I'm not too familiar with the most inner workings of switching, but I'm sure all these damn things could be made to show up as "Junkphone Inc" with one number on Caller ID, and not have individual DNs themselves.
It's always been said that your scores on standardizes tests have a little bit to do with your knowledge of the subject and a lot to do with your test-taking skills. I know a guy who scored 1600 on the Math section of the SAT. He was good but nowhere near perfect, a few lucky guesses (by his own admission) landed him on a talkshow with some drooling chess masters.
Any human shrink has some judgement that they can temper their results with. This software has no such judgement, and I'm sure its results will be misused.
What if you have some kid with a less-than-complete grasp of the language, who misunderstands the word "anxiety" or something and accidentally gets him/herself into the Manson category?
The only solution is to protest this thing like hell, and attempt to defeat it wherever it appears. I'm waiting for the 2600 article on how to bluff your way through the shooting-spree-test.
Most UPSs sold today are standby-type. They filter the input power and pass it back out almost unchanged. The inverter and battery only come into play when necessary. Some nicer UPSs will also select the appropriate tap on a transformer to "buck or boost" the input voltage, but it's still not exactly stable.
A full-time UPS, also called double-conversion, wastes a lot of energy because it rectifies the input to DC and inverts it again. However, it produces a ridiculously stable output.
FYI, telecom equipment runs on constantly-charged DC battery supplies. If the city power fails, they go from float to discharging, but the equipment never notices. Any equipment in the office that runs on AC gets it from inverters, so they never see a bump either.
Double you double you double you dot some dumb site dot com.
One would think that advertisers would set up intelligently-named multiple records, eg:
www.buycrap.com web.buycrap.com buycrap.com
and give the radio people a break! At least they're not pronounching the aych tee tee pee colon slash slash part. Yes, Prodigy, CIS and AOL really had something going with those simple English keywords.
I shouldn't be surprised really, I work in telecom and there's equipment in some offices that's been continuously powered since before I was born. But still, PC power supplies aren't known for being reliable! Don't you ever have hardware failures?
I for one am still wondering when Cedar Point is gonna start putting catapults from decommissioned aircraft carriers into their roller coasters.
New, next summer: Ride the F-16 coaster, complete with catapult takeoff!
As for NASA, I agree. That'd be a hell of a way to give a serious kick to a rocket. Heat is cheap, especially nuclear heat. Can you just see a nuke-powered steam catapult, solid fuel rockets, and NASA engineers, in close proximity to one another? That's a disaster waiting to happen, but it sure would be funny to watch.
And since everyone keeps asking: You start firing the rockets BEFORE you hit the catapult. Let 'em burn for a second or two, no big deal. Then once you know they're working properly, you hit the BRS and set things into motion.
My trusty old Zenith XT laptop (the one with the dual 720k floppies) makes a very distinct, very quiet whine. It gets even quieter when I turn the brightness control all the way down, but it's still perceptible. At the 1 minute mark (my LCD backlight timeout) it goes totally silent. I'd assumed that this was magnetic interference from the backlight inverter, but it sure could be the screen itself.
Then what does J&J Patient Care rename their lubricating jelly to?
I have a novel idea: It's an electronic component, right? Let's give it an electronic-style part number. Since it's compatible with the 8086 processor, let's call it something like the 80986 or the 81086 shall we?
Okay this has way too much potential. How long is it going to take them to clean up the aftermath? I see another mess of legal battles over this one, and maybe because it's so prominent, we might see some penalties for boneheaded admins like this one. (Oh please, oh please, oh please? We need a legal precedent that makes "blatant neglect" a crime.. heh)
Right now, my physical devices are up to N: (That 7-disc CD changer really did it, not that the Zip, Sparq, and Cd-rw were helping things)
I can just imagine partitioning this thing. Screw that! I'd rather see it as one of those "plug in and forget" network-ready storage toasters. Just NFS-mount the damn thing and forget about the partitioning limitations of our current OS's.
So the distributed.net logs were able to give them the IP address of the most recent connection from that machine. Utterly useless. In order to find out more detils of the connection, didn't someone have to call the ISP and fax them a warrant?
For a ripper, Cdcopy impressed me greatly. I'll have to try cdex that someone mentioned above. I used to leave a stack of CDs next to my machine while I was at work with a note "If the tray is open, please put the disc in the pile at right. Then load in a new disc from the pile at left and close the tray."
That's all it took. Cdcopy would sense the new disc, read the ID, go on CDDB and get tracknames, rip and encode each track, and when it finished the last track it would eject the disc. No monitor, no keyboard activity needed.
For an encoder, I use bladeenc which is very fast (near realtime at 128) and the quality seems excellent.
And regarding multitasking while it's working, sure! Under Windows 95, I'd encode, surf, chat, even occasionally play an mp3 at the same time. No problems and no skips. (My drive is an HP CD-RW drive, the 7200i, which iz 2x2x6 and rips at about 4x)
I'd like to see network distribution of the encoding process. I did this once on a roomful of 486sx33's using DesQview, Novell Lan Workplace for Dos, and batch files. It ran but it was shaky at best. Has anyone done better?
We tried chickenwire inside plexiglas, but it looked like crap and didn't work too well. (I could still pick my IDE bus up on FM radio 10 feet away). That was years ago tho. I did manage to replace the cover on my 10 meg drive with a clear one tho, and that was very cool.
Since then, I've seen "clear" calculators and other things that lead me to believe that clear substances can be made fairly conductive.
Combine that with a network of ultrathin copper wires embedded in the plastic to "drain" anything caught by the clear coating, and we might have a winner. Come to think of it, the wire could be inlaid in patterns and used decoratively?
Let's not stop there! Forget the ceramic cases on chips, make them out of glass. And embed LEDs into the chip at interesting points. Hey where do I go to patent this?
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Just like the credit card companies charge merchants a chunk of the fee in order to have the convenience of accepting a certain card.
If you destroy your Palm before syncing it, theoretically the transaction could still happen because the other party could sync THEIRS and the system would still take it.
The only way a transaction would be lost is if both devices holding both sides of it were somehow stopped from reporting the transaction.
Yes they'd be able to trust information from a single source because it's all cryptographically secure, we hope. Anyone, anyone? Bruce?
When the Pentium III news broke about the serial number, I was theorizing that the keyboard trick could be used similarly to re-enable the PSN without a hard restart. I never heard more about the actual technique tho.
The Reset button, however, does ground the Power Good signal as was suggested earlier. Perhaps by rewiring it to the _reset line on the CPU, you could have it run the code at FFFF:FFFC, instead of HARD-resetting the whole PC. Or maybe my understanding of PG's role is lacking. Anyone here ever build a POST card? Hehe..
I'm presently sitting in front of a pair of Fujitsu OC-192 systems. The computer I'm writing this on is connected to the 'net by a 56k dialup. Y'know why? Because you can't just throw packets into one of these things! They do NOT know or care what your computer has to say. The difficult part of networking, and the thing that NAPs consist of, is getting computer data into and out of telecom pipelines. One of these days really soon I'm going to type up a page about how telecom really works, so computer users can understand it.
For the moment, let's just say that there isn't a PC in the world that can talk to anything faster than a T3 natively. So you mux a few dozen or a few hundred T3s onto a fiber. So what? The computer doesn't care. But now you have the ability to add more computers at either end of the pipe. What we need are for more backbone providers to do detailed packet analysis and purchase more circuits between the heavy-traffic areas of their networks. We need looser peering agreements that let packets follow the more logical geographical route. We need fatter NAPs that can handle more packets, because the circuits to connect them are relatively cheap and plentiful.
Then in order to make it all work, we need to provide faster connectivity from the ISP's POPs to the customers. As an AC pointed out, most of the copper buried in the ground dates from the 60s or earlier. Lots of it is cotton-and-wax insulated with a lead outer sheath. The telco will never figure this out. Think wireless.
With all the distributed.net and seti@home packets flying around thet 'net, if we just encrypted them, Echelon would have a coronary just trying to figure out dbaker's next song lyrics quote in the "The keyserver says:" line.. Hehehe..
Seriosuly tho. What if we do a little social engineering of our own, and give all the scriptkiddies a little decoy program to put on all the systems they compromise? It just sends out 10-50 packets per second of "nuclear secret refinery dmsetup compromise echelon sigint sigterm sighup hehe China Russia comrade" junk, targeted at random hosts. Or if you want to make it REALLY useful, have it send to UDP port 139 on those random hosts. The kiddies will LOVE it, Echelon will HATE it, it'll be on a dozen new systems every day, and life will be good!
Who watches the watchmen? Who cares? What matters is who educate those who the watchmen want to watch.
I haven't tried BestCrypt yet, so I can't comment. Mmmm, Traci Lords.:)
Scramdisk is NOT DOS-based! It's 95 and 98 only, and it requires that sd.vxd be in windows\system\ at boot time. (Other than that, there's no installation, per se.) And we all know that VXDs don't load when you're plain-DOS-booted.
Scramdisk IS very cool. The user interface is a bit less than intuitive at first (the sequence of events in order to mount a drive, for example, needs work.) but it's overall very easy to use once you get used to it. You can unmount on delay, unmount on hotkey, or unmount on menu command.
I'd like to see a Dblspace replacement that lets me get at Scramdisk drives from DOS. (I'd also like to see compression built in, because mounting a scramdisk volume which is stored on a compressed volume is just plain ugly! But hey, disks are cheap now.)
Kremlin rules! Particularly the name. I don't like the file-by-file encryption, it's just as limited as old PGP was in that respect. But the Sentry is awesome, I set mine to wipe the slack space at the end of clusters, clear my browser cache, nuke c:\temp, and do some other system cleanup every morning. The clatter of the hard drive serves as my alarm clock. (Well actually no, it's a nearly-silent Caviar, and I work nights anyway.)
The problem is that none of this awesome stuff is written for Linux. I don't know Aman's feelings on the issue, but I'd like to see a Linux driver to read/write Scramdisk files, in the fashion of UMSDOS. I ought to post this to alt.privacy when I get home.
Some hackish terms in Business Card Lingo... Cracker (new):Access specialist. Cracker (C64):Restriction eliminator. Phreak: Call routing faciliator. Hacker: Technical wizard./Master tech specialist. Admin: Client resource manager. BOFH: Resource allocation technician. Teacher: Grokkage facilitator. Coder: Program creation specialist. Social engineer: Social engineer. Dumpster-diver: Resource reclamation technician. Script-kiddie: Preprogrammed resource misappropriation specialist.
Real-world terms translated... Common criminal: Legal constraint avoider. Tresspasser: Boundary penetration specialist. Vandal: Spontaneous graphic redesigner. Spy: Private information retrieval technician. Journalist: Reality spin provider. Terrorist: Public reaction engineer. Drug runner: Material transfer expert.
I think I'm gonna send a slightly modified version of this to some of the local radio stations.. The morning shows around here LOVE stuff like this. And who knows, it might popularize "Master technical specialist" as a hacker-like term. I particularly like this one, because most of the bucks-for-certification scams have a "master" classification and it seems to impress people. To borrow this designation seems appropriate.
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I'm not too familiar with the most inner workings of switching, but I'm sure all these damn things could be made to show up as "Junkphone Inc" with one number on Caller ID, and not have individual DNs themselves.
So what if we all ssh into servers running in Nauru and develop code there, is it restricted in any way?
This is truly frightening!
It's always been said that your scores on standardizes tests have a little bit to do with your knowledge of the subject and a lot to do with your test-taking skills. I know a guy who scored 1600 on the Math section of the SAT. He was good but nowhere near perfect, a few lucky guesses (by his own admission) landed him on a talkshow with some drooling chess masters.
Any human shrink has some judgement that they can temper their results with. This software has no such judgement, and I'm sure its results will be misused.
What if you have some kid with a less-than-complete grasp of the language, who misunderstands the word "anxiety" or something and accidentally gets him/herself into the Manson category?
The only solution is to protest this thing like hell, and attempt to defeat it wherever it appears. I'm waiting for the 2600 article on how to bluff your way through the shooting-spree-test.
Most UPSs sold today are standby-type. They filter the input power and pass it back out almost unchanged. The inverter and battery only come into play when necessary. Some nicer UPSs will also select the appropriate tap on a transformer to "buck or boost" the input voltage, but it's still not exactly stable.
A full-time UPS, also called double-conversion, wastes a lot of energy because it rectifies the input to DC and inverts it again. However, it produces a ridiculously stable output.
FYI, telecom equipment runs on constantly-charged DC battery supplies. If the city power fails, they go from float to discharging, but the equipment never notices. Any equipment in the office that runs on AC gets it from inverters, so they never see a bump either.
Double you double you double you dot some dumb site dot com.
One would think that advertisers would set up intelligently-named multiple records, eg:
www.buycrap.com
web.buycrap.com
buycrap.com
and give the radio people a break! At least they're not pronounching the aych tee tee pee colon slash slash part. Yes, Prodigy, CIS and AOL really had something going with those simple English keywords.
And yet for some reason Defcon gets a somewhat different type of press.
I shouldn't be surprised really, I work in telecom and there's equipment in some offices that's been continuously powered since before I was born. But still, PC power supplies aren't known for being reliable! Don't you ever have hardware failures?
I for one am still wondering when Cedar Point is gonna start putting catapults from decommissioned aircraft carriers into their roller coasters.
New, next summer: Ride the F-16 coaster, complete with catapult takeoff!
As for NASA, I agree. That'd be a hell of a way to give a serious kick to a rocket. Heat is cheap, especially nuclear heat. Can you just see a nuke-powered steam catapult, solid fuel rockets, and NASA engineers, in close proximity to one another? That's a disaster waiting to happen, but it sure would be funny to watch.
And since everyone keeps asking: You start firing the rockets BEFORE you hit the catapult. Let 'em burn for a second or two, no big deal. Then once you know they're working properly, you hit the BRS and set things into motion.
My trusty old Zenith XT laptop (the one with the dual 720k floppies) makes a very distinct, very quiet whine. It gets even quieter when I turn the brightness control all the way down, but it's still perceptible. At the 1 minute mark (my LCD backlight timeout) it goes totally silent. I'd assumed that this was magnetic interference from the backlight inverter, but it sure could be the screen itself.
Then what does J&J Patient Care rename their lubricating jelly to?
I have a novel idea: It's an electronic component, right? Let's give it an electronic-style part number. Since it's compatible with the 8086 processor, let's call it something like the 80986 or the 81086 shall we?
Okay this has way too much potential. How long is it going to take them to clean up the aftermath? I see another mess of legal battles over this one, and maybe because it's so prominent, we might see some penalties for boneheaded admins like this one. (Oh please, oh please, oh please? We need a legal precedent that makes "blatant neglect" a crime.. heh)
Right now, my physical devices are up to N: (That 7-disc CD changer really did it, not that the Zip, Sparq, and Cd-rw were helping things)
I can just imagine partitioning this thing. Screw that! I'd rather see it as one of those "plug in and forget" network-ready storage toasters. Just NFS-mount the damn thing and forget about the partitioning limitations of our current OS's.
So the distributed.net logs were able to give them the IP address of the most recent connection from that machine. Utterly useless. In order to find out more detils of the connection, didn't someone have to call the ISP and fax them a warrant?
For a ripper, Cdcopy impressed me greatly. I'll have to try cdex that someone mentioned above. I used to leave a stack of CDs next to my machine while I was at work with a note "If the tray is open, please put the disc in the pile at right. Then load in a new disc from the pile at left and close the tray."
That's all it took. Cdcopy would sense the new disc, read the ID, go on CDDB and get tracknames, rip and encode each track, and when it finished the last track it would eject the disc. No monitor, no keyboard activity needed.
For an encoder, I use bladeenc which is very fast (near realtime at 128) and the quality seems excellent.
And regarding multitasking while it's working, sure! Under Windows 95, I'd encode, surf, chat, even occasionally play an mp3 at the same time. No problems and no skips. (My drive is an HP CD-RW drive, the 7200i, which iz 2x2x6 and rips at about 4x)
I'd like to see network distribution of the encoding process. I did this once on a roomful of 486sx33's using DesQview, Novell Lan Workplace for Dos, and batch files. It ran but it was shaky at best. Has anyone done better?
We tried chickenwire inside plexiglas, but it looked like crap and didn't work too well. (I could still pick my IDE bus up on FM radio 10 feet away). That was years ago tho. I did manage to replace the cover on my 10 meg drive with a clear one tho, and that was very cool.
Since then, I've seen "clear" calculators and other things that lead me to believe that clear substances can be made fairly conductive.
Combine that with a network of ultrathin copper wires embedded in the plastic to "drain" anything caught by the clear coating, and we might have a winner. Come to think of it, the wire could be inlaid in patterns and used decoratively?
Let's not stop there! Forget the ceramic cases on chips, make them out of glass. And embed LEDs into the chip at interesting points. Hey where do I go to patent this?
Just like the credit card companies charge merchants a chunk of the fee in order to have the convenience of accepting a certain card.
If you destroy your Palm before syncing it, theoretically the transaction could still happen because the other party could sync THEIRS and the system would still take it.
The only way a transaction would be lost is if both devices holding both sides of it were somehow stopped from reporting the transaction.
Yes they'd be able to trust information from a single source because it's all cryptographically secure, we hope. Anyone, anyone? Bruce?
When the Pentium III news broke about the serial number, I was theorizing that the keyboard trick could be used similarly to re-enable the PSN without a hard restart. I never heard more about the actual technique tho.
The Reset button, however, does ground the Power Good signal as was suggested earlier. Perhaps by rewiring it to the _reset line on the CPU, you could have it run the code at FFFF:FFFC, instead of HARD-resetting the whole PC. Or maybe my understanding of PG's role is lacking. Anyone here ever build a POST card? Hehe..
I'm presently sitting in front of a pair of Fujitsu OC-192 systems. The computer I'm writing this on is connected to the 'net by a 56k dialup. Y'know why? Because you can't just throw packets into one of these things! They do NOT know or care what your computer has to say. The difficult part of networking, and the thing that NAPs consist of, is getting computer data into and out of telecom pipelines. One of these days really soon I'm going to type up a page about how telecom really works, so computer users can understand it.
For the moment, let's just say that there isn't a PC in the world that can talk to anything faster than a T3 natively. So you mux a few dozen or a few hundred T3s onto a fiber. So what? The computer doesn't care. But now you have the ability to add more computers at either end of the pipe. What we need are for more backbone providers to do detailed packet analysis and purchase more circuits between the heavy-traffic areas of their networks. We need looser peering agreements that let packets follow the more logical geographical route. We need fatter NAPs that can handle more packets, because the circuits to connect them are relatively cheap and plentiful.
Then in order to make it all work, we need to provide faster connectivity from the ISP's POPs to the customers. As an AC pointed out, most of the copper buried in the ground dates from the 60s or earlier. Lots of it is cotton-and-wax insulated with a lead outer sheath. The telco will never figure this out. Think wireless.
With all the distributed.net and seti@home packets flying around thet 'net, if we just encrypted them, Echelon would have a coronary just trying to figure out dbaker's next song lyrics quote in the "The keyserver says:" line.. Hehehe..
Seriosuly tho. What if we do a little social engineering of our own, and give all the scriptkiddies a little decoy program to put on all the systems they compromise? It just sends out 10-50 packets per second of "nuclear secret refinery dmsetup compromise echelon sigint sigterm sighup hehe China Russia comrade" junk, targeted at random hosts. Or if you want to make it REALLY useful, have it send to UDP port 139 on those random hosts. The kiddies will LOVE it, Echelon will HATE it, it'll be on a dozen new systems every day, and life will be good!
Who watches the watchmen? Who cares? What matters is who educate those who the watchmen want to watch.
I haven't tried BestCrypt yet, so I can't comment. Mmmm, Traci Lords. :)
Scramdisk is NOT DOS-based! It's 95 and 98 only, and it requires that sd.vxd be in windows\system\ at boot time. (Other than that, there's no installation, per se.) And we all know that VXDs don't load when you're plain-DOS-booted.
Scramdisk IS very cool. The user interface is a bit less than intuitive at first (the sequence of events in order to mount a drive, for example, needs work.) but it's overall very easy to use once you get used to it. You can unmount on delay, unmount on hotkey, or unmount on menu command.
I'd like to see a Dblspace replacement that lets me get at Scramdisk drives from DOS. (I'd also like to see compression built in, because mounting a scramdisk volume which is stored on a compressed volume is just plain ugly! But hey, disks are cheap now.)
Kremlin rules! Particularly the name. I don't like the file-by-file encryption, it's just as limited as old PGP was in that respect. But the Sentry is awesome, I set mine to wipe the slack space at the end of clusters, clear my browser cache, nuke c:\temp, and do some other system cleanup every morning. The clatter of the hard drive serves as my alarm clock. (Well actually no, it's a nearly-silent Caviar, and I work nights anyway.)
The problem is that none of this awesome stuff is written for Linux. I don't know Aman's feelings on the issue, but I'd like to see a Linux driver to read/write Scramdisk files, in the fashion of UMSDOS. I ought to post this to alt.privacy when I get home.
Some hackish terms in Business Card Lingo...
Cracker (new):Access specialist.
Cracker (C64):Restriction eliminator.
Phreak: Call routing faciliator.
Hacker: Technical wizard./Master tech specialist.
Admin: Client resource manager.
BOFH: Resource allocation technician.
Teacher: Grokkage facilitator.
Coder: Program creation specialist.
Social engineer: Social engineer.
Dumpster-diver: Resource reclamation technician.
Script-kiddie: Preprogrammed resource misappropriation specialist.
Real-world terms translated...
Common criminal: Legal constraint avoider.
Tresspasser: Boundary penetration specialist.
Vandal: Spontaneous graphic redesigner.
Spy: Private information retrieval technician.
Journalist: Reality spin provider.
Terrorist: Public reaction engineer.
Drug runner: Material transfer expert.
I think I'm gonna send a slightly modified version of this to some of the local radio stations.. The morning shows around here LOVE stuff like this. And who knows, it might popularize "Master technical specialist" as a hacker-like term. I particularly like this one, because most of the bucks-for-certification scams have a "master" classification and it seems to impress people. To borrow this designation seems appropriate.