I'm pretty certain that Hyden has some kind of signature in it's method of hiding the message in the executable that will be easily identifiable in a short period of time. Even with encryption, all you would need to do is check any executable for the signature, then you only have the encryption standing in your way. This is concealment by obscurity at best.
Or... you could connect in view-only mode and watch them type in sensitive data. Maybe install a key logger when they aren't around. Dig through their personal file stash and find nudies of their husband or wife and upload them to yafro.com. There's a whole lot of personal nastiness and ID theft that could result from this. Which leads me to lesson #1. NEVER put your PC directly on the internet. If you do, you deserve whatever happens to you.
Hehehe... this sounds just as silly as the "The Terrorists endorse Farenheit 9/11 movie. Michael Moore is a terrorist!!!!" statement from the hateful right wing. BTW, i'm not taking sides here. I hate Walmart and everything they stand for. I wouldn't buy anything from them. They represent the destruction of the American economy and exploitation of all the people who work for them. All the way from the sweatshops they operate in less developed countries to the soccer mom who works there afternoons during the school year to the illegal immigrants that they hire for cheap labor. They sell Linux? Big deal. They are still destroying America in a more insidious way than any terrorist could hope to.
BZZZT!!! That day already came and went. It's called a TV. It's a dumb terminal that they spoon feed content to you with. Add WebTV and there you go... Of course you still need to buy a box every three years because they only guarantee them for 90 days unless you pay for the extended warranty. But that's another rant for another time.
How do you think those alien looking robots from the future who are part human knew enough about the past to find the A.I. frozen under the ice? They HAD to have had access to Wikipedia.:)
How is this any different than the Chinese filtering internet content for the sakeof their government? In this case, we're filtering internet content for the sake of one of our more powerful corporate entities. And we have "big government" how? The problem is that the U.S. government is not strong enough to prevent this kind of chicanery.
This is an interesting move by politicians who usually find laws that make things more expensive for consumers all too attractive.
I would have to guess that those publishers are not friends with the current administration, otherwise they'd be getting big tax cuts and special protection for their business. If Kerry wins, the situation will reverse itself and the publishers will get what they want, but oil interests will get a screwing.
I would say that if exceeding safe speeds is a frequent occurrence or the periods last a long time, then by all means the driver should be cited. There is a reason for a speed limit and that reason is not so the limit can be broken. Personally, I'd love to see every driver who cuts someone off get ticketed every time.
I do this with vnc 4.0. All you have to do is edit the gdm.conf file for the Gnome Login Manager and replace X with Xvnc. Also set up a few gdm instances so that you can have multiple users logged into the same box. I put my desktop on:0 and my wife's desktop on:1. You can disable vnc's authentication so that you don't get a double password prompt (one from VNC and one from GDM). I set the screensaver to lock the desktop after 15 minutes of inactivity. So when I reconnect, my apps are right where I left them and I can connect from any machine in the house no matter what OS it's running.
I've been running like this since November. It's been wonderful. Even sweeter is that with ssh as a tunnel for vnc, I can access my desktop from anywhere on the net without needing to open ports on my firewall for VNC. Now, if only I could find an easy way to reconfigure the ESPEAKER variable at the click of a button to use the esd running on the machine I am connected from, I'd be all set. As it is, I just manually set the variable and start up ESD on my local workstation. Of course this means I have to run all esd aware apps from CLI which sucks... Anyone else have any suggestions for sound servers that allow you to just point and click or even better that work with VNC? There's one project I looked at but it's as good as dead right now.
Wasn't this guy talking about home use? Anything that's over $2000 if pretty much out of the realm of standard home use. Personally, I just use a standard PC case. Of course I only have a half a terabyte in that box right now and it's maxed out. I toyed with the idea of wiring in another power supply for the drives and expanding the case for extra ventilation and space. But at that point you're talking about a case mod. (Not the ricer kind either but the really cool geeky kind)
...what some of the problems are with P2P and condifential info. But... that scantily clad redhead wasn't a threat to national security. Not to mention, what's the problem of sharing nudies of your wife online. It's not like these people don't know that other people can see it.
As much as this kind of thing usually results in flamewars about what a computing environment should be, it still comes down to the filing system.
It's come to my attention that people are always complaining about not being able to find their files on most OSes. But Unix seems to confound people to no end, which makes absolutely no sense since it is VERY WELL logically structured. Unlike Windows which is just a fucking mess. The Unix philosophy behind filing your data is all about standard locations for the different types of programs, configs and data you might have on your systems. If adhered to, you can go to any Unix system and easily locate files. However, I will argue that it needs some reorganizing for today's applications. And NO "My Documents" is a stupid fucking idea for morons with the intelligence of a slime mold!!! That will NEVER happen on any systems I administer. So now, I give you how I lay out my systems these days:
First level designations in a path:
00 in the first level of the path is the root user's personal directory
01 in the first level of the path is the designation for the "applications" directory
02 in the first level of the path is the "documents" directory
03 in the first level of the path is the "users" directory (equivalent to the stupid "home" designation used by troglodytes)
Note: in directories of type 03 in the first level of the path, the second directory is just the user's id number
Second level designations in a path:
01 in the second level of the path is always the "OpenOffice.org" application directory
02 in the second level of the path is always the "Mozilla" application director
01a in the second level of the path is always "Textual" documents/01/01 - Open Office.org resides here./01/02 - Mozilla resides here/02-00/01a/ - root's textual docs live here/02/01a/01 - the first user's textual docs live here/02/01a/02 - the second user's textual docs live here/00/mbox - root's mail is here/03/500/mbox - the first user's mail is here/03/501/mbox - the second user's mail is here
This is a much easier setup once you get used to it as it makes it VERY easy to find stuff. It also makes scripting possible for searching for files and working with files in a character based setting. I don't allow my users to use anything other than three character numeric file names. I haven't heard a word out of them since I implemented this system. In general, they seem to be pleased since they no longer have to think hard about where their docs are. The docs are always within easy reach, and as an operator, my life has become considerably easier. More time to play Nethack... So get it though your heads you fucking idiots!!! Long file names based on alpha characters are nothing but a big pain in the ass. Get used to the coming paradigm of numeric filenames. It's WAY easier. Fucking idiot amateurs.
(In a Daffy Duck voice): Woohoo! Whoohoo!! Wooohooo!!!! Whoohooo!!!!;p
...that we've hit the limits of the usefulness of technology where current automobiles are concerned. I'd take tailfins over these monstrosities any day.
I can see it now, SCO's office, with only Darl left sitting at a desk in an otherwise empty building, doing an impersonation of the Music Industry Guy in the South Park "Chef Aid" episode: "I am above the law!!!!" [*spooge!* add hair cream...].
I can see it now, SCO's office, with only Darl left sitting at a desk in an otherwise empty building, Darl is writing out refund checks to everyone who paid the SCO Linux fee and saying: "...Six hundred and ninety nine dollars and NINETY NINE CENTS"! "I don't need Baystar... or... or... Microsoft... or... Sun!!! All I need is my thermos"!;P
On a side-note. We really should be encouraging the creation of something like the BBC here in the states. Government mandates the network and provides funding through taxation, but does not control the network. I think PBS could be molded into something like this. Then we'd have an alternative that is not in bed with big business or so-called "big government".
I think it has more to do with the internet as an outlet. If you want to put up a blog, and the media conglomerate who owns your ISP finds your blog to be a problem, then you will get shut down. Big media doesn't want us to be publishers or content creators. They want us to be consumers. Hence the move to preventing the end user from running their own server unless they are willing to shell out a lot of cash. Once this cycle is complete, only the rich can publish and the poor can consume. Many of the alternative sources of journalism on the internet started out from small one man operations or poorly funded non-profit organizations. If the big media conglomerates lock them out by making publishing an expensive proposition... we've got BIG problems.
Democrats tend to be, on the whole, more intelligent then Republicans and fairly introspective. This is both a strength and a weakness as they can be given over to ruminating on a subject longer than they should. They are also typically pretty disorganized and unpolished for the most part. This is also a weakness as Americans have been subtly conditioned to judge candidates by looks.
Republicans tend to be, on the whole, pretty simple. They don't want the long view or an in-depth understanding of something, they just want something that works NOW and damn the consequences. This is seen as "taking action" even if it is wrongheaded. They also tend to be anal retentive and organized to an extreme. To most American voters, the "take action" stance and the tendency toward organization give them a sense of confidence in the Republican candidate/representative even if it is unwarranted.
Both sides have their strengths and weaknesses. Even though I tend to be more towards the liberal side of things, it pisses me off to no end to see just how sloppy Democrats can be. In the overall picture, I think you'd find that political choices are largely determined by personality type. I have yet to meet a Type-A liberal other than myself.
What's the difference between Firefox and Mozilla other than striping away everything but the browser? It's still the same product. I'd hardly call Mozilla "garbage". IE on the other hand...;)
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I'm pretty certain that Hyden has some kind of signature in it's method of hiding the message in the executable that will be easily identifiable in a short period of time. Even with encryption, all you would need to do is check any executable for the signature, then you only have the encryption standing in your way. This is concealment by obscurity at best.
If steganography is now in the hands of joe user, how useful is it really? It's not exactly a secret anymore, is it? ;P
Or... you could connect in view-only mode and watch them type in sensitive data. Maybe install a key logger when they aren't around. Dig through their personal file stash and find nudies of their husband or wife and upload them to yafro.com. There's a whole lot of personal nastiness and ID theft that could result from this. Which leads me to lesson #1. NEVER put your PC directly on the internet. If you do, you deserve whatever happens to you.
That's like saying, "This started off as a Jello brand recipe for jello jigglers and has developed into a handy way to make the ultimate death ray"!
How does something start off as a "portable network game" and end up as a f*cking remote GUI root?
Hehehe... this sounds just as silly as the "The Terrorists endorse Farenheit 9/11 movie. Michael Moore is a terrorist!!!!" statement from the hateful right wing. BTW, i'm not taking sides here. I hate Walmart and everything they stand for. I wouldn't buy anything from them. They represent the destruction of the American economy and exploitation of all the people who work for them. All the way from the sweatshops they operate in less developed countries to the soccer mom who works there afternoons during the school year to the illegal immigrants that they hire for cheap labor. They sell Linux? Big deal. They are still destroying America in a more insidious way than any terrorist could hope to.
BZZZT!!! That day already came and went. It's called a TV. It's a dumb terminal that they spoon feed content to you with. Add WebTV and there you go... Of course you still need to buy a box every three years because they only guarantee them for 90 days unless you pay for the extended warranty. But that's another rant for another time.
How do you think those alien looking robots from the future who are part human knew enough about the past to find the A.I. frozen under the ice? They HAD to have had access to Wikipedia. :)
How is this any different than the Chinese filtering internet content for the sakeof their government? In this case, we're filtering internet content for the sake of one of our more powerful corporate entities. And we have "big government" how? The problem is that the U.S. government is not strong enough to prevent this kind of chicanery.
I would have to guess that those publishers are not friends with the current administration, otherwise they'd be getting big tax cuts and special protection for their business. If Kerry wins, the situation will reverse itself and the publishers will get what they want, but oil interests will get a screwing.
"(the ears are speakers!)"
...my troll-o-meter went up to 70/100. ;P
I would say that if exceeding safe speeds is a frequent occurrence or the periods last a long time, then by all means the driver should be cited. There is a reason for a speed limit and that reason is not so the limit can be broken. Personally, I'd love to see every driver who cuts someone off get ticketed every time.
I do this with vnc 4.0. All you have to do is edit the gdm.conf file for the Gnome Login Manager and replace X with Xvnc. Also set up a few gdm instances so that you can have multiple users logged into the same box. I put my desktop on :0 and my wife's desktop on :1. You can disable vnc's authentication so that you don't get a double password prompt (one from VNC and one from GDM). I set the screensaver to lock the desktop after 15 minutes of inactivity. So when I reconnect, my apps are right where I left them and I can connect from any machine in the house no matter what OS it's running.
I've been running like this since November. It's been wonderful. Even sweeter is that with ssh as a tunnel for vnc, I can access my desktop from anywhere on the net without needing to open ports on my firewall for VNC. Now, if only I could find an easy way to reconfigure the ESPEAKER variable at the click of a button to use the esd running on the machine I am connected from, I'd be all set. As it is, I just manually set the variable and start up ESD on my local workstation. Of course this means I have to run all esd aware apps from CLI which sucks... Anyone else have any suggestions for sound servers that allow you to just point and click or even better that work with VNC? There's one project I looked at but it's as good as dead right now.
Wasn't this guy talking about home use? Anything that's over $2000 if pretty much out of the realm of standard home use. Personally, I just use a standard PC case. Of course I only have a half a terabyte in that box right now and it's maxed out. I toyed with the idea of wiring in another power supply for the drives and expanding the case for extra ventilation and space. But at that point you're talking about a case mod. (Not the ricer kind either but the really cool geeky kind)
...what some of the problems are with P2P and condifential info. But... that scantily clad redhead wasn't a threat to national security. Not to mention, what's the problem of sharing nudies of your wife online. It's not like these people don't know that other people can see it.
As much as this kind of thing usually results in flamewars about what a computing environment should be, it still comes down to the filing system.
/01/01 - Open Office.org resides here. /01/02 - Mozilla resides here /02-00/01a/ - root's textual docs live here /02/01a/01 - the first user's textual docs live here /02/01a/02 - the second user's textual docs live here /00/mbox - root's mail is here /03/500/mbox - the first user's mail is here /03/501/mbox - the second user's mail is here
;p
It's come to my attention that people are always complaining about not being able to find their files on most OSes. But Unix seems to confound people to no end, which makes absolutely no sense since it is VERY WELL logically structured. Unlike Windows which is just a fucking mess. The Unix philosophy behind filing your data is all about standard locations for the different types of programs, configs and data you might have on your systems. If adhered to, you can go to any Unix system and easily locate files. However, I will argue that it needs some reorganizing for today's applications. And NO "My Documents" is a stupid fucking idea for morons with the intelligence of a slime mold!!! That will NEVER happen on any systems I administer. So now, I give you how I lay out my systems these days:
First level designations in a path:
00 in the first level of the path is the root user's personal directory
01 in the first level of the path is the designation for the "applications" directory
02 in the first level of the path is the "documents" directory
03 in the first level of the path is the "users" directory (equivalent to the stupid "home" designation used by troglodytes)
Note: in directories of type 03 in the first level of the path, the second directory is just the user's id number
Second level designations in a path:
01 in the second level of the path is always the "OpenOffice.org" application directory
02 in the second level of the path is always the "Mozilla" application director
01a in the second level of the path is always "Textual" documents
This is a much easier setup once you get used to it as it makes it VERY easy to find stuff. It also makes scripting possible for searching for files and working with files in a character based setting. I don't allow my users to use anything other than three character numeric file names. I haven't heard a word out of them since I implemented this system. In general, they seem to be pleased since they no longer have to think hard about where their docs are. The docs are always within easy reach, and as an operator, my life has become considerably easier. More time to play Nethack... So get it though your heads you fucking idiots!!! Long file names based on alpha characters are nothing but a big pain in the ass. Get used to the coming paradigm of numeric filenames. It's WAY easier. Fucking idiot amateurs.
(In a Daffy Duck voice): Woohoo! Whoohoo!! Wooohooo!!!! Whoohooo!!!!
...that we've hit the limits of the usefulness of technology where current automobiles are concerned. I'd take tailfins over these monstrosities any day.
...booble.com?
I can see it now, SCO's office, with only Darl left sitting at a desk in an otherwise empty building, Darl is writing out refund checks to everyone who paid the SCO Linux fee and saying: "...Six hundred and ninety nine dollars and NINETY NINE CENTS"! "I don't need Baystar... or... or... Microsoft... or... Sun!!! All I need is my thermos"! ;P
To quote your buddy Bill O'Reilly: "Shut Up"!!!! ;P
As opposed to the lying sack of shit conservative mouthpiece that Fox News is here in the U.S. ?
On a side-note. We really should be encouraging the creation of something like the BBC here in the states. Government mandates the network and provides funding through taxation, but does not control the network. I think PBS could be molded into something like this. Then we'd have an alternative that is not in bed with big business or so-called "big government".
I think it has more to do with the internet as an outlet. If you want to put up a blog, and the media conglomerate who owns your ISP finds your blog to be a problem, then you will get shut down. Big media doesn't want us to be publishers or content creators. They want us to be consumers. Hence the move to preventing the end user from running their own server unless they are willing to shell out a lot of cash. Once this cycle is complete, only the rich can publish and the poor can consume. Many of the alternative sources of journalism on the internet started out from small one man operations or poorly funded non-profit organizations. If the big media conglomerates lock them out by making publishing an expensive proposition... we've got BIG problems.
Here's a simple breakdown:
Democrats tend to be, on the whole, more intelligent then Republicans and fairly introspective. This is both a strength and a weakness as they can be given over to ruminating on a subject longer than they should. They are also typically pretty disorganized and unpolished for the most part. This is also a weakness as Americans have been subtly conditioned to judge candidates by looks.
Republicans tend to be, on the whole, pretty simple. They don't want the long view or an in-depth understanding of something, they just want something that works NOW and damn the consequences. This is seen as "taking action" even if it is wrongheaded. They also tend to be anal retentive and organized to an extreme. To most American voters, the "take action" stance and the tendency toward organization give them a sense of confidence in the Republican candidate/representative even if it is unwarranted.
Both sides have their strengths and weaknesses. Even though I tend to be more towards the liberal side of things, it pisses me off to no end to see just how sloppy Democrats can be. In the overall picture, I think you'd find that political choices are largely determined by personality type. I have yet to meet a Type-A liberal other than myself.
What's the difference between Firefox and Mozilla other than striping away everything but the browser? It's still the same product. I'd hardly call Mozilla "garbage". IE on the other hand... ;)