And while I'm on that, 200 bucks? If you are really trying to get money, why not charge 20 bucks? For 200 bucks, most people are likely to seek outside help. For 20 bucks, people are more likely to just fork it over. I'd bet you'd have a greater ROI with the lower charge.
Make the virus extensible, and write a module that checks their bank balances before issuing the demands. Over £500 in credit, charge £200. £0-500, £20. In debt - it transfers money to them:)
Actually, the best **almost** anonymous way of sending messages is to PGP/GPG encrypt them, and post them to alt.anonymous.messages. Then, the right person, with the correct key can download your message, and (if he downloads every message in the group every day), you'd never know which ones he was able to read. And obviously others wouldn't be able to read the contents.
Run route -n and look for a netmask of 255.0.0.0 relating to your 192.168.x.x interface. Check on the DHCP server for the same, and check what IP addresses are being given out. Change subnet to 255.255.0.0 (or 255.255.255.0 depending). Try my sig again. Profit.:)
Erm, I think that it is you who might need to check:) Iana isn't down. The IP address of www.iana.org is 192.0.34.162 - I suspect that you have an interface configured with 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.0.0.0 or something like that. Or a dodgy route.
In case you didn't hear, Saddam is best mates with Bin Laden. They hang out, and smoke dope, get drunk, chase ladies together, and draw up 9-11/Mk2 plans.
Redundant doesn't just mean untimely - it also means unnecessary, useless, of no added value. So the first post, if it simply repeated things from the story would be redundant. Find a dictionary, and read it sometime.
I'm sure that you can find small enough strings in any file.
My old sig used to be: grep "meaning of life"/dev/urandom. (It never did find the answer though.)
That's why they're pushing so hard for these laws, it's the very basis of the new economy.
I don't know why, but this strikes me as a move similar to funding Bin Laden to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, or being friendly with Saddam. They probably seemed a good idea, but turned round to bite the US on the ass later.
From what you are saying, it sounds like you think that only a SHA hash of some biometric information that doesn't change could be the way to identify someone.
I personally would love it if all pirated copies of Windows stopped working. It wouldn't affect me, and it might be the nudge that made people use Linux.
I also think that a very nasty virus that trashes/encrypts all the data files it can would have the same effect. (I am not suggesting that someone makes one however.)
But they patch against the vanilla kernel.
If the vanilla kernel gets a patch applied, everyone else has to change their patches to accomodate the changes (assuming the patches are in similar areas of the kernel).
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Make the virus extensible, and write a module that checks their bank balances before issuing the demands. Over £500 in credit, charge £200. £0-500, £20. In debt - it transfers money to them :)
Actually, the best **almost** anonymous way of sending messages is to PGP/GPG encrypt them, and post them to alt.anonymous.messages. Then, the right person, with the correct key can download your message, and (if he downloads every message in the group every day), you'd never know which ones he was able to read. And obviously others wouldn't be able to read the contents.
They read Slashdot, and liked my idea.
Have you ever heard of a job title "Intellectrician"? I laughed when I saw the card.. :)
I thought it was encrypted copyrighted data. (IANAL)
Nope, but I've been there.
Did you miss the "George Dantzig, 1914-2005" title?
I'm a non-Norwegian, speaking geek - is that close enough? :)
Jeg skal ikke gå så langt
I shall not go so far
It's almost readable.
Run route -n and look for a netmask of 255.0.0.0 relating to your 192.168.x.x interface. Check on the DHCP server for the same, and check what IP addresses are being given out. Change subnet to 255.255.0.0 (or 255.255.255.0 depending). Try my sig again. Profit. :)
Erm, I think that it is you who might need to check :) Iana isn't down. The IP address of www.iana.org is 192.0.34.162 - I suspect that you have an interface configured with 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.0.0.0 or something like that. Or a dodgy route.
And sorry, who is enforcing this law? I wasn't aware that the US owned space.
In case you didn't hear, Saddam is best mates with Bin Laden. They hang out, and smoke dope, get drunk, chase ladies together, and draw up 9-11/Mk2 plans.
Redundant doesn't just mean untimely - it also means unnecessary, useless, of no added value. So the first post, if it simply repeated things from the story would be redundant. Find a dictionary, and read it sometime.
So an exec from a company that owns a Linux distro doesn't agree with a Microsoft commissioned report that finds Windows is cheaper to patch?
Mein Gott im Himmel! This really is astounding! Call the BBC - it'll be front page news in no time!
I'm sure that you can find small enough strings in any file. /dev/urandom. (It never did find the answer though.)
My old sig used to be: grep "meaning of life"
I don't know why, but this strikes me as a move similar to funding Bin Laden to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, or being friendly with Saddam. They probably seemed a good idea, but turned round to bite the US on the ass later.
From what you are saying, it sounds like you think that only a SHA hash of some biometric information that doesn't change could be the way to identify someone.
I personally would love it if all pirated copies of Windows stopped working. It wouldn't affect me, and it might be the nudge that made people use Linux.
I also think that a very nasty virus that trashes/encrypts all the data files it can would have the same effect. (I am not suggesting that someone makes one however.)
But they patch against the vanilla kernel.
If the vanilla kernel gets a patch applied, everyone else has to change their patches to accomodate the changes (assuming the patches are in similar areas of the kernel).
Well I never heard it the first time, so it's fine by me.
Admittedly, dupes where the two stories are on the front page at the same time....
Oh, that's OK. As long as there are less than 100 we're all safe.
Like I do already. Where is Calum?
"If Pacman had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
If that's the case, it's worse than useless.