I think they probably mean VBScript - because it's an easy payload for HTML emails to execute in Outlook.
These wankers are just script kiddies, anyway - it's only inventive worm writers (notice how he didn't manage to find any real hackers to interview about buffer overflow attacks, SQL injection and the like?) that are worthy of any intellectual respect, and none of them would touch VB with a bargepole.
Bet you 1500 baht buys a weeks food for a decent sized family.
Of course Microsoft should price products according to the target market, but given the doctrine of first sale, and the principles of free trade, if you can get a product legitimately for 1500 baht in Thailand, then that same product will become available everywhere for the same price.
Now you can either have free trade, or you can have fair regional pricing.
As a non-engineer, it was insulting for me to have to explain (and prove) from first principles the flow of viscous liquids through a pipe, and for the 'engineer' (a wanker that referred to Arabs as 'camel jockeys') to then send my explanation to a 'chartered engineer' for verification.
I don't know how it is in the US, but here in the UK, a chartered engineer is a waste of space - a dickhead who knows which table to look stuff up in.
The guild system is alive and well, and it's in all the so-called 'professions' in the UK.
I'm feeling controversial, so I'll compare that staement to the assertion that 'Latin is a dead language'.
Of course assembler is not worth using, but it is worth learning, in the same way that Latin is worth learning, because it gives you an insight into how languages work.
I myself prefer assembler over C - if I'm going to get down and dirty with the machine, I'll do it properly, but if I want to produce usable maintainable code, I'll use Java or Lisp (or even C++ if pushed by the PHB).
Assembler is a wonderful thing - it reminds you where the computer came from, and provides a useful grounding point when your mind wanders too far from reality.
I should post this as AC, 'cause it's total bollocks, but I'm convinced that assembler is worth keeping alive, so (in the words of John Lydon) fuck off, cunts!
why not just listen on that port for something that would cause the service to "wake up"?
The way this implemented, no connection is made until the knock sequence is sent - all packets to the server port will be dropped.
If you're listening on the port, there will be a SYN-ACK transaction before you are able to send the 'wake up' data, and it will be obvious to all that the port is alive, even if difficult to get into.
Getting the port not to appear until authorised is the neat trick in this system - to make a port appear dead until a wake-up message is sent would require some heavy work rewriting TCP stacks, or maybe some clever tricks with TCP Wrappers.
With sufficient work, it could be possible to construct a client and server that operate on a more complicated level, perhaps by creating some hash of the last 10 packets sent by the client before the close, and generating knock sequences for the next connection based on this information.
This wouldn't be absolutely safe against a man in the middle attack, but it would make a simple attack based on packet sniffing more difficult.
Introduce a shared secret into the equation, and this should be proof against most hacks.
I think it's a pretty neat idea, but then I like the thought of dynamically configured firewalls.
So you'll accept a minimum 25-30 degree margin of error?
Unless you're an experienced outdoorsman, with a feel for the time of day (my grandfather used to be able to get +- 5 minutes at any time), your estimate based on morning or afternoon will be at best subject to an error of around 30 degrees, which is why an analog watch is useful.
OK - knowing what time of year it is, and the height of the sun in the sky, you can maybe cut it down to around 10 degrees error, but with a watch, you're looking at around 60 times the accuracy, which could be important in an area with canyons or long valleys.
My first Timex lasted me 10 years - I broke it running over the rim of a quarry while orienteering.
It was a damn good watch, but I couldn't bear to replace it (I'd saved my pocket money for a year to buy it at the age of 6), so I've now got a 'best' watch (about $1000 worth of Swiss 1930s perfection) and a couple of cheap work watches (throw them away when the batteries run out).
Have you tried reducing the significance of your 'ham' list, to see if the spammer's analysis is made more difficult?
Granted, it may increase the number of false positives, but a relatively small change in the values assigned to 'ham' words might make a big difference to the amount of work required by the spammer.
I'm not an expert on Bayesian filtering, but I seem to remember that there were a few tweakable parameters.
an economy strong enough to lay waste to a wasteland *and* keep most of Africa stocked with bread and cheese
That'll be the same economy currently being compared by analysts to Argentina before the crash, would'nt it?
Your comment about 'fucking Euros' suddenly makes sense - the dollar is fucked, and not before time. Give it a couple of years under Bush, and you're going to see a depression that makes the 1930s look like a picnic.
Grapes of wrath? You'll need all the grapes you can grow, just to stave off starvation.
When I worked for a large US company (head office in St Paul, anyone?) and pointed out elementary mistakes in projects that had been severely over-engineered (in the sense of having too many engineers involved), I was universally ostracised, since the average cost of getting me involved was about 100K per project.
The things did work properly after I'd put the idiots straight, but I wasn't a popular man among the non-technical management.
My point is that you can have a bunch of idiots researching a project in depth, and making totally the wrong decisions - if you're asked for input, it's shameful to avoid upsetting people just because they're stupid.
Reading the article to the end, it seems that they had to chill the matter somewhat to achieve their new condensate, so I think they are a long way off making anything useful, and your last statement is probably true.
It just eats into the time that would otherwise be spent talking about Coronation Street or the latest 'reality' TV show, and gives the mongs something to get excited about.
Certes, it wastes IT staff time, but considering what the office staff don't do through the average day, why not just chill and sort it out at your own pace?
You have highlighted exactly why Windows is used in the majority of offices - it's easy, familiar, agnostic with regards to security, and cheaper than employing people that could cope with KDE or Gnome.
naturally weeds out complete retards
probably explains why it will never be the desktop of choice - Apple learnt long ago to cater to total retards, and has the media business sewn up as a result.
Hutton was reputed to be a man of integrity and independence.
No longer.
He manages to find that the Covernment did no wrong, despite commenting on the insufficiency of the records of the meetings upon which he based this judgement.
He finds all the government claims justified, and all the counterclaims without foundation.
Here's a hint - don't let him near the SCO trial - you'll end up with SCO (no evidence) winning against the rest of the world (tons of evidence).
As you can tell, I'm disappointed - the independence of the judiciary is once again called into question, and we still have the liars in charge.
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Never! cough, Jayson Blair, cough...
I think they probably mean VBScript - because it's an easy payload for HTML emails to execute in Outlook.
These wankers are just script kiddies, anyway - it's only inventive worm writers (notice how he didn't manage to find any real hackers to interview about buffer overflow attacks, SQL injection and the like?) that are worthy of any intellectual respect, and none of them would touch VB with a bargepole.
Of course Microsoft should price products according to the target market, but given the doctrine of first sale, and the principles of free trade, if you can get a product legitimately for 1500 baht in Thailand, then that same product will become available everywhere for the same price.
Now you can either have free trade, or you can have fair regional pricing.
Personally, I'll take Linux.
Well, alum soap has been used in the West Indies for years - check out this page for an example of the claims made for the soap.
It is known to have a skin-tightening effect, but I can't claim any more than anecdotal knowledge of its other properties ;)
That, I believe, is what drugs were invented for.
As the song by Jeremy Taylor goes...
I smoke a lot of pot
It helps me to keep sane
I sometimes have a shot of cocaine
Just a little puff
Helps me to unwind
But if I have enough, it really blows my mind
As a non-engineer, it was insulting for me to have to explain (and prove) from first principles the flow of viscous liquids through a pipe, and for the 'engineer' (a wanker that referred to Arabs as 'camel jockeys') to then send my explanation to a 'chartered engineer' for verification.
I don't know how it is in the US, but here in the UK, a chartered engineer is a waste of space - a dickhead who knows which table to look stuff up in.
The guild system is alive and well, and it's in all the so-called 'professions' in the UK.
I'm feeling controversial, so I'll compare that staement to the assertion that 'Latin is a dead language'.
Of course assembler is not worth using, but it is worth learning, in the same way that Latin is worth learning, because it gives you an insight into how languages work.
I myself prefer assembler over C - if I'm going to get down and dirty with the machine, I'll do it properly, but if I want to produce usable maintainable code, I'll use Java or Lisp (or even C++ if pushed by the PHB).
Assembler is a wonderful thing - it reminds you where the computer came from, and provides a useful grounding point when your mind wanders too far from reality.
I should post this as AC, 'cause it's total bollocks, but I'm convinced that assembler is worth keeping alive, so (in the words of John Lydon) fuck off, cunts!
Never thought of using a passive sniffer - guess I'm too stuck in a rut for that kind of laterality.
The way this implemented, no connection is made until the knock sequence is sent - all packets to the server port will be dropped.
If you're listening on the port, there will be a SYN-ACK transaction before you are able to send the 'wake up' data, and it will be obvious to all that the port is alive, even if difficult to get into.
Getting the port not to appear until authorised is the neat trick in this system - to make a port appear dead until a wake-up message is sent would require some heavy work rewriting TCP stacks, or maybe some clever tricks with TCP Wrappers.
This wouldn't be absolutely safe against a man in the middle attack, but it would make a simple attack based on packet sniffing more difficult.
Introduce a shared secret into the equation, and this should be proof against most hacks.
I think it's a pretty neat idea, but then I like the thought of dynamically configured firewalls.
So you'll accept a minimum 25-30 degree margin of error?
Unless you're an experienced outdoorsman, with a feel for the time of day (my grandfather used to be able to get +- 5 minutes at any time), your estimate based on morning or afternoon will be at best subject to an error of around 30 degrees, which is why an analog watch is useful.
OK - knowing what time of year it is, and the height of the sun in the sky, you can maybe cut it down to around 10 degrees error, but with a watch, you're looking at around 60 times the accuracy, which could be important in an area with canyons or long valleys.
It was a damn good watch, but I couldn't bear to replace it (I'd saved my pocket money for a year to buy it at the age of 6), so I've now got a 'best' watch (about $1000 worth of Swiss 1930s perfection) and a couple of cheap work watches (throw them away when the batteries run out).
The Timex cost around $30 new, and was an analog.
Damn, I miss that watch.
My 1935 Certina gold cushion watch (case and movement design date back to ca. 1915) has something no digital watch ever could - class.
None of your ticking second hand either - it's a continuous sweep, and a masterpiece of the watchmaker's art.
And it's not too hard to remember to wind it up in the morning, is it?
Granted, it may increase the number of false positives, but a relatively small change in the values assigned to 'ham' words might make a big difference to the amount of work required by the spammer.
I'm not an expert on Bayesian filtering, but I seem to remember that there were a few tweakable parameters.
Having said that, people who trade in securities are venal swine anyway, so it's not hard to find one with no morals.
Programmers, on the other hand, need an incentive to drop their morality - free pizza, a few tins of Jolt, etc.
Please, please tell me you're kidding, and that you don't work logged in as a domain admin unless you're doing admin tasks?
You seem clued up otherwise, so I figure you were just kidding there.
But... ;)
That'll be the same economy currently being compared by analysts to Argentina before the crash, would'nt it?
Your comment about 'fucking Euros' suddenly makes sense - the dollar is fucked, and not before time. Give it a couple of years under Bush, and you're going to see a depression that makes the 1930s look like a picnic.
Grapes of wrath? You'll need all the grapes you can grow, just to stave off starvation.
And how we'll laugh.
The things did work properly after I'd put the idiots straight, but I wasn't a popular man among the non-technical management.
My point is that you can have a bunch of idiots researching a project in depth, and making totally the wrong decisions - if you're asked for input, it's shameful to avoid upsetting people just because they're stupid.
;)
now we've got ourselves a black hole out in space
It just eats into the time that would otherwise be spent talking about Coronation Street or the latest 'reality' TV show, and gives the mongs something to get excited about.
Certes, it wastes IT staff time, but considering what the office staff don't do through the average day, why not just chill and sort it out at your own pace?
You have highlighted exactly why Windows is used in the majority of offices - it's easy, familiar, agnostic with regards to security, and cheaper than employing people that could cope with KDE or Gnome.
naturally weeds out complete retards
probably explains why it will never be the desktop of choice - Apple learnt long ago to cater to total retards, and has the media business sewn up as a result.
na in geardagum Unixfynncyninga...
Listen!
We have heard of the might of the Unix-Finns' kings in the old days...
My vote - set Grendel on Darl.
No longer.
He manages to find that the Covernment did no wrong, despite commenting on the insufficiency of the records of the meetings upon which he based this judgement.
He finds all the government claims justified, and all the counterclaims without foundation.
Here's a hint - don't let him near the SCO trial - you'll end up with SCO (no evidence) winning against the rest of the world (tons of evidence).
As you can tell, I'm disappointed - the independence of the judiciary is once again called into question, and we still have the liars in charge.