While I cannot say with absolute certainty, one of the URLs for the "Download Now" link, Number 5 - BreakQuest specifically, is as follows: http://www.plimus.com/jsp/download_trial .jsp?contr actId=1641648&referrer=cyrus_zuo Notice the referrer? Notice the article's submitter? Maybe a thorough reading of the article is in order before being a condescending ass.
Even better! Will some Google employee who may be reading this please extend the GoogleAPI to work with their other services? News, Groups, Images, etc? I'd be ever so grateful.
Since you mentioned MSN Messenger, I had a similar question. Maybe someone on Windows can answer it. If you were to set your MSN picture to the JPEG exploit, could everyone on your list whom you message be exploited, or does MSN compress and resize the image such that it would destroy the payload?
Security Focus seems to be reporting a remote shell already: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11173/exploit/
"A new exploit, "JpegOfDeath.c", is available. It is based on the FoToZ exploit but provides a reverse connection for the command shell."
I'd steer clear of Shell and Chevron, too. Shell deals with military regimes in Ogoni, whom executed several activists, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ken Saro-Wiwa, protesting the destruction of their environment. It has been argued in court that it was carried out with "the knowledge, consent, and/or support of Shell Oil. On the other hand, when a Chevron oil platform was overtaken by protesters, Chevron went as far as to provide a private police force with transportation to a Nigerian oil platform. Before even landing the helicopters, the police started shooting. They killed two people and injured many others. Chevron was unapoligetic, and refused to provide any compensation, but did provide money to cover the cost of burial. How sweet..
Well I can't speak for the American Navy, but the Canadian Armed Forces won't hire you if you have a poor credit rating. Their reasoning being that they don't have the resources to deal with creditors calling and harassing them.
I couldn't agree more! While, I use Linux, I couldn't get by a single day without Windows. After all, I don't have air conditioning, so where would I be without Windows. Best invention ever.
It seems to identify itself as this:
"msnbot/0.11 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)" I imagine it's the same crawler used by the regular MSN search engine.
People constantly complaining that open source software hasn't dethroned Microsoft.
Who cares? Linux, and open source softare is not for everyone, but it does fill a need. If more people use it, great. If not, no harm done. Nothing that isn't done for profit should be considered a failure if it doesn't reach the general public.
We don't read articles? Well it's apparent that you don't.
If you had read the page you would notice that the redesigned page has a bandwidth savings of 2-9k, depending if the CSS file is cached. That may not be much, but it could be faster on very slow connections. Also, it's noted that the reduced load could result in a $3000+/year savings in bandwidth costs.
From the article: "Once the film is commercially distributed, the felony penalties appear to no longer apply."
Where Comercially Distributed is defined here:
"...prerelease movies, meaning films that have not appeared on DVD or in theaters. Footage of "Star Wars: Episode II," "Tomb Raider" and "The Hulk," has reportedly surfaced on peer-to-peer networks before their commercial distribution."
But they're using this bill to stop camcording? "MPAA spokesman Rich Taylor said "this legislation will go a long way toward targeting one of the most serious contributors to piracy right now, which is the practice of camcording motion pictures."
If this bill has no effect on people sharing movies which have already been released to theaters, how in the hell is it supposed to discourage people from sitting in a theater with a camcorder?
Actually, according the Part VIII of the Canadian Copyright Act it's entirely legal to download music from the internet. It states that it is legal due to the levys placed on recordable media, so it's unclear as to how this applies to copying to a hard drive (for which there is no levy), but it does state that copying music for personal use is legal.
The down side is, there is a levy for hard drives and the recordable media in portable mp3 players in the works. I can't find the article at this time, but there are quotes floating around saying that once the levy is in place, the price of an iPod, for example, would be raised by $77 depending on the size of the hard drive inside.
IANAL, but it seems to me that the Canadian Copyright Act only states that is is okay to trade music as long as the levy is paid on blank media. If music is traded where the only physical storage media is a hard drive (There is no levy on hard drives), how does that make downloading , or trading music legal?
Does anyone have any insight into why neither Napster nor iTunes are available in Canada? It would seem that if the cards are being sold in retail locations, there shouldn't be anything stopping them from selling to other countries. Best Buy has existed in their Canadian branded store (Future Shop) for as long as I can remember, and just opened Best Buy branded stores. I'm eager to get my music legally, but I guess I'm SOL.
Oh well. The CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) isn't sending out sopenias, so I'm safe for now.
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The CBC has run several stories. For example, "Copyright rules must protect innovation, groups say" including several others linked therein.
They also ran an excellent summary of the wishes of major interested parties
While I cannot say with absolute certainty, one of the URLs for the "Download Now" link, Number 5 - BreakQuest specifically, is as follows:l .jsp?contr actId=1641648&referrer=cyrus_zuo
http://www.plimus.com/jsp/download_tria
Notice the referrer? Notice the article's submitter?
Maybe a thorough reading of the article is in order before being a condescending ass.
-- I randomly moderate down people who describe their abuses of the mod and metamod system in their sigs. --
I can't be the only one who sees such blazingly obvious hypocrisy in that sig.
Even better! Will some Google employee who may be reading this please extend the GoogleAPI to work with their other services? News, Groups, Images, etc? I'd be ever so grateful.
"We evaluated several physics SDK's"...
So that's what has been taking so long!
Since you mentioned MSN Messenger, I had a similar question. Maybe someone on Windows can answer it. If you were to set your MSN picture to the JPEG exploit, could everyone on your list whom you message be exploited, or does MSN compress and resize the image such that it would destroy the payload?
Security Focus seems to be reporting a remote shell already: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11173/exploit/ "A new exploit, "JpegOfDeath.c", is available. It is based on the FoToZ exploit but provides a reverse connection for the command shell."
I'd steer clear of Shell and Chevron, too. Shell deals with military regimes in Ogoni, whom executed several activists, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ken Saro-Wiwa, protesting the destruction of their environment. It has been argued in court that it was carried out with "the knowledge, consent, and/or support of Shell Oil. On the other hand, when a Chevron oil platform was overtaken by protesters, Chevron went as far as to provide a private police force with transportation to a Nigerian oil platform. Before even landing the helicopters, the police started shooting. They killed two people and injured many others. Chevron was unapoligetic, and refused to provide any compensation, but did provide money to cover the cost of burial. How sweet..
Well I can't speak for the American Navy, but the Canadian Armed Forces won't hire you if you have a poor credit rating. Their reasoning being that they don't have the resources to deal with creditors calling and harassing them.
Would you people just knock it off? You have two candidates with any concievable chance of winning the election, and they're both dicks. Get over it.
Low-end?! The only thing low-end about that is Windows XP.
The rest may not be top of the line, but if that's low-end, I'm going to cry.
I couldn't agree more! While, I use Linux, I couldn't get by a single day without Windows. After all, I don't have air conditioning, so where would I be without Windows. Best invention ever.
Oh wait.. The operating system. Nevermind.
It seems to identify itself as this:
"msnbot/0.11 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"
I imagine it's the same crawler used by the regular MSN search engine.
Did anyone else notice the meta tags on this page?
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="keywords" content="cheap, inexpensive, computers, new, computer, system, upgrade, replace, buy, AMD, Intel, looking, buy, sale, tower, industry, bulk, volume, rebate, deal, deals, special, compute, new, lindows, Microsoft, burner, 299, sub300">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
Oh the irony..
Oh my god! If I post right now, I can almost claim I've spoken to John Carmack. I'll be lying, but this is my only chance.
Hi John!
Same thing, but hosted by Akamai9 (faster).
Where exactly does one get cyanide, let alone in an easy to digest capsule form? No really. I'd like to know.
I'm not usually much of a conspiracy theorist, but this is a little odd.
People constantly complaining that open source software hasn't dethroned Microsoft.
Who cares? Linux, and open source softare is not for everyone, but it does fill a need. If more people use it, great. If not, no harm done. Nothing that isn't done for profit should be considered a failure if it doesn't reach the general public.
Okay guys, I've got a confessions to make....
We don't read articles? Well it's apparent that you don't.
If you had read the page you would notice that the redesigned page has a bandwidth savings of 2-9k, depending if the CSS file is cached. That may not be much, but it could be faster on very slow connections. Also, it's noted that the reduced load could result in a $3000+/year savings in bandwidth costs.
From the article:
"Once the film is commercially distributed, the felony penalties appear to no longer apply." Where Comercially Distributed is defined here: "...prerelease movies, meaning films that have not appeared on DVD or in theaters. Footage of "Star Wars: Episode II," "Tomb Raider" and "The Hulk," has reportedly surfaced on peer-to-peer networks before their commercial distribution."
But they're using this bill to stop camcording?
"MPAA spokesman Rich Taylor said "this legislation will go a long way toward targeting one of the most serious contributors to piracy right now, which is the practice of camcording motion pictures."
If this bill has no effect on people sharing movies which have already been released to theaters, how in the hell is it supposed to discourage people from sitting in a theater with a camcorder?
Actually, according the Part VIII of the Canadian Copyright Act it's entirely legal to download music from the internet. It states that it is legal due to the levys placed on recordable media, so it's unclear as to how this applies to copying to a hard drive (for which there is no levy), but it does state that copying music for personal use is legal. The down side is, there is a levy for hard drives and the recordable media in portable mp3 players in the works. I can't find the article at this time, but there are quotes floating around saying that once the levy is in place, the price of an iPod, for example, would be raised by $77 depending on the size of the hard drive inside.
IANAL, but it seems to me that the Canadian Copyright Act only states that is is okay to trade music as long as the levy is paid on blank media. If music is traded where the only physical storage media is a hard drive (There is no levy on hard drives), how does that make downloading , or trading music legal?
Does anyone have any insight into why neither Napster nor iTunes are available in Canada? It would seem that if the cards are being sold in retail locations, there shouldn't be anything stopping them from selling to other countries. Best Buy has existed in their Canadian branded store (Future Shop) for as long as I can remember, and just opened Best Buy branded stores. I'm eager to get my music legally, but I guess I'm SOL. Oh well. The CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) isn't sending out sopenias, so I'm safe for now.