Well, as others said, you're not going to learn how to hack in a week for $60. But it can be taught.
My university actually does teach classes on hacking, or as they call it 'information warfare'. Not 'security' mind you, 'warfare'. Of course, it's a grad program... you'll need a degree before you can even take it...
In a standard corporate intranet, what is the preferred method to share files between end users? Far as I can tell, there isn't one. That's the point. Same goes with home users.
It was called JXTA, and really it's just a way to transfer XML around with java. It's useful, probably. It's still around, but no real visible apps have come about.
Which would really help me out, but because of all sorts of internal networking issues they would be hard to get.
So in other words, uServe is a fix for IBM's jacked up intranet? Wouldn't it have been better to put resources into fixing their network in the first place?
A p2p web mirroring system. Actually a bit different from this, my idea was of having a massive distributed 'cloud' of proxy servers, so that people in sucky countries (China, Saudi Arabia, Australia) could get past national firewalls.
IMO, the web model of content distribution kind of sucks. Interesting sites that draw a lot of traffic die because they don't have enough bandwidth. or their content isn't 'profitable' enough.
But on the other hand, isn't this just a stripped down version of Freenet without the protection? Of course, giving how sluggish Freenet is on the current internet, maybe that's the only way to go.
The holy grail, I think would be a system that still allowed interactive/dynamic content. Imagine a distributed/.:P
Actually, AT&T stands for Atlantic telephone and telegraph, at least it did when it started. And even if it stood for 'American' it still would be able to non-ironically wire up Canada, seeing as how it's on the American continent.
Obviously if they really didn't want people outside they're network to use their DNS systems they would have set it up like that.
It's probably just a joke, since their IPs are so easy to remember. There could be a lot of people who's DNS servers are down using these, maybe they just wanted to 'remind' people to use other DNS servers when they could find them, without cutting them off from the 'net.
While it's true that America has a really good infrastructure, we're also the cheapest. @home had a bad deal to start with (they only got about $16/mo/user). They just didn't charge enough money ($4 more a month/user and they'd be firmly in the black)
The fact that the connection is going down is simply spite and more bad management. They want to get more money out of att, and they're trying to force the issue. All they're really doing is making the value of the network approach zero. Instead of $300 million (30 cents on the dollar for what they paid) they're going to get jack shit. And they deserve it too.
Actually, what I think happened was some tech or whatever put.XXX. in because he didn't know, and expected someone in marketing to fix the bug. I'd say it's probably more of a systematic failure then an individual subversion.
That's funny man. I checked and not only is it a porn site, but a popup-spewing one. They managed to open some tiny window that I couldn't close (damn IE bugs) that kept spawning them, I thought I was going to have to kill IE's process.
These damn porn-site operators are the scum of the earth!
IE dosn't suck If you're running windows, there's really no reason not to. I've got mozilla (and just got ns4.79) for testing, but for plain web surfing IE really is the thing to beat.
While it's true that if you use the IP address you won't hit a vhosted server, that has nothing to do with the hosts file. the hosts file is just for overriding the DNS system on your own machine. And also, it wasn't the referrer HTTP header that affects VHosting, but rather the host header, (or a full URL in the http get statement).
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 ads.x10.com
127.0.0.1 www.consumerinfo.com
127.0.0.1 actionsplash.com
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.com
127.0.0.1 www.travelzoo.com
127.0.0.1 popup.msn.com
64.113.72.34 autopr0n.com
Gaping assholes I can deal with. The ads still pop up, but they show my own home page instead. (he last entry was from a time I lost DNS service and couldn't resolve my own site. It was vhosted so using the IP in the URL wouldn't work)
The only downside I see is that it has no DVD drive for built in ripping
It's not to surprising, considering that they wanted to sell the device, rather then just getting lawyered the fuck out of:P
Once they're successful they might be able to do things like throw in a DVD burner a-la recent Macs, but don't except a home DeCSS machine on store shelves anytime soon:)
Sources at Excite@Home told Dotcom Scoop that the company planned to "send a message to one of the cable companies" by switching off service to customers.
They sent a message to their customers too. "We don't give a shit about you."
Forget Microsoft, these regional monopolies on cable bandwidth really show the problems that can happen when only one company has control. I mean, these guys just don't give a shit. I mean, sure the company is totally fucked, (so nothing for customers to be loyal to if they could be) but rather than "Sorry, we screwed up, but we're going to do everything we can to keep you guys connected." they're basically saying "We screwed up, fortunately for us, you guys can all help pay the price! Despite the fact that all you did was pay us what we asked and dealt with our crappy service".
Personally, I think this is just more of the same shitty management. It's a shame that companies feel that they can be
I always figured that the major problem with a system like this was randomized messages. I figured a way around it would be try to make a 'conceptual' hash of the contents, that try to analyze the meaning of the text, not just the data.
The big problem with that, is well, it's not easy:). But redistributing the hash function when spammers figure out the old one is an interesting idea as well. The big problem is with the more technically savvy spammers (yeh, I'm sure they're are some out there, unfortunately) who could reverse engineer the hash to figure out what makes it tick.
Well, not entirely usless, although the choice of museum's as a class of institutions deserving a tld seems kind of random.
Otoh, I really like their index system, rather then having 2nd level domains up for grabs, although they seem to be allowing just about every catigory you could think of. I mean 'airguard.museum'? sci.museum and
science.museum? and why does the louvre get a 2nd level? (those stuck up french:P)
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Well, as others said, you're not going to learn how to hack in a week for $60. But it can be taught.
My university actually does teach classes on hacking, or as they call it 'information warfare'. Not 'security' mind you, 'warfare'. Of course, it's a grad program... you'll need a degree before you can even take it...
In a standard corporate intranet, what is the preferred method to share files between end users? Far as I can tell, there isn't one. That's the point. Same goes with home users.
Well, everywhere I've worked we used SMB or NFS.
It was called JXTA, and really it's just a way to transfer XML around with java. It's useful, probably. It's still around, but no real visible apps have come about.
Which would really help me out, but because of all sorts of internal networking issues they would be hard to get.
So in other words, uServe is a fix for IBM's jacked up intranet? Wouldn't it have been better to put resources into fixing their network in the first place?
A p2p web mirroring system. Actually a bit different from this, my idea was of having a massive distributed 'cloud' of proxy servers, so that people in sucky countries (China, Saudi Arabia, Australia) could get past national firewalls.
/. :P
IMO, the web model of content distribution kind of sucks. Interesting sites that draw a lot of traffic die because they don't have enough bandwidth. or their content isn't 'profitable' enough.
But on the other hand, isn't this just a stripped down version of Freenet without the protection? Of course, giving how sluggish Freenet is on the current internet, maybe that's the only way to go.
The holy grail, I think would be a system that still allowed interactive/dynamic content. Imagine a distributed
Well, I mean I don't have a problem with legit advertizing, banners or whatever. But popups must die. Unforunetly my hosts hack is a bit out of date.
I mean "heat surfaces."
I don't know about you, but where I live the sun dosn't head surfaces to 480 degrees Fahrenheit...
I think it's quite excessive to claim this will reduce entropy.
I think they meant reduce the delta of entropy.
These things don't kick in until about 250 Celsius, 482degrees Fahrenheit. Which is pretty fucking hot already :P
Who knows, maybe with better materials it might someday be practical for use in PCs, but not for a while.
(oxymoronic) AT&T Canada
Actually, AT&T stands for Atlantic telephone and telegraph, at least it did when it started. And even if it stood for 'American' it still would be able to non-ironically wire up Canada, seeing as how it's on the American continent.
Obviously if they really didn't want people outside they're network to use their DNS systems they would have set it up like that.
It's probably just a joke, since their IPs are so easy to remember. There could be a lot of people who's DNS servers are down using these, maybe they just wanted to 'remind' people to use other DNS servers when they could find them, without cutting them off from the 'net.
Not everyone is a humorless bastard, you know.
And of course plain old spite.
While it's true that America has a really good infrastructure, we're also the cheapest. @home had a bad deal to start with (they only got about $16/mo/user). They just didn't charge enough money ($4 more a month/user and they'd be firmly in the black)
The fact that the connection is going down is simply spite and more bad management. They want to get more money out of att, and they're trying to force the issue. All they're really doing is making the value of the network approach zero. Instead of $300 million (30 cents on the dollar for what they paid) they're going to get jack shit. And they deserve it too.
Heh
.XXX. in because he didn't know, and expected someone in marketing to fix the bug. I'd say it's probably more of a systematic failure then an individual subversion.
Actually, what I think happened was some tech or whatever put
That's funny man. I checked and not only is it a porn site, but a popup-spewing one. They managed to open some tiny window that I couldn't close (damn IE bugs) that kept spawning them, I thought I was going to have to kill IE's process.
These damn porn-site operators are the scum of the earth!
IE dosn't suck If you're running windows, there's really no reason not to. I've got mozilla (and just got ns4.79) for testing, but for plain web surfing IE really is the thing to beat.
While it's true that if you use the IP address you won't hit a vhosted server, that has nothing to do with the hosts file. the hosts file is just for overriding the DNS system on your own machine. And also, it wasn't the referrer HTTP header that affects VHosting, but rather the host header, (or a full URL in the http get statement).
The best was on page 7. "If you this (on penis) and love her, she will never seperate from you."
:)
Well, either that or she'll just steal it when she does
Actualy, my hosts file looks like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 ads.x10.com
127.0.0.1 www.consumerinfo.com
127.0.0.1 actionsplash.com
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.com
127.0.0.1 www.travelzoo.com
127.0.0.1 popup.msn.com
64.113.72.34 autopr0n.com
Gaping assholes I can deal with. The ads still pop up, but they show my own home page instead. (he last entry was from a time I lost DNS service and couldn't resolve my own site. It was vhosted so using the IP in the URL wouldn't work)
I'm not. i'm posing from my dream cast now
:P. Good thing you remembered where the web-browser CD was. Don't you still have to pay for the DC dialup though?
ha-ha, kick ass
The only downside I see is that it has no DVD drive for built in ripping
:P
:)
It's not to surprising, considering that they wanted to sell the device, rather then just getting lawyered the fuck out of
Once they're successful they might be able to do things like throw in a DVD burner a-la recent Macs, but don't except a home DeCSS machine on store shelves anytime soon
Sources at Excite@Home told Dotcom Scoop that the company planned to "send a message to one of the cable companies" by switching off service to customers.
They sent a message to their customers too. "We don't give a shit about you."
Forget Microsoft, these regional monopolies on cable bandwidth really show the problems that can happen when only one company has control. I mean, these guys just don't give a shit. I mean, sure the company is totally fucked, (so nothing for customers to be loyal to if they could be) but rather than "Sorry, we screwed up, but we're going to do everything we can to keep you guys connected." they're basically saying "We screwed up, fortunately for us, you guys can all help pay the price! Despite the fact that all you did was pay us what we asked and dealt with our crappy service".
Personally, I think this is just more of the same shitty management. It's a shame that companies feel that they can be
I always figured that the major problem with a system like this was randomized messages. I figured a way around it would be try to make a 'conceptual' hash of the contents, that try to analyze the meaning of the text, not just the data.
:). But redistributing the hash function when spammers figure out the old one is an interesting idea as well. The big problem is with the more technically savvy spammers (yeh, I'm sure they're are some out there, unfortunately) who could reverse engineer the hash to figure out what makes it tick.
The big problem with that, is well, it's not easy
You might be thinking of brightmail. I think that's what they do (to lazy to look it up)
How completly usless.
:P)
Well, not entirely usless, although the choice of museum's as a class of institutions deserving a tld seems kind of random.
Otoh, I really like their index system, rather then having 2nd level domains up for grabs, although they seem to be allowing just about every catigory you could think of. I mean 'airguard.museum'? sci.museum and science.museum? and why does the louvre get a 2nd level? (those stuck up french