I'm a big fan of tarpitting SSH connections myself. It dramatically cuts down on the repeated ssh attempts, and keeps my logs much cleaner.
Basically, an iptables rule: -A INPUTCHAIN -m state --state NEW -m recent -p tcp --dport 22 --update --seconds 30 --hitcount 4 --rttl --name SSH -j DROP
That doesn't look like tarpitting, you are just dropping the connections. Tarpitting would be holding the connection open but not sending useful data down it.
Not that there is anything wrong with just dropping the connections, it's a good approach.
"How can I stop people from driving past my house and seeing if the lights are on?"
That's easy, just move the front door to where one of your upstairs windows is and install tiny robots that will draw the curtains if the traffic noise gets too loud.
I don't know how you got modded funny, thats just about the most insightful comment in this whole thread.
The real advantage of solid state storage is seek time, not read/write times. They don't beat conventional drives by much at sustained IO. Maybe this will change in the future. RAID just isn't meant for SSD devices. RAID is a fix for the unreliable nature of magnetic disks.
B) there are no libraries. How many people actually -buy- all the books they read?
I do. I thought everyone did.
Without access to a university library the only option is a public library, in which case I wait a month and have a very long trip to get a copy of a book with every third word underlined and some pages ripped out. Most books are so cheap that buying a new one is worth it just to save the pain of having to deal with a library. The exception would be out of print or hard to find books.
First thought was - WoW! Somebody wants to defeat disk caching, ECC and make life bloody difficult to boot. The best way, if you really want to do direct disk RMW operations - is to use Flash. Its fast, reasonably portable, and won't fail you if you use it properly.
You still won't know where the data is actually written. Flash does wear leveling.
Knowing everything there is to know about dd isn't going to tell you where on a physical disk your data is stored. dd only sees a long string of zeros and ones that are a far abstruction from what physically happens on the drive.
There doesn't seem to be any way to be sure exactly where the data is written except by a deep understanding and maybe a replacement of the drive firmware.
No, the "dark greens" are in favor of killing the "non-sustainable" portion of humans. Without oil (as we'll be in 50 years at the latest) that means between 90 and 99% of humans alive today. That's totally unacceptable.
It is an open question whether a life of pure suffering is better than no life at all.
Your impression of slums can only be what you have read and what you have seen on TV. I've seen slums and it's all lies. The Indian government and Indians in general lie their asses off by denying that most of India is in fact slums. I have no personal experience of other countries.
To answer your frankly naive points:
Dynamic and growing economy with practically no oversight, regulation or taxation by government
Is digging though human waste and burning plastic off electrical cables for a few cents of copper a 'dymanic and growing economy'? I don't think so.
Entrepreneurs generally use private security in preference to the (somewhat corrupt) police
Few people in slums can afford hired thugs. 'Entrepreneurs' is not a fit word for anyone who has a stream of human sewage within 2 meters of where they sleep.
High density living means services can be provided cheaply and new revenue streams become possible
Services? Revenus streams? These people have -nothing- to sell. If they did it would get stolen fast.
No effective local government means that people self-organise between themselves to get things done
Self-organise? They have nothing to organise. It's not a commune, it's do whatever you have to too survive.
There are no government provisions for the slums, so all goods and services are provided by local entrepreneurs and not the government
There are no goods, there are no services. Begging and theft are the only income streams. It's not a commune, it's hell on earth.
Despite the lack of effective policing, crime rates are lower than one would expect
The police don't care, crime isn't reported. Theft is common and people get murdered for the clothes they are wearing.
I've seen slums in India and I totally agree with you. Hell on earth is probably understating it. It's just not possible to express how bad these places are in words, the words just don't exist. No human could see real slums and believe they can teach us anything.
Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly should try living in a slum for just 24 hours. The mental scars would last a lifetime.
"I want developers to think of PayPal first whenever they hear the word 'fraud' and I want to know what it will take to get there. We're willing to do it. We're willing to innovate and experiment on their behalf and hear their feedback," he said
But really, if you can't set up a credit card purchasing system, you shouldn't be doing business. The only difference between the Internet and brick and mortar shops is that on the Internet you don't buy from the sketchy place that only takes cash.
The difference is if you go to the sketchy place that only takes cash you still have rights and you can't lose more than the cash you give them. A condition of using paypal is that you sign all your rights away plus give them the right to empty every account you ever told them about.
But there still a large number of "my god is better than your god" nyah-nyahs whose idea of healthy debate is killing others who don't agree with them rather than thinking.
I doubt religion is the cause for this though. People kill each other over football matches as well as many other things. Getting rid of religion wouldn't solve this problem.
Of course it won't solve the problem. It will reduce it by a considerable amount though.
Most wars in history have been motivated at least in part by 'my god is better than your god'.
Xerox is notable for failing to commercialise or profit from PARC's accomplishments, including the invention of the gui, laser printing, bit-mapped graphics, the mouse, and Ethernet. It is the most monumental example of dropping the ball that I can think of.
Plus object-oriented programming, They invented that too.
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Muddling terms is how you end up with nonsense like not being able to tell programs from data.
But windows admins can't tell data from programs. They put both under c:\program files
The same bug in a module that ran on Linux would result in a remote root exploit.
It would not. By default apache runs as root to bind port 80 and/or 443, then it changes to an unprivileged user.
Why on earth anyone would want to run apache on windows is beyond me but it seems people do.
I'm a big fan of tarpitting SSH connections myself. It dramatically cuts down on the repeated ssh attempts, and keeps my logs much cleaner.
Basically, an iptables rule:
-A INPUTCHAIN -m state --state NEW -m recent -p tcp --dport 22 --update --seconds 30 --hitcount 4 --rttl --name SSH -j DROP
That doesn't look like tarpitting, you are just dropping the connections. Tarpitting would be holding the connection open but not sending useful data down it.
Not that there is anything wrong with just dropping the connections, it's a good approach.
That's easy, just move the front door to where one of your upstairs windows is and install tiny robots that will draw the curtains if the traffic noise gets too loud.
I don't know how you got modded funny, thats just about the most insightful comment in this whole thread.
The real advantage of solid state storage is seek time, not read/write times. They don't beat conventional drives by much at sustained IO. Maybe this will change in the future. RAID just isn't meant for SSD devices. RAID is a fix for the unreliable nature of magnetic disks.
B) there are no libraries. How many people actually -buy- all the books they read?
I do. I thought everyone did.
Without access to a university library the only option is a public library, in which case I wait a month and have a very long trip to get a copy of a book with every third word underlined and some pages ripped out. Most books are so cheap that buying a new one is worth it just to save the pain of having to deal with a library. The exception would be out of print or hard to find books.
Why do people think they own code just because they've paid for it?
Because they assume they are paying you for a product, not paying you because they like giving away money.
First thought was - WoW! Somebody wants to defeat disk caching, ECC and make life bloody difficult to boot. The best way, if you really want to do direct disk RMW operations - is to use Flash. Its fast, reasonably portable, and won't fail you if you use it properly.
You still won't know where the data is actually written. Flash does wear leveling.
RTFS
Knowing everything there is to know about dd isn't going to tell you where on a physical disk your data is stored. dd only sees a long string of zeros and ones that are a far abstruction from what physically happens on the drive.
There doesn't seem to be any way to be sure exactly where the data is written except by a deep understanding and maybe a replacement of the drive firmware.
Its not Illegal if you truly believe he is a Zombie.
OK kids lets all believe real hard!!!!!!!
Way ahead of you. In fact I have trouble believing McBride isn't a Zombie.
At the end the Zombie comes back, because you can't kill something that is already dead!
"How do you kill that which has no life...?"
Sever the head or destroy the brain. The same solution should be effective with McBride.
Here is a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_9
Has anyone mentioned ice-9 yet?
That could solve a few problems.
I'd never heard of vhemt before.
They may well be nuts, but they don't seem to be genocide nuts. They don't want to kill living people, just to suggest they stop breeding.
No, the "dark greens" are in favor of killing the "non-sustainable" portion of humans. Without oil (as we'll be in 50 years at the latest) that means between 90 and 99% of humans alive today. That's totally unacceptable.
It is an open question whether a life of pure suffering is better than no life at all.
Your impression of slums can only be what you have read and what you have seen on TV. I've seen slums and it's all lies. The Indian government and Indians in general lie their asses off by denying that most of India is in fact slums. I have no personal experience of other countries.
To answer your frankly naive points:
Is digging though human waste and burning plastic off electrical cables for a few cents of copper a 'dymanic and growing economy'? I don't think so.
Entrepreneurs generally use private security in preference to the (somewhat corrupt) police
Few people in slums can afford hired thugs. 'Entrepreneurs' is not a fit word for anyone who has a stream of human sewage within 2 meters of where they sleep.
High density living means services can be provided cheaply and new revenue streams become possible
Services? Revenus streams? These people have -nothing- to sell. If they did it would get stolen fast.
No effective local government means that people self-organise between themselves to get things done
Self-organise? They have nothing to organise. It's not a commune, it's do whatever you have to too survive.
There are no government provisions for the slums, so all goods and services are provided by local entrepreneurs and not the government
There are no goods, there are no services. Begging and theft are the only income streams. It's not a commune, it's hell on earth.
Despite the lack of effective policing, crime rates are lower than one would expect
The police don't care, crime isn't reported. Theft is common and people get murdered for the clothes they are wearing.
I've seen slums in India and I totally agree with you. Hell on earth is probably understating it. It's just not possible to express how bad these places are in words, the words just don't exist. No human could see real slums and believe they can teach us anything.
Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly should try living in a slum for just 24 hours. The mental scars would last a lifetime.
That should read:
"I want developers to think of PayPal first whenever they hear the word 'fraud' and I want to know what it will take to get there. We're willing to do it. We're willing to innovate and experiment on their behalf and hear their feedback," he said
Google.
But really, if you can't set up a credit card purchasing system, you shouldn't be doing business. The only difference between the Internet and brick and mortar shops is that on the Internet you don't buy from the sketchy place that only takes cash.
The difference is if you go to the sketchy place that only takes cash you still have rights and you can't lose more than the cash you give them. A condition of using paypal is that you sign all your rights away plus give them the right to empty every account you ever told them about.
'All new paypal applications, Find a new way for us to rob you.'
Removing the biggest tool for public manipulation from those who would use it sounds good to me.
That would be either sex or national identity, then. Good luck with your attempts to remove them.
We can't do anything about gender so we are going to have to live with that one.
I do agree we need to get rid of national identity as well. Or at least get rid of the politicians who use it to manipulate others.
I doubt religion is the cause for this though. People kill each other over football matches as well as many other things. Getting rid of religion wouldn't solve this problem.
Of course it won't solve the problem. It will reduce it by a considerable amount though.
Most wars in history have been motivated at least in part by 'my god is better than your god'.
Abolishment of religion won't solve all problems, but it has the highest ratio of simplicty-of-suggestion to worldwide-problems-solved.
Because, as we all know, the simplest solution is to be preferred, even when it is way to simple to account for the facts. Obvious Troll is Obvious.
Removing the biggest tool for public manipulation from those who would use it sounds good to me.
If you have a better solution to the countless world problems please let us know.
You're right, we must crush the intolerant! If people aren't willing to open their minds to new ideas, we'll open their skulls for them, instead!
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Curshing ignorance isn't the same as crushing ignorant people.
Xerox is notable for failing to commercialise or profit from PARC's accomplishments, including the invention of the gui, laser printing, bit-mapped graphics, the mouse, and Ethernet. It is the most monumental example of dropping the ball that I can think of.
Plus object-oriented programming, They invented that too.