I suspect they probably ran some forensic script tools. That's what they always do. The hard drives probably failed because of environmental conditions.
No, but seizing computers and holding them for a while, along with mugshots and showing up in the local police blotter is probably trouble enough for most people. The repeat offenders will get the jail time.
Actually, those of us who know better are mostly just keeping mouths shut and enjoying the foaming at the mouth going on here every time Assange and the Wikileaks people get what they are manifestly deserving. Also, now I know for a fact that many people here are just anti-American, and not just all about 'information wants to be free'. Don't bother protesting, both my mind is made up, and my country's collective government's mind.
A lot of people who *think* they are accomplishing something are instead entirely discrediting themselves. EFF, take note. By the time this is done, the EFF will be about as effective in Washington as the US Communist Party.
The PR war has already been lost on this one. Anyone associated with Wikileaks will be branded a terrorist within days*, with the full assent of the US public. Furthermore, failing taking the next plane to Iran or North Korea, the principals will be turned over to the US ultimately and face the penalties for what they have done. Just watch... Refusing to extradite these people amounts to a cassus belli. No one will risk it, even China would turn them over. It should be noted that the revelation of the documents is a cassus belli as well.
Assange and his crew have attempted to blackmail a great power (the insurance file). Watch how well that is going to work... Those two Swedish women he allegedly raped might just be the last two women he ever experiences. He's already a man without a country. Those who associated with him should make arrangements, now, to flee to countries who have no diplomatic relations with the US. Time is short.
Basically, the OBL mistake was made. Since no effective response was forthcoming previously, the assumption was that the infowar against the United States could continue with impunity - even be escalated. Since Democrats are in control of the government, their native perceived weakness on national security assures that the response will be overkill. Regardless, an example has to be made to deter this type of action in the future. Those who collaborated with Wikileaks will be making the perp walk and showing up on every TV channel until the message is drummed into everyone's head. Their plaintive begging for a sentence that might let them see the outside of a prison someday (when they are old) will be transmitted widely, as well.
It might have been worth it to get all the America-haters out from under their rocks, though.
* To the extent this hasn't happened already. Some mainstream press traffic on this over the past few days.
Probably at some point. I think the belief in USG circles is that the stuff will get released regardless of the actions of the USG. Wikileaks is a rogue. That sort of belief is dangerous to Assange and to the other members of his group, as that means the USG is free to pursue arrests, extraditions, and espionage charges at the widest possible net.
This is considered the largest leak in US history and an example will be made.
You're ignoring the fact that the information is classified. It's right there in the text of the cables in question.
You wouldn't have survived 2 weeks as a journalist if you received stolen classified information from those who stole it and then published same*. Your result would have been better than Assange's will be, due to being an acknowledged journalist. Assange and Wikileaks are engaged in espionage. If we contrast a traditional rat line with dead drops etc with what they are doing, the analogy fits perfectly. Not just in my mind, but in the minds of the United States government. He's going to spend the rest of his life as a fugitive, and that will be the *best case* for him.
All of this just stinks of the 'information wants to be free' crowd going toe to toe with the national security establishment of great powers. Guess who will win?
Drop the self-delusion of what this is really about. It robs you of credibility.
* Without recourse to teams of lawyers, the attention of the publisher and assurance that they'd cover all your legal expenses, which might well be legion. You might even do some serious prison time. This best be important. If it's just a bunch of bullshit that won't obtain public consciousness, you might well just serve a lengthy sentence ignominiously.
The disaccharide sucrose metabolism is incomplete in the upper GI. Fructose is only absorbed in the small intestine. Therefore, the quantity of fructose absorbed into the bloodstream from sucrose consumption will be less than 100%. HFCS has monosaccharide fructose as its fructose component, so is potentially more available for absorption than disaccharide sucrose.
You are being mildly inaccurate. The problem isn't with corn syrup per se, it is with high fructose corn syrup - HFCS.
Normal corn syrup is laden with dextrose - glucose. HFCS has a portion of that dextrose converted to fructose. HFCS 42 - 42% fructose - is close to table sugar/sucrose sweetness so it is frequently used. Fructose has some interesting qualities compared to glucose or dextrose:
1) It is metabolized in the liver, rather than delivered to the individual cells, unlike glucose. 2) Its fructolysis metabolic pathway ends up producing either glycogen or palmitate, ie, either 'stored energy' up to the ~ 3000 calorie limit, or fat deposits. 3) Its metabolism is not regulated by insulin, unlike glucose.
Fructose metabolism has more resemblance to the uptake of starches, rather than monosaccharide glucose. Increasing the monosaccharide fructose intake of humans was a grand experiment in making people fat, in other words.
For that matter, the reputation of Americans as flatulent could easily have something to do with fructose malabsorption, since nearly every food has free fructose in it nowadays.
That said, sucrose isn't a winner either as it is a disaccharide of glucose and fructose which is (partially) cloven apart in the stomach and then absorbed as separate monosaccharides. The glucose is fine as far as that goes, as it is insulin regulated, but the fructose within has the same problem as HFCS. For that matter, might as well call sucrose HFCS 50, with the slight caveat that a portion of the sucrose will not be metabolized, possibly reducing uptake of fructose in comparison to HFCS, which has its fructose already in monosaccharide form.
I remember at the time that someone thought I was nuts for loading my 2 machines with 4 and 5mb of RAM, respectively. It wasn't all that expensive - at the time RAM was about $70 a megabyte, down far from the $500/meg heights it had hit in 1987 or so.
The memory served me well then, and having more RAM will serve just about anyone well even today.
With QEMM loaded on a 386 platform and lots of available memory, Desqview was a superior multitasker that would run raw DOS applications simultaneously. No special coding required, though if you did code to TopView/DV then more applications could be run simultaneously.
I ran 4 nodes of a DOS multinode BBS, along with door applications, on a single 386-20 DV box with 4MB of RAM. Searchlight, then Wildcat, if you are interested.
Easily kept up with the modems. In fact, the lack of a multiport serial board was more the reason why I didn't run more nodes than any inherent limitation of DV. There was plenty of CPU to spare.
The only limitation DV really had was that it didn't arbitrate hardware misconfigurations. Therefore, if you tried to use the same ports/IRQ lines from different windows, you could lock the system hard. Assuming you weren't doing anything stupid, though, it was great stuff. Also, doing BIOS video output made it easier for DV to control the output. Most applications did direct screen writes, so you were kind of stuck with the overhead unless you wrote your own code. I did, so using BIOS output was an option for me.
I have spent about 6 months in Korea over the past 4 years and have yet to be able to stream more than about 300kbps from any Western source. Australia is closer, but not much closer.
OK, more than a slight irony, considering you can buy any media you want on the streets of Korea in convenient optical form, with no hassle, and for $1-2 apiece per disc. (depending on where the won stands vis a vis the dollar).
Also, while Korea has excellent bandwidth locally, getting streams and downloads in from remote sources (and nearly everything Western is remote, from Korea) can be difficult. Torrenting from the ROK is not pleasant in most cases.
Fine, i'll be reasonable with a (near) peace activist. What you are doing is utterly pointless and divisive. It isn't accomplishing anything. It isn't acting as a brake on anything. You cannot get enough attention to overcome whatever propaganda is being fed to the people. Peace activists will never stop a war, ever. So why even do it? It accomplishes zilch except to give an excuse for the disaffected to distrust their governments - mind you, this doesn't put the government at risk, but it does increase the venom of public discourse.
You might imagine an 1848 scenario with barricades and civilians fighting for freedom, but it isn't going to happen in any comfortable western country.
Then, consider the impact on posterity. You might think "well, we'll have impact on the history books". But you don't, not really. The Vietnam histories, for instance, take little account of the peace activists' claims. Sure, there's reference to My Lai and civilian deaths, but that would have been there anyway. The "baby killer" shit didn't make the cut.
In 1992 on tax day, I was not done with the forms until 12:30am April 16. Only time i've ever been in that situation. My dad had a Pitney-Bowes postal meter. You can set the date on those things - at least you used to be able to. Effectively, it's a postmark. Anyway, I called him and asked to use the meter. His response was "Do you really think the government has time to chase down everyone who files late? Just drop it in the mail tomorrow morning." He was also disappointed in me for not understanding the world better at that point.
Well, he was right. I never heard back about that, and I laugh every time I hear about lines of people trying to get their returns in by midnight April 15th. The perception of enforcement is worse than the reality. If enough people vandalize biometric scanners, they won't be able to track all the people down. Since the scanners have to be in your proximity, there's no stopping the vandalism.
Of course we have a choice. Vandalism is a choice. Biometric scanners are sensitive to damage, much moreso than old technology. You can reduce these items to uselessness and increase the costs of maintaining them to the point where the project is abandoned. Just scratch up the lens for starters. I bet an awl would do far more nasty damage to such a thing.
Where's the Civ4 DRM? I have a crack installed but I installed normally at first. There was no particular DRM beside an attempt to validate the CD at start time.
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I understand all you kids don't remember this, but let's have a history lesson.
In the 1980s, most software was copy protected. The methods varied, but popular ones were
-disks with induced errors that had to be reproducible to run the software -install counters on the source disk, protected through some means to prevent user alteration -bootable floppies with nonstandard formats
There were more, but that covers a large percentage of the methods. The software vendors stopped doing this for the obvious reason: it was hurting sales. People were having disks go bad or otherwise being deprived of their paid-for software and were choosing not to buy after being screwed a few times.
It wasn't until the last 10 years that they started in with this copy protection shit again under the name DRM. The idea was to maximize profit. We're not having "blanket-hate" - what a stupid concept - except maybe for the corporate weasels who thought this was a good idea. We're looking to repeat history.
1) You can blackhole route, for starters. Or use a dedicated firewall, since we're talking DMZ here, you'd have to have one. Beside that, the service should permit allow/deny lists of CIDR blocks. If it doesn't, that means the service is insecure, permitting connection from any valid IP address. You do not need a firewall.
2) The lock analogy doesn't work. You're locking something that's broken already. What convinces you that the lock is reliable?
Machine firewalls are a symptom of bad design - and insecure applications.
A machine firewall does what...it protects the computer from the listening ports that the OS allowed ITSELF to open.
A simple correspondence list of listening port to application would have killed this issue dead at the beginning. Of course, then people would ask why so much crap needs to be open by default on Microsoft operating systems. For added hilarity, the OS now allows applications to insert their own machine firewall exceptions.
And before I hear about pf and iptables, you do not need to run those. A well managed system on those platforms needs a firewall like it needs trepanning.
Is this an "all" or "registered voter" poll? What areas? But I won't find that out from this article.
Besides which, Zogby has been sucking hind tit in polling for at least the last decade. Blown calls of '04 and '08, badly blown ones on Election Day, come to mind.
I wouldn't trust him if he told me the sky was blue, without checking.
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I suspect they probably ran some forensic script tools. That's what they always do. The hard drives probably failed because of environmental conditions.
No, but seizing computers and holding them for a while, along with mugshots and showing up in the local police blotter is probably trouble enough for most people. The repeat offenders will get the jail time.
Actually, those of us who know better are mostly just keeping mouths shut and enjoying the foaming at the mouth going on here every time Assange and the Wikileaks people get what they are manifestly deserving. Also, now I know for a fact that many people here are just anti-American, and not just all about 'information wants to be free'. Don't bother protesting, both my mind is made up, and my country's collective government's mind.
A lot of people who *think* they are accomplishing something are instead entirely discrediting themselves. EFF, take note. By the time this is done, the EFF will be about as effective in Washington as the US Communist Party.
The PR war has already been lost on this one. Anyone associated with Wikileaks will be branded a terrorist within days*, with the full assent of the US public. Furthermore, failing taking the next plane to Iran or North Korea, the principals will be turned over to the US ultimately and face the penalties for what they have done. Just watch... Refusing to extradite these people amounts to a cassus belli. No one will risk it, even China would turn them over. It should be noted that the revelation of the documents is a cassus belli as well.
Assange and his crew have attempted to blackmail a great power (the insurance file). Watch how well that is going to work... Those two Swedish women he allegedly raped might just be the last two women he ever experiences. He's already a man without a country. Those who associated with him should make arrangements, now, to flee to countries who have no diplomatic relations with the US. Time is short.
Basically, the OBL mistake was made. Since no effective response was forthcoming previously, the assumption was that the infowar against the United States could continue with impunity - even be escalated. Since Democrats are in control of the government, their native perceived weakness on national security assures that the response will be overkill. Regardless, an example has to be made to deter this type of action in the future. Those who collaborated with Wikileaks will be making the perp walk and showing up on every TV channel until the message is drummed into everyone's head. Their plaintive begging for a sentence that might let them see the outside of a prison someday (when they are old) will be transmitted widely, as well.
It might have been worth it to get all the America-haters out from under their rocks, though.
* To the extent this hasn't happened already. Some mainstream press traffic on this over the past few days.
Probably at some point. I think the belief in USG circles is that the stuff will get released regardless of the actions of the USG. Wikileaks is a rogue. That sort of belief is dangerous to Assange and to the other members of his group, as that means the USG is free to pursue arrests, extraditions, and espionage charges at the widest possible net.
This is considered the largest leak in US history and an example will be made.
You're ignoring the fact that the information is classified. It's right there in the text of the cables in question.
You wouldn't have survived 2 weeks as a journalist if you received stolen classified information from those who stole it and then published same*. Your result would have been better than Assange's will be, due to being an acknowledged journalist. Assange and Wikileaks are engaged in espionage. If we contrast a traditional rat line with dead drops etc with what they are doing, the analogy fits perfectly. Not just in my mind, but in the minds of the United States government. He's going to spend the rest of his life as a fugitive, and that will be the *best case* for him.
All of this just stinks of the 'information wants to be free' crowd going toe to toe with the national security establishment of great powers. Guess who will win?
Drop the self-delusion of what this is really about. It robs you of credibility.
* Without recourse to teams of lawyers, the attention of the publisher and assurance that they'd cover all your legal expenses, which might well be legion. You might even do some serious prison time. This best be important. If it's just a bunch of bullshit that won't obtain public consciousness, you might well just serve a lengthy sentence ignominiously.
Congratulations on your ownership of Microsoft Basic PDS 7. It was a fine toy back in the day.
The disaccharide sucrose metabolism is incomplete in the upper GI. Fructose is only absorbed in the small intestine. Therefore, the quantity of fructose absorbed into the bloodstream from sucrose consumption will be less than 100%. HFCS has monosaccharide fructose as its fructose component, so is potentially more available for absorption than disaccharide sucrose.
You are being mildly inaccurate. The problem isn't with corn syrup per se, it is with high fructose corn syrup - HFCS.
Normal corn syrup is laden with dextrose - glucose. HFCS has a portion of that dextrose converted to fructose. HFCS 42 - 42% fructose - is close to table sugar/sucrose sweetness so it is frequently used. Fructose has some interesting qualities compared to glucose or dextrose:
1) It is metabolized in the liver, rather than delivered to the individual cells, unlike glucose.
2) Its fructolysis metabolic pathway ends up producing either glycogen or palmitate, ie, either 'stored energy' up to the ~ 3000 calorie limit, or fat deposits.
3) Its metabolism is not regulated by insulin, unlike glucose.
Fructose metabolism has more resemblance to the uptake of starches, rather than monosaccharide glucose. Increasing the monosaccharide fructose intake of humans was a grand experiment in making people fat, in other words.
For that matter, the reputation of Americans as flatulent could easily have something to do with fructose malabsorption, since nearly every food has free fructose in it nowadays.
That said, sucrose isn't a winner either as it is a disaccharide of glucose and fructose which is (partially) cloven apart in the stomach and then absorbed as separate monosaccharides. The glucose is fine as far as that goes, as it is insulin regulated, but the fructose within has the same problem as HFCS. For that matter, might as well call sucrose HFCS 50, with the slight caveat that a portion of the sucrose will not be metabolized, possibly reducing uptake of fructose in comparison to HFCS, which has its fructose already in monosaccharide form.
I remember at the time that someone thought I was nuts for loading my 2 machines with 4 and 5mb of RAM, respectively. It wasn't all that expensive - at the time RAM was about $70 a megabyte, down far from the $500/meg heights it had hit in 1987 or so.
The memory served me well then, and having more RAM will serve just about anyone well even today.
You didn't use Desqview appropriately, then.
With QEMM loaded on a 386 platform and lots of available memory, Desqview was a superior multitasker that would run raw DOS applications simultaneously. No special coding required, though if you did code to TopView/DV then more applications could be run simultaneously.
I ran 4 nodes of a DOS multinode BBS, along with door applications, on a single 386-20 DV box with 4MB of RAM. Searchlight, then Wildcat, if you are interested.
Easily kept up with the modems. In fact, the lack of a multiport serial board was more the reason why I didn't run more nodes than any inherent limitation of DV. There was plenty of CPU to spare.
The only limitation DV really had was that it didn't arbitrate hardware misconfigurations. Therefore, if you tried to use the same ports/IRQ lines from different windows, you could lock the system hard. Assuming you weren't doing anything stupid, though, it was great stuff. Also, doing BIOS video output made it easier for DV to control the output. Most applications did direct screen writes, so you were kind of stuck with the overhead unless you wrote your own code. I did, so using BIOS output was an option for me.
WTF, the "contrail" was dissipating on the eastern end.
I have spent about 6 months in Korea over the past 4 years and have yet to be able to stream more than about 300kbps from any Western source. Australia is closer, but not much closer.
Locations in Seoul, Wonsan, Pyongtaek and Daegu.
OK, more than a slight irony, considering you can buy any media you want on the streets of Korea in convenient optical form, with no hassle, and for $1-2 apiece per disc. (depending on where the won stands vis a vis the dollar).
Also, while Korea has excellent bandwidth locally, getting streams and downloads in from remote sources (and nearly everything Western is remote, from Korea) can be difficult. Torrenting from the ROK is not pleasant in most cases.
...or even buying it without LAN play.
Fine, i'll be reasonable with a (near) peace activist. What you are doing is utterly pointless and divisive. It isn't accomplishing anything. It isn't acting as a brake on anything. You cannot get enough attention to overcome whatever propaganda is being fed to the people. Peace activists will never stop a war, ever. So why even do it? It accomplishes zilch except to give an excuse for the disaffected to distrust their governments - mind you, this doesn't put the government at risk, but it does increase the venom of public discourse.
You might imagine an 1848 scenario with barricades and civilians fighting for freedom, but it isn't going to happen in any comfortable western country.
Then, consider the impact on posterity. You might think "well, we'll have impact on the history books". But you don't, not really. The Vietnam histories, for instance, take little account of the peace activists' claims. Sure, there's reference to My Lai and civilian deaths, but that would have been there anyway. The "baby killer" shit didn't make the cut.
I just do not see the point.
Noticing you're anonymous. The refuge of the coward.
In 1992 on tax day, I was not done with the forms until 12:30am April 16. Only time i've ever been in that situation. My dad had a Pitney-Bowes postal meter. You can set the date on those things - at least you used to be able to. Effectively, it's a postmark. Anyway, I called him and asked to use the meter. His response was "Do you really think the government has time to chase down everyone who files late? Just drop it in the mail tomorrow morning." He was also disappointed in me for not understanding the world better at that point.
Well, he was right. I never heard back about that, and I laugh every time I hear about lines of people trying to get their returns in by midnight April 15th. The perception of enforcement is worse than the reality. If enough people vandalize biometric scanners, they won't be able to track all the people down. Since the scanners have to be in your proximity, there's no stopping the vandalism.
The people have _total_ control.
Of course we have a choice. Vandalism is a choice. Biometric scanners are sensitive to damage, much moreso than old technology. You can reduce these items to uselessness and increase the costs of maintaining them to the point where the project is abandoned. Just scratch up the lens for starters. I bet an awl would do far more nasty damage to such a thing.
There is a whole market devoted to handling high delay TCP connections. It works. It's what I do. Well, part of it.
Replacing the protocol for this reason would be kind of lame.
Where's the Civ4 DRM? I have a crack installed but I installed normally at first. There was no particular DRM beside an attempt to validate the CD at start time.
I understand all you kids don't remember this, but let's have a history lesson.
In the 1980s, most software was copy protected. The methods varied, but popular ones were
-disks with induced errors that had to be reproducible to run the software
-install counters on the source disk, protected through some means to prevent user alteration
-bootable floppies with nonstandard formats
There were more, but that covers a large percentage of the methods. The software vendors stopped doing this for the obvious reason: it was hurting sales. People were having disks go bad or otherwise being deprived of their paid-for software and were choosing not to buy after being screwed a few times.
It wasn't until the last 10 years that they started in with this copy protection shit again under the name DRM. The idea was to maximize profit. We're not having "blanket-hate" - what a stupid concept - except maybe for the corporate weasels who thought this was a good idea. We're looking to repeat history.
1) You can blackhole route, for starters. Or use a dedicated firewall, since we're talking DMZ here, you'd have to have one. Beside that, the service should permit allow/deny lists of CIDR blocks. If it doesn't, that means the service is insecure, permitting connection from any valid IP address. You do not need a firewall.
2) The lock analogy doesn't work. You're locking something that's broken already. What convinces you that the lock is reliable?
Machine firewalls are a symptom of bad design - and insecure applications.
A machine firewall does what...it protects the computer from the listening ports that the OS allowed ITSELF to open.
A simple correspondence list of listening port to application would have killed this issue dead at the beginning. Of course, then people would ask why so much crap needs to be open by default on Microsoft operating systems. For added hilarity, the OS now allows applications to insert their own machine firewall exceptions.
And before I hear about pf and iptables, you do not need to run those. A well managed system on those platforms needs a firewall like it needs trepanning.
A bit of ham in the spam. Deserves more modding.
Is this an "all" or "registered voter" poll? What areas? But I won't find that out from this article.
Besides which, Zogby has been sucking hind tit in polling for at least the last decade. Blown calls of '04 and '08, badly blown ones on Election Day, come to mind.
I wouldn't trust him if he told me the sky was blue, without checking.