# TheDraw - an ANSI graphics editor
I still use this sometimes... Oh ANSI... # BinkleyTerm - the Fido/File net front end mailer # RoboBoard FX
This was cool, but I forgot what it was... # Shotgun BBS - written by Brent Shellenberg right near the end of the BBS days, but this was definitely a great BBS software # There was also Renegade, which was free and had some nice features. MajorBBS I goofed around with for a while but it was the most "commercial" of them all and expensive, if I recall. I'm sure there were others that I used too...
I was a big fan of Renegade and Vision-X. # Fileecho - a tool to enable transfer of files between BBSes
Cool, never used it. # Anyone remember RIP graphics?
Yes! Kind of like Prodigy though... # I can't remember the name of the small app I used as a local news/fido reader... # Telex - one of the nicest dialers/terminal programs
No way, Terminate 3.0 all the way, baby. Before that, QModem, I think. # Then of course I remember all the door games... LORD, BRE, Usurper among many others. Later, there were also caller ID doors and other callback verification devices to ensure the correct number was given. Even later, there were telnet and Slirp doors for SLIP connections to the internet.
I tried collecting all of the BBS software I could find. I'm sure I don't have all of it, but you're welcome to check it out at http://archives.scovetta.com/pub/fehq/. The other directories have a bit of nostalgia-ware too.
It's not actually the same. For many people, Google is the Internet, and so the rules that apply to them need to be a little different. They could easily turn to evil, destroying companies by removing them from their search index (or only returning commercial links if you pony up a fee). With such power comes responsibility, and while I don't think the Geico should complain (they are free to Adwordjack their competitors name), they have a good point. Could you go out on the street and sell your own brand of soda with the label: Better than Coca Cola?
Since it's highly doubtful that Sony can permit the resale of the japanese PSP consoles in Hong Kong no matter if on the local market or for export, it looks like this is planned to be one of the not the bright marketing ideas of the Sony HQ.
Sorry, I don't mean to be the grammar-police on Monday morning, but that's just plain terrible.
I'll translate:
Since it's highly doubtful that Sony can permit the resale of the Japanese PSP consoles in Hong Kong (whether or not they are available for export), this seems to be a rather poor marketing idea coming from Sony's headquarters.
Sure, Mac OS was a lot prettier but then it cost the moon and the stars along with both your arms and legs.
That was never the problem with Mac. The problem was incompatibility. How many BBSes had a "Mac Files" file area? None of my friends had Macs, and the vast majority of games and other applications were PC-based. Could you upgrade your memory or hard drives in a Mac? Probably, but who knew? I'm supposed to buy special Apple-Memory? Please. Apple should have used Intel years ago, and focused on selling the operating system SEPARATELY.
I know many people who would certainly pay to get MacOS installed on their PC. Including me. Maybe some day it will happen.
Dude, what's your problem? Security prophessionals sometimes need to make up words that sound new and specialized. Can't you just embrace the ph-speak like the rest of us?
Besides, it gives reporters a chance to attend Blackhat where they can learn the new lingo.
They could always be a little smarter and have the router look into the packets to see if they are HTTP and contain a Host header that is blocked.
Note that SSL doesn't give much of a problem here Yes, the data (including the headers) is encrypted, but you can only have one SSL certificate per IP address (per port). I forgot the technical reason, but it seems silly that they haven't come up with a workaround yet.
Seriously folks, there's one thing to do something like this to known spam-lords, but this is quite another.
Michael Lynn probably broke an NDA that ISS had with Cisco. End of story.
This doesn't appear to be a case of the big greedy company trying to keep security researchers down.
If you hired me to pen-test your network, and I found a flaw and then published it, wouldn't you be (rightfully) upset with me? Even if you took 4 months to fix it?
The majority of the customers hate Budweiser, Coors, or anything "mainstream"-- they prefer microbrews, even when they are 3 years old, in a bottle that you can't open without getting the latest version of BottleOpener.
Here's one reason: When I (not me personally, you get the point though) listen to the radio, and people call up saying, "OMG! I just L-O-V-E that new Backstreet Boys song! OMG! Can you play it? YAY YAY YAY", it gives me the impression that the song is great. I may even go out and buy it.
If Sony/RIAA/evil-doers paid for that person to call up, then they *tricked me* (legalese: defrauded) me. At least, that's how I see it.
Kinda makes you wonder how many people actually call up and request songs. I've done this a few times, and they never played the song.
If you don't want people to call you, then your options are a) don't have a phone, b) provide reasonable notice in advance to those people you don't want to call you, or c) tell people who have called, not to call again.
Ok so (a) just isn't a realistic open. (b) is practically useless because you are either (b1) dealing with too many unique callers to make this feasible, or (b2) have no way of notifying the callers. The problem with (c) is that either (c1) they won't comply with your request, or (c2) you have no way of notifying the callers.
Personally, I think that automated messages should be illegal, or at the minimum, they should comply with ("press 1 to be taken off this list, press 2 for our contact information").
And finally, to one of the parent's comments about freedom of speech-- this doesn't apply. Adding my name to a "DO NOT CALL, EVER" list would be the equivalent of writing a letter to every person in the world requesting that they not call me, or simpler, that I don't pick up the phone when someone I don't know calls me.
I think the "DO NOT CALL, EVER" list should be created (as a superset of the "DO NOT CALL" list). You could sign up and have some options: [ ] no businesses except with prior relationship [ ] no businesses at all [ ] no non-profits [ ] no political calls [ ] no crazy ex-girlfriends
Anyway, that's my $0.02. I don't even own a phone.
I think perhaps the problem is that in some states (maybe the ones with "No Fault" laws), you can never be "totally not at fault".
I'm not sure about the exact numbers, but I believe it's something like: * __any__ accident in a parking lot - 50/50 blame * the other guy is completely at fault - 90/10 blame
So you can never file a claim and get off without any blame (and blame == raised premiums). Maybe a broken windshield or something would not be in this category.
For more anecdotal evidence, my brother was hit by a bread truck, and his rates went up about $1000/year.
$50/quarter? What century (or country) are you living in? If some ass-clown hits me in a parking lot and it goes through insurance, I'd probably pay an extra $1500 per year for the next 5 years. At least.
I disagree. No matter how good the spam filter is, it always misses a few. False negatives are annoying, but false positives mean that you have to scan your 600+ spam e-mails per day to see if it missed any. A non-perfect spam filter is just a fancy inbox sorter.
I don't think whitelisting is the way to go either, though, for obvious reasons.
I have a dedicated server with a dozen or so domains on it. I'm forced to send mail through my personal ISP because mail coming FROM my domain gets marked as spam by most large ISPs (no, I don't spam, nor is my IP on a specific spammer blacklist). So if I decide to start spamming from my dedicated server, no one will get it (unless I route it through another ISP, in which case now it's their job to check).
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I believe the Waffle Campaign was based on this idea.
# TheDraw - an ANSI graphics editor
I still use this sometimes... Oh ANSI...
# BinkleyTerm - the Fido/File net front end mailer
# RoboBoard FX
This was cool, but I forgot what it was...
# Shotgun BBS - written by Brent Shellenberg right near the end of the BBS days, but this was definitely a great BBS software
# There was also Renegade, which was free and had some nice features. MajorBBS I goofed around with for a while but it was the most "commercial" of them all and expensive, if I recall. I'm sure there were others that I used too...
I was a big fan of Renegade and Vision-X.
# Fileecho - a tool to enable transfer of files between BBSes
Cool, never used it.
# Anyone remember RIP graphics?
Yes! Kind of like Prodigy though...
# I can't remember the name of the small app I used as a local news/fido reader...
# Telex - one of the nicest dialers/terminal programs
No way, Terminate 3.0 all the way, baby. Before that, QModem, I think.
# Then of course I remember all the door games... LORD, BRE, Usurper among many others. Later, there were also caller ID doors and other callback verification devices to ensure the correct number was given. Even later, there were telnet and Slirp doors for SLIP connections to the internet.
I tried collecting all of the BBS software I could find. I'm sure I don't have all of it, but you're welcome to check it out at http://archives.scovetta.com/pub/fehq/. The other directories have a bit of nostalgia-ware too.
Good point, but it's not, "I can't believe it's not Kraft Singles"
It's not actually the same. For many people, Google is the Internet, and so the rules that apply to them need to be a little different. They could easily turn to evil, destroying companies by removing them from their search index (or only returning commercial links if you pony up a fee). With such power comes responsibility, and while I don't think the Geico should complain (they are free to Adwordjack their competitors name), they have a good point. Could you go out on the street and sell your own brand of soda with the label: Better than Coca Cola?
Anyway, just me $0.02.
It's Slashdot News (or "snews" (pronouced "snooze")).
Is that fast enough to get the PS3 emulator to work? Now it just makes my internet connection light up continuously...
I agree, and welcome our new Google overlords.
Actually, they've been our overlords since 1998 or so.
Microsoft probably spent $20M in order to sue the guy. I'm sure that Bill is happy they won, but not because their profit this year will be $7M more.
I have a feeling that the US is gonna laugh at the Chinese & Russian efforts to legislate this, possibly causing a cold war in space.
"In space, all wars are cold."
-Michael Scovetta, Slashdot, 8/8/2005.
Thanks dude! Next time I have mod points, I'll hook you up.
Since it's highly doubtful that Sony can permit the resale of the japanese PSP consoles in Hong Kong no matter if on the local market or for export, it looks like this is planned to be one of the not the bright marketing ideas of the Sony HQ.
Sorry, I don't mean to be the grammar-police on Monday morning, but that's just plain terrible.
I'll translate:
Since it's highly doubtful that Sony can permit the resale of the Japanese PSP consoles in Hong Kong (whether or not they are available for export), this seems to be a rather poor marketing idea coming from Sony's headquarters.
Does this mean that dogs have been secretly hiding the power of the canine brain?
Your dog also eats dog food and licks his own ass. I don't think he has world domination on his mind.
Sure, Mac OS was a lot prettier but then it cost the moon and the stars along with both your arms and legs.
That was never the problem with Mac. The problem was incompatibility. How many BBSes had a "Mac Files" file area? None of my friends had Macs, and the vast majority of games and other applications were PC-based. Could you upgrade your memory or hard drives in a Mac? Probably, but who knew? I'm supposed to buy special Apple-Memory? Please. Apple should have used Intel years ago, and focused on selling the operating system SEPARATELY.
I know many people who would certainly pay to get MacOS installed on their PC. Including me. Maybe some day it will happen.
Dude, what's your problem? Security prophessionals sometimes need to make up words that sound new and specialized. Can't you just embrace the ph-speak like the rest of us?
Besides, it gives reporters a chance to attend Blackhat where they can learn the new lingo.
Oh, you're going to love this article too: Phlooding attack could leave enterprises high and dry
They could always be a little smarter and have the router look into the packets to see if they are HTTP and contain a Host header that is blocked.
Note that SSL doesn't give much of a problem here Yes, the data (including the headers) is encrypted, but you can only have one SSL certificate per IP address (per port). I forgot the technical reason, but it seems silly that they haven't come up with a workaround yet.
Ok, so we "visit" Mars, see a primitive society. We start shooting, killing everyone in sight. After 20 or 30 years, we all die of cancer.
It's got Tom "I'm a crazy scientologist" Cruise written all over it.
Come on guys, their server is actually a toaster. What do you expect? I think they still use HTCPCP, too.
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[request]
Can we get an "auto-coral-cache" feature implemented on
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Seriously folks, there's one thing to do something like this to known spam-lords, but this is quite another.
Michael Lynn probably broke an NDA that ISS had with Cisco. End of story.
This doesn't appear to be a case of the big greedy company trying to keep security researchers down.
If you hired me to pen-test your network, and I found a flaw and then published it, wouldn't you be (rightfully) upset with me? Even if you took 4 months to fix it?
Slashbar?
We could re-serve the drinks every few hours...
Women would be welcome, but few would show up...
We'd frequently have to ask trolls to leave...
The majority of the customers hate Budweiser, Coors, or anything "mainstream"-- they prefer microbrews, even when they are 3 years old, in a bottle that you can't open without getting the latest version of BottleOpener.
I could go on and on, as indeed I have.
Who ever said the floppy drive was obsolete? Ok, maybe the 360k drives, but 1.44MB is alive and kicking at my place.
You never know when you'll need a boot disk to reinstall Windows (yes, I've heard that they come on bootable CDs now, but I don't believe it).
I've also got a box of about 1500 blank floppies that I got in the mid 90s when they were cool.
Here's one reason: When I (not me personally, you get the point though) listen to the radio, and people call up saying, "OMG! I just L-O-V-E that new Backstreet Boys song! OMG! Can you play it? YAY YAY YAY", it gives me the impression that the song is great. I may even go out and buy it.
If Sony/RIAA/evil-doers paid for that person to call up, then they *tricked me* (legalese: defrauded) me. At least, that's how I see it.
Kinda makes you wonder how many people actually call up and request songs. I've done this a few times, and they never played the song.
If you don't want people to call you, then your options are a) don't have a phone, b) provide reasonable notice in advance to those people you don't want to call you, or c) tell people who have called, not to call again.
Ok so (a) just isn't a realistic open. (b) is practically useless because you are either (b1) dealing with too many unique callers to make this feasible, or (b2) have no way of notifying the callers. The problem with (c) is that either (c1) they won't comply with your request, or (c2) you have no way of notifying the callers.
Personally, I think that automated messages should be illegal, or at the minimum, they should comply with ("press 1 to be taken off this list, press 2 for our contact information").
And finally, to one of the parent's comments about freedom of speech-- this doesn't apply. Adding my name to a "DO NOT CALL, EVER" list would be the equivalent of writing a letter to every person in the world requesting that they not call me, or simpler, that I don't pick up the phone when someone I don't know calls me.
I think the "DO NOT CALL, EVER" list should be created (as a superset of the "DO NOT CALL" list). You could sign up and have some options:
[ ] no businesses except with prior relationship
[ ] no businesses at all
[ ] no non-profits
[ ] no political calls
[ ] no crazy ex-girlfriends
Anyway, that's my $0.02. I don't even own a phone.
I think perhaps the problem is that in some states (maybe the ones with "No Fault" laws), you can never be "totally not at fault".
I'm not sure about the exact numbers, but I believe it's something like:
* __any__ accident in a parking lot - 50/50 blame
* the other guy is completely at fault - 90/10 blame
So you can never file a claim and get off without any blame (and blame == raised premiums). Maybe a broken windshield or something would not be in this category.
For more anecdotal evidence, my brother was hit by a bread truck, and his rates went up about $1000/year.
$50/quarter? What century (or country) are you living in? If some ass-clown hits me in a parking lot and it goes through insurance, I'd probably pay an extra $1500 per year for the next 5 years. At least.
God, I love living in New York.
I disagree. No matter how good the spam filter is, it always misses a few. False negatives are annoying, but false positives mean that you have to scan your 600+ spam e-mails per day to see if it missed any. A non-perfect spam filter is just a fancy inbox sorter.
I don't think whitelisting is the way to go either, though, for obvious reasons.
I have a dedicated server with a dozen or so domains on it. I'm forced to send mail through my personal ISP because mail coming FROM my domain gets marked as spam by most large ISPs (no, I don't spam, nor is my IP on a specific spammer blacklist). So if I decide to start spamming from my dedicated server, no one will get it (unless I route it through another ISP, in which case now it's their job to check).