I always thought a clever counter-worm would use a swarming/distributed technique, to cut down on the scanning..
Using bittorrent as an example, they all connect to a central tracker, and each is assigned a subnet to scan and clean, they scan that range, pass on to the first infected machine found, and shut down, and that machine takes on the rest of the assigned range..
Lather, rinse, repeat. Every machine gets scanned once, in a nifty distributed fashion.
Just random thoughts in my head, frankly I dont care what a worms purpose is, I dont want it on my network.
You should block all incoming ports you dont need. Only open ones for services you deliberately run, like a game server or ftp or whatever..
At home I have only ssh exposed to the world, and on a nonstandard port at that. From there I can ppp over ssh and do whatever I want. Fine for a home network at least.
Outgoing ports I only monitor logs from now and then, to make sure a virus/trojan didnt find its way on to my wifes, or one of the kids boxes.
1) they just modified an old one 2) most script kiddies are linux zealots because installing tarballs makes them feel like real hackers 3) what makes you think linux zealots are smart?
If dudes doin it for attention, he'll get caught.. He'll shoot off his mouth in some h4x0r channel, and get caught, like so many before him..
But if I knew who was in any given shelter, legally I dont know of anything preventing me from publishing it.
If I published a list of what kids live in what foster homes, I'd end up in jail.
As an adult you pretty much get only client-attorney, doctor-patient and spousal priveledges. Past that or a specific court order, pretty much anyone can say anything they want about you. Juveniles have much more protection.
Ever notice they dont print the names of juvenile suspects in the newspaper?
It could have been a list of women tying them to the current Battered Women's Shelter they were staying at.
Hey, you got a list of chicks who know how to take a beating? Hook me up!
BTW, there's a huge difference in the eyes of the law. Juvenile records are generally sealed, be they criminal or child welfare or academic, and require a court order to see them.
But, anyone can legally find out what shelter your moms staying at currently.
Pretty much every standard course-credit "computer programming" class for non-compsci students I've seen teaches in VB.
Not only is it fine for teaching the fundamentals, but practical too.. Since it's quite possible such folks would want/need to write some VBA down the road, be it a form letter generator in Word or inserting some custom calculations into an Access app, etc..
I have one of those phones. It's absolute trash. I've had fatal exceptions crash the phone just from trying to answer it.
The simplest phone functions are counterintuitive, unless you have skinny, skinny fingers you pretty much need to take out the stylus to dial a number in the address book. Really nice, a quick dial feature that you need both hands to use.
As far as palms go, its just a wee bit more sluggish than the m515 I picked up used for 20 bucks. Borderline useless.
If this is the best Palm can do on a phone, it's nowhere near a contender.
Do the amount of damage that all the nuclear accidents over the years (chernobyl, 3 mile island, etc) even come close to the amount of damage the fossil fuel industry has done?
Whats being discussed in the articles, though, are stupid little trojans that rely on an idiot user clicking them.
Those idiots run windows. There's no big differnce between a clueless windows user running with full admin priveledges clicking HotNakedChick.vbs or a clueless linux user running as root clicking HotNakedChick.pl.
There are few viruses out there that actually exploit anything. Slammer was, SoBig was, but most are just "10 print "I AM L337"".
Perhaps you havent noticed the emerging global economy.
If I attack your computer, in the US from my bedroom in Japan, who has jurisdiction? The crime took place in the US, even though it was initiated elsewhere. Now, perchance I take out a life support system or something. Someone dies, and I was directly responsible for it. You dont think local prosecuters would get an arrest warrant, and do their damndest to have me extradited for trial?
This was never really an issue before, but what if I stood on the Canadian side of the border, and hurled a brick at you on the American side, which smashed in the side of your head. Now, say for the sake of argument, it's totally legal to throw bricks in Canada. Yet I injure or kill an American on American soil.
The worlds political climate is changing. Deal with it.
It also carried a nasty payload: it reprogrammed victim computers to attack the Web site of SCO, a software firm vilified by geeks in the ''open source'' software community
In one sentence the blame for malware an everything bad on the internet is layed squarely at the feet of your grandiose "movement".
Then it asks me what I'd like the virus to do. Shall the Trojan Horse format drive C:? Yes, I click. Shall the Trojan Horse overwrite every file? Yes. It asks me if I'd like to have the virus activate the next time the computer is restarted, and I say yes again.
Umm, once you answer yes to the first question, are the rest not redundant?
Obeying driving laws doesnt make you a safe driver.
I submit that the old guy I saw this morning doing 35 mph along the highway, a 65 mph zone, in the center lane no less, was much more of a threat than the guy who passed me on the left hand side (and was obviously speeding since I was moving at or slightly over the limit). People were slamming on their brakes and swerving to get around him, etc..
I do agree with you in principle. Rather than a $500 dollar doohickey that tells me when someone is in my blind spot, give me drivers who are smart enough NOT to drive in my blind spot. Hell, it's second nature to me. Pass or back off, shit or get off the pot.. Riding slightly behind and to the side of another vehicle (especially a truck) is just a stupid thing to do.
This technology, like most others, is only of use to those with a desire to drive safely in the first place. It doesnt prevent road hogs from cutting you off, I've been cut off plenty of times by a-holes who knew damn well I was there. Sometimes they just dont like the idea of being passed so they dart out in front of you.
If you discover the magic potion that we can add to the drinking water to make people not behave like stupid assholes once they get behind the wheel, let me know.
I imagined a little LED or something on your side view mirrors that lights when someone is alongside/just behind you in that lane. Simple, and unobtrusive.
Not that it does anything to prevent the folks who KNOW your there and cut you off deliberately, because their manicure appointment is more important than some guys life. Or the just plain stupid who figure 6" clearance front and back is "plenty of room".
I've been cut off dozens of times, when I actually made eye contact with the jerk who did it before they pulled out in front.
Thats not in the statistics, which assume that such actions are always accidental. I wonder.
All UV reactive dyes that I know about fade over time. Those blacklight reactive rounded cables in yer fancy modded computer one day will simply stop reacting under a blacklight.
So how do you feel when you wind up in a holding cell accused of a felony because your $20 went through the wash by accident?
If you start coming up with new bills every other year, you flood the streets with dozens of different versions of the 20, and make counterfeiting easier. It's more likely I can hand you some monopoly money and tell you it's just the '86 version..
Plus the other nuisance.. I've tried to spend new $20's and had moron clerks tell me it's not real money and refuse it.
BTW, they aren't seeing more and more counterfeit bills, they're actually seeing less and less.
This has nothing to do with laws, crimes or punishment.
If HP wants to make a printer that prints all text in piglatin and all images inside out and upside down, they can go ahead and do so. No law says you have to buy or use it.
Actually from what I read from the article, this is about HP engineers giving feedback/suggestions to the feds in how to design currency that is harder to copy on current technology.
Back/front offset.. Yeah, printers roll paper along a bunch of rubber rollers by gears, there's always going to be some infintesimal alignment issues. Using color reproduction algorithms to their benefit, creating designs too intricate to scan/print on the current crop of XxY DPI printers.
Those folks can go ahead and buy a lexmark or canon printer.
We're talking about 1/64th of an inch or so offset. Anyone who wanted more precision than that will probably not be looking for it on a consumer/office grade ink or laserjet, but using more professional equipment.
It's HPs perogative to design their products however they want. Dont like it, dont buy it. Will slashdot readers ever stop equating 'company designs product i dont care for' = 'violation of my rights'?
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I always thought a clever counter-worm would use a swarming/distributed technique, to cut down on the scanning..
Using bittorrent as an example, they all connect to a central tracker, and each is assigned a subnet to scan and clean, they scan that range, pass on to the first infected machine found, and shut down, and that machine takes on the rest of the assigned range..
Lather, rinse, repeat. Every machine gets scanned once, in a nifty distributed fashion.
Just random thoughts in my head, frankly I dont care what a worms purpose is, I dont want it on my network.
You should block all incoming ports you dont need. Only open ones for services you deliberately run, like a game server or ftp or whatever..
At home I have only ssh exposed to the world, and on a nonstandard port at that. From there I can ppp over ssh and do whatever I want. Fine for a home network at least.
Outgoing ports I only monitor logs from now and then, to make sure a virus/trojan didnt find its way on to my wifes, or one of the kids boxes.
1) they just modified an old one
2) most script kiddies are linux zealots because installing tarballs makes them feel like real hackers
3) what makes you think linux zealots are smart?
If dudes doin it for attention, he'll get caught.. He'll shoot off his mouth in some h4x0r channel, and get caught, like so many before him..
No, the shelter wouldnt.
But if I knew who was in any given shelter, legally I dont know of anything preventing me from publishing it.
If I published a list of what kids live in what foster homes, I'd end up in jail.
As an adult you pretty much get only client-attorney, doctor-patient and spousal priveledges. Past that or a specific court order, pretty much anyone can say anything they want about you. Juveniles have much more protection.
Ever notice they dont print the names of juvenile suspects in the newspaper?
It could have been a list of women tying them to the current Battered Women's Shelter they were staying at.
Hey, you got a list of chicks who know how to take a beating? Hook me up!
BTW, there's a huge difference in the eyes of the law. Juvenile records are generally sealed, be they criminal or child welfare or academic, and require a court order to see them.
But, anyone can legally find out what shelter your moms staying at currently.
Who cares?
Who says they aren't in trouble?
Who says the IPO isnt so the current owners can line their pockets with cash, and let the public take the bath when the company goes under?
Pretty much every standard course-credit "computer programming" class for non-compsci students I've seen teaches in VB.
Not only is it fine for teaching the fundamentals, but practical too.. Since it's quite possible such folks would want/need to write some VBA down the road, be it a form letter generator in Word or inserting some custom calculations into an Access app, etc..
I have one of those phones. It's absolute trash. I've had fatal exceptions crash the phone just from trying to answer it.
The simplest phone functions are counterintuitive, unless you have skinny, skinny fingers you pretty much need to take out the stylus to dial a number in the address book. Really nice, a quick dial feature that you need both hands to use.
As far as palms go, its just a wee bit more sluggish than the m515 I picked up used for 20 bucks. Borderline useless.
If this is the best Palm can do on a phone, it's nowhere near a contender.
Do the amount of damage that all the nuclear accidents over the years (chernobyl, 3 mile island, etc) even come close to the amount of damage the fossil fuel industry has done?
Whats being discussed in the articles, though, are stupid little trojans that rely on an idiot user clicking them.
Those idiots run windows. There's no big differnce between a clueless windows user running with full admin priveledges clicking HotNakedChick.vbs or a clueless linux user running as root clicking HotNakedChick.pl.
There are few viruses out there that actually exploit anything. Slammer was, SoBig was, but most are just "10 print "I AM L337"".
You never seen a .vbs attachment on an email?
Perhaps you havent noticed the emerging global economy.
If I attack your computer, in the US from my bedroom in Japan, who has jurisdiction? The crime took place in the US, even though it was initiated elsewhere. Now, perchance I take out a life support system or something. Someone dies, and I was directly responsible for it. You dont think local prosecuters would get an arrest warrant, and do their damndest to have me extradited for trial?
This was never really an issue before, but what if I stood on the Canadian side of the border, and hurled a brick at you on the American side, which smashed in the side of your head. Now, say for the sake of argument, it's totally legal to throw bricks in Canada. Yet I injure or kill an American on American soil.
The worlds political climate is changing. Deal with it.
It also carried a nasty payload: it reprogrammed victim computers to attack the Web site of SCO, a software firm vilified by geeks in the ''open source'' software community
In one sentence the blame for malware an everything bad on the internet is layed squarely at the feet of your grandiose "movement".
Then it asks me what I'd like the virus to do. Shall the Trojan Horse format drive C:? Yes, I click. Shall the Trojan Horse overwrite every file? Yes. It asks me if I'd like to have the virus activate the next time the computer is restarted, and I say yes again.
Umm, once you answer yes to the first question, are the rest not redundant?
Probably slow because it's microsoft funding a non-profit initiative (looky, its an .org site), and its probably a matter of more server power needed.
they want to copyright all of the whole world and make you run windows!
OHOHhhha BOOOooo
Gawd, this is such a non-story its unfuckingbelievable. It was posted merely because of the offtopic Big Brother troll.
Obeying driving laws doesnt make you a safe driver.
I submit that the old guy I saw this morning doing 35 mph along the highway, a 65 mph zone, in the center lane no less, was much more of a threat than the guy who passed me on the left hand side (and was obviously speeding since I was moving at or slightly over the limit). People were slamming on their brakes and swerving to get around him, etc..
I do agree with you in principle. Rather than a $500 dollar doohickey that tells me when someone is in my blind spot, give me drivers who are smart enough NOT to drive in my blind spot. Hell, it's second nature to me. Pass or back off, shit or get off the pot.. Riding slightly behind and to the side of another vehicle (especially a truck) is just a stupid thing to do.
This technology, like most others, is only of use to those with a desire to drive safely in the first place. It doesnt prevent road hogs from cutting you off, I've been cut off plenty of times by a-holes who knew damn well I was there. Sometimes they just dont like the idea of being passed so they dart out in front of you.
If you discover the magic potion that we can add to the drinking water to make people not behave like stupid assholes once they get behind the wheel, let me know.
I imagined a little LED or something on your side view mirrors that lights when someone is alongside/just behind you in that lane. Simple, and unobtrusive.
Not that it does anything to prevent the folks who KNOW your there and cut you off deliberately, because their manicure appointment is more important than some guys life. Or the just plain stupid who figure 6" clearance front and back is "plenty of room".
I've been cut off dozens of times, when I actually made eye contact with the jerk who did it before they pulled out in front.
Thats not in the statistics, which assume that such actions are always accidental. I wonder.
All UV reactive dyes that I know about fade over time. Those blacklight reactive rounded cables in yer fancy modded computer one day will simply stop reacting under a blacklight.
So how do you feel when you wind up in a holding cell accused of a felony because your $20 went through the wash by accident?
I think I'd demand a full refund from the "professional photographer" who uses HP's office printers to develop my prints.
If you start coming up with new bills every other year, you flood the streets with dozens of different versions of the 20, and make counterfeiting easier. It's more likely I can hand you some monopoly money and tell you it's just the '86 version..
Plus the other nuisance.. I've tried to spend new $20's and had moron clerks tell me it's not real money and refuse it.
BTW, they aren't seeing more and more counterfeit bills, they're actually seeing less and less.
This has nothing to do with laws, crimes or punishment.
If HP wants to make a printer that prints all text in piglatin and all images inside out and upside down, they can go ahead and do so. No law says you have to buy or use it.
Who forced you to buy it?
Actually from what I read from the article, this is about HP engineers giving feedback/suggestions to the feds in how to design currency that is harder to copy on current technology.
Back/front offset.. Yeah, printers roll paper along a bunch of rubber rollers by gears, there's always going to be some infintesimal alignment issues. Using color reproduction algorithms to their benefit, creating designs too intricate to scan/print on the current crop of XxY DPI printers.
Those folks can go ahead and buy a lexmark or canon printer.
We're talking about 1/64th of an inch or so offset. Anyone who wanted more precision than that will probably not be looking for it on a consumer/office grade ink or laserjet, but using more professional equipment.
It's HPs perogative to design their products however they want. Dont like it, dont buy it. Will slashdot readers ever stop equating 'company designs product i dont care for' = 'violation of my rights'?