It's already pre-activated and pre-keyed so you're fine.
This really freaked me out when reinstalling a Dell laptop (hard drive failed). I kept waiting for it to ask for the key, and it never did. Made me wonder whether I'd somehow gotten a magic install CD that could be used to pirate XP.
Oh, and just a rant about Dell: if I experience a hardware failure while under warranty, why do I have to spend the 3-4 hours reinstalling windoze? Can't they send me a pre-installed disk? Sheesh! (I know there are licensing issues, but they could send one that asked for the key on first boot.)
Wassup? How's it hanging? Yeah, I know it's been a long time since we talked. This probably stems from my belief that you do not exist. Anyway, the reason why I'm calling you is because last night, President Bush said that he could feel it every time we prayed for him, and since he apparently doesn't listen to anyone but you, Lord, I thought you might pass this along to him.
Rather than providing a link to it on your own server, how about providing the original malware link? That way, the curious can enhance the DoS attack, rather than wasting your site's bandwidth.
The story reports on a linux trojan that, after installing, emails a report back to root@addlebrain.com. The MX record for addlebrain.com points to sitemail.everyone.net. It would reduce the effect of this if you could shut down that email account.
Better yet, you should gather the list of infected IPs and then inform the owners.
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It would be really nice if we could determine what makes something conscious. In fact, it might be an ethical requirement if this type of experiment is to continue. After all, it's only a matter of time before they start using 250,000 neurons, then 2.5 million, and soon we have "experiments" that are smarter than the researchers running them.
Remember back when the South didn't want blacks to vote, and they concocted all sorts of tests to see who would be allowed to vote? Like being able to read.
Maybe it's time to bring those back:
Did Iraq have WMDs? (yes) (no)
Did the 9/11 Commission Report indicate a connection between Bin Laden and Iraq? (yes) (no)
How many US soldiers have died in Iraq? (less than 100) (100-1000) (over 1000)
Who do you want for President? (Bush) (Kerry) (Other)
Nah. I learned how to deal with roommates. It's called learning to juggle. If you suck at juggling, but insist on attempting to juggle knives, your roommate will not be home much. (No, I'm not making this up.)
Besides, it's fun when your roommate sees the volume knob rotating itself.
A real geek would have done it with an HP-48 calculator.
Been there, done that. Was useful in the dorms at college. When my roommate was playing his radio too loud, I'd just work out a calculation on my HP-48. White walls reflect the IR signal well, so I didn't even have to turn around to lower his volume a bit.
Oh, and it was also helpful for controlling the TV in the lobby. Especially when there was something better on a different channel.
Only difference is this time they're trying to cool people off, while before it was to keep them warm. Seriously, the previous idea was better (simpler concept, cheaper, etc) though it should be used to cool people off rather than keep them warm.
Those Stanford boys should read slashdot more often.
I can factcheck the first question for you. (Disclaimer: I'm a physicist.)
1. Should we be wasting money on missile defense when scientists have shown it is ineffective?
Bush: we're doing it no matter what anyone says.
Kerry: it would be nice, but it's lower priority than stopping the spread of WMDs.
Physicist: a previous article in Physics Today discussed the issues and showed that it's silly to think that a missile defense system would provide any safety. The only studies that show it's even close neglect to take into account certain laws of physics, like allowing for infinite acceleration, etc.
...to point out that your system is absolutely pointless. It has all the disadvantages of a popular vote (giving high chance to the winner being under 50%) while simultaneously having the disadvantages of the electoral college (unequal weighting of votes for people in different states).
Why must every random idea hit slashdot, regardless of merit?
Here's another (actually better) idea: raffle voting. Everyone puts names in a hat. One name is pulled out. It's the *only* method that makes every vote count.
I don't remember hearing this idea elsewhere, so I'll claim to have invented it:
Everyone writes down the name of their preferred candidate, and drops it in a hat. At the end of the day, someone reaches into the hat and pulls out the winner.
Statistically, this will go to the person with the most votes. But it might not. In fact, this is the *only* method that truly makes every vote important.
This is a similar idea to what is used in the so-called "silent auction", or in a raffle.
Beats having multiple easy ways for hackers to penetrate the system.... Not to mention lusers are less likely to write down a single password (as compared to one for each system).
Neophytus writes "Earlier today the 'Editor's Choice Edition' addon for Unreal Tournament 2004 was released to the public. The official bonus pack contains new maps, models and vehicles for UT2004. The ECE torrent is available, alongside direct downloads provided by BeyondUnreal. Rereleased alongside, the Game DVD bundles eleven of the best community-created mods alongside the new content."
It went into legacy right on schedule. The problem is that "legacy" is a support state without meaning. They continue to provide the infrastructure for people to contribute patches, but they do not provide patches, or quality control, or anything. As a result, no patches ever get released. Conclusion: you have to upgrade to a currently-supported release, just like you would if Legacy didn't exist.
Oh, for those who don't believe me, check out bug 1345 which I submitted on March 4. It was ignored until September 7, when it was deemed too old to bother with.
Don't get me wrong... I think Fedora is the best free distribution out there (RHEL being better due to marginally better support). But they really need to have a longer life-cycle if they want people to stick with it. And that primarily falls to the Legacy team, which just isn't cutting it.
Didn't you notice the ** footnote on their "24 hours a day"? It says "Timezone differences may apply". In other words, they work 1 hour/day, but it covers all 24 hours _somewhere_ in the world.
The power plant doesn't want your power. Really. If you push power into the grid, they are required by law to pay you for it. At their inflated rates. It's obviously cheaper for them to put a "diode" (it's more complicated since it's AC) in there to prevent you from supplying power to the grid. In the end, you'll probably end up buying batteries to charge, to get you through nights.
Here's hoping someone can prove me wrong, since the above policy is pretty monopolistic-sounding.
Tried that. I had a $50 bike (Kensington locks are about $40, right?). So I didn't bother with a good lock, just my cheapo padlock and a steel cable. Bastards cut through the padlock. Wish they'd cut through the cable instead.. I liked that lock.
Not sure why you say that. The account was in use 5.5 years before the analysis started. And it gets mail forwarded from my previous account. I don't see how 5+ years can be considered "new", considering how the internet has changed during that time.
I'd argue that you don't have a long enough history to be making predictions. Your stats begin in April. You have about 5 months of data, and, as seen in my own plots, spam has actually leveled off in those 5 months.
Also, I notice you're plotting daily stats, so of course you're going to see a huge randomness to it. Try binning your stats a week at a time (to improve the statistics and eliminate the "weekly cycle") and you may find it easier to pick out a trend.
It's good to see that spam plots are becoming more common, though. If the large ISPs did this, we'd have a lot more weight to use in convincing politicians that the problem is real.
About 6 months ago, I decided to disprove the claim some people were making about spam increasing exponentially. So I started on a project of plotting my personal spam over the past few years. I was rather disturbed to discover the exponential fit was better than the quadratic fit. Since then, it's tapered off, but you might still check out the plot. Also, I started plotting spam and viruses system-wide. Lots more plots are available (though only for a few months history, rather than years).
Bounties are silly -- most geeks would do this for free.
How about legalizing (or promising to look the other way) vigilante attacks against spam sites? If they give a phone number, set up an auto-dialer. If it's a website, launch a DoS attack. If there's a physical address, mail them a bomb. If this stuff was all legal, I guarantee the problem would solve itself.
Seriously... bounties that are marked "dead or alive" are far more effective.
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This really freaked me out when reinstalling a Dell laptop (hard drive failed). I kept waiting for it to ask for the key, and it never did. Made me wonder whether I'd somehow gotten a magic install CD that could be used to pirate XP.
Oh, and just a rant about Dell: if I experience a hardware failure while under warranty, why do I have to spend the 3-4 hours reinstalling windoze? Can't they send me a pre-installed disk? Sheesh! (I know there are licensing issues, but they could send one that asked for the key on first boot.)
a prayer for dubya
Dear God:
Wassup? How's it hanging? Yeah, I know it's been a long time since we talked. This probably stems from my belief that you do not exist. Anyway, the reason why I'm calling you is because last night, President Bush said that he could feel it every time we prayed for him, and since he apparently doesn't listen to anyone but you, Lord, I thought you might pass this along to him.
Rather than providing a link to it on your own server, how about providing the original malware link? That way, the curious can enhance the DoS attack, rather than wasting your site's bandwidth.
To : abuse@everyone.net,
abuse@above.net
Subject : malware using your netblock to propagate
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid =04/10/24/2352234&tid=172&tid=110&tid=218&tid=106
The story reports on a linux trojan that, after installing, emails a
report back to root@addlebrain.com. The MX record for addlebrain.com
points to sitemail.everyone.net. It would reduce the effect of this if
you could shut down that email account.
Better yet, you should gather the list of infected IPs and then inform
the owners.
Damian Menscher
--
-=#| Physics Grad Student & SysAdmin @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign |#=-
-=#| 488 LLP, 1110 W. Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 Ofc:(217)333-0038 |#=-
-=#| 4602 Beckman, VMIL/MS, Imaging Technology Group:(217)244-3074 |#=-
-=#| <menscher@uiuc.edu> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Fax:(217)333-9819 |#=-
-=#| The above opinions are not necessarily those of my employers. |#=-
Read The Fine Manual.
Good question.
It would be really nice if we could determine what makes something conscious. In fact, it might be an ethical requirement if this type of experiment is to continue. After all, it's only a matter of time before they start using 250,000 neurons, then 2.5 million, and soon we have "experiments" that are smarter than the researchers running them.
Maybe it's time to bring those back:
Did Iraq have WMDs? (yes) (no)
Did the 9/11 Commission Report indicate a connection between Bin Laden and Iraq? (yes) (no)
How many US soldiers have died in Iraq? (less than 100) (100-1000) (over 1000)
Who do you want for President? (Bush) (Kerry) (Other)
Besides, it's fun when your roommate sees the volume knob rotating itself.
Been there, done that. Was useful in the dorms at college. When my roommate was playing his radio too loud, I'd just work out a calculation on my HP-48. White walls reflect the IR signal well, so I didn't even have to turn around to lower his volume a bit.
Oh, and it was also helpful for controlling the TV in the lobby. Especially when there was something better on a different channel.
What about using a cane? Worked for my grandfater....
Only difference is this time they're trying to cool people off, while before it was to keep them warm. Seriously, the previous idea was better (simpler concept, cheaper, etc) though it should be used to cool people off rather than keep them warm.
Those Stanford boys should read slashdot more often.
1. Should we be wasting money on missile defense when scientists have shown it is ineffective?
Bush: we're doing it no matter what anyone says.
Kerry: it would be nice, but it's lower priority than stopping the spread of WMDs.
Physicist: a previous article in Physics Today discussed the issues and showed that it's silly to think that a missile defense system would provide any safety. The only studies that show it's even close neglect to take into account certain laws of physics, like allowing for infinite acceleration, etc.
Why must every random idea hit slashdot, regardless of merit?
Here's another (actually better) idea: raffle voting. Everyone puts names in a hat. One name is pulled out. It's the *only* method that makes every vote count.
Everyone writes down the name of their preferred candidate, and drops it in a hat. At the end of the day, someone reaches into the hat and pulls out the winner.
Statistically, this will go to the person with the most votes. But it might not. In fact, this is the *only* method that truly makes every vote important.
This is a similar idea to what is used in the so-called "silent auction", or in a raffle.
Disclaimer: I do lattice QCD.
Beats having multiple easy ways for hackers to penetrate the system.... Not to mention lusers are less likely to write down a single password (as compared to one for each system).
Neophytus writes "Earlier today the 'Editor's Choice Edition' addon for Unreal Tournament 2004 was released to the public. The official bonus pack contains new maps, models and vehicles for UT2004. The ECE torrent is available, alongside direct downloads provided by BeyondUnreal. Rereleased alongside , the Game DVD bundles eleven of the best community-created mods alongside the new content."
Oh, for those who don't believe me, check out bug 1345 which I submitted on March 4. It was ignored until September 7, when it was deemed too old to bother with.
Don't get me wrong... I think Fedora is the best free distribution out there (RHEL being better due to marginally better support). But they really need to have a longer life-cycle if they want people to stick with it. And that primarily falls to the Legacy team, which just isn't cutting it.
Clever marketing. ;)
Here's hoping someone can prove me wrong, since the above policy is pretty monopolistic-sounding.
Tried that. I had a $50 bike (Kensington locks are about $40, right?). So I didn't bother with a good lock, just my cheapo padlock and a steel cable. Bastards cut through the padlock. Wish they'd cut through the cable instead.. I liked that lock.
Not sure why you say that. The account was in use 5.5 years before the analysis started. And it gets mail forwarded from my previous account. I don't see how 5+ years can be considered "new", considering how the internet has changed during that time.
Also, I notice you're plotting daily stats, so of course you're going to see a huge randomness to it. Try binning your stats a week at a time (to improve the statistics and eliminate the "weekly cycle") and you may find it easier to pick out a trend.
It's good to see that spam plots are becoming more common, though. If the large ISPs did this, we'd have a lot more weight to use in convincing politicians that the problem is real.
About 6 months ago, I decided to disprove the claim some people were making about spam increasing exponentially. So I started on a project of plotting my personal spam over the past few years. I was rather disturbed to discover the exponential fit was better than the quadratic fit. Since then, it's tapered off, but you might still check out the plot. Also, I started plotting spam and viruses system-wide. Lots more plots are available (though only for a few months history, rather than years).
How about legalizing (or promising to look the other way) vigilante attacks against spam sites? If they give a phone number, set up an auto-dialer. If it's a website, launch a DoS attack. If there's a physical address, mail them a bomb. If this stuff was all legal, I guarantee the problem would solve itself.
Seriously... bounties that are marked "dead or alive" are far more effective.