since you can't track a MAC address back across the Internet
While it is true you can't check a connected machine with netstat etc and say "hey, this machine has MAC xxx" there is nothing to say that a program can't capture a MAC address from local hardware and pass it on.
Generally, MAC address stop being readable somewhere after (correct me if I'm wrong) the local gateway. But a piece of software could still check the network interfaces and transmit it within a message to home-base.
ARP is a protocol (Address Resolution Protocol), the address in question is a MAC (Medium Access Control) address.
ARP can use a MAC address to resolve machine identification, IP assignment, etc
Then ISP's should be able to charge them back for facilitating a server that allows iTunes and etc (legal music downloads) to bring them revenue. It's all fine and good to say you want a cut of the internet-music-market (and I will not doubt that ISP's make a killing off selling broadband for filesharers, many ppl I know got it to download music), but you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Once an infiltrator is in a machine, it is often just a matter of time before he acquires root access - unless monitoring or disablement are standard procedure.
Depending on the power of the box and the time from which the lower-level account was compromized, it could just be that a password-cracking procedure gained root access. Of course, it's also possible that the attacker managed to nab control of a process running as root, but again the initial compromise still required cracking a password to gain access to the machine.
First rule, secure your passwords... and it's probably not a bad idea to use a password cracklib to ensure that any semi-privileged (can SSH) users have somewhat secure passwords as well.
It may sound funny, but that's been more-or-less my solution to the cold weather. Currently I'm working between two locations (alternating days), and one has a large room full of cables, hubs, servers, and more. In the cold mornings after driving my (frozen) car to work, I definately prefer to work in the server room as it's actually quite toasty warm despite the heat being off overnight.
Laugh as you may, but enough electronics definately do cozy up a room in winter... not very comfortable in summer though and I'm pretty sure dress-code isn't lax enough for me to wear a cut-off T-shirt.
Up to a certain point, virii generally relied on some form of human intervention or mistake by which to proliferate themselves.
It seems that many of the early viruses were trojans, hiding in other software or with games. A few were hunter-seeker variants, looking for new places to infect but generally relying on either a weak user to infect to "climb the ladder" or a trojaned machine.
Today, virii can get an unpatched machine from halfway across the world without requiring anything more than it be on with an internet connection (and unpatched). How's that for scary evolution?
I still remember the days when virii were transmitted on diskettes with boot-sector infections. Don't really worry much about those anymore today, though it really is interesting how a stealthy virus that sneaks in under the radar compares to many of todays obvious virii that take advantage of the dumb (e.g.. those clicking the attachment).
Still, I suppose that:
This is a new game I made 4u.
Pleaze click here to play my fun game
Isn't really all that different from early virii hiding inside trojanized games... both taking advantage of human elements.
If you sort through the poorly structured sentence, it is implying that a five-year-old (note it says "a" not "my") running a quake server could be considered a businessman or at leastt a service provider. It doesn't indicate that the poster's child is running a server though.
Add a 1 to that (15 year old) and that's probably not a bad demographic for a kid with a play quake server.
No, the law specifies exemption...
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As per this comment, copyright infringement notification don't count as spam.
However, if they message you and you aren't carrying any copyrighted material...
Recently this page was the most hit page @ engineering.rowan.edu/, beating out even the main page which every lab computer defaults to, thanks everybody
The code listed here is for windows, but should be modifiable to work in 'nix with a little work, I think the main part is the hardware and understanding the parort<-->billy pinouts.
Wish I could see the original link though... anyone got an idea for which videoconferencing software to use with Billy? Personally I'd just love to hook it up at work on April 1 and scare the secretaries a bit...
too much interpretation up to the judges who try cases under these laws
They shouldn't have to interpret, if a law isn't direct enough it should be canned. Not sure about down there, but some very *strong* laws in Canada ( as in, around a long time, or popular) have been nuked because they were either too broad, or too obscure.
So basically, they're using a (questionably biased) survey of "servers" running IIS Vs others.
No excuse me, but wouldn't be able to run 100 sites on an apache box without problems beat the pants off having to run 100 seperate IIS boxen?
I mean, if say, 70% of the websites in the world were to be run on 30% of the servers, I'd say those 30% of servers had something over the other 70%...
But in light of actions, it is becoming apparent that the man truly believes he has a divine mandate to rule...
And terrorists believe that the divine wants them to blow up the infidels. That's why they both scare me... any man who adjures his own accountability to a higher power is frightening.
At no time in my life have I ever been scared of my dad, but I sure as hell respected him.
Indeed, didn't make me scared of my parents so much as I was scared of an ass-whooping I'd get for being caught, part of that is in making sure there's a collelation between the action and the punishment, no between the punisher and punishee.
However, in all seriousness, I think that having my computer/console taken away at that time was much more emotionally distressing than the physical stuff. A spanking lasts what, 5 minutes? A week off my games... most lasting impression.
Dude, NES may have increased my adrenaline 10 years ago, but if it's what you consider "heart-pounding-action" nowadays I'd seriously recommend you don't upgrade to a newer/more-realistic system anytime soon.:-)
OK, so the premise here is that at the end of it all, we'll find salvation. However, leading up to that point is a whole lot of pain, suffering, enslavement, and general unpleasantness. I don't that even fundamentalists are looking forward to the beginning of the end so much as they are saying "at the end, things will be good for those that believe."
It's like having a genetic disease/infection that requires major surgury. You're possibly going to lose some important parts, almost definately suffer some pain and indignity, but in the end you'll be ok (or at least better off than with the disease). You know it will strike somebody in the family, but you'd rather it didn't catch the bus at your generation.
If we have not already bombed your country already then we will probably be there to save it from someone that is.
While I like the "if we have not already bombed your country" part... I'd particularly love the mentality that America saved the world from the Germans or Japanese, and that no other countries in the world had a significant role to play in this - or that without American involvement the world is surely doomed.
If it's an American movie, I'm fairly sure that the MPAA works here as well. I believe you can still be sued/etc for breaking the laws of another country when it comes to their "property," so long as Canadian court recognises their claim.
It's like the whole class getting detention because one person stuck gum on the teacher's seat.
Or the increasingly obtrusive trend towards checking airline passengers (next step, full-cavity searches for everyone).
I've seen a screen rip where at certain points during the movie the colour goes off and you get black+white. Movie is still viewable, but that section indicates it is a screener. Now if they did this to different sections for different screeners... whomever sells theirs off would have to collect the part from another ripped screener to fill their b&w space. Makes it a lot more inconvenient for those handing off screeners if they don't want to get caught.
I would highly doubt that they check their own mail without having it filtered through somebody first anyhow. Likely it passes through antispam, then through a person, then to the recipient (and if it's opposing their views, into the great round filing cabinet).
In the end, it would probably be up to their technicians to solve any spam problem, and the screaming load on the servers would just be footed at the expense of taxpayers.
My laptop is also older though, 700Mhz celeron. I've seen new laptops do a lot better, 2-4+ hours on normal battery with power-saving options turned up. You get a dimmer screen etc etc, but as long as you're just doing office stuff and not running heavy media or CPU-intensive apps you'll probably survive.
For those that really need it, extra batteries are an option as well, though it's an added expense and somewhat of an inconvenience.
How often would you run it on batteries? My laptop lasts a little over an 1.5hr, but I've never really had to run off batteries at all except when relocating while running, or once when I was waiting for a kernel compile to finish.
Mostly, these things just end up being a "portable desktop." You might use them in the car, in which case there are car-kits, but generally most other places you can find power to jack into.
I've seen some which do nicely by simply getting rid of the battery. I think some are here.For those that really need it, you can buy an optional external battery, but for those just looking for a portable PC+monitor option, these do very nicely.
No battery means less weight, room for a fullsize processor and/or hard-drive, as well as other components.
Even with a 64-bit powerful CPU, it won't hit the multimedia/gaming market as hard as a desktop PC due to the lack of a comparable GPU (video processor). I have seen some laptops that game decently, but neck-on-neck with similar desktop systems the laptops always seem to fall a bit behind... particularly when you can't upgrade the video hardware easily. Why can't laptops come with a more easily replaced video board (easy like RAM), or perhaps a slot for something akin to the old accelerator cards and keep basic functionality onboard.
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since you can't track a MAC address back across the Internet
While it is true you can't check a connected machine with netstat etc and say "hey, this machine has MAC xxx" there is nothing to say that a program can't capture a MAC address from local hardware and pass it on.
Generally, MAC address stop being readable somewhere after (correct me if I'm wrong) the local gateway. But a piece of software could still check the network interfaces and transmit it within a message to home-base.
ARP is a protocol (Address Resolution Protocol), the address in question is a MAC (Medium Access Control) address.
ARP can use a MAC address to resolve machine identification, IP assignment, etc
Then ISP's should be able to charge them back for facilitating a server that allows iTunes and etc (legal music downloads) to bring them revenue. It's all fine and good to say you want a cut of the internet-music-market (and I will not doubt that ISP's make a killing off selling broadband for filesharers, many ppl I know got it to download music), but you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Once an infiltrator is in a machine, it is often just a matter of time before he acquires root access - unless monitoring or disablement are standard procedure.
Depending on the power of the box and the time from which the lower-level account was compromized, it could just be that a password-cracking procedure gained root access. Of course, it's also possible that the attacker managed to nab control of a process running as root, but again the initial compromise still required cracking a password to gain access to the machine.
First rule, secure your passwords... and it's probably not a bad idea to use a password cracklib to ensure that any semi-privileged (can SSH) users have somewhat secure passwords as well.
It may sound funny, but that's been more-or-less my solution to the cold weather. Currently I'm working between two locations (alternating days), and one has a large room full of cables, hubs, servers, and more. In the cold mornings after driving my (frozen) car to work, I definately prefer to work in the server room as it's actually quite toasty warm despite the heat being off overnight.
Laugh as you may, but enough electronics definately do cozy up a room in winter... not very comfortable in summer though and I'm pretty sure dress-code isn't lax enough for me to wear a cut-off T-shirt.
Up to a certain point, virii generally relied on some form of human intervention or mistake by which to proliferate themselves.
It seems that many of the early viruses were trojans, hiding in other software or with games. A few were hunter-seeker variants, looking for new places to infect but generally relying on either a weak user to infect to "climb the ladder" or a trojaned machine.
Today, virii can get an unpatched machine from halfway across the world without requiring anything more than it be on with an internet connection (and unpatched). How's that for scary evolution?
I still remember the days when virii were transmitted on diskettes with boot-sector infections. Don't really worry much about those anymore today, though it really is interesting how a stealthy virus that sneaks in under the radar compares to many of todays obvious virii that take advantage of the dumb (e.g.. those clicking the attachment).
Still, I suppose that:
This is a new game I made 4u.
Pleaze click here to play my fun game
Isn't really all that different from early virii hiding inside trojanized games... both taking advantage of human elements.
If you sort through the poorly structured sentence, it is implying that a five-year-old (note it says "a" not "my") running a quake server could be considered a businessman or at leastt a service provider. It doesn't indicate that the poster's child is running a server though.
Add a 1 to that (15 year old) and that's probably not a bad demographic for a kid with a play quake server.
As per this comment, copyright infringement notification don't count as spam.
However, if they message you and you aren't carrying any copyrighted material...
Recently this page was the most hit page @ engineering.rowan.edu/, beating out even the main page which every lab computer defaults to, thanks everybody
The code listed here is for windows, but should be modifiable to work in 'nix with a little work, I think the main part is the hardware and understanding the parort<-->billy pinouts.
Wish I could see the original link though... anyone got an idea for which videoconferencing software to use with Billy? Personally I'd just love to hook it up at work on April 1 and scare the secretaries a bit...
Boss.... the fish is talking to me!
The year the consumer inches ahead perhaps... we'll win when
a) The DCMA is gone for good
b) No further sneaky incarnations are drafted up
or
c) Some of these companies get nailed enough that they're leery of filing frivolous charges, or they just go out of business
too much interpretation up to the judges who try cases under these laws
They shouldn't have to interpret, if a law isn't direct enough it should be canned. Not sure about down there, but some very *strong* laws in Canada ( as in, around a long time, or popular) have been nuked because they were either too broad, or too obscure.
So basically, they're using a (questionably biased) survey of "servers" running IIS Vs others.
No excuse me, but wouldn't be able to run 100 sites on an apache box without problems beat the pants off having to run 100 seperate IIS boxen?
I mean, if say, 70% of the websites in the world were to be run on 30% of the servers, I'd say those 30% of servers had something over the other 70%...
But in light of actions, it is becoming apparent that the man truly believes he has a divine mandate to rule...
And terrorists believe that the divine wants them to blow up the infidels. That's why they both scare me... any man who adjures his own accountability to a higher power is frightening.
if ( $ENV{HTTP_REFERER} =~ /slashdot\.org/ )
{
mail("me@mycellphone.com", "help!", "I'm meeeelting!");
init_throttle();
pray();
}
At no time in my life have I ever been scared of my dad, but I sure as hell respected him.
Indeed, didn't make me scared of my parents so much as I was scared of an ass-whooping I'd get for being caught, part of that is in making sure there's a collelation between the action and the punishment, no between the punisher and punishee.
However, in all seriousness, I think that having my computer/console taken away at that time was much more emotionally distressing than the physical stuff. A spanking lasts what, 5 minutes? A week off my games... most lasting impression.
Dude, NES may have increased my adrenaline 10 years ago, but if it's what you consider "heart-pounding-action" nowadays I'd seriously recommend you don't upgrade to a newer/more-realistic system anytime soon. :-)
OK, so the premise here is that at the end of it all, we'll find salvation. However, leading up to that point is a whole lot of pain, suffering, enslavement, and general unpleasantness. I don't that even fundamentalists are looking forward to the beginning of the end so much as they are saying "at the end, things will be good for those that believe."
It's like having a genetic disease/infection that requires major surgury. You're possibly going to lose some important parts, almost definately suffer some pain and indignity, but in the end you'll be ok (or at least better off than with the disease). You know it will strike somebody in the family, but you'd rather it didn't catch the bus at your generation.
If we have not already bombed your country already then we will probably be there to save it from someone that is.
While I like the "if we have not already bombed your country" part... I'd particularly love the mentality that America saved the world from the Germans or Japanese, and that no other countries in the world had a significant role to play in this - or that without American involvement the world is surely doomed.
Yes, I'm glad I don't live there too...
If it's an American movie, I'm fairly sure that the MPAA works here as well. I believe you can still be sued/etc for breaking the laws of another country when it comes to their "property," so long as Canadian court recognises their claim.
It's like the whole class getting detention because one person stuck gum on the teacher's seat.
Or the increasingly obtrusive trend towards checking airline passengers (next step, full-cavity searches for everyone).
I've seen a screen rip where at certain points during the movie the colour goes off and you get black+white. Movie is still viewable, but that section indicates it is a screener. Now if they did this to different sections for different screeners... whomever sells theirs off would have to collect the part from another ripped screener to fill their b&w space. Makes it a lot more inconvenient for those handing off screeners if they don't want to get caught.
I would highly doubt that they check their own mail without having it filtered through somebody first anyhow. Likely it passes through antispam, then through a person, then to the recipient (and if it's opposing their views, into the great round filing cabinet).
In the end, it would probably be up to their technicians to solve any spam problem, and the screaming load on the servers would just be footed at the expense of taxpayers.
My laptop is also older though, 700Mhz celeron. I've seen new laptops do a lot better, 2-4+ hours on normal battery with power-saving options turned up. You get a dimmer screen etc etc, but as long as you're just doing office stuff and not running heavy media or CPU-intensive apps you'll probably survive.
For those that really need it, extra batteries are an option as well, though it's an added expense and somewhat of an inconvenience.
How often would you run it on batteries? My laptop lasts a little over an 1.5hr, but I've never really had to run off batteries at all except when relocating while running, or once when I was waiting for a kernel compile to finish.
Mostly, these things just end up being a "portable desktop." You might use them in the car, in which case there are car-kits, but generally most other places you can find power to jack into.
I've seen some which do nicely by simply getting rid of the battery. I think some are here.For those that really need it, you can buy an optional external battery, but for those just looking for a portable PC+monitor option, these do very nicely.
No battery means less weight, room for a fullsize processor and/or hard-drive, as well as other components.
Even with a 64-bit powerful CPU, it won't hit the multimedia/gaming market as hard as a desktop PC due to the lack of a comparable GPU (video processor). I have seen some laptops that game decently, but neck-on-neck with similar desktop systems the laptops always seem to fall a bit behind... particularly when you can't upgrade the video hardware easily. Why can't laptops come with a more easily replaced video board (easy like RAM), or perhaps a slot for something akin to the old accelerator cards and keep basic functionality onboard.