What's so pricey nowadays that requires so many advertisements constantly?
It's not a product that is pricey, it is your eyeballs, everyone else's eyeballs who will watch and the brains behind them that accept the commercial imprinting.
You know, I hate SCO as much as the next guy, but what I hate more are the fools pulling off these attacks. They give me, and the linux side a bad name. A few silly individuals who are nothing more than vandals can create a widescale negative view that "those crazy linux zealot hackers are a bunch of immature brats who DOS people they don't like". Sure, intelligent people don't make this association, but since when has the general idiot consensus not been a large force to be reckoned with?
Tetrodotoxin is pretty neat stuff. I recall years ago reading The Serpent and the Rainbow about Harvard ethnobotanist, Wade Davis' adventures with Haitian voodoo culture and exploring the uses of tetrodotoxin to create zombies. Don't let the cheesy fictional movie fool you, the book is legitimate ethnobotany and well worth a read.
Anyhow, tetrodotoxin fascinated me then, and it does now. Maybe someday I'll be in Japan and actually get to try Fugu and have a first hand experience with a light consumption of tetrodotoxin.
She likely would have been caught at some point but it would require her being but when she is stupid enough to committ a crime RIGHT IN FRONT OF AN FBI AGENT, of course she's going to get caught quickly. Normally things transpire roughly as follows:
Scammer trying to scam a bunch of users
some subset of the users getting scammed
some subset of the scammed realizing that they were scammed and
reporting it, or some of the bright non-scammed user reporting it
The FBI seeing the report
FBI deciding to take action
Following their internal investigative procedures
gathering evidence
making a case
prosecuting scammer
In the case we have here, a FBI agent gets in the loop directly and is able to jump into this process at step 6.
The scammer would have gotten caught eventually if she kept running her scam. She just got un-lucky in this case and was caught as a result.
I recently was in a Microsoft webinar regarding patch management. If you are interested, or a glutton for punishment, this was it. At one point they showed a histogram on the screen that was intended to show vulnerabilities in operating systems and how MS was beating everyone on the planet. Major Microsoft products were all broken down by release, e.g. Windows 20003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, etc.. Linux and BSD were categorized by distribution only, e.g. Redhat, Debian, BSD etc...
Windows 2003 appeared at the far left with only a few vulnerabilities. Windows 2003 was actually the "winner". It even "beat" BSD! Now think about that histogram for a minute. It created false divisions that did an apples to oranges comparison. The sum total of Debian vulnerabilites likely refer to all released versions of a Debian distribution with all possible packages installed while Win2003 likely refers to only a Win2003 retail box installed with the bare minimum options.
Marketing is a black art. I have some personal experience, but NDAs to bind me. It's an art of trying to create and/or shape ideas in the mind of your customers, critics and competitors. The most successful marketing is that which makes them believe they came to the ideas you wish them to hold of their own volition.
How about this, I buy CD's, I rip every single one and encode them to FLAC and they sit on my drive array that is available to all machines in my house, nothing more.
It looks like all the practice I've been doing with strong crypto and security protocols will now come in handy.
We need to reach out and teach others how to use it, how to protect against government invasion of privacy. Teach others the politics behind crypto and teach others the practice of using good crypto and good key management. I'm making an effort to teach all people I correspond with and have been for several years. It's frustrating because most don't listen or don't want to listen, but in a few cases it really pays off. Crypto evangelism is now my evangelical topic over open source.
Imagine how much better of a state these reporters would be in if they kept all that they did not print strongly encrypted. Under the stress of the government questioning them, they may even forget their passphrase!
I once had a friend ask me how to really annoy one of his friends who was in tech support. We found a picture on our internal network of a user who was very scary looking and was a woman with quite an attitude who would call up TS and really give them hell.
I thought, what better way is there to annoy this individual than to confront him with her picture? I found the registry key that controlled desktop wallpaper in windows and devised a little script that would pull in the photo from our corporate intranet and turn the desktop into a tiled background of this woman's photograph.
Then changed Netscape on his desktop so that the icon remained the same, but whenever he clicked on it, it was really running the script to set the wallpaper silently and then launching netscape.exe.
To make things even more interesting, there was an outcome I didn't anticipate. The wallpaper settings would not take place visually until after a reboot. This poor guy couldn't figure out why, every time his machine rebooted, he had this ultra annoying and frightening wallpaper. He eventually gave up and reinstalled his OS!
The two practical jokers responsible for this annoying behavior are still laughing.
no, you wouldn't definately void your warranty. The Magnunson Moss warranty act (federal law) makes it illegal for manufacturers to automatically void your warranty based on modifications you make excepting that they can prove the modification you made was the cause of the failure.
I've been making modifications to my vehicles for years, and never had warranty claims problems on other ares of the vehicle. I've completely replaced the *entire* computer on my ducati and it's still covered. The new computer is not, but the rest of the bike that the manufacturer provided is.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The current array of worms making the rounds on the Internet are pretty fundamentally simple worms and not much more than teenagers throwing eggs at the wall on a large scale. Blaster was crashing systems because of it's sloppy coding, it wasn't even doing damage other than eating up resources and planning on attacking MS (which it stupidly did based on DNS entry and then even the WRONG ONE).
Worms today all have limited vision in what they can do and a greedy philosophy which results in limiting their possible damage.
I'm one of the good guys, but I can certainly see the potential that an evil genius can do. Please read these two papers and get a idea of what is possibly coming.
You can't run a stop sign just because you don't like the law. Doing so affects other people negatively. Same with copyright violations - you can't ignore them just because you don't like the law.
I can run any stop sign I want to. I just have to be ready to accept the consequences. I can break, or try to break, any law I want to, I just have to accept the consequences.
You are right that it isn't a legal defense to say "I didn't think a law was valid". It's a moral defense to say "I didn't think a law was valid". In the case of trying to change an unjust laws, the moral defense can help raise awareness, create a movement and possibly change a law. One should still expect punishment however.
I think your attempt to equate Legal and illegal to good and bad is very weak and short sighted. Legal and illegal do not map to concepts of good and bad.
I'm not saying they are stupid. They just aren't informed and probably don't care to be like I do. That isn't a bad thing. Some want a Turing machine, others want an appliance. For example I'm not stupid but I have no idea, and I don't care to have an idea, on how to write a contract that will stand up in court so I have to get a proxy to do it for me who is a ABA certified expert.
I do know that I can find the proxy in this case, and how to find them. Still I think, getting a firewall and plugging it in or installing it can be a difficult concept for the general computing public to get today. I hope that changes, and I think it *is* changing for the better.
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You know, I hate SCO as much as the next guy, but what I hate more are the fools pulling off these attacks. They give me, and the linux side a bad name. A few silly individuals who are nothing more than vandals can create a widescale negative view that "those crazy linux zealot hackers are a bunch of immature brats who DOS people they don't like". Sure, intelligent people don't make this association, but since when has the general idiot consensus not been a large force to be reckoned with?
Anyhow, tetrodotoxin fascinated me then, and it does now. Maybe someday I'll be in Japan and actually get to try Fugu and have a first hand experience with a light consumption of tetrodotoxin.
Just go FLAC like I did and future proof your audio collection.
The programs modifying programs is actually right out of Out of Control. I'm too drunk to operate a serach engine effectively or I'd link to it.
In the case we have here, a FBI agent gets in the loop directly and is able to jump into this process at step 6.
The scammer would have gotten caught eventually if she kept running her scam. She just got un-lucky in this case and was caught as a result.
And the matrix was heavily influenced by these two books:
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
&
Out of Control by Kevin Kelly (you can read the whole book online)
Just though I'd share, I found both these books amazing and giving me better insight into the Matrix, as well as introducing me to new topics.
Just don't mention the lost billions. Pretty graphs speak for themselves and rarely is "authority" challenged.
I recently was in a Microsoft webinar regarding patch management. If you are interested, or a glutton for punishment, this was it. At one point they showed a histogram on the screen that was intended to show vulnerabilities in operating systems and how MS was beating everyone on the planet. Major Microsoft products were all broken down by release, e.g. Windows 20003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, etc.. Linux and BSD were categorized by distribution only, e.g. Redhat, Debian, BSD etc...
Windows 2003 appeared at the far left with only a few vulnerabilities. Windows 2003 was actually the "winner". It even "beat" BSD! Now think about that histogram for a minute. It created false divisions that did an apples to oranges comparison. The sum total of Debian vulnerabilites likely refer to all released versions of a Debian distribution with all possible packages installed while Win2003 likely refers to only a Win2003 retail box installed with the bare minimum options.
Marketing is a black art. I have some personal experience, but NDAs to bind me. It's an art of trying to create and/or shape ideas in the mind of your customers, critics and competitors. The most successful marketing is that which makes them believe they came to the ideas you wish them to hold of their own volition.
Have you heard of Nagios?
great troll. I call you out.
Oh crap, now I'm worried about that penile "enhancement" I ordered. The email made the pills sound so promising!
How about this, I buy CD's, I rip every single one and encode them to FLAC and they sit on my drive array that is available to all machines in my house, nothing more.
fair use.
Has someone submitted this thread to the department of homeland defense yet?
and that is all.
We need to reach out and teach others how to use it, how to protect against government invasion of privacy. Teach others the politics behind crypto and teach others the practice of using good crypto and good key management. I'm making an effort to teach all people I correspond with and have been for several years. It's frustrating because most don't listen or don't want to listen, but in a few cases it really pays off. Crypto evangelism is now my evangelical topic over open source.
Imagine how much better of a state these reporters would be in if they kept all that they did not print strongly encrypted. Under the stress of the government questioning them, they may even forget their passphrase!
I thought, what better way is there to annoy this individual than to confront him with her picture? I found the registry key that controlled desktop wallpaper in windows and devised a little script that would pull in the photo from our corporate intranet and turn the desktop into a tiled background of this woman's photograph.
Then changed Netscape on his desktop so that the icon remained the same, but whenever he clicked on it, it was really running the script to set the wallpaper silently and then launching netscape.exe.
To make things even more interesting, there was an outcome I didn't anticipate. The wallpaper settings would not take place visually until after a reboot. This poor guy couldn't figure out why, every time his machine rebooted, he had this ultra annoying and frightening wallpaper. He eventually gave up and reinstalled his OS!
The two practical jokers responsible for this annoying behavior are still laughing.
see: US Code Title 15, Chapter 60, sections 2301-2312
I've been making modifications to my vehicles for years, and never had warranty claims problems on other ares of the vehicle. I've completely replaced the *entire* computer on my ducati and it's still covered. The new computer is not, but the rest of the bike that the manufacturer provided is.
Crap, now all the prying i've done with my flathead screwdriver has probably voided the warranty.
see: chmod 755
Worms today all have limited vision in what they can do and a greedy philosophy which results in limiting their possible damage.
I'm one of the good guys, but I can certainly see the potential that an evil genius can do. Please read these two papers and get a idea of what is possibly coming.
Warhol Worms
Curious Yellow
moderator. Read parent. mark insightful. nuff said.
I can run any stop sign I want to. I just have to be ready to accept the consequences. I can break, or try to break, any law I want to, I just have to accept the consequences.
You are right that it isn't a legal defense to say "I didn't think a law was valid". It's a moral defense to say "I didn't think a law was valid". In the case of trying to change an unjust laws, the moral defense can help raise awareness, create a movement and possibly change a law. One should still expect punishment however.
I think your attempt to equate Legal and illegal to good and bad is very weak and short sighted. Legal and illegal do not map to concepts of good and bad.
I do know that I can find the proxy in this case, and how to find them. Still I think, getting a firewall and plugging it in or installing it can be a difficult concept for the general computing public to get today. I hope that changes, and I think it *is* changing for the better.