It's called orichalcum. It supposedly was from the sunken Alantean continent. I believe it's a nasty mix of copper, gold, silver, and mercury. Let's give a little hint: these dont mix at all.
Very true, unless you're on of the elite in a communist country. However, we live in a capitalistic country. You are payed according to your work. Education and valuable experience brings in the big bucks.
Have you ever heard of the altruistic prinicples? Unless you give totally anonomously, you actually are 'paid' in a social scale, rather than money or service. Big point in example:
Linus Torvalds was a regular college student. He needed a system based off of a variant of unix. He did have access to the source, so he heavily hacked away at the kernel to make it do waht he wanted it to do. He ended up a kernel that was his own, not the companies'. He releases his work free. Skip ahead to today. Linus quits/doesn't have a job. Not for long. Everybody knows who he is and his skills.
In payment to his contribution to Linux (well, making the start of it), he's guaranteed a job nearly anywhere in the software sector.
You're wrong. I've read it, so that makes 1 more than nobody:-)
Anyways, about that person who downloaded 26 GB and th eperson who downloaded 81 GB... were they using the cable legitimately? EG: pirate movies/games ?
If they wern't, I'd call them twice, then slap COUIC on thier accounts. They pay for crappy service. Let them experience a randomly cutting connection. If they were, still give them a call, but I'd be nicer about it.
WHAT?! (while looking at packet firewall) Where are all of these TCP RST's coming from?
When pissed off, I'm not a nice person. And I have my own golden rule: Do unto others as they do to you. My idea is that you give them a taste of thier own medicine. If they dont like it, they can leave.
When I first read this article, I had a fre ideas. After reading some of the better comments, I had suggestions on how the cable company can do this. SO I'll start hitting comments randomly.
First is the bandwidth choice: Limit or no limit. Well, with no limit, you dont. With Limited, how do you do it WITHOUT (keyword) being accused of 'I was hacked'. Mac hacks, redirection, and floods are rampant with the abusive menbers. First, use Port Secure. This essentially makes sure that ONLY that MAC address is on that port. The port doesnt work if it has other addresses too. Second tier is the chew'ers. These guys are the constant linux cd junkies, warez doods, movie pirates, and other poeople who go on to file sharing services with 100 people allowed (and gigs of mp3's). Well, let users download/upload stuff unfrettered, but log people who suck up data (maybe some sort of tag to let local net-admins know). Check up on these people... see where they're going/downloading. If thier warez junkies, either kick them off or put couic on thier account at a random interval ( http://michel.arboi.free.fr/UKUSA/couic.html ). If they seem legit (as in legitly downloading stuff), slap them with a warning. They may chew bandwidth, but they pay. If they dont heed the warnings (even a little), reluctantly kick them off. DO offer readmittance, but then resort to a temporary quota/"pay x after quota" system. I don't like it, but bandwidth isn't cheap.
Secondly is the issue with bandwidth. Since it seems that many users are trading inside and between cable/dsl providers, why not have some sort of fiber going to/from major providers? Going through the whole internet costs a lot more than having router tables going from comcast to att@home through a big fiber pipe. Of course, you could have each provider spider each connection to each other high bandwidth ISP. With this spiderweb of connections from cable/dsl ISP's , it could only be inbound or outbound traffic. Even with warezing, this plan should be cheaper.
My big beef is of the limited, and quota'ed bandwidth. How exactly are they going to take into account of unauthorized use? What if one of your 'friends' decides he doesn't liek you anymore and sends you a few dozen copies of a core dump... do you think Time/Warner will care? They're still getting payed, and you're just asking them to accept less. Or how about that spyware that was unwillingly and unknowingly installed on your machine? It turns out it has contacted the master server and tattled that you have enough bandwidth to be a tier-2 server. You'll now share the server responsibilities of a class b network. Too many things could go wrong with that high speed with monitoring and charging extra bandwidth.
I do like my tehcnicial reasons, but the last is more of an opinion. Take it as you will.
I'd figure I would write an accound of how I would live then.
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It's 6:30am some day in 2004.
The alarm goes and you rise from your bed to face the day's challenges.
After a quick shower and breakfast you wander over to your PC and check to see if any email has arrived overnight.
Hmm... 231 new emails but procmail say that 217 of those are likely to be spam. Even though they've cp'ed dropped into another folder you'll still have to wade through them to make sure that you don't miss an important message that might have been accidentally sidetracked by the less-than-perfect software. But, you still rm -rf them...
Damn, it looks as if you've also received 5 new virus/trojan attachments as well and one of them was 20MB in size -- that's another $4 on your DSL bill.
Suddenly a pop-up dialog box, through emulation by Wine, appears advising you that there are 2 new Windows Security updates that should be downloaded, totalling some 60MB in size (another $12 worth of traffic). You block the server in HOSTS, as so your Windows emulation doesn't tattle on you.
Within seconds, the PC's desktop comes alive with pop-up flashing, animated advertising banners -- you proceed to kill Mozilla you hacked to use with the newer, propeirty html'like protocol. You start up lynx.
Another dialog box pops up, this time warning you that the license for your copy of Windows XP2004 is due to expire in 10 days. You run the registry crack within linux so the emulation dll's will still work.
Fond memories of the days when there were alternatives to Microsoft's OS pass through your mind -- but that was before the government realised that software was like petrol -- a totally essential commodity in the lives of most businesses and individuals. Legislation was passed in 2003 that required all software developers and vendors to be licensed and a 45% tax added to all sales. However, in China, they realised that everything revolved around freely accessible software. China has changed in all thier practices, as to make thier ideal commuinist regime a very livable place for free people. Of course, much to Microsoft's glee, this killed the Open Source from being supported by companies in the US. You howver, bought a black marked copy of DRM linux. This software exploits bugs within the hardware. Of course, having the PCI64 (bought in Korea) anti-drm card has made this much easier
You type in "cnn.com" then enter the ID and password associated with your monthly subscription. Remember when there were hundreds of sites offering the latest news for free? Not any more. Sure, there still a few, but they're regularly hit with law suits by the big names who allege breach of copyright. Although such suits are inevitably dismissed -- the cost of defending them means that the independent news sites usually only last a few months at most. SO you hop onto freenet and use the strange lists of characters that somehow, somewhere lead you to slashdot.
Flicking the remote beside you kicks your digital music player into action and you marvel that 5% of its computing power is dedicated to the sophisticated digital rights management system it contains. You inwardly cheer, as your newly bought anti-drm card with DRM linux does work.
Following an unsuccessful attempt to copy-protect CDs, the recording industry forced everyone to a new mini-CD format that has yet to be cracked (although there are rumours that some Russians have succeeded). You just can't buy music on CDs anymore and the old CDR/RW media now costs $10 a disk, thanks to the $9 anti-piracy levy that was introduced in 2003. Since, the US put levies on anti-'capitalism' countries, you carry removable drives with your required software and movies on them.
Another warning appears -- "Your license for this recording has expired, unable to play." Damn -- another $49 if you want to listen to that music for another year. You then erase them, as you have all your music backed up on steel tape. You wonder, if as they claim, these new measures significantly reduce piracy, why music is now so much more expensive? "It's because of people libe me", you say under your breath.
You type up a quick email to a friend, inviting them to meet you for lunch. As to attract governmental idiots, so they use thier time on a nobody like yourself, you post as your signature the following words:
I will Bomb aeroplane shit damn nuke EMP fire death murder poison buy pirate warez mp3 ogg gpg
After all, every single bit that enters and leaves your PC is now scanned by the authorities -- under the premise that it is in the interests of (inter)national security and crime reduction. I'll make sure to be here at 4 am tomorrow, as they'll make YET another raid. They won't find a thing.
It's funny how they can supposedly detect even an unfriendly tone in an email but they can't (or won't) stop the endless tide of spam isn't it?
Suddenly your PC's screen clears and the image of a naked woman in a seductive pose appears. Oh no, more of those shlopenglaurs whatsits. You see wht pid it's running, and kill it with -9.
For a moment a smile crosses your face -- you're thinking of the "good old days" when the Internet was a much simpler, saner, safer place. Instead, you live on the edge of piracy, illegitimacy. You are a hacker.
Then you return to reality with the realisation that it's just 7:05am and the sucker's accound you hacked already spent $264.
As a last note, I used this article without permission (I see this differently than normal slashdot cut/paste jobs). So I give full permission to aardvark.co.nz to use my article (even if it makes money (heh, like thats going to happen, but still...)
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Trye, but has it changed? Programs still have problems (crashes). Still the major problems were SUID's.
Take good old colorview from SGI machines. It was a X-server color profile viewer, but it was suid. Guess what.... it didnt even look to see if it was a valid color profile. You could read people's mailboxes with this one, or the shadow passwd file. My personal opinion of older SGI boxes were that SGI didnt care a rat's ass about thier software. They just whipped crapplications up and gave them all root access.
Or next in the list, is the/dev/audio bug. This is NOT a crash, but just a weird setting. Older Sun boxes sold in the earliy ninties came with mics. Net admins usually connected it, usually for the novelty. Another detail is that these mics had no ON light or button (you couldnt tell if it's being used or recording) However, Sun screwed up (accidently) in the permissions. it was 0666. For those who don't know *nix, this means everybody can read and write to the sound device (essentially, listen and play over the speakers). Eavesdropping itself is *NOT* a hole. This just let users eavesdrop.
Bugs have always existed and will always exist. Just saying it really sucked then but now is ok is just a cop out. It sucked at first, cause software is revamped by developers. That doesn't just happen immediately.
Seriously, why in the hell would you want this? Bragging rights are ok when talking about a coaster... But why the hell a monorail? If you happen to have a big backyard (not 'ranch' big), just buy a 4 wheeler. It's a bit cheaper. Hell, make one for less than you can buy it.
Then, when's the last time MS has gave BACK source (patches on software, kernel fixes, and the like), in which was NOT related to promotion of yet another monopoly (recent rotor givings was to promote.NOT only). And if you didn't notice, MS is on the Apache board. They just sit there and absorb all good ideas.
---1 - "The viral nature of the GPL" is a bunch of crap. The counter-argument goes like this: I wrote my own damn code, and gave it to you for free. If you want to use it that's fine, but you have to give it away like I did. If you don't like that idea, then go write your own damn code. It's really that simple.---
I wouldn't call it viral. More of an inheritance:-)
---2 - Communism. Yeah so what if some FSF members support some whacked political theories. It doesn't have much bearing on the GPL. The GPL is not communism, it's more akin to realizing that software is much more like art or music than it is like a watch or an auto part, and the way we go about licensing, copyrighting, and patenting software should reflect this.---
Actually, look what Communism is. Communism- Community... Isn't Open source under decent licenses a community?
Now we can get down to the bad's and goods of Communism. First, thier 2 major problems were as follows: 1: Personal greed 2: Non-Infinite resources
In the software arena, neither of these matter when it comes to open source, free programs. People can grab all the free software they want without the guilt (as opposed to warez junkies). And there are near infinite resources (well, how much cents does a 300 KB tar file take up?). Yes, essentially this is a true form of communism (however more like socialism).
---3 - Microsoft's "release of OSS code" and their attempt to join the OSS community and nothing but PR stunts. They have no interest in sharing any vital code under any reasonably open license. For that matter, they have a large interest in not letting anyone see their code, and in not letting anyone even know how to interoperate with it.---
Exactly, if they keep all thier API lib's hidden, they , and only they, have the upper hand on thier OS.
---4 - Yes, some "OSS teams" produce commercial closed-source software, but they are in the minority and it's ok to bash them. For the most part OSS teams tend to go commercial in much nicer ways. Take a look at the Crossover plugin stuff related to the WINE code. They are selling a commercial product, but they're also giving the code back to the community where it belongs.---
And this is exactly what SHOULD happen in capitalism: you get paid in accordance to the quality of the good. In this case, the people who made the Crossover did a damn good job. Hopefully, they have made thier inital investment and a bunch more.
Heh, your "thoughts" are pretty funny. Well, lets tear them apart to the meat of the matter...
---"So sorry, but a "life" begins when the damn child is born, NOT before. Since mommy is NEEDED to maintain its bodily functions which can not do so on their own, the fetus is NOT a separate life, but a proxy-being."---
I see 'a new life' as a seperate genetic code partially derived from 2 parents. Let that be be dogs, whales, or humans. And about that 'fetus' being a proxy being: isn't a mother a proxy being AFTER the baby has been born?
---"Any fetus that has yet to realize singular existance is not a "life" to force laws upon the parent. It is a single being once any fetus is outside the mother and is self sustaining, then, it is a life, not before."---
Can a 'just born' baby survive in the wilderness? No. Human babies need care for quite a while, usually until they can take care of themselves.
---"When a fetus NEEDS the warmth, nourishment and oxygen supply fed into its bloodstream, it is NOT a separate person, no matter how you use religious B.S tovalidate your feelings, the fact remains. Inside the mother, it's not a single entity. Outside the mother's womb, it IS a separate entity, and then you can consider it a life."---
I stated my religion as so that others would know hoe my biases stand. What about your belifs? Are you afraid to state them? And next of all, don't mothers cover up thier babies with clothing (to prevent chills), and don't mother feed thier babies (after being born)? What you're saying is that it's still a fetus after it comes out. Correct? The last I know, abadonded babies DIE.
---"Sorry, I will NEVER concede to laws having total control over any woman's body, that is NOT the right or authority of ANY government!"---
You're right. No law should be made governing control over thier personal bodies. How about the babies bodies? Are you saying there should be control over babies bodies?
And now let's pull some rhetoric from the law. Government allows abortion, right? Ok, now if the pregnany lady injests cocaine, could be tried for child abuse? Your answer would be no, right (since it's not a child)? Well, the government did try the lady for that exact punishment and was 'Guilty'. Talk about hypocracy.
---"Babies cost the government NOTHING, take nothing and consume nothing, therefore, the government has NO need to regulate any human beings body, no matter WHAT or HOW they think!"---
What a bunch of uninformed BULLSHIT. I'm assuming you've never heard of Welfare. That's right. Welfare's a FREE program. Hmm, I wonder where that money comes from...
---"Leave gods and religious BULLSHIT out of the living people's lives once and for all!"---
I stated my religious background as so people could understand underlying biases. I did NOT use religion in any part of my argument, as religion IS a belif (eg: not based in solid fact).
---"The WTC fatalities should never have been allowed if there really was a "god" that was real, caring and thoughtful!"---
You're just begging to be thumped (which I HATE thumping). If you're seriously asking the question, instead of trying to cause trouble, I'd answer. Instead I direct you to the 4 gospels in the Bible (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John). Pay attention when Jesus is tempted by the Devil. Other than that, if you really interested in understanding why, you'll read that. In any situation, I'm not going to waste my explanation on unlistening ears.
---"I know this was totally O.T. but I had to stand up and voice MY opinion with MY thoughts, and nobody else's."---
That, I applaud. Even though we diametrically disagree, I'd fight for your rights to say so. And, no, It wasn't off topic. Topic's like these are never off.
---"Copyright does for fair use, like Ted Kennedy did at Chappaquidick(me thinks that is how it's spelled*)."---
I claim ignorance. I know that Good Old Ted is an idiot... Still don't know of that incident.
---"Stop buying that which you hate, continuing to do so, you tell yourself that you agree with the MPAA/RIAA and their tactics to date!"---
Th rest of this post seems decently correct, as I have no quarrel with it. However, the last paragraph sounds like a troll in disguise... Let's have a look:
"For a best case example, compare this to Linux users who wait months for the newest kernel to fix their bugs, as opposed to those who wait weeks for Microsoft to come up with their patches/service packs... Microsoft is expected to rebuild a OS (from scratch) far faster than Linux, and is condemnned the moment it exceeds hours past another exploit being exposed, while Linux users wait patiently for months for the equivelent being released..."
First, Linux users wait months for kernel bugfixes? Yeah, right. Ever heard of diff patches? If there's a bug within free software (eg: not propeirty hardware or software), It's fixed within days. Depending on urgency, less than 24 hours. No other community can claim that due to the sheer volume of users/developers/debuggers.
Having OPEN SOURCE helps quite a lot, too
Next, is this statement. See if you can identify the troll like part in this:
"Microsoft is expected to rebuild a OS (from scratch)."
That's like "Regrowing New hair", right?
Or how about this:
"and is condemnned the moment it exceeds hours past another exploit being exposed, while Linux users wait patiently for months for the equivelent being released... "
Well how about NEVER fixing identified bugs? All the NT series OS'es suffers from the CSRSS backspace bug. The big gripe here is is that NT 4.0 has been "laid to rest", essentially junked. Many corporations use NT 4.0 , as it is a good product, when installed and administered correctly. But since this bug will NEVER be fixed, NT 4.0 is forever broken. Here's the website explaining the bug: http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/c srss-backspace-bug.html
Now about that Linux comment about lack of exploit patches: Like HELL. Whenever there's a root exploit or other comprimising problems, THERE IS A PATCH WITHIN DAYS. Usually, you just turn off the daemon till the patch comes through, or follow what a user found to stop the bug. It's exactly the opposite what this idiot said. Microsoft drags its heels in even admitting there is a bug. Then you hav eto wait for a service patch to fix it (hoping it doesn't break something else).
It's sad that a/few moderator(s) actually didn't see through your junk argument. It's people who use thier brains who break this crap.
I wasnt quite clear. I dont JUST have computers. I have miscellanous electrical equipment. Amongst these things that have fans, there are: O-scope, 3 computers, signal anaylyzer, box fan to put heat outside (I love cracking my window open even in winter), a few rackmount devices (24 port hub, 16 port switch, 1u 400mHz p2), assorted power supplies to deliver regulated current throught my room (that pesky 120 vac is too, umm, yucky;-).
Actually, I was going to mention that. The fans put me in some sort of happy-trance.. soft of like self-hypnosis. It usually takes me about 30 minutes longer to go to sleep WITHOUT fans of some sort.
Even the sad thing with me, is that I know the particular pitch of the fans. I can tell which devices are on just by the pitch.
The idiots.com.com people are great. Take this snippet for example....
"It appears the hacker was able to view some source code under development."
Adame emphasized that while the hackers were able to view the source code, "there were no modifications or corruptions" and "no source code was downloaded."
Umm, how can you view it if you dont download it? Damn these telepathic hackers!
-----The Brilliant network is based on a piece of software called "Altnet Secureinstall," which is bundled with the Kazaa software. That technology can connect to other peer-to-peer networks, ad servers or file servers independently of the Kazaa software and can be automatically updated to add new features, according to Brilliant's filing.
When the software is "turned on," computers running the Brilliant software will form a new peer-to-peer network separate from but connected to Kazaa, the filing said. A few computers with fast connections will form the early core of the network and be asked to join first. Other ordinary computers and Net connections will be invited later, Bermeister said.-----
Hmm, from the sound of the article, they dont want US snooping in the network. They want it hidden. Wonder what they want to put in there.... Let them make it, then lets deconstruct it using winblows boxes behind linux walls. With all the data, we should be able to construct the protocol. Talk about a network you'd want to hack... get millions of MIPS at your fingertips:-) And who wouldnt want to use a supercomputer like resource once in a while?
Does anybody what "going digital" is doing to our culture? Well, for starters, it's devaluing many items we have in media and software.
The problem lies therin: Medias for the longest time has distributed analog songs and movies. They were fairly hard to copy, as you usually had to spend the same amount of time to listen to them to copy them. Still, for quite the time, records were just records. No copying them at all, but they were affordable and 'refreshing' (music-wise). If it broke, it wasn't too much to replace. The Main Cost Is The Media AND the Contents.
Now, the media wishes to distribute everything digitally. The problem for them is that digital data can be copied exactly. Not true with analog (well, most part). CD's cost 15-20 $ a piece and dvd's are equally overpriced. The biggest change this has made is a normal audio cd has about 500 MB raw tracks. This compresses (in 320 kbps) still is about 120 MB. Since the cost here is just space to hold data and the 'creativeness', people see less value.
My point is that cheap media is making people wonder why we are paying SOO much for what seems to be easily stored FOR PENNIES. These days, CD storage is cheap. SO why are we STILL PAYING 15-20 $ dollars for a cd?
Ok, let alone religious arguments (BTW, I am Catholic).
The US bases principals that you have the RIGHT of Life, Liberty, and the *Pursuit* of happiness. Essentially, the US nor does any individual, has no right to take away life without due process. This part "without due process" allows execution of murderers, treasonists, and the like.
The argument about life (when considering 'Right to abortion') is when it starts. Biologists I've talked to said life starts when 2 different pieces of code meet and create a 3'rd, seperate identity consisting roughly 1/2 of each material. Now my question is... Where is the due process in abortion? Has the unborn baby commited murder, treason, or other HIGH crimes? No. Sadfully, It's usually for conveinance.
Check out the MS Unisys site. Somebody netcraft'ed the site and they were running Unix. STill that sillly window and maze fooled me. Are people getting squeezed "In the Window and lost in the maze"? Oh well. UNIX/Linux is the way out (hell, with that maze, jumpboots would work:-)
For generating random data from a computer, most say it CANT be done. However, the way I understand it, true noise is random, right? Well, cant you play something through a sound card (and with a loopback cable to the mic) record at the same time?
Usually you see that the sound card has "16 bits of resolution" bla bla.... In actuality, PC's generate quite a bit of noise on the pci bus, so that you get 12 bits of resolution with 4 bits of static. You just dont know what 4 bits are bad.
My idea is to use a sound card D/A converter and use the static as random data. Would this work? Why or why not?
"I've retreated almost totally into USENET, mailing lists, and a few IRC channels that still offer a modicum of intelligent conversation and interesting information. I don't accept HTML email, and although I still browse slashdot and K5, I don't post as regularly as I used to."
Then you don't know how bad USENET has become since the "September that never ended". AoL let (l)users on to usenet. Most groups I've seen are too spam riddled. I tried USENET for quite some time... alt.hacking is a pretty good group, but the real trolls are there. Course... you know what a REAL troll is, not some slashdot troll.:-) (Where's Dave? or Got Hipcrime?
Ok, encryption programs are nice an all, but I want anonomity. There are many others like me, but we show sometimes too much stuff. We have fun erasing all fields in mailers (only stuff that is critical stays in). IP addys are nearly always munged (1 way connection through non open relays). Still we need a good meeting ground.
Well, hiding data in non-obvious places (steganography) is a good way of doing this. Well, I thought about slashdot crap floods. Are they really crap-floods. It's a great way to send messages. And who EVEN reads at -1 let alone understand it.
By the way, if you use a private-key type stego, you still have the strength of the encryption. YOu can also plausibly deny any knowledge. The same holds true for the stegoFS for linux. Fairly complex to set up. Proper usage is VERY difficult.
Actually, if it's Outhouse (err hmm outlook), it WILL corrupt binary data. We see idiots posting mime base64 data on newsgroups that dont want them however, we also used encryption to secure our private group talk. What otlook does is mainly screw with 's and adding http:// whenever it sees in binary data:// . Hint: PGP does this about 1-2 times per 100k.
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It's called orichalcum. It supposedly was from the sunken Alantean continent. I believe it's a nasty mix of copper, gold, silver, and mercury. Let's give a little hint: these dont mix at all.
Very true, unless you're on of the elite in a communist country. However, we live in a capitalistic country. You are payed according to your work. Education and valuable experience brings in the big bucks.
Have you ever heard of the altruistic prinicples? Unless you give totally anonomously, you actually are 'paid' in a social scale, rather than money or service. Big point in example:
Linus Torvalds was a regular college student. He needed a system based off of a variant of unix. He did have access to the source, so he heavily hacked away at the kernel to make it do waht he wanted it to do. He ended up a kernel that was his own, not the companies'. He releases his work free. Skip ahead to today. Linus quits/doesn't have a job. Not for long. Everybody knows who he is and his skills.
In payment to his contribution to Linux (well, making the start of it), he's guaranteed a job nearly anywhere in the software sector.
You're wrong. I've read it, so that makes 1 more than nobody :-)
Anyways, about that person who downloaded 26 GB and th eperson who downloaded 81 GB... were they using the cable legitimately? EG: pirate movies/games ?
If they wern't, I'd call them twice, then slap COUIC on thier accounts. They pay for crappy service. Let them experience a randomly cutting connection. If they were, still give them a call, but I'd be nicer about it.
WHAT?! (while looking at packet firewall) Where are all of these TCP RST's coming from?
When pissed off, I'm not a nice person. And I have my own golden rule: Do unto others as they do to you. My idea is that you give them a taste of thier own medicine. If they dont like it, they can leave.
When I first read this article, I had a fre ideas. After reading some of the better comments, I had suggestions on how the cable company can do this. SO I'll start hitting comments randomly.
First is the bandwidth choice: Limit or no limit. Well, with no limit, you dont. With Limited, how do you do it WITHOUT (keyword) being accused of 'I was hacked'. Mac hacks, redirection, and floods are rampant with the abusive menbers. First, use Port Secure. This essentially makes sure that ONLY that MAC address is on that port. The port doesnt work if it has other addresses too. Second tier is the chew'ers. These guys are the constant linux cd junkies, warez doods, movie pirates, and other poeople who go on to file sharing services with 100 people allowed (and gigs of mp3's). Well, let users download/upload stuff unfrettered, but log people who suck up data (maybe some sort of tag to let local net-admins know). Check up on these people... see where they're going/downloading. If thier warez junkies, either kick them off or put couic on thier account at a random interval ( http://michel.arboi.free.fr/UKUSA/couic.html ). If they seem legit (as in legitly downloading stuff), slap them with a warning. They may chew bandwidth, but they pay. If they dont heed the warnings (even a little), reluctantly kick them off. DO offer readmittance, but then resort to a temporary quota/"pay x after quota" system. I don't like it, but bandwidth isn't cheap.
Secondly is the issue with bandwidth. Since it seems that many users are trading inside and between cable/dsl providers, why not have some sort of fiber going to/from major providers? Going through the whole internet costs a lot more than having router tables going from comcast to att@home through a big fiber pipe. Of course, you could have each provider spider each connection to each other high bandwidth ISP. With this spiderweb of connections from cable/dsl ISP's , it could only be inbound or outbound traffic. Even with warezing, this plan should be cheaper.
My big beef is of the limited, and quota'ed bandwidth. How exactly are they going to take into account of unauthorized use? What if one of your 'friends' decides he doesn't liek you anymore and sends you a few dozen copies of a core dump... do you think Time/Warner will care? They're still getting payed, and you're just asking them to accept less. Or how about that spyware that was unwillingly and unknowingly installed on your machine? It turns out it has contacted the master server and tattled that you have enough bandwidth to be a tier-2 server. You'll now share the server responsibilities of a class b network. Too many things could go wrong with that high speed with monitoring and charging extra bandwidth.
I do like my tehcnicial reasons, but the last is more of an opinion. Take it as you will.
I'd figure I would write an accound of how I would live then.
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It's 6:30am some day in 2004.
The alarm goes and you rise from your bed to face the day's challenges.
After a quick shower and breakfast you wander over to your PC and check to see if any email has arrived overnight.
Hmm... 231 new emails but procmail say that 217 of those are likely to be spam. Even though they've cp'ed dropped into another folder you'll still have to wade through them to make sure that you don't miss an important message that might have been accidentally sidetracked by the less-than-perfect software. But, you still rm -rf them...
Damn, it looks as if you've also received 5 new virus/trojan attachments as well and one of them was 20MB in size -- that's another $4 on your DSL bill.
Suddenly a pop-up dialog box, through emulation by Wine, appears advising you that there are 2 new Windows Security updates that should be downloaded, totalling some 60MB in size (another $12 worth of traffic). You block the server in HOSTS, as so your Windows emulation doesn't tattle on you.
Within seconds, the PC's desktop comes alive with pop-up flashing, animated advertising banners -- you proceed to kill Mozilla you hacked to use with the newer, propeirty html'like protocol. You start up lynx.
Another dialog box pops up, this time warning you that the license for your copy of Windows XP2004 is due to expire in 10 days. You run the registry crack within linux so the emulation dll's will still work.
Fond memories of the days when there were alternatives to Microsoft's OS pass through your mind -- but that was before the government realised that software was like petrol -- a totally essential commodity in the lives of most businesses and individuals. Legislation was passed in 2003 that required all software developers and vendors to be licensed and a 45% tax added to all sales. However, in China, they realised that everything revolved around freely accessible software. China has changed in all thier practices, as to make thier ideal commuinist regime a very livable place for free people. Of course, much to Microsoft's glee, this killed the Open Source from being supported by companies in the US. You howver, bought a black marked copy of DRM linux. This software exploits bugs within the hardware. Of course, having the PCI64 (bought in Korea) anti-drm card has made this much easier
You type in "cnn.com" then enter the ID and password associated with your monthly subscription. Remember when there were hundreds of sites offering the latest news for free? Not any more. Sure, there still a few, but they're regularly hit with law suits by the big names who allege breach of copyright. Although such suits are inevitably dismissed -- the cost of defending them means that the independent news sites usually only last a few months at most. SO you hop onto freenet and use the strange lists of characters that somehow, somewhere lead you to slashdot.
Flicking the remote beside you kicks your digital music player into action and you marvel that 5% of its computing power is dedicated to the sophisticated digital rights management system it contains. You inwardly cheer, as your newly bought anti-drm card with DRM linux does work.
Following an unsuccessful attempt to copy-protect CDs, the recording industry forced everyone to a new mini-CD format that has yet to be cracked (although there are rumours that some Russians have succeeded). You just can't buy music on CDs anymore and the old CDR/RW media now costs $10 a disk, thanks to the $9 anti-piracy levy that was introduced in 2003. Since, the US put levies on anti-'capitalism' countries, you carry removable drives with your required software and movies on them.
Another warning appears -- "Your license for this recording has expired, unable to play." Damn -- another $49 if you want to listen to that music for another year. You then erase them, as you have all your music backed up on steel tape. You wonder, if as they claim, these new measures significantly reduce piracy, why music is now so much more expensive? "It's because of people libe me", you say under your breath.
You type up a quick email to a friend, inviting them to meet you for lunch. As to attract governmental idiots, so they use thier time on a nobody like yourself, you post as your signature the following words:
I will Bomb aeroplane shit damn nuke EMP fire death murder poison buy pirate warez mp3 ogg gpg
After all, every single bit that enters and leaves your PC is now scanned by the authorities -- under the premise that it is in the interests of (inter)national security and crime reduction. I'll make sure to be here at 4 am tomorrow, as they'll make YET another raid. They won't find a thing.
It's funny how they can supposedly detect even an unfriendly tone in an email but they can't (or won't) stop the endless tide of spam isn't it?
Suddenly your PC's screen clears and the image of a naked woman in a seductive pose appears. Oh no, more of those shlopenglaurs whatsits. You see wht pid it's running, and kill it with -9
For a moment a smile crosses your face -- you're thinking of the "good old days" when the Internet was a much simpler, saner, safer place. Instead, you live on the edge of piracy, illegitimacy. You are a hacker.
Then you return to reality with the realisation that it's just 7:05am and the sucker's accound you hacked already spent $264.
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As a last note, I used this article without permission (I see this differently than normal slashdot cut/paste jobs). So I give full permission to aardvark.co.nz to use my article (even if it makes money (heh, like thats going to happen, but still...)
CARRIER LOST....
Trye, but has it changed? Programs still have problems (crashes). Still the major problems were SUID's.
/dev/audio bug. This is NOT a crash, but just a weird setting. Older Sun boxes sold in the earliy ninties came with mics. Net admins usually connected it, usually for the novelty. Another detail is that these mics had no ON light or button (you couldnt tell if it's being used or recording) However, Sun screwed up (accidently) in the permissions. it was 0666. For those who don't know *nix, this means everybody can read and write to the sound device (essentially, listen and play over the speakers). Eavesdropping itself is *NOT* a hole. This just let users eavesdrop.
Take good old colorview from SGI machines. It was a X-server color profile viewer, but it was suid. Guess what.... it didnt even look to see if it was a valid color profile. You could read people's mailboxes with this one, or the shadow passwd file. My personal opinion of older SGI boxes were that SGI didnt care a rat's ass about thier software. They just whipped crapplications up and gave them all root access.
Or next in the list, is the
Bugs have always existed and will always exist. Just saying it really sucked then but now is ok is just a cop out. It sucked at first, cause software is revamped by developers. That doesn't just happen immediately.
Apple missing premise:
Buy from us! Our stuff looks pretty.
Seriously, why in the hell would you want this? Bragging rights are ok when talking about a coaster... But why the hell a monorail? If you happen to have a big backyard (not 'ranch' big), just buy a 4 wheeler. It's a bit cheaper. Hell, make one for less than you can buy it.
Then, when's the last time MS has gave BACK source (patches on software, kernel fixes, and the like), in which was NOT related to promotion of yet another monopoly (recent rotor givings was to promote .NOT only). And if you didn't notice, MS is on the Apache board. They just sit there and absorb all good ideas.
---Silly AC, comments are for users.---
:-)
Trolls are users.... sort of
---1 - "The viral nature of the GPL" is a bunch of crap. The counter-argument goes like this: I wrote my own damn code, and gave it to you for free. If you want to use it that's fine, but you have to give it away like I did. If you don't like that idea, then go write your own damn code. It's really that simple.---
I wouldn't call it viral. More of an inheritance
---2 - Communism. Yeah so what if some FSF members support some whacked political theories. It doesn't have much bearing on the GPL. The GPL is not communism, it's more akin to realizing that software is much more like art or music than it is like a watch or an auto part, and the way we go about licensing, copyrighting, and patenting software should reflect this.---
Actually, look what Communism is. Communism- Community... Isn't Open source under decent licenses a community?
Now we can get down to the bad's and goods of Communism. First, thier 2 major problems were as follows:
1: Personal greed
2: Non-Infinite resources
In the software arena, neither of these matter when it comes to open source, free programs. People can grab all the free software they want without the guilt (as opposed to warez junkies). And there are near infinite resources (well, how much cents does a 300 KB tar file take up?). Yes, essentially this is a true form of communism (however more like socialism).
---3 - Microsoft's "release of OSS code" and their attempt to join the OSS community and nothing but PR stunts. They have no interest in sharing any vital code under any reasonably open license. For that matter, they have a large interest in not letting anyone see their code, and in not letting anyone even know how to interoperate with it.---
Exactly, if they keep all thier API lib's hidden, they , and only they, have the upper hand on thier OS.
---4 - Yes, some "OSS teams" produce commercial closed-source software, but they are in the minority and it's ok to bash them. For the most part OSS teams tend to go commercial in much nicer ways. Take a look at the Crossover plugin stuff related to the WINE code. They are selling a commercial product, but they're also giving the code back to the community where it belongs.---
And this is exactly what SHOULD happen in capitalism: you get paid in accordance to the quality of the good. In this case, the people who made the Crossover did a damn good job. Hopefully, they have made thier inital investment and a bunch more.
Heh, your "thoughts" are pretty funny. Well, lets tear them apart to the meat of the matter...
---"So sorry, but a "life" begins when the damn child is born, NOT before. Since mommy is NEEDED to maintain its bodily functions which can not do so on their own, the fetus is NOT a separate life, but a proxy-being."---
I see 'a new life' as a seperate genetic code partially derived from 2 parents. Let that be be dogs, whales, or humans. And about that 'fetus' being a proxy being: isn't a mother a proxy being AFTER the baby has been born?
---"Any fetus that has yet to realize singular existance is not a "life" to force laws upon the parent. It is a single being once any fetus is outside the mother and is self sustaining, then, it is a life, not before."---
Can a 'just born' baby survive in the wilderness? No. Human babies need care for quite a while, usually until they can take care of themselves.
---"When a fetus NEEDS the warmth, nourishment and oxygen supply fed into its bloodstream, it is NOT a separate person, no matter how you use religious B.S tovalidate your feelings, the fact remains.
Inside the mother, it's not a single entity.
Outside the mother's womb, it IS a separate entity, and then you can consider it a life."---
I stated my religion as so that others would know hoe my biases stand. What about your belifs? Are you afraid to state them? And next of all, don't mothers cover up thier babies with clothing (to prevent chills), and don't mother feed thier babies (after being born)? What you're saying is that it's still a fetus after it comes out. Correct? The last I know, abadonded babies DIE.
---"Sorry, I will NEVER concede to laws having total control over any woman's body, that is NOT the right or authority of ANY government!"---
You're right. No law should be made governing control over thier personal bodies. How about the babies bodies? Are you saying there should be control over babies bodies?
And now let's pull some rhetoric from the law. Government allows abortion, right? Ok, now if the pregnany lady injests cocaine, could be tried for child abuse? Your answer would be no, right (since it's not a child)? Well, the government did try the lady for that exact punishment and was 'Guilty'. Talk about hypocracy.
---"Babies cost the government NOTHING, take nothing and consume nothing, therefore, the government has NO need to regulate any human beings body, no matter WHAT or HOW they think!"---
What a bunch of uninformed BULLSHIT. I'm assuming you've never heard of Welfare. That's right. Welfare's a FREE program. Hmm, I wonder where that money comes from...
---"Leave gods and religious BULLSHIT out of the living people's lives once and for all!"---
I stated my religious background as so people could understand underlying biases. I did NOT use religion in any part of my argument, as religion IS a belif (eg: not based in solid fact).
---"The WTC fatalities should never have been allowed if there really was a "god" that was real, caring and thoughtful!"---
You're just begging to be thumped (which I HATE thumping). If you're seriously asking the question, instead of trying to cause trouble, I'd answer. Instead I direct you to the 4 gospels in the Bible (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John). Pay attention when Jesus is tempted by the Devil. Other than that, if you really interested in understanding why, you'll read that. In any situation, I'm not going to waste my explanation on unlistening ears.
---"I know this was totally O.T. but I had to stand up and voice MY opinion with MY thoughts, and nobody else's."---
That, I applaud. Even though we diametrically disagree, I'd fight for your rights to say so. And, no, It wasn't off topic. Topic's like these are never off.
---"Copyright does for fair use, like Ted Kennedy did at Chappaquidick(me thinks that is how it's spelled*)."---
I claim ignorance. I know that Good Old Ted is an idiot... Still don't know of that incident.
---"Stop buying that which you hate, continuing to do so, you tell yourself that you agree with the MPAA/RIAA and their tactics to date!"---
I don't. This is kinda OT, but is this a sig?
Josh Crawley
Th rest of this post seems decently correct, as I have no quarrel with it. However, the last paragraph sounds like a troll in disguise... Let's have a look:
c srss-backspace-bug.html
"For a best case example, compare this to Linux users who wait months for the newest kernel to fix their bugs, as opposed to those who wait weeks for Microsoft to come up with their patches/service packs... Microsoft is expected to rebuild a OS (from scratch) far faster than Linux, and is condemnned the moment it exceeds hours past another exploit being exposed, while Linux users wait patiently for months for the equivelent being released..."
First, Linux users wait months for kernel bugfixes? Yeah, right. Ever heard of diff patches? If there's a bug within free software (eg: not propeirty hardware or software), It's fixed within days. Depending on urgency, less than 24 hours. No other community can claim that due to the sheer volume of users/developers/debuggers.
Having OPEN SOURCE helps quite a lot, too
Next, is this statement. See if you can identify the troll like part in this:
"Microsoft is expected to rebuild a OS (from scratch)."
That's like "Regrowing New hair", right?
Or how about this:
"and is condemnned the moment it exceeds hours past another exploit being exposed, while Linux users wait patiently for months for the equivelent being released...
"
Well how about NEVER fixing identified bugs? All the NT series OS'es suffers from the CSRSS backspace bug. The big gripe here is is that NT 4.0 has been "laid to rest", essentially junked. Many corporations use NT 4.0 , as it is a good product, when installed and administered correctly. But since this bug will NEVER be fixed, NT 4.0 is forever broken. Here's the website explaining the bug: http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/
Now about that Linux comment about lack of exploit patches: Like HELL. Whenever there's a root exploit or other comprimising problems, THERE IS A PATCH WITHIN DAYS. Usually, you just turn off the daemon till the patch comes through, or follow what a user found to stop the bug. It's exactly the opposite what this idiot said. Microsoft drags its heels in even admitting there is a bug. Then you hav eto wait for a service patch to fix it (hoping it doesn't break something else).
It's sad that a/few moderator(s) actually didn't see through your junk argument. It's people who use thier brains who break this crap.
Josh Crawley
I wasnt quite clear. I dont JUST have computers. I have miscellanous electrical equipment. Amongst these things that have fans, there are: O-scope, 3 computers, signal anaylyzer, box fan to put heat outside (I love cracking my window open even in winter), a few rackmount devices (24 port hub, 16 port switch, 1u 400mHz p2), assorted power supplies to deliver regulated current throught my room (that pesky 120 vac is too, umm, yucky ;-).
Actually, I was going to mention that. The fans put me in some sort of happy-trance.. soft of like self-hypnosis. It usually takes me about 30 minutes longer to go to sleep WITHOUT fans of some sort.
Even the sad thing with me, is that I know the particular pitch of the fans. I can tell which devices are on just by the pitch.
The idiots.com.com people are great. Take this snippet for example....
"It appears the hacker was able to view some source code under development."
Adame emphasized that while the hackers were able to view the source code, "there were no modifications or corruptions" and "no source code was downloaded."
Umm, how can you view it if you dont download it? Damn these telepathic hackers!
From the article, I'll quote a snippet:
:-) And who wouldnt want to use a supercomputer like resource once in a while?
-----The Brilliant network is based on a piece of software called "Altnet Secureinstall," which is bundled with the Kazaa software. That technology can connect to other peer-to-peer networks, ad servers or file servers independently of the Kazaa software and can be automatically updated to add new features, according to Brilliant's filing.
When the software is "turned on," computers running the Brilliant software will form a new peer-to-peer network separate from but connected to Kazaa, the filing said. A few computers with fast connections will form the early core of the network and be asked to join first. Other ordinary computers and Net connections will be invited later, Bermeister said.-----
Hmm, from the sound of the article, they dont want US snooping in the network. They want it hidden. Wonder what they want to put in there.... Let them make it, then lets deconstruct it using winblows boxes behind linux walls. With all the data, we should be able to construct the protocol. Talk about a network you'd want to hack... get millions of MIPS at your fingertips
Does this mean we'll be able to cook eggs on our graphics cards too?
Wonder if the uber-mods can bitch-slap an ARTICLE... We'll find out soon enough.
Does anybody what "going digital" is doing to our culture? Well, for starters, it's devaluing many items we have in media and software.
The problem lies therin:
Medias for the longest time has distributed analog songs and movies. They were fairly hard to copy, as you usually had to spend the same amount of time to listen to them to copy them. Still, for quite the time, records were just records. No copying them at all, but they were affordable and 'refreshing' (music-wise). If it broke, it wasn't too much to replace.
The Main Cost Is The Media AND the Contents.
Now, the media wishes to distribute everything digitally. The problem for them is that digital data can be copied exactly. Not true with analog (well, most part). CD's cost 15-20 $ a piece and dvd's are equally overpriced. The biggest change this has made is a normal audio cd has about 500 MB raw tracks. This compresses (in 320 kbps) still is about 120 MB. Since the cost here is just space to hold data and the 'creativeness', people see less value.
My point is that cheap media is making people wonder why we are paying SOO much for what seems to be easily stored FOR PENNIES. These days, CD storage is cheap. SO why are we STILL PAYING 15-20 $ dollars for a cd?
Ok, let alone religious arguments (BTW, I am Catholic).
The US bases principals that you have the RIGHT of Life, Liberty, and the *Pursuit* of happiness. Essentially, the US nor does any individual, has no right to take away life without due process. This part "without due process" allows execution of murderers, treasonists, and the like.
The argument about life (when considering 'Right to abortion') is when it starts. Biologists I've talked to said life starts when 2 different pieces of code meet and create a 3'rd, seperate identity consisting roughly 1/2 of each material. Now my question is... Where is the due process in abortion? Has the unborn baby commited murder, treason, or other HIGH crimes? No. Sadfully, It's usually for conveinance.
Check out the MS Unisys site. Somebody netcraft'ed the site and they were running Unix. STill that sillly window and maze fooled me. Are people getting squeezed "In the Window and lost in the maze"? Oh well. UNIX/Linux is the way out (hell, with that maze, jumpboots would work :-)
For generating random data from a computer, most say it CANT be done. However, the way I understand it, true noise is random, right? Well, cant you play something through a sound card (and with a loopback cable to the mic) record at the same time?
Usually you see that the sound card has "16 bits of resolution" bla bla.... In actuality, PC's generate quite a bit of noise on the pci bus, so that you get 12 bits of resolution with 4 bits of static. You just dont know what 4 bits are bad.
My idea is to use a sound card D/A converter and use the static as random data. Would this work? Why or why not?
"I've retreated almost totally into USENET, mailing lists, and a few IRC channels that still offer a modicum of intelligent conversation and interesting information. I don't accept HTML email, and although I still browse slashdot and K5, I don't post as regularly as I used to."
:-) (Where's Dave? or Got Hipcrime?
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Then you don't know how bad USENET has become since the "September that never ended". AoL let (l)users on to usenet. Most groups I've seen are too spam riddled. I tried USENET for quite some time... alt.hacking is a pretty good group, but the real trolls are there. Course... you know what a REAL troll is, not some slashdot troll.
Lemee guess, the server you're on isn't DALnet
Ok, encryption programs are nice an all, but I want anonomity. There are many others like me, but we show sometimes too much stuff. We have fun erasing all fields in mailers (only stuff that is critical stays in). IP addys are nearly always munged (1 way connection through non open relays). Still we need a good meeting ground.
Well, hiding data in non-obvious places (steganography) is a good way of doing this. Well, I thought about slashdot crap floods. Are they really crap-floods. It's a great way to send messages. And who EVEN reads at -1 let alone understand it.
By the way, if you use a private-key type stego, you still have the strength of the encryption. YOu can also plausibly deny any knowledge. The same holds true for the stegoFS for linux. Fairly complex to set up. Proper usage is VERY difficult.
Actually, if it's Outhouse (err hmm outlook), it WILL corrupt binary data. We see idiots posting mime base64 data on newsgroups that dont want them however, we also used encryption to secure our private group talk. What otlook does is mainly screw with 's and adding http:// whenever it sees in binary data :// . Hint: PGP does this about 1-2 times per 100k.