The thing is just that.. How can they claim you have signed up for that, I mean, who says I do run windows? If you took a look at my computer it would be obvious, but they cannot claim to have some evil rights from a license agreement that they can't say I have signed... Doesn't that innocent until proven guilty apply anylonger in the US?
Land of the free my ass - at least they don't claim that here (The danish counter part did some of that too, except they just send out bills for about 100k$ or something like that instead of telling people to buy the stuff)
lets do the paranoid thingy...
What really scares me is this what if this worm was a test? Take nimda and code red, they had specifik targets, they had malicous intend, and suddenly this worm trods along. What if someone has a stealth worm crawling about doing the exact same thing just slower and with actual intent. He could have released this 6 months back and had a faster one with no actual payload later on to do a simulation of the spreading.
So while every one is looking at the odd thing that popped op the real one is entering stage two: fcking up the actual data...
Another thing, while theres alot of new viruses all the time has anyone else noticed that there lately has been alot of probing with no actual damage? TLD attacks that spawns and just as fast dies away as if someone is testing for actual weaknesses before the main "battle".
I know I'm a bit paranoid, but with viruses that spreads globally within 10 minuttes I have good reasons - People should really start smelling the roses...
This is true, but we must not forget that IT to the masses is a new thing, back when melting iron was the hottest thing (get it?) safety was crap, took years and deaths to get it right. In IT we haven't seen so many deaths directly related to it, (perhaps the odd co worker going balistic over word bsod'ing on them) there was a system in london that killed some people due to huge errors (an ambulance tracking thingy or something). The slammer should get people up and smell the roses, but it will still take years before it gets organised.. Or perhaps one lawsuit, if I was living in the US I would have tried sueing the living crap out of Microsoft...
You know, what scares me isn't this is possible, but it was an accident. Remeber this worm spreads out _fast_. What if the guy making it didn't meant for it to go out _yet_. What if he was testing it, and somehow forgot to keep it off the net. The worm seems to have 2 bugs in it, this could indicate it wasn't done. What if the original idea was to inject malicous code? Now thats scary.
This is a good thing, maybe the patent office is finally getting real, with a bit of luck they'll even stop patents like sideways swinging (go find it on slashdot, I'm to lazy)
Heh, isn't this an urban legend?
I've heard it was NASA doing test to make sure the windshield woulndt get smashed upon reentering and hitting something airborne. Part about the british airways is the same except they send an email with the 3 words:
"Thaw the chicken!"
Anywho It's always a good laugh
You might wan't to try to look out the window instead of seeing what is on the weather channel...
Why do you think US goes to war? Has nothing to do with terrorism, its oil prices and heavy industries. Who makes the tanks, what makes them move and who paid for the Bush campaign?
Also while were at it, the reason these poor souls are being taught to hate the west is the west it self, if we hadn't so utterly crushed Iraq and stopped food supplies books etc. the world would have been different. If we hadn't just turned our heads away from Afghanistan (how the hell do you spell that in english?) the world trade center would have been there.
Remember when you are pointing, three fingers are pointing your way.
Ohh yeah, one more thing, who gets to use their hard earned money on fugitives? US? HA! no! It's us europeans who gets to do that, well lucky us.
Someone really ought to stand up and tell the US to go fuck them self. Yeah and that means everybody. You have the power to stop the war, its a of comfort vs. justice...
http://www.msn.dk/ this is the danish msn portal and its right now (3 am cet) completly empty, now thats funny:P. Ill bet they dont have an admin untill monday morning.
"People who do cool things like this door lock would surely be aware that
they could get Slashdotted and prepare for the event in advance by
inserting the tag - and private individuals are the people who are
most likely to have their server die."
Yeah, exept, not all people read slashdot, and even less think they'll get featured there. The only way to do it imo is to send the webmaster a heads up email and offering to host a mirror. If there's no reply the link should _not_ be posted on slashdot. We know the servers are going to go down, it looked cool the first couple of times, but now it's annoying for everybody.
Ok, so they got "trusted" computing.. who gives a damn. I just became proud owner of red hat 8.0 and I like it, it isn't good enough yet to be handed over to my mom, but that day isn't all that far off. If the community (linux) refuses to adapt DRM in its OS _and_ the install procedure of linux gets even easier to do (theres some naste questions of partitioning and thats a nogo with older generations, you might argue that windows has same questions, thats true, but their machine was bundled..) then theres not gonna be a DRM bios.
Also people seems to be forgetting the what is really driving the markets. It's games, musik, movies and some companies. (generely the need for speed)(illeagal stuff imo is the main factor *uff*)
At some point the avarege no brain gamer is going to realise that he has to _pay_ for his music, games and movies, that day he is going to shop for new OS _without_ drm. I think if the linux community refuses to adapt this "technology" everybody is sooner or later going to come to the other side of the pawn (is that the word?) and do it linux style. We can only hope that more game makers are following the UT2003 approach and distributes linux versioins.
Microsoft keep digging that hole youre almost readdy for the burial.
www.audiogalaxy.com used to be my favorite, but it got crowded with illeagal music ala napster. The rumor is its back to basic so it might be a good idea to swing by them.
Not quite true, MS doesn't give that much discount when doing student licensing. Think the macromedia is around $20-30 for students (yes, you have to sign off your soul to the devil, but thats a small price)
I don't understand what you are so worried about, first of all they aren't going to do the tracking real time, probably just going to collect data on a monthly basis which pretty much eliminates the possibility to intrude in peoples private lives. (unless you happen to be a suspect and part of a criminal investigation) The benefit of this is on a longer term basis you can bill people for speeding, you can figure out who did a hit and run and other stuff like that.
I know the nerdish community seems to be rather afraid of big brother, but if you have so much to hide just take your bike. Look on the benifits of such a program.
Ohh yeah, the US really should take a look on how we do the taxing on fuel in EU. The prices are just around $1 for a litre (in Denmark its above), people still drive their cars and the countries get's a shit load of money.
I think that theres more to it, the memory is there somewhere back in the brain, but being told about it brings it up. Back when I was 2 years old we were in a car crash, I was later told about it and it became a memory. However I remember more details from it now, than I was ever told, (accurate things) so I think it requires some form of help to remember the old stuff, but the memory is there somewhere...
With the WiFi blimps you don't stand a chance any longer, driving along the highway minding your own buisness *BAM!* you find your self in a mad popup frenzy beamed from high in the sky, no chance of escape within 300.000 Sq miles (or whatever the range was)
actually this isnt a _new_ idea, my guess is that most nerds doing java script has been over that. I know I was, but I came to the realisation, that though it saves energy it was annoying as hell, also, when doing this it either changed the page youre on or popup with a new window, witch in both cases are wildly confusing and just upsets people.
KISS (keep it simple stupid) is _the_ only way to do things...
They're selling popup-blockers.
I kinda like the irony in that, almost the same as p2p users claiming that people are stealing from them when downloading without sharing them self. (fake shares, upload blockers etc)
Hmmm IE users might want to stay clear of that link...
Not that I favour IE or anything, but posters like that should get banned.
(The link _might_ cause your computer to shit it self)
Actually the bomb didn't go to Germany, they were screwed over before that (so was Japan), they dropped that to find out what would happen on longer term basis. Sounds like BS? Well, the first persons to ground zero were scientist researching the effect, not rescueworkers...
America isn't about freedom, it's about having the coolest toys around and find lesser persons to bully, once upon a time people who wen't to war mathced the opponent in arms and fought man to man, now they go level an entire country just for one man (and they don't even catch him)...
So much for bringing the guilty to trial. Collateral damage my ass, war, guns etc. is being used in US to create jobs and wealth, not to protect anyone from anything.
Slashdot Mirror
The thing is just that.. How can they claim you have signed up for that, I mean, who says I do run windows? If you took a look at my computer it would be obvious, but they cannot claim to have some evil rights from a license agreement that they can't say I have signed... Doesn't that innocent until proven guilty apply anylonger in the US?
Land of the free my ass - at least they don't claim that here (The danish counter part did some of that too, except they just send out bills for about 100k$ or something like that instead of telling people to buy the stuff)
So does this mean 1-800-nuclear-strike doesnt work any more? darn...
lets do the paranoid thingy...
What really scares me is this what if this worm was a test? Take nimda and code red, they had specifik targets, they had malicous intend, and suddenly this worm trods along.
What if someone has a stealth worm crawling about doing the exact same thing just slower and with actual intent. He could have released this 6 months back and had a faster one with no actual payload later on to do a simulation of the spreading.
So while every one is looking at the odd thing that popped op the real one is entering stage two: fcking up the actual data...
Another thing, while theres alot of new viruses all the time has anyone else noticed that there lately has been alot of probing with no actual damage? TLD attacks that spawns and just as fast dies away as if someone is testing for actual weaknesses before the main "battle".
I know I'm a bit paranoid, but with viruses that spreads globally within 10 minuttes I have good reasons - People should really start smelling the roses...
This is true, but we must not forget that IT to the masses is a new thing, back when melting iron was the hottest thing (get it?) safety was crap, took years and deaths to get it right. In IT we haven't seen so many deaths directly related to it, (perhaps the odd co worker going balistic over word bsod'ing on them) there was a system in london that killed some people due to huge errors (an ambulance tracking thingy or something). The slammer should get people up and smell the roses, but it will still take years before it gets organised.. Or perhaps one lawsuit, if I was living in the US I would have tried sueing the living crap out of Microsoft...
You know, what scares me isn't this is possible, but it was an accident. Remeber this worm spreads out _fast_. What if the guy making it didn't meant for it to go out _yet_. What if he was testing it, and somehow forgot to keep it off the net. The worm seems to have 2 bugs in it, this could indicate it wasn't done. What if the original idea was to inject malicous code? Now thats scary.
This is a good thing, maybe the patent office is finally getting real, with a bit of luck they'll even stop patents like sideways swinging (go find it on slashdot, I'm to lazy)
Heh, isn't this an urban legend?
I've heard it was NASA doing test to make sure the windshield woulndt get smashed upon reentering and hitting something airborne. Part about the british airways is the same except they send an email with the 3 words:
"Thaw the chicken!"
Anywho It's always a good laugh
You might wan't to try to look out the window instead of seeing what is on the weather channel...
Why do you think US goes to war? Has nothing to do with terrorism, its oil prices and heavy industries. Who makes the tanks, what makes them move and who paid for the Bush campaign?
Also while were at it, the reason these poor souls are being taught to hate the west is the west it self, if we hadn't so utterly crushed Iraq and stopped food supplies books etc. the world would have been different. If we hadn't just turned our heads away from Afghanistan (how the hell do you spell that in english?) the world trade center would have been there.
Remember when you are pointing, three fingers are pointing your way.
Ohh yeah, one more thing, who gets to use their hard earned money on fugitives? US? HA! no! It's us europeans who gets to do that, well lucky us. Someone really ought to stand up and tell the US to go fuck them self. Yeah and that means everybody. You have the power to stop the war, its a of comfort vs. justice...
http://www.msn.dk/ this is the danish msn portal and its right now (3 am cet) completly empty, now thats funny :P. Ill bet they dont have an admin untill monday morning.
I think you have a couple of zero's missing.. remeber its riaa doing the math...
"People who do cool things like this door lock would surely be aware that they could get Slashdotted and prepare for the event in advance by inserting the tag - and private individuals are the people who are most likely to have their server die."
Yeah, exept, not all people read slashdot, and even less think they'll get featured there. The only way to do it imo is to send the webmaster a heads up email and offering to host a mirror. If there's no reply the link should _not_ be posted on slashdot. We know the servers are going to go down, it looked cool the first couple of times, but now it's annoying for everybody.
Ok, so they got "trusted" computing.. who gives a damn. I just became proud owner of red hat 8.0 and I like it, it isn't good enough yet to be handed over to my mom, but that day isn't all that far off. If the community (linux) refuses to adapt DRM in its OS _and_ the install procedure of linux gets even easier to do (theres some naste questions of partitioning and thats a nogo with older generations, you might argue that windows has same questions, thats true, but their machine was bundled..) then theres not gonna be a DRM bios.
Also people seems to be forgetting the what is really driving the markets. It's games, musik, movies and some companies. (generely the need for speed)(illeagal stuff imo is the main factor *uff*)
At some point the avarege no brain gamer is going to realise that he has to _pay_ for his music, games and movies, that day he is going to shop for new OS _without_ drm. I think if the linux community refuses to adapt this "technology" everybody is sooner or later going to come to the other side of the pawn (is that the word?) and do it linux style. We can only hope that more game makers are following the UT2003 approach and distributes linux versioins.
Microsoft keep digging that hole youre almost readdy for the burial.
"2. They have no way of knowing if a site can't handle the load."
sure they do, they post it and see if the server shits itself.
"3. Waiting for a mirror to appear would make news show up incredibly slow."
Alot of the stuff posted has mirrors on google, that little cached button, you should try it out.
Strangest thing, that was the first thing that came to my mind..although I think It should look like this:
" Client Server
1. SYN ->
2.
4. Request ->"
1. Collect packets
2.
3. Profit!
www.audiogalaxy.com used to be my favorite, but it got crowded with illeagal music ala napster. The rumor is its back to basic so it might be a good idea to swing by them.
sucker? socker? yeah around that somewhere... You guys really ought to read the post the maker did... 9/10 of these comments could be avoided....
Not quite true, MS doesn't give that much discount when doing student licensing. Think the macromedia is around $20-30 for students (yes, you have to sign off your soul to the devil, but thats a small price)
Is it the one about causing mayhaym in a McD?
I don't understand what you are so worried about, first of all they aren't going to do the tracking real time, probably just going to collect data on a monthly basis which pretty much eliminates the possibility to intrude in peoples private lives. (unless you happen to be a suspect and part of a criminal investigation) The benefit of this is on a longer term basis you can bill people for speeding, you can figure out who did a hit and run and other stuff like that.
I know the nerdish community seems to be rather afraid of big brother, but if you have so much to hide just take your bike. Look on the benifits of such a program.
Ohh yeah, the US really should take a look on how we do the taxing on fuel in EU. The prices are just around $1 for a litre (in Denmark its above), people still drive their cars and the countries get's a shit load of money.
I think that theres more to it, the memory is there somewhere back in the brain, but being told about it brings it up. Back when I was 2 years old we were in a car crash, I was later told about it and it became a memory. However I remember more details from it now, than I was ever told, (accurate things) so I think it requires some form of help to remember the old stuff, but the memory is there somewhere...
With the WiFi blimps you don't stand a chance any longer, driving along the highway minding your own buisness *BAM!* you find your self in a mad popup frenzy beamed from high in the sky, no chance of escape within 300.000 Sq miles (or whatever the range was)
actually this isnt a _new_ idea, my guess is that most nerds doing java script has been over that. I know I was, but I came to the realisation, that though it saves energy it was annoying as hell, also, when doing this it either changed the page youre on or popup with a new window, witch in both cases are wildly confusing and just upsets people. KISS (keep it simple stupid) is _the_ only way to do things...
They're selling popup-blockers.
I kinda like the irony in that, almost the same as p2p users claiming that people are stealing from them when downloading without sharing them self. (fake shares, upload blockers etc)
Hmmm IE users might want to stay clear of that link... Not that I favour IE or anything, but posters like that should get banned. (The link _might_ cause your computer to shit it self)
Actually the bomb didn't go to Germany, they were screwed over before that (so was Japan), they dropped that to find out what would happen on longer term basis. Sounds like BS? Well, the first persons to ground zero were scientist researching the effect, not rescueworkers... America isn't about freedom, it's about having the coolest toys around and find lesser persons to bully, once upon a time people who wen't to war mathced the opponent in arms and fought man to man, now they go level an entire country just for one man (and they don't even catch him)... So much for bringing the guilty to trial. Collateral damage my ass, war, guns etc. is being used in US to create jobs and wealth, not to protect anyone from anything.