I think that it would be really important that these modifications didn't iterate over _too_ many generations as the mosquito population would be irrevocably changed. Also it's really scarey having chemically/genetically altered insects which come into direct contact with the blood stream of everything they bite (frogs, lizards, people, everything) is really scarey business. 99.99% isn't safe enough!! Here in the deep south I have to say mosquitos suck horribly (no pun intended) but I would much prefer strong natural animals roaming around so that when the human population finally makes himself extinct or nearly so, at least the planet can rebuild.
One could aquire a huge advantage if he/she knew that all opponents were using such a bot... If you just calculated what the other players were inclined to do you would know exactly when to bluff!
My PHB will just say "Ignignot, I like this FireFox thing..."
Dude that's cool that you have a job. I'm stuck living in this damned basement. The interviews usually go well too, just until I introduce myself as "0x12d3". --Maybe it would be more personable of me to suggest "623370" for short.
PS: if that is your real name I am **so** sorry and meant no offense.
PSS: I'm also very very sorry that your name is Ignignot and wish you all the best of luck;)
Here's an ultra easy script I wrote for the job. My needs are pretty minimal, but this is easy as I can just type "note" from my command prompt and type a quick msg to myself; handy little journal too.
That reminds me when my girlfriends pc got infected I just turned fail from "shutdown" to "take no action" in RPC services and never got around to actually removing the virus.
mmm... sorry 'bout that.
[to the internet community in general]
(hums Dennis Lear's "I'm an asshole" and returns to work:)
I don't know I've used the "yes" command in a similar fashion a couple of times. I'm not sure if this is a more elegant solution, but hey a tool's a tool. 13k worth of ones and zero's or a couple some grams of copper It's nice to get the job at hand done with.
I work tech support at an isp, and after reading Kevin Mitnick's "The Art Of Dection", I've had a keen eye for situations were social engineering could be going down, the thing is if policy dictates that you respond a certain way, you do so reguardless. The funny thing is how much more helpful other internal departments are if you use some social engineering techniques. Sometimes the billing dept. will help a save desk agent more than techsupport; sometimes a field rep. gets less lip than tech.support to escalate an issue. Guess it goes to show any tool can be used for good or evil.
What a thoughful post. I also do tech. support work (over the phone for me), and I agree fixing a lot of the problems out there, means trying to undo much of what poorly written spyware has done. Customers never believe you when you Refer To Vendor, to get the stuff removed and half the time when they do remove it there internet/IE/you name it does work until they reinstall windows. Spybot/Adaware does less and less w/ each passing day, and the techincal users seem to be slowly drifting to various other OS'es or otherwise avoiding the problems so we really have a harder time relating/identifying the subtle issues that do arise. Spyware/virii are the weeds strangling the Windows world. I can't imagine how this will be rectified.
Mozilla Thunderbird is a great lightweight email client replacement for Outlook. Your average home user who has an imap or pop account from an ISP really has no good excuse not to uninstall Outlook from their machine and switch.
Are you serious?!? I've seen customers bluescreen after uninstalling MSN! Uninstalling Win components is usually a bad idea if avoidable. Also OE is for the users advanced enough to realize that their isp's webmail interface is not the only method to check their email, but not all of these users care to consider alternative clients, which their isp will _not_ help them configure. Big change from OE which their ISP will configure and not bother telling them how to use it or what it is for (or have a CD setup it up and never even mention it to the cx).
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I think that it would be really important that these modifications didn't iterate over _too_ many generations as the mosquito population would be irrevocably changed. Also it's really scarey having chemically/genetically altered insects which come into direct contact with the blood stream of everything they bite (frogs, lizards, people, everything) is really scarey business. 99.99% isn't safe enough!! Here in the deep south I have to say mosquitos suck horribly (no pun intended) but I would much prefer strong natural animals roaming around so that when the human population finally makes himself extinct or nearly so, at least the planet can rebuild.
We've finally evolved beyond Tim?
Greater Humanity 1
Tim 0
One could aquire a huge advantage if he/she knew that all opponents were using such a bot... If you just calculated what the other players were inclined to do you would know exactly when to bluff!
it also explains the slashdot paradox (sites getting slashdotting, but no one actually reading the articles).
:)
Slashdot readers do read the articles.. unfortunely each viewing changes the site for subsequent viewers
...here come the holy wars :)
That sucks
come on admit it, that sucks.
Dude that's cool that you have a job. I'm stuck living in this damned basement. The interviews usually go well too, just until I introduce myself as "0x12d3". --Maybe it would be more personable of me to suggest "623370" for short.
PS: if that is your real name I am **so** sorry and meant no offense.
PSS: I'm also very very sorry that your name is Ignignot and wish you all the best of luck
When you send a packet from hping2 it defaults to port 0, unless you specify another. If I saw port 0 in my logs I'd certainly wonder.
Here come the exploits.
Hmm. that redirect would actually create the file anyways; I should've saved myself an IF. I feel so dirty...
Here's an ultra easy script I wrote for the job. My needs are pretty minimal, but this is easy as I can just type "note" from my command prompt and type a quick msg to myself; handy little journal too.
note ()
{
if [ -f ~/notepad ]; then
true;
else
touch ~/notepad;
fi;
echo -en "---------- $(date) ----------\n $(cat)\n" >>~/notepad
}
Ok. Here come all the goatse links, and this time we can't even mod 'em "off topic".
That reminds me when my girlfriends pc got infected I just turned fail from "shutdown" to "take no action" in RPC services and never got around to actually removing the virus.
:)
mmm... sorry 'bout that.
[to the internet community in general]
(hums Dennis Lear's "I'm an asshole" and returns to work
I don't know I've used the "yes" command in a similar fashion a couple of times. I'm not sure if this is a more elegant solution, but hey a tool's a tool. 13k worth of ones and zero's or a couple some grams of copper It's nice to get the job at hand done with.
I work tech support at an isp, and after reading Kevin Mitnick's "The Art Of Dection", I've had a keen eye for situations were social engineering could be going down, the thing is if policy dictates that you respond a certain way, you do so reguardless. The funny thing is how much more helpful other internal departments are if you use some social engineering techniques. Sometimes the billing dept. will help a save desk agent more than techsupport; sometimes a field rep. gets less lip than tech.support to escalate an issue. Guess it goes to show any tool can be used for good or evil.
I'm from the future, and the women are not nearly as hot after the nuclear winter you insensitive clod!
I agree; and how am I supposed to get along without the useful constant "the answer to life the universe and everything"
example
+1 funny
Now you can go to church, read /. and watch pr0n all at the same time.
/. --hmm. Seems a bit redundant.
Go to church, and read
There's plenty of kindly, good-hearted people out there who could make constructive, as intended use of this.
--And then there are h4x0rz
What a thoughful post. I also do tech. support work (over the phone for me), and I agree fixing a lot of the problems out there, means trying to undo much of what poorly written spyware has done. Customers never believe you when you Refer To Vendor, to get the stuff removed and half the time when they do remove it there internet/IE/you name it does work until they reinstall windows. Spybot/Adaware does less and less w/ each passing day, and the techincal users seem to be slowly drifting to various other OS'es or otherwise avoiding the problems so we really have a harder time relating/identifying the subtle issues that do arise. Spyware/virii are the weeds strangling the Windows world. I can't imagine how this will be rectified.
Wow that sounds so Microsoft-esqe!! Go to the knowledge base and learn about "MS resolution fix innovative satisfying solutions"!!
I prefer the GNU, "It does what I want; you need something else?? good luck!" approach : ^ )
Sounds harsh, but hey they even give the source.
Why do you assume making money and making an effective OS are mutually exclusive?
The poster made no such assumption, Microsoft makes an OS to make money != Microsoft doesn't design it's OS to be effective.
-However primary motives are important. All others will be side-effects or means to the primary end.