Anyone want to try and prove the government is doing something sneaky?
- Make a clean install of whichever OS you use.
- Apply all latest security patches (or not shouldn't really matter.)
- Burn all files to CDROM(s).
- Remove CDROM(s).
- Run government security checking software.
- Reboot.
- Compare all files from CDROM(s) to those on the hard drive.
- Document any significant differences.
If you find Magic Lantern or altered binaries on the system report to/. and security sites and major news outlets. See government with egg on its face.
If you do not find Magic Lantern or altered binaries on the system go back to writing posts about conspiracy theories, New World Order and black helicopters.
- who can't conclude that if double-clicking a Word document on the desktop opens it, that double clicking on an Excel spreadsheet ought to open it as well
- have not and cannot observe that File, Edit, View, Window and Help menus exist in almost every Windows program and operate in substantially similar ways
- who can't bloody well remember that Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V will perform cut, copy, and paste in just about any Windows application you come across
- who cannot grasp that you can have more than one document open at a time and that when a window is occluded that it is not forever lost
- who have no clue what Windows Explorer is
- who have no idea what a shortcut is
- who can't even figure out that setup.exe and install.exe in the root folder of a CD are installation programs
are going to be able to install Linux, properly secure it, and use it.
Microsoft Lawyer: You want us to pay you royalties for using the JPG format in our browser? Run along now before we break out the petty cash, purchase you, and transfer you to somewhere mosquito bites carry fatal diseases.
but the actuality is that the.gif royalties are charged to developers, not users of the end product, and they're paid to Unisys
Well then why was it that Unisys was wanting websites to pay them a $5000 license fee in case they were using any GIFs that had been produced by programs that were not properly licensed. I won't bother supplying a link but try Googling "Unisys lzw-license" and see what comes up. Note that you have to look at the cache as you can't find this shi^H^H^Hinformation on the Unisys site now.
I have no idea who on Earth would need more than 640K but I do know that NASA needs 8086 chips. Plus if you have an 8-inch floppy drives they'd like those too.
In Dallas the transponders are known as TollTags and allow you to proceed through toll plazas without stopping (you just have to slow down.) There are special TollTag lanes through the toll plazas for TollTag use only although they do work with all lanes.
There are cameras for each lane of the toll plaza that will take a photograph of the rear license plate of your car if you should go through without paying. I am not sure but I presume that if a car without a TollTag goes through a TollTag only lane then it woyuld be photographed just as would a car going through a normal lane without paying.
For those who are interested you can read more at the NTTA web site.
I went looking for it too. Didn't find it at the Hactivismo site. They intended to release it yesterday at H2K2. I expect that within a few days it should be findable.
Other steg software includes "blindside", "hide in picture", "in plain view", "stash it", "jphide"
The above are all ones I found several months ago when I started looking at steg software. Google should turn up lots of stuff to look at.
Look for "stegdetect" for a program that can analyze images to indicate if they may contain steganographic data. Running it on the images from my web cache was interesting.
Well for one thing the IP may be dynamic. Some other person may have been assigned that IP. Another thing is that they might have been working from a compromised system (though I doubt that in this case.)
In any case the anonymity of at least one of them was not really too well protected as several of the posts above indicate.
That is funny as all get out.
I've seen the first paragraph before.
The stuff after "Please try the following you complete idiot:" I haven't seen until now.
Neither had the librarians at my local library. They were puzzled as to why I was so angry about the disappearance of the three yellow computer books. That was years ago and I still get somewhat mad about it.
"Hear ye, hear ye" - being an arrangement of "letters" which form "words" which draw attention to the imminent beginning of a legal proceeding.
"This court is now in session." - being an arrangement of "letters" which form "words" which draw attention to the actual beginning of a legal proceeding.
"Guilty" - being an arrangement of "letters" which form a "word" which betides happiness and financial rewards to some persons and shame and financial ruin and possible imprisionment to other persons.
"Not Guilty" - being an arrangement of "letters" which form "words" which bring relief and a sense of vindication to some persons and chagrin and a feeling of inadequacy to other persons.
Liscensing fees: 10,000 USD per letter plus a 25,000 USD surcharge per word.
Did you load in the \input\dict.txt file? That would have loaded in 111000+ words so it would have been better able to predict what you were going to enter.
If you didn't do that then the program would start out completely untrained (as indicated by the equal spacing of all the letter choices.) If you had completely entered the "quick brown fox" bit and then pressed F1 for new and tried again you would find that it had adjusted the sizes of the letter choices and would bring up the letter-pairs for "quick brown fox" very easily.
I did this with "four score and seven years ago..." with the program untrained and while it took a bit the first time the second time went much faster.
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The effect of this is McDonald's sometimes sues a little family restarant called McDonald's...
Another side effect of this is that McDonald's occasionally get their ass smacked down in Scotland.
Anyone want to try and prove the government is doing something sneaky?
- Make a clean install of whichever OS you use.
- Apply all latest security patches (or not shouldn't really matter.)
- Burn all files to CDROM(s).
- Remove CDROM(s).
- Run government security checking software.
- Reboot.
- Compare all files from CDROM(s) to those on the hard drive.
- Document any significant differences.
If you find Magic Lantern or altered binaries on the system report to /. and security sites and major news outlets. See government with egg on its face.
If you do not find Magic Lantern or altered binaries on the system go back to writing posts about conspiracy theories, New World Order and black helicopters.
Yeah, right.
You expect that a lot of people who can't even :
- set the clock on their VCR
- who can't conclude that if double-clicking a Word document on the desktop opens it, that double clicking on an Excel spreadsheet ought to open it as well
- have not and cannot observe that File, Edit, View, Window and Help menus exist in almost every Windows program and operate in substantially similar ways
- who can't bloody well remember that Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V will perform cut, copy, and paste in just about any Windows application you come across
- who cannot grasp that you can have more than one document open at a time and that when a window is occluded that it is not forever lost
- who have no clue what Windows Explorer is
- who have no idea what a shortcut is
- who can't even figure out that setup.exe and install.exe in the root folder of a CD are installation programs
are going to be able to install Linux, properly secure it, and use it.
GMAFB
if Microsoft were to buy Forgent
I also had that idea.
Microsoft Lawyer: You want us to pay you royalties for using the JPG format in our browser? Run along now before we break out the petty cash, purchase you, and transfer you to somewhere mosquito bites carry fatal diseases.
Forgent Lawyer:Oh shit! We didn't think of that.
but the actuality is that the .gif royalties are charged to developers, not users of the end product, and they're paid to Unisys
Well then why was it that Unisys was wanting websites to pay them a $5000 license fee in case they were using any GIFs that had been produced by programs that were not properly licensed. I won't bother supplying a link but try Googling "Unisys lzw-license" and see what comes up. Note that you have to look at the cache as you can't find this shi^H^H^Hinformation on the Unisys site now.
Oh please! Where would they ever find drivers for a car. Even if there were drivers I doubt they'd offer full acceleration.
I have no idea who on Earth would need more than 640K but I do know that NASA needs 8086 chips. Plus if you have an 8-inch floppy drives they'd like those too.
It was Lockheed Martin that was using Imperial units.
NASA however apparently failed to read Lockheed Martins' code.
How can Linux, which embraces the little guy, allow such a place as Walmart to profit off of its existence?
Uh, because it is released under the GPL?
In Dallas the transponders are known as TollTags and allow you to proceed through toll plazas without stopping (you just have to slow down.) There are special TollTag lanes through the toll plazas for TollTag use only although they do work with all lanes.
There are cameras for each lane of the toll plaza that will take a photograph of the rear license plate of your car if you should go through without paying. I am not sure but I presume that if a car without a TollTag goes through a TollTag only lane then it woyuld be photographed just as would a car going through a normal lane without paying.
For those who are interested you can read more at the NTTA web site.
I went looking for it too. Didn't find it at the Hactivismo site. They intended to release it yesterday at H2K2. I expect that within a few days it should be findable.
Other steg software includes "blindside", "hide in picture", "in plain view", "stash it", "jphide"
The above are all ones I found several months ago when I started looking at steg software. Google should turn up lots of stuff to look at.
Look for "stegdetect" for a program that can analyze images to indicate if they may contain steganographic data. Running it on the images from my web cache was interesting.
Googling for "steganalysis" will yield several interesting places to look.
"Steganalysis of Images Created Using Current Steganography Software" gives some good information.
they are anything but camera shy.
Well for one thing the IP may be dynamic. Some other person may have been assigned that IP. Another thing is that they might have been working from a compromised system (though I doubt that in this case.)
In any case the anonymity of at least one of them was not really too well protected as several of the posts above indicate.
You need to work on your ignoring skills.
I was not aware it was a Microsoft ad until I read your post.
Well to save you from looking at the HTML source here's where that broken link goes: http://home.earthlink.net/~ahecht/newpalm-large.jp g
The non-broken link "them" is a larger image. Both images are the same other than the size difference.
Tell it to the supernovae.
That is funny as all get out. I've seen the first paragraph before. The stuff after "Please try the following you complete idiot:" I haven't seen until now.
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Honestly I have never heard of the guy before.
Neither had the librarians at my local library. They were puzzled as to why I was so angry about the disappearance of the three yellow computer books. That was years ago and I still get somewhat mad about it.
I do hereby declare copyright on:
"Hear ye, hear ye" - being an arrangement of "letters" which form "words" which draw attention to the imminent beginning of a legal proceeding.
"This court is now in session." - being an arrangement of "letters" which form "words" which draw attention to the actual beginning of a legal proceeding.
"Guilty" - being an arrangement of "letters" which form a "word" which betides happiness and financial rewards to some persons and shame and financial ruin and possible imprisionment to other persons.
"Not Guilty" - being an arrangement of "letters" which form "words" which bring relief and a sense of vindication to some persons and chagrin and a feeling of inadequacy to other persons.
Liscensing fees: 10,000 USD per letter plus a 25,000 USD surcharge per word.
Yeah, that headline kind of got me too but then I read the whole article.
Did you load in the \input\dict.txt file? That would have loaded in 111000+ words so it would have been better able to predict what you were going to enter.
If you didn't do that then the program would start out completely untrained (as indicated by the equal spacing of all the letter choices.) If you had completely entered the "quick brown fox" bit and then pressed F1 for new and tried again you would find that it had adjusted the sizes of the letter choices and would bring up the letter-pairs for "quick brown fox" very easily.
I did this with "four score and seven years ago..." with the program untrained and while it took a bit the first time the second time went much faster.
You article and thread for which you give a link is referring to the "Millipede" method which is a mechanical method of data storage.
The article this thread is about is a refinement of the magnetic method of data storage.
at least Clooney is a decent actor
Uhhhh...., O.K. Whatever you say dude. (/me slowly backs away while reaching for mace and stun gun)