All the files are online, right now. All 1.4 gigabytes of them. Just put the terms "insurance.aes256" into torrentfinder.info and check the hash before wasting your time on 1.4 gigs.
Then just hold on to it. If someone in either the US government or some other agency does something stupid...
I am heavy weapons guy. An this...is my weapon. She weighs one-hundred and fifty kilograms and fires two-hundred dollar custom tooled cartridges at ten-thousand rounds per minute. It costs four-hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon...for twelve seconds.
In the news tonight, police find a teenager dead in their basement. Law enforcement received a phone call from a neighbor that they heard a loud scream from the basement, followed by a crash. Police tried to contact the occupants from the doors, but an officer walking around the back looked into a window and saw a body laying on the floor.
Officers broke in to render emergency aid, and EMTs rushed the young man to the hospital, where he was declared dead upon arrival. But the cause of death has given everyone cause for concern.
"It was crazy," said Officer Pullayup. "He had this maniacal grin on his face and his garments below the waist were soaking wet with what appeared to be fluids of a sexual nature."
Further investigations revealed that the teen, known online as "Zsfgseg", had been "trolling" the website known as "Wikipedia" for months. In desperation to halt the abuse, Wikipedia was forced to ban the entire Verizon network, one of the country's largest ISPs. County coroner Dirk Slabber performed an autopsy.
"It looks like he orgasmed to death,"
Police have been unable to reach the parents, who neighbors say only show up once a week to throw food down the back steps of the basement.
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From a geek perspective, I think this is awesome. It combines all the fun of geocaching with the rewards of actually getting something. I do think that viruses would be a concern, yes, but at the same time, anyone looking for one of these things is going to expect that, and will either be protected somehow, or will be using a machine they can keep in quarantine.
From an art perspective, I think this is awesome. It's funny, fresh and gets people outside, exploring their world. It's using available materials to change the way people look at common, everyday items.
From an engineering perspective, all I can see is broken USB hubs stuck in my port because I sneezed too hard. Or shorted out the port because it was wet on the inside of the plug. Or someone thought they were cute and put some WD-40 in there, instead of electrical contact cleaner.
But from an societal point of view, I see strangers walking up to a building and holding their computers up against the wall. That's fine for things like monuments, park statues and maybe even trees in a park? But doing that outside a business might get you in trouble.
Do it anywhere near someplace the NYPD consider "sensitive", and you might just become the latest headline news.
Back when I was a student in college, we were using DEC VAX/VMS systems to provide service to the campus network.
I loved the help menu. It was VERY useful to do all sorts of things, such as creating your LOGIN.COM file. With the LOGIN.COM file, you could set your command prompt, establish which home directory to use, create macros to start batch jobs...you name it.
Occasionally, we'd come across someone who forgot to log out of their session, and just left ms-kermit running on their terminal.
If it was the first time, we'd telnet into their mail client and send them an email from themselves, warning them to be more careful. If it was the second time, we had a bit more fun.
Such as setting their home directory ATTRIB *.* +H
The best was when we edited their LOGIN.COM file, so that whenever they tried to execute *any* commands, it would send a pmail to the sysadmin saying, "I'm an idiot who left his account open, and I need an adult to fix it for me, please?"
Not surprisingly, the sysadmin WAS amused by this, and had great fun exacerbating the torture. It was a different era, when sysadmins had PhD's and a sense of humor.
I wonder how long it'll take for some televangelist to claim that Mozilla/Firefox is secretly promoting the "Gay Agenda". Anyone remember Jerry Falwell?
This works very well in controlling rabies in wild populations of scavengers and carnivores.
Acceptance of oral baits by dogs was evaluated in Guatemala. Eight bait matrix/attractant combinations were produced using commercial materials available in the United States. Two baits were produced using local materials in Guatemala. All baits included a plastic sachet that contained a placebo vaccine (water). Bait trials were conducted February–April, 2002, at five sites using 261 dogs. Bait acceptance ranged from 50.0% to 87.1%, and the combined proportion of sachets either swallowed or punctured ranged from 23.1% to 83.9%. The four bait types with the highest acceptance by dogs were the wax-coated sachet coated with poultry oil and poultry meal (87.1%), the dog meal polymer coated with poultry oil and poultry meal (82.8%), the fish meal polymer coated with poultry oil and poultry meal (77.4%), and the chicken head bait (77.8%). These four bait types were accepted most often as determined both by consumption and combined proportion of sachets swallowed or punctured (P = 0.0001). Future trials should demonstrate efficacy of oral rabies vaccination in Guatemala based on the use of selected bait matrices and the poultry oil/poultry meal attractant. (More here.)
Maybe because people want to outright purchase an iDevice, rather than chain themselves to a particular network? $99 to shackle yourself to AT&T, or $800 to have it free and clear.
I know if this works for T-Mobile, I'll be purchasing a 64GB iPod Touch in a heartbeat...
They Department of Defense has not yet paid for the burned books, but says they are 'in the process.'
"In the process"???
Uh-huh. I'm from New York, and until the money is handed over and IN THE BANK, then handing over the merchandise will likewise, be "in the process". Heck, that's pretty much a standard across the entire planet.
As Watto would say: What, you think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? I'm a Toydarian. Mind tricks donnat work on me. Only money. No money, no parts, no deal.
That's actually why the US Navy created the Preventative Maintenance System, or PMS for short.
It's a very detailed, VERY extensive system, with detailed maintenance cards, procedures, verifications, safety, fail-safes and regular inspections. The cards quite literally tell you every item you'll need, from tools to dishwashing liquid. (You use soapy water to check for pressure leaks on things.)
Some of the maintenance can be dangerous, such as working aloft, but that's all covered too, from soup to nuts, A to Z.
It is why our navy stays in such good shape, all things considered.
That said, I think having an Titan II pulling a Dark Star would definitely ruin my day...
They've already got people who measure the thixotropic response of ketchup in the USDA, and we don't even have enough money for them. Do you really think they're going to shell out the money for alien research, alien watch towers, alien hotlines for reporting, Department of Orbital Defense, alien-encouter insurance, abduction insurance, abduction lawsuits, implant removal surgery? Do we even wanna think about how you'd write up the MSDS sheet on a removed alien implant?
Better to keep pooh-poohing it and save all the tech you glean for yourself.
Why in the Hell is Iran connecting their nuclear reactor to the Internet???
Either Iran is unbelievably stupid, or they've got some blindingly incompetent IT people working at that plant. And considering the international attention that plant is getting, you'd imagine that any incompetent operators would have been sent into the desert to look for minefields while wearing clown shoes long ago.
They did that in Yellowstone, and it's worked beautifully. The whole park is being transformed! Trees are returning, Quaking Aspen are now coming back, providing food for the beaver. Mink are coming back to hunt the beaver. Deer, elk, moose and bison are all now acting normal, staying away from "ambush zones" near the trees, where before they used to graze them to the ground.
But outside the park, the wolves are doing their job too. And doing it too well, in the opinions of a tiny minority of hunters and cattle ranchers. Apparently, that tiny minority has tons of free cash to throw around, because now it's legal to actually HUNT wolves. Shooting problem wolves has always been legal, and all you had to do was shoot the wolf, then stick a calf-leg or a bunch of wool in its mouth and you were done.
Now they can "hunt" them.
I'm a hunter. Always have been, always will be. I eat everything I kill. And that kind of shit makes me sick to my stomach. I don't wanna kill an elk or deer that so tame it's browsing my front flower garden, and so fat it waddles rather than struts? I wanna go after an animal that's wired to the antlers, healthy and more likely to never be seen, let alone shot.
Right, okay, fine. Sites like grabbernosepickle, chickendiesel, omniflightboxtops and coldrussianmedicationgirls.com are all infected with malware. Ooooh, scary. I'm quaking in my boots, here.
Seriously, if the domain is seen in a spam, chances are it's infected. Now, if only we could nuke those idiots who actually click on links in spam...
- What retard still opens exe files it receives in e-mail?
This wasn't an.exe file. It was a.scr file that was encapsulated in HTML to make it look like a.pdf. If you had HTML enabled, you'd only see a.pdf.
- What retard still opens links it receives in e-mail?
If I wasn't a paranoid security-nut, I would have. It came from inside the company, from a legitimate user I'd been in contact with in the past. But because I'm paranoid and have HTML disabled in Outlook, I could see the REAL link going to someplace in the UK.
Admin retards: - What retard still deploys Outlook/Exchange
Have you got something better that can support 150,000 unique email addresses in the United States alone???? Do you wanna add 100 additional countries to that, with all the additional email addresses? No, please! Amuse us. Tell us how wonderful your particular flavor of *nix is for taking care of such a big system.
- What retard still allows exe files to pass through e-mail?
See above.
- What retard still doesn't classify links in e-mails that point to shoddy domains as spam?
See above.
- What retard mounts a corporate home directory without the noexec flag?
That's what a zero-day exploit does. It finds a way around that.
- What retard still allows their users to run as root/admin?
See above.
- What retard allows a client computer to send more than 1 mail per second?
They're called "distribution lists". When the bad guys get inside, they work just as well for them as they do the user.
The reason it didn't nail my machine is because...
1. I have HTML disabled on Outlook 2. I never click ANY links that go outside the company.
I did a quick search on the URL, and it led me to Slashdot in the Google results. Yay Slashdot!!
But here's the catch? Someone INSIDE the company *did* get hit, and it spread from their address book to everyone else. That's the usual progression, of course, but the source and headers actually made me look twice.
ALL of the headers, everything, came from inside the company firewall. I could see where it passed through at least 3 firewall systems to get to me.
When I spoke to network security, they said they'd been fighting it since noon. The reason why is because people are actually READING THE HEADERS and checking the user, and it's coming up legit!
The folks on our end are actually doing due diligence, they're just not paranoid enough.
Emperor: Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station! *click* Fire at will, commander! Crewfish: Sir, we have star destroyers! Admiral Ackbar: It's a trap!
Zoe: So. Trap? Mal: Trap. Wash: Wait...how do you... Mal: You were listenin' I take it? Everyone:.... Mal: Did'ja hear us fight? Zoe: No? Mal: Trap.
Go to the HAARP website, and look up the online data. Call up the Magnetometer Charts, specifically the archives.
Look at a few of the charts, zoom in, zoom out, change the dates, play with it a bit.
Now...
1. Go to a "history timeline" website, one that specifically deals with major events in the last decade. This is a reasonably okay one?
2. Go back to your magnetometer chart. Zoom in to a 2-week data range, starting 1 week before a major event, and ending 1 week after.
3. Look at how the dataline is relatively flat. RELATIVELY flat, mind you, compared to the other data.
4. Look at the massive spike either just before, or right AT the event. For example, look at the data for the morning of 9/11.
5. Now look at the data for every single major security scare, national security event, or even a major natural disaster where everyone got worked up into a froth, or there were a lot of people injured or otherwise killed.
Isnt' that interesting?
Now then, I am NOT suggesting that HAARP was responsible for 9/11 or the Haiti earthquake. Please, don't even go there.
What I am suggesting, is that major catastrophes have an effect on the magnetosphere, effects that can be measured.
Now here's the $100,000.00 question?
Exactly what is it surrounding these events that is affecting the earth's magnetosphere? Radio traffic? Cellphone traffic? Pumping up the satellite feed to overcome interference?
Some have suggested that human emotions are responsible. That's a bit of a reach, though. Isn't it?
I forget if it was a Shadowrun book, or a William Gibson novel, but one of the protagonists had been captured, and the bad guys had cheerfully plugged THEIR equipment into the hero's skull jack. Think "A Clockwork Orange", only without the need for eyedrops.
You really don't want an implant that can allow someone to root your brain.
The French people themselves are just as brilliant or dim as anyone else in the world. But government stupidity knows no boundaries, geographical or otherwise.
In California during the Proposition 8 debates and right after its passage there was quite a number of rather ugly incidents.
I am intrigued at your definition of "ugly".
Personally, I think being beaten, pistol-whipped and then tied to a fence in the middle of nowhere to be rather ugly myself. Or set on fire. Or shot. Stabbed, strangled, sodomized with beer bottles then murdered, slashed and other acts of drawing blood and inducing death are pretty ugly too.
But hey? I suppose it's all a matter of context. If all you've ever had to deal with was spray-paint and slogans, then yeah, I guess you'd see it as pretty ugly.
Slashdot Mirror
All the files are online, right now. All 1.4 gigabytes of them. Just put the terms "insurance.aes256" into torrentfinder.info and check the hash before wasting your time on 1.4 gigs.
Then just hold on to it. If someone in either the US government or some other agency does something stupid...
I am heavy weapons guy. An this...is my weapon. She weighs one-hundred and fifty kilograms and fires two-hundred dollar custom tooled cartridges at ten-thousand rounds per minute. It costs four-hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon...for twelve seconds.
Why not a weapon?
In the news tonight, police find a teenager dead in their basement. Law enforcement received a phone call from a neighbor that they heard a loud scream from the basement, followed by a crash. Police tried to contact the occupants from the doors, but an officer walking around the back looked into a window and saw a body laying on the floor.
Officers broke in to render emergency aid, and EMTs rushed the young man to the hospital, where he was declared dead upon arrival. But the cause of death has given everyone cause for concern.
"It was crazy," said Officer Pullayup. "He had this maniacal grin on his face and his garments below the waist were soaking wet with what appeared to be fluids of a sexual nature."
Further investigations revealed that the teen, known online as "Zsfgseg", had been "trolling" the website known as "Wikipedia" for months. In desperation to halt the abuse, Wikipedia was forced to ban the entire Verizon network, one of the country's largest ISPs. County coroner Dirk Slabber performed an autopsy.
"It looks like he orgasmed to death,"
Police have been unable to reach the parents, who neighbors say only show up once a week to throw food down the back steps of the basement.
From a geek perspective, I think this is awesome. It combines all the fun of geocaching with the rewards of actually getting something. I do think that viruses would be a concern, yes, but at the same time, anyone looking for one of these things is going to expect that, and will either be protected somehow, or will be using a machine they can keep in quarantine.
From an art perspective, I think this is awesome. It's funny, fresh and gets people outside, exploring their world. It's using available materials to change the way people look at common, everyday items.
From an engineering perspective, all I can see is broken USB hubs stuck in my port because I sneezed too hard. Or shorted out the port because it was wet on the inside of the plug. Or someone thought they were cute and put some WD-40 in there, instead of electrical contact cleaner.
But from an societal point of view, I see strangers walking up to a building and holding their computers up against the wall. That's fine for things like monuments, park statues and maybe even trees in a park? But doing that outside a business might get you in trouble.
Do it anywhere near someplace the NYPD consider "sensitive", and you might just become the latest headline news.
Back when I was a student in college, we were using DEC VAX/VMS systems to provide service to the campus network.
I loved the help menu. It was VERY useful to do all sorts of things, such as creating your LOGIN.COM file. With the LOGIN.COM file, you could set your command prompt, establish which home directory to use, create macros to start batch jobs...you name it.
Occasionally, we'd come across someone who forgot to log out of their session, and just left ms-kermit running on their terminal.
If it was the first time, we'd telnet into their mail client and send them an email from themselves, warning them to be more careful. If it was the second time, we had a bit more fun.
Such as setting their home directory ATTRIB *.* +H
The best was when we edited their LOGIN.COM file, so that whenever they tried to execute *any* commands, it would send a pmail to the sysadmin saying, "I'm an idiot who left his account open, and I need an adult to fix it for me, please?"
Not surprisingly, the sysadmin WAS amused by this, and had great fun exacerbating the torture. It was a different era, when sysadmins had PhD's and a sense of humor.
Fond memories...
I wonder how long it'll take for some televangelist to claim that Mozilla/Firefox is secretly promoting the "Gay Agenda". Anyone remember Jerry Falwell?
This works very well in controlling rabies in wild populations of scavengers and carnivores.
Maybe because people want to outright purchase an iDevice, rather than chain themselves to a particular network? $99 to shackle yourself to AT&T, or $800 to have it free and clear.
I know if this works for T-Mobile, I'll be purchasing a 64GB iPod Touch in a heartbeat...
They Department of Defense has not yet paid for the burned books, but says they are 'in the process.'
"In the process"???
Uh-huh. I'm from New York, and until the money is handed over and IN THE BANK, then handing over the merchandise will likewise, be "in the process". Heck, that's pretty much a standard across the entire planet.
As Watto would say: What, you think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? I'm a Toydarian. Mind tricks donnat work on me. Only money. No money, no parts, no deal.
That's actually why the US Navy created the Preventative Maintenance System, or PMS for short.
It's a very detailed, VERY extensive system, with detailed maintenance cards, procedures, verifications, safety, fail-safes and regular inspections. The cards quite literally tell you every item you'll need, from tools to dishwashing liquid. (You use soapy water to check for pressure leaks on things.)
Some of the maintenance can be dangerous, such as working aloft, but that's all covered too, from soup to nuts, A to Z.
It is why our navy stays in such good shape, all things considered.
That said, I think having an Titan II pulling a Dark Star would definitely ruin my day...
One word: MONEY.
Think about it. Think logically.
They've already got people who measure the thixotropic response of ketchup in the USDA, and we don't even have enough money for them. Do you really think they're going to shell out the money for alien research, alien watch towers, alien hotlines for reporting, Department of Orbital Defense, alien-encouter insurance, abduction insurance, abduction lawsuits, implant removal surgery? Do we even wanna think about how you'd write up the MSDS sheet on a removed alien implant?
Better to keep pooh-poohing it and save all the tech you glean for yourself.
Scientist: Wow! They're thriving!
Plant: (Yeah, that's right b*tch. You better believe it.)
*weeks pass*
Plant: (Eat me. Go on, you know you want to? Look at my lovely leaves, my beautiful drupes. I'm tasty. You KNOW I am. Eat me, human.)
Scientist: Hmmmm...I wonder...
Plant: (That's right, baby. Oh yesssss...verrry good.)
Why in the Hell is Iran connecting their nuclear reactor to the Internet???
Either Iran is unbelievably stupid, or they've got some blindingly incompetent IT people working at that plant. And considering the international attention that plant is getting, you'd imagine that any incompetent operators would have been sent into the desert to look for minefields while wearing clown shoes long ago.
They did that in Yellowstone, and it's worked beautifully. The whole park is being transformed! Trees are returning, Quaking Aspen are now coming back, providing food for the beaver. Mink are coming back to hunt the beaver. Deer, elk, moose and bison are all now acting normal, staying away from "ambush zones" near the trees, where before they used to graze them to the ground.
But outside the park, the wolves are doing their job too. And doing it too well, in the opinions of a tiny minority of hunters and cattle ranchers. Apparently, that tiny minority has tons of free cash to throw around, because now it's legal to actually HUNT wolves. Shooting problem wolves has always been legal, and all you had to do was shoot the wolf, then stick a calf-leg or a bunch of wool in its mouth and you were done.
Now they can "hunt" them.
I'm a hunter. Always have been, always will be. I eat everything I kill. And that kind of shit makes me sick to my stomach. I don't wanna kill an elk or deer that so tame it's browsing my front flower garden, and so fat it waddles rather than struts? I wanna go after an animal that's wired to the antlers, healthy and more likely to never be seen, let alone shot.
Right, okay, fine. Sites like grabbernosepickle, chickendiesel, omniflightboxtops and coldrussianmedicationgirls.com are all infected with malware. Ooooh, scary. I'm quaking in my boots, here.
Seriously, if the domain is seen in a spam, chances are it's infected. Now, if only we could nuke those idiots who actually click on links in spam...
User retards:
- What retard still uses Outlook?
You use what the company tells you to.
- What retard still opens exe files it receives in e-mail?
This wasn't an .exe file. It was a .scr file that was encapsulated in HTML to make it look like a .pdf. If you had HTML enabled, you'd only see a .pdf.
- What retard still opens links it receives in e-mail?
If I wasn't a paranoid security-nut, I would have. It came from inside the company, from a legitimate user I'd been in contact with in the past. But because I'm paranoid and have HTML disabled in Outlook, I could see the REAL link going to someplace in the UK.
Admin retards:
- What retard still deploys Outlook/Exchange
Have you got something better that can support 150,000 unique email addresses in the United States alone???? Do you wanna add 100 additional countries to that, with all the additional email addresses? No, please! Amuse us. Tell us how wonderful your particular flavor of *nix is for taking care of such a big system.
- What retard still allows exe files to pass through e-mail?
See above.
- What retard still doesn't classify links in e-mails that point to shoddy domains as spam?
See above.
- What retard mounts a corporate home directory without the noexec flag?
That's what a zero-day exploit does. It finds a way around that.
- What retard still allows their users to run as root/admin?
See above.
- What retard allows a client computer to send more than 1 mail per second?
They're called "distribution lists". When the bad guys get inside, they work just as well for them as they do the user.
I got one of these at work.
The reason it didn't nail my machine is because...
1. I have HTML disabled on Outlook
2. I never click ANY links that go outside the company.
I did a quick search on the URL, and it led me to Slashdot in the Google results. Yay Slashdot!!
But here's the catch? Someone INSIDE the company *did* get hit, and it spread from their address book to everyone else. That's the usual progression, of course, but the source and headers actually made me look twice.
ALL of the headers, everything, came from inside the company firewall. I could see where it passed through at least 3 firewall systems to get to me.
When I spoke to network security, they said they'd been fighting it since noon. The reason why is because people are actually READING THE HEADERS and checking the user, and it's coming up legit!
The folks on our end are actually doing due diligence, they're just not paranoid enough.
Off-topic...
On the HAARP data, go here to get the info from the magnetometer chain. I couldn't reply to your reply, it was too old, so doing it here.
Emperor: Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station! *click* Fire at will, commander!
Crewfish: Sir, we have star destroyers!
Admiral Ackbar: It's a trap!
Zoe: So. Trap? ....
Mal: Trap.
Wash: Wait...how do you...
Mal: You were listenin' I take it?
Everyone:
Mal: Did'ja hear us fight?
Zoe: No?
Mal: Trap.
Go to the HAARP website, and look up the online data. Call up the Magnetometer Charts, specifically the archives.
Look at a few of the charts, zoom in, zoom out, change the dates, play with it a bit.
Now...
1. Go to a "history timeline" website, one that specifically deals with major events in the last decade. This is a reasonably okay one?
2. Go back to your magnetometer chart. Zoom in to a 2-week data range, starting 1 week before a major event, and ending 1 week after.
3. Look at how the dataline is relatively flat. RELATIVELY flat, mind you, compared to the other data.
4. Look at the massive spike either just before, or right AT the event. For example, look at the data for the morning of 9/11.
5. Now look at the data for every single major security scare, national security event, or even a major natural disaster where everyone got worked up into a froth, or there were a lot of people injured or otherwise killed.
Isnt' that interesting?
Now then, I am NOT suggesting that HAARP was responsible for 9/11 or the Haiti earthquake. Please, don't even go there.
What I am suggesting, is that major catastrophes have an effect on the magnetosphere, effects that can be measured.
Now here's the $100,000.00 question?
Exactly what is it surrounding these events that is affecting the earth's magnetosphere? Radio traffic? Cellphone traffic? Pumping up the satellite feed to overcome interference?
Some have suggested that human emotions are responsible. That's a bit of a reach, though. Isn't it?
I forget if it was a Shadowrun book, or a William Gibson novel, but one of the protagonists had been captured, and the bad guys had cheerfully plugged THEIR equipment into the hero's skull jack. Think "A Clockwork Orange", only without the need for eyedrops.
You really don't want an implant that can allow someone to root your brain.
The French people themselves are just as brilliant or dim as anyone else in the world. But government stupidity knows no boundaries, geographical or otherwise.
This sounds like a bunch of jenkem to me...
In California during the Proposition 8 debates and right after its passage there was quite a number of rather ugly incidents.
I am intrigued at your definition of "ugly".
Personally, I think being beaten, pistol-whipped and then tied to a fence in the middle of nowhere to be rather ugly myself. Or set on fire. Or shot. Stabbed, strangled, sodomized with beer bottles then murdered, slashed and other acts of drawing blood and inducing death are pretty ugly too.
But hey? I suppose it's all a matter of context. If all you've ever had to deal with was spray-paint and slogans, then yeah, I guess you'd see it as pretty ugly.