ADSL where available either direct from BTorseveralresellers (there are loads more). 512 down / 128 up costs about GBP 30.00 / month give or take.
There are two major cable operators in the uk, ntl: and Telewest. Both offer cable modem in almost all areas of their networks for about GBP 25.00 / month for 512 and 40.00 / month for 1M.
CIFAS is an organisation in the UK that lets the public pay a fee to have their credit file (with all three credit agencies) marked as "FOR F*** SAKE MAKE SURE IT'S ME BEFORE GIVING OUT A LOAN IN MY NAME WILLY NILLY".
On a related note, I signed up for a mailing list from a website in the UK that looked (and sounded) perfectly legit.
It was run by a couple of guys, on a not particularly high interest topic, and their privacy policy (for what they're worth) sounded honest and reasonable.
What I didn't pick up, was that they collected your email address using a CGI hosting service, who I'm sure would be more than happy to collect anything that looked like an email address passing through their scripts.
Other messages have mentioned the formmail.cgi vulnerability, and my weblogs are full of requests from spammers spiders looking for this script.
Presumably there are various ways to use a request for formmail.cgi in retaliation.
1. 404 the request, but then launch a massive DDoS attack on the sending IP, taking out their spider.
2. Accept mail and deliver it directly to/dev/null.
Trouble is,
(1) Is probably illegal - you can't shoot a burglar. (2) would consume lots of _your_ bandwidth, but undoubtedly keep some SPAM off the streets - lowering the spammers response rate at least.
Runs off the disk? That went out of the window with the BBC Micro.
I've not been in programming for a while, but apparently it is no longer possible to write a program that does not require "installing", and the creation of about 6 bazillion registry entries.:(
Sadly, we're going to see a lot of this over the next couple of years.
As mobile Internet access becomes reality, the media will be awash with boring articles that offer no more insight than performing "Function X" from your mobile phone.
I mean, anybody can walk into a house and tell almost instinctively if anybody is living there at the current time.
It is nothing you can put your finger on, it is just a "sense".
Is the same true for honey pots? Can a hacker that is familiar with System X instinctively tell if (s)he is in a real live in-use System X or just a honey pot of System X?
In my 10 years software development experience, I've come to the conclusion that people are by far the most significant factor in the success or otherwise of a project.
In fact, I believe that people are so significant that they make the use or otherwise of any particular "methodology" an irrelevant ingredient in determining the outcome of a project.
Good coders will produce good results with or without methodology.
Average / below average coders will produce average or below average results with or without methodology.
Trouble is, it is impossible to test this theory experimentally; you just have to believe it:)
This is just a guess, I have nothing to do with Google.
If I recall correctly, Google did advertise for folk with _security clearance_.
One of Google's revenue streams is the sale and support (and operation?) of the Google search technology for private use - such as on a large Intranet.
Somebody who _might_ have a large Intranet, that _might_ wish to use the best search technology around is the US Government.
And if they wanted Google people to manage it, they would need to be security cleared, or at least they would in a similar situation in the UK.
If you can't do anything about a warning, then there is no point in issuing a warning at all.
You might not be able to anything about it. Chances are nobody else will be able to do anything about it. But FFS issue a warning because the brains of the world can collectively work on saving our collective ass.
Currently, a web site stores Internet data indicating file access status for the files that have been accessed in response to requests from web browsers. Unfortunately, the Internet data are kept as a set of separate and non-correlated data records that are chronologically arranged according to the times at which the requests have been received and processed. Consequently, the Internet data are not arranged meaningful to management and business operation. The present invention correlates web page files (HTML, SHTML, DHTML, or CGI files) with subject areas (such as sports, news, entertainment, restaurant, shopping, computing, business, health, family, travel and weather). In this way, the Internet data are presented in a format meaningful to management and business operation.
Roughly translated:
Currently, a web site stores Internet data indicating file access status for the files that have been accessed in response to requests from web browsers.
A log.
Unfortunately, the Internet data are kept as a set of separate and non-correlated data records that are chronologically arranged according to the times at which the requests have been received and processed.
A chronological log.
Consequently, the [log] not arranged meaningful to management and business operation.
Ok, so Boss, Pointy Haired couldn't read it. It's just a server log after all. Fine. What'ya gonna do about it, NCR?
Well...
The present invention correlates web page files (HTML, SHTML, DHTML, or CGI files) with subject areas (such as sports, news, entertainment, restaurant, shopping, computing, business, health, family, travel and weather).
Cool! We can take an "Internet Data" (sorry, log) and split it up, no doubt by looking at other components of the path.
Finally...
In this way, the [log is] presented in a format meaningful to management and business operation.
GEE WHIZ! They patented log file analysis.
Go to hell NCR, and take US Patent #6,169,997 with you.
A new social system starts, and seems delightfully free of the elitism and cliquishness of the existing systems. Then, as the new system grows, problems of scale set in. Not everyone can participate in every conversation. Not everyone gets to be heard. Some core group seems more connected than the rest of us, and so on.
Slashdot Mirror
There's a universe where that happens.
Walk quickly across your office over to someone in accounts. They will have a spreadsheet open (they always do).
Point to a random cell, and shout "That should be a 3". Then turn and walk away just as quickly.
Really pisses them off.
ADSL where available either direct from BT or several resellers (there are loads more). 512 down / 128 up costs about GBP 30.00 / month give or take.
There are two major cable operators in the uk, ntl: and Telewest. Both offer cable modem in almost all areas of their networks for about GBP 25.00 / month for 512 and 40.00 / month for 1M.
ntl couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.
CIFAS is an organisation in the UK that lets the public pay a fee to have their credit file (with all three credit agencies) marked as "FOR F*** SAKE MAKE SURE IT'S ME BEFORE GIVING OUT A LOAN IN MY NAME WILLY NILLY".
http://www.cifas.org.uk/
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2003/02/27/mons ter_warning.html
(i mean the URL _itself_ not the page it goes to - that's just a news story about this issue).
On a related note, I signed up for a mailing list from a website in the UK that looked (and sounded) perfectly legit.
It was run by a couple of guys, on a not particularly high interest topic, and their privacy policy (for what they're worth) sounded honest and reasonable.
What I didn't pick up, was that they collected your email address using a CGI hosting service, who I'm sure would be more than happy to collect anything that looked like an email address passing through their scripts.
Other messages have mentioned the formmail.cgi vulnerability, and my weblogs are full of requests from spammers spiders looking for this script.
/dev/null.
Presumably there are various ways to use a request for formmail.cgi in retaliation.
1. 404 the request, but then launch a massive DDoS attack on the sending IP, taking out their spider.
2. Accept mail and deliver it directly to
Trouble is,
(1) Is probably illegal - you can't shoot a burglar. (2) would consume lots of _your_ bandwidth, but undoubtedly keep some SPAM off the streets - lowering the spammers response rate at least.
Any thoughts?
runs off the disk
:(
Runs off the disk? That went out of the window with the BBC Micro.
I've not been in programming for a while, but apparently it is no longer possible to write a program that does not require "installing", and the creation of about 6 bazillion registry entries.
I actually prefer the sound of my favorite tracks when played on the radio to the same tracks played through my CD player.
Is this because:
a) I'm broken.
b) I've got a cheap CD player
c) Frequency Modulation actually does something to sound that makes it more pleasing.
Any thoughts?
My log files are getting SPAMMED more than my email accounts these days.
Fake-up referrer fields set from www.########.com/FREE_WEB_MONITORING_SERVICE
User agent fields flogging domain name registration services to webmasters.
Pain in the arse for a small site just trying to look at stats for its visitors.
Sadly, we're going to see a lot of this over the next couple of years.
As mobile Internet access becomes reality, the media will be awash with boring articles that offer no more insight than performing "Function X" from your mobile phone.
Next.
Disclaimer, I don't really understand the pop industry so this is probably obvious, but...
Why is the negotiating position of these bands so weak that they end up with such a shitty deal?
Ok, perhaps what I meant was "Methodology X".
If you enforce "Methodology X" on a good coder, s(he) will just create a wrapper for their own personal methodology within Methodology X.
How hard is it to make a honey pot look lived in?
I mean, anybody can walk into a house and tell almost instinctively if anybody is living there at the current time.
It is nothing you can put your finger on, it is just a "sense".
Is the same true for honey pots? Can a hacker that is familiar with System X instinctively tell if (s)he is in a real live in-use System X or just a honey pot of System X?
(posted AC the first time by accident)
In my 10 years software development experience, I've come to the conclusion that people are by far the most significant factor in the success or otherwise of a project.
:)
In fact, I believe that people are so significant that they make the use or otherwise of any particular "methodology" an irrelevant ingredient in determining the outcome of a project.
Good coders will produce good results with or without methodology.
Average / below average coders will produce average or below average results with or without methodology.
Trouble is, it is impossible to test this theory experimentally; you just have to believe it
I think.
This is just a guess, I have nothing to do with Google.
If I recall correctly, Google did advertise for folk with _security clearance_.
One of Google's revenue streams is the sale and support (and operation?) of the Google search technology for private use - such as on a large Intranet.
Somebody who _might_ have a large Intranet, that _might_ wish to use the best search technology around is the US Government.
And if they wanted Google people to manage it, they would need to be security cleared, or at least they would in a similar situation in the UK.
In real life, you can get away with saying stuff when you're blind drunk because nobody takes any notice of you.
Trouble is, people get in from a heavy night out, check email, check slashdot, then post some complete crap that you later regret.
Moral, Don't Drink and Post.
So as if my searches weren't already becoming diluted with Blog drivel they definitely will now!
Dr. Geoffery "nobody is cleaverer than me" Sommer can just make an anonymous coward post on the NASA website.
How do 3 men initiate a re-population?
If you can't do anything about a warning, then there is no point in issuing a warning at all.
You might not be able to anything about it. Chances are nobody else will be able to do anything about it. But FFS issue a warning because the brains of the world can collectively work on saving our collective ass.
Thank you very much.
The United States has developed a litigation culture in many aspects of everyday life.
Currently, a web site stores Internet data indicating file access status for the files that have been accessed in response to requests from web browsers. Unfortunately, the Internet data are kept as a set of separate and non-correlated data records that are chronologically arranged according to the times at which the requests have been received and processed. Consequently, the Internet data are not arranged meaningful to management and business operation. The present invention correlates web page files (HTML, SHTML, DHTML, or CGI files) with subject areas (such as sports, news, entertainment, restaurant, shopping, computing, business, health, family, travel and weather). In this way, the Internet data are presented in a format meaningful to management and business operation.
Roughly translated:
Currently, a web site stores Internet data indicating file access status for the files that have been accessed in response to requests from web browsers.
A log.
Unfortunately, the Internet data are kept as a set of separate and non-correlated data records that are chronologically arranged according to the times at which the requests have been received and processed.
A chronological log.
Consequently, the [log] not arranged meaningful to management and business operation.
Ok, so Boss, Pointy Haired couldn't read it. It's just a server log after all. Fine. What'ya gonna do about it, NCR?
Well...
The present invention correlates web page files (HTML, SHTML, DHTML, or CGI files) with subject areas (such as sports, news, entertainment, restaurant, shopping, computing, business, health, family, travel and weather).
Cool! We can take an "Internet Data" (sorry, log) and split it up, no doubt by looking at other components of the path.
Finally...
In this way, the [log is] presented in a format meaningful to management and business operation.
GEE WHIZ! They patented log file analysis.
Go to hell NCR, and take US Patent #6,169,997 with you.
A new social system starts, and seems delightfully free of the elitism and cliquishness of the existing systems. Then, as the new system grows, problems of scale set in. Not everyone can participate in every conversation. Not everyone gets to be heard. Some core group seems more connected than the rest of us, and so on.
Slashdot.
Try the experiment again but after disabling cookies.