computers working on this message for months, and we can't crack it. Seven of our top cryptanalysts have starved to death while trying to decipher the thing. General, sir, we're losing this battle.
The general pauses to think for a moment. Then he speaks.
Colonel, do we still have that agent on the Captain Crunch marketing board? Good. Have him slip these Captain Crunch Secret Decoder rings into the marketing plan.
A short phone call later, and twenty thousand little kids were working on the uncrackable ROT13 cipher.
I've been thinking about the whole distributed computing issue recently. SETI@Home and Distributed.net have proven how effective large scale parallel processing is. OTOH, Nimda has proven how effective a very simple worm can be.
Joe Cracker just managed to get ahold of a password file from his favourite.mil site. But now he's stumped. He tried his regular password cracking programs, to no avail. He decides to code up a quick worm in Visual Basic, and in several hours he has thousands of computers working at his task.
I live in Chicago. In the past year, I've seen cops selling crack on the street (on the south side). I kept driving, not even looking in the rear view mirror. I wasn't willing to risk my life.
In a completely different part of the city (west side), a person I knew was buying heroin. The cops stopped him, took his junk, and let him go. I'm pretty sure they didn't log it as evidence.
Most of the young black people living in the poorer parts of the city *do* fear that the cops will randomly pull their gun on [them], randomly spray [them] with pepper, or randomly beat [them] with their sticks!
In cases of police abuse of power, the burden of proof is on the victim, just like in cases of rape. Would you be willing to report police abuse of power, if nobody would believe you, and it would call down every other police officer in the district to make life difficult for you?
Actually, one person rips it, distributes it on IRC. Fifty people get it from IRC, and 10 put it on their P2P of choice. Everyone that downloads it via P2P is then distributing it too. Exponential growth of distribution sites over time, based on demand is what makes P2P tick (for files anyway). In short, copy protection will increase the amount of time it takes for the file to get out there, but it will.
(And whether P2P is stealing is still in debate, but please don't.)
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.sysinternals.com has a bunch of great tools for debugging/reverse engineering. I use Filemon and Regmon all the time, to debug problems on NT servers.
I think this poster is right on the money. The reason it's less of an issue in Japan may just be that anime has gotten the country accustomed to the idea, hence it's no big deal.
Modifying a machine to be dual processor without swapping out the motherboard? Anyone have any more info on this? The article was kinda skimpy on the details, it assumed we knew already.
They also forgot about newton. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. (Yes, there is that pesky e=mc2 thing too.) So, imagine walking around in a body suit that struggles against your every move. Or running somewhere because you're late. Or...
On the plus side, it would be excellent exercise.
I'm sure that given enough resolve, one could code a 3-D FPS game in perl (knowing our community, this has probably already been done).
In one line too, no doubt.
I currently use a program that watches for any program that tries to register itself to run automatically named Startup Monitor. It works great against adware and other programs that aren't specifically viruses, but that do cause my computer to not work properly. Anyway, it catches the most annoying autoexec programs, but not VXDs or OCXs or certain other registered DLLs.
I wonder how script-kiddyish the actual Magic Lantern is, beyond the concept.
How long until Norton Antivirus detects W32.FBI-MagicLantern?
And Delphi (which is based on Pascal) from Borland is still alive and well. I haven't heard much about it, but I very frequently run across programs written in it.
Well, actually, according to the alchemical lore that I've read, it turns lead into gold, and that is a metaphor for finding spiritual purity, thus granting immortality. (Either christian immortality in heaven/the afterlife or physical immortality, depending on which version you prefer.)
In short, it does both, but the turning lead into gold is a byproduct of reaching spiritual perfection.
FWIW, looking it up, http://cartoonnetwork.com/toonami/reactor/daftpunk /media/vid1.hi.ram
is
rtsp://demand2.stream.aol.com/demand/cartoon/toona mi/real/daftpunk/video1.hi.rm, so the vids are hosted by AOL. So, it should resist slashdotting fairly well.
According to this, those 2 hours of hidef TV are uncompressed. Compressed is probably a helluva lot more.
October 24, 2001
Video Business reports that Japanese electronics giant Matsushita has introduced a DVD disk that can store more than 50GB (gigabytes) of information on each side. Disks available today typically store about 5GB per side. The new disks should prove to be increasingly important in the era of high definition TV, since they will be able to store over four hours of high-def TV on each side. The disks should eventually also provide enormous potential for use in creation of collections of TV series that were not shot in high definition, since they can hold ten times as much as current disks, raising the prospect of a single DVD holding four or five seasons of Ranma ½ or some other long-running series. While full exploitation of this new disk technology is clearly well in the future, the possibilities are mind-boggling. Unfortunately we may have to wait until the slow-developing market for high definition television finally takes off before this new disk technology is fully implemented, but early adoption for computer applications may hasten the day when a two-disk Seinfeld collection can encompass the entire series.
This happened to me about four years ago. I posted a message to Usenet (my first post to alt.discordia, among other groups), with a .sig containing "Filter bait: He will assassinate the president, but needs the password." followed by RC4 in 3 lines of Perl. The secret service obtained my (unlisted) home phone number, probably from my university, (probably not entirely legal, but I'm not pushing it,) and called me up at the ungodly hour of 9AM to question me about my website. They were referring to this post, which they had found using Dejanews.
My point being, I'm a bit afraid of the run of the mill agents having access to technical anti-privacy nukes that they don't quite know how to use.
The new performance standard codifies a change announced last year to discontinue DoD's ability to decrease GPS accuracy. See http://www.ostp.gov/html/0053_2.html
This announcement just when the ground war in Afghanistan is starting. Didn't they originally decrease the accuracy specifically for military reasons?
QT is free as in beer. It is not free as in speech. The original AC has a valid point. There are versions of QT that aren't free.
I coded up a quick & simple project for Win32 that listens on port 80 for signs of Code Red 1 & 2, and Nimda. In the two weeks I was running it, I got one CR2 unique IP, and hundreds Nimda unique IPs on a DSL line. Most recently, on a T1, I saw the count go down from 30 to 20 Unique IPs for Nimda overnight, but I didn't see *any* CR2 hits.
(As a side note, I wasn't using the warn feature on the T1, but on DSL, about 50% of those warned, fixed their systems.)
Oh yeah, source code is included, but little to no documentation.
The application servers use "sticky" load balancing. That means that once a user goes to a particular app server, all of her subsequent requests during that session will also be passed to the same app server. The f5 hardware accomplishes this using browser cookies.
Doing something similar, I just hashed the users IP, mod by the number of servers, and sent it to that particular server. (ie. 10.0.0.1 = 0xA000001, 0xA000001 % 0x0A = 0x01, hence send to server #1)
In case of server failure, the sessions might get unstuck from the server, but that shouldn't happen often enough to be much of a performance hit.
Despite the repeated same sex propositions (I'm straight.) Despite having a friend of a friend pull a gun on me, as a joke. Despite having a friend OD on junk. Despite a non-user knowing where to get almost any drug known to mankind. Despite having seen more of the dirty underbelly of Chicago than most people can imagine, and still having seen only a small fraction of it. Despite all that.
I love Chicago.
A bunker deep beneath an unnamed mountain somewhere in the western US.
Sir, we've had all of our top computers working on this message for months, and we can't crack it. Seven of our top cryptanalysts have starved to death while trying to decipher the thing. General, sir, we're losing this battle.The general pauses to think for a moment. Then he speaks.
Colonel, do we still have that agent on the Captain Crunch marketing board? Good. Have him slip these Captain Crunch Secret Decoder rings into the marketing plan.
A short phone call later, and twenty thousand little kids were working on the uncrackable ROT13 cipher.
I've been thinking about the whole distributed computing issue recently. SETI@Home and Distributed.net have proven how effective large scale parallel processing is. OTOH, Nimda has proven how effective a very simple worm can be.
Joe Cracker just managed to get ahold of a password file from his favourite .mil site. But now he's stumped. He tried his regular password cracking programs, to no avail. He decides to code up a quick worm in Visual Basic, and in several hours he has thousands of computers working at his task.
I live in Chicago. In the past year, I've seen cops selling crack on the street (on the south side). I kept driving, not even looking in the rear view mirror. I wasn't willing to risk my life. In a completely different part of the city (west side), a person I knew was buying heroin. The cops stopped him, took his junk, and let him go. I'm pretty sure they didn't log it as evidence. Most of the young black people living in the poorer parts of the city *do* fear that the cops will randomly pull their gun on [them], randomly spray [them] with pepper, or randomly beat [them] with their sticks! In cases of police abuse of power, the burden of proof is on the victim, just like in cases of rape. Would you be willing to report police abuse of power, if nobody would believe you, and it would call down every other police officer in the district to make life difficult for you?
If you rip a copy protected CD on a Linux box, or a Mac, and don't even notice that it has copy protection, are you breaking the law?
Actually, one person rips it, distributes it on IRC. Fifty people get it from IRC, and 10 put it on their P2P of choice. Everyone that downloads it via P2P is then distributing it too. Exponential growth of distribution sites over time, based on demand is what makes P2P tick (for files anyway). In short, copy protection will increase the amount of time it takes for the file to get out there, but it will.
(And whether P2P is stealing is still in debate, but please don't.)