Sorry I'm far from a scientist but shouldn't NASA be benchmarking on how to actually get people to the moon. If I'm not mistaken, man can only stay in space for X amount of time before deterioration of the bones start to occur. If this is the case would it even matter if plants could exist on the planet if people couldn't eventually get there?
Maybe someone would care to share information on the human anatomy in space, I know I've passed by URL's before indicating why astronauts couldn't stay in space for prolonged times, maybe someone has bookmarked it or studied it. With that in mind, I wonder what will be done via way of speed, ship, etc., to get there. Has NASA been in the works with some ultra high speed shuttle or something.
I got to thinking about people who have neat ideas like this, Runix, NewOS, AtheOS, etc., and I wonder about how this helps the community (showing the different ways Linux is being used, etc) and thought about someone creating the all in one marketing site for Linux to show how many different configurations, installations you could create with it.
The site of course would be a non profit site sort of like a Source Forge, where developers could post their latest work, which could be referred to in trade shows, LinuxWorld Expo's etc., so Fortune 500's could see all of the neat things that could be done from this OS (Linux) and others like it.
On its own, its nothing more than a novelty (Runix) but when you have hundreds of different creations all in one place, I think it strenghtens the notion that Linux and others like it should be looked into more often, as opposed to dumping money buying, or leasing for that matter (*cough XP*) software when it's freely available.
Sorry I couldn't post on the gaming side of this story because I don't play them (well actually XBoard, Dopewars, and XBill I'll admit it) so forgive my gratuitous post;)
Interesting one of my friends found FOIA information about weapons grade Uranium that was missing, stolen, eaten, disappearing, $INSERT_FAVORITE_TERM_HERE, throughout the 1940's - 1980's. Along with those disappearances, many people were killed, and it was alleged that a) enough was gone for 30 potent weapons, b) some had gotten into the water supply for experimentation, etc.
Anyways for those who're interested check out MKUraniumcide
I said they should note that a SYN - ACK - SYN needs to occur which is TCP based, not UDP so all UDP traff should be blocked since for a website you'd need that 3 way connection, not a UDP based connection. Re-read my post.
As for your "it is hard through a general purpose router" comment, bs you could easily drop all UDP packets without worry if your not providing any UDP based services, and it won't affect (dropping the UDP packets won't) the router as much as having to route the packets.
Hopefully common sense will one day prevail when it comes to people purchasing things online, and when using programs created by those companies you've made the purchases from.
When one goes to buy things online, your often going to see something like a radio button asking whether you want something in the future, or would like to subscribe to, or other option, and this is no different then when you go into department stores, and the cashier asks if you'd like to sign up for another credit card, or would like to receive X_OTHER information via mail, etc.
Marketing companies, and marketing departments try to use the data for obvious reasons, to sell you more products, but at times they also use that data to try to predict trends in what to sell next, or what to add. However the differences when you buy online, and in person is, in person you can look someone dead in the eye and say no, but on the net you really have little control.
Spyware programs which claim never to use people information for the company's personal gain are almost always a sham, and I feel this way after working with a company who developed a product they claimed wasn't spyware, but yet tracked when the user logged in with the program, what the person purchsed, etc., when I asked my bosses about it, it was amusing to see the obscurity they placed behind tracking information.
Lets be realistic here, using a program by a company which sells goods, is going to by some means monitor something, and you should be aware that no matter what is said, that information can be tracked to you no matter what the company says, either by a username, trends in shopping, or even IP addresses, and that's the bottom line any way you slice it. How else do you expect them to make money?
On a side note, after sleeping 3 hours within the past 48, I wonder if I make any sense!@
Judges would likely favor anything LEA's have to say to them in order to make their (the Fed's) case easier. The same applies to the case where the feds placed a keystroke logger on a mobster's pc. Sure the mobster sent information which were supposed to be a client attorney priveledge, but the it still didn't matter.
See what happens with technology, is judges, most lawyers, shit even the many in the FBI don't understand it, so many LEA's will pull strings, or distort things so out of proportion most judges, and DA's will simply think Big Brother is being honest about it all, and they sign warrants, etc.
In all fairness sure the FBI should have arrested the guys, but by breaking into their computers, they're no better than the Russian hackers themselves, by any means. Who gave them the approval on the Russian side to do so? You can't have things single sided all the time, or its junk justice plain and simple. If you claim to play things by the book then play it by the book and respect law, not another Big Brother distortion of what's law, they didn't write it, and they sure don't follow it.
The Justice system in regards to comp crime is a joke, and with the EU signing those Cybercrime bills things will only get worse, as LEA's (law enforcement agencies for those unfamiliar) will manipulate the judiciary system in worse ways than ever.
Personally I think this would only help in a short term manner, and here's why. So you plan on selling say 100,000 shares of Mandrake stock at let's be fair with the price, in accordance to whats going on around NASDAQ, 6.00 (US) which would give Mandrake an extra 600,000.00 US which is enough to hold them for a short while.
A team of 20 developers at 35,000.00 a year would leave the company 100,000.00 a year under, not including office space, equipment, etc. So unless they plan on selling a massive amount of stock with people willing to continously buy from them, how could they expect to recoup any money to pay back investors who purchased it from them?
So there stock goes up let's say to twice that amount, because more people think it's a good idea. Ok eventually they'd still have to turn a hell of a lot of profit to keep the investors happy else they'd fall miserably, as many companies have within the past few years.
I wish them the best, but I doubt it would work. If you take a look at some of the strong companies in their field, let's say Baltimore Technologies, which is one of my favorites. They specialize in security based products, and have a strong market segment, yet their stock is doing poorly (under 3.00) so what makes you think a company like Mandrake could cut it in the market, when proven companies are having a hard time...
For those who don't know the gist of it all, the RIAA is also looking into creating its own Napster-like product which is even more hypocritical.
The debate will always continue on whether Napster has a right to do so or not. I say if the RIAA is going after Napster, they should also go after TDK, Maxell, Sony, and all other cassette makers, because gosh darnit for years millions of people have stole by recording music onto cassettes and distributing them.
If I find the article with the relevant information regarding their product I'll post it, hopefully someone else who saw the article which may have been on ZDNet or so will post it for me since I'm working (har har) and not reading/. like my superiors always claim I am.
And on that note I intend to sue them since I didn't know these packets would traverse to this network...;P
Drugs became illegal in the US because of these exact types of stupid legislators. Now, it's part of our culture. Walk down the street and you can find zillions of people who actually believe that pot kills.
I'll get flamed for this but who cares.
I beg to differ on your notion of drugs becoming legal. Should marijuana be legal? Personally I think it should, but at the same time I think it would be a bad idea for simple reasons. As it stands its an old law, but by changing this law what's to say that somewhere down the line heroin and cocaine addicts won't start the same "Legalize It" tactics? Why should it be only a legalize pot issue when pot isn't the only drug?
Now... Studies have shown, and I personally have seen effects of those studies, that a large portion of people who recreated with `weed' often graduated on to harder drugs. This is not to say everyone will, but you still have a large portion who can, and if they do, then you should know there is no such thing as an ethical crackhead. These people rob and kill for their drugs.
So I don't think legalizing just one because people are bitching about it is a good thing unless you're not going to stop playing favorites and legalize them all, period.
Just my two cents on this... Now I don't smoke so it makes no difference to me, however it does make a difference when you play sides, which is unfair.
Same with video games. Once they ban them, it's easy to "educate" people with PR campaigns.
It's not the job of the government to educate in fact its quite the opposite when it comes to situations like this. You have to remember that the majority of the politicians nowadays are old cronies. So getting them to understand is fruitless no matter how you try to educate them, if they don't want to listen, they won't hear you no matter how loud you speak.
Truth won't matter. Science won't matter. Research won't matter. They will believe it because they don't think about it, and are afraid to take a minority stand.
Truth does matter, unfortunately many people don't look at the truth in these cases. They've been spoon fed by Uncle Sam for too long.
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Thats right let the government take control of the tasks which I as a parent am supposed to have control over.
I don't want to be a responsible parent and teach my kid right from wrong, I want to live in a society who dictates that for me. Uncle Sam hit the ball right on its mark, I mean why should I tell my kids how to act in society, or the differences from movies, video games, and reality when I could push the blame on those darn folks who make those games.
Look when I was growing up sure we listened to people like Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, and we never once bit the head off a bat, unlike that wretched Marilyn Manson.
When I grew up, we didn't look at films by John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood and decide to go shoot up our schools. My great government at the time did their darndest best to make sure guns didn't flood the schools, and education back then was the focal point of society.
No more. I say forget spending on education and send that money towards the prison systems, where all the kids will rot for playing video games. Least when I grew up we didn't have video games. We just had World War II, and Vietnam, real man games.
The only way to calcel out these attacks is to disable valid services running in your network.
Actually your wrong. I wrote "Daemonic" when I was writing "Theories in DoS", a paper on higher network level based attacks such as BGP, OSPF based attacks. Now what Daemonic does is sends pseudo random garbage (spoofed) to any port you specify.
Simple lame little DoS attack right? Now even if you don't have the service running for the port your sending the data to, it'll still crap out your Windows2000 box with ease. Now if you send it with a multicast source address which is weirder (haven't benchmarked) things really get odd.
Either way it'll bang up your network. Now FYI sending data through to a port thats not running still has to get there which means the network can still amass latency, which is where you would want to nip it at the butt with your router or firewall.
The attacked used a compromised Earthlink account. O.k. so then Earthlink could easily check their router's info since they all have caller ID to determine who the heck called the number.
I do feel sad for the guy, and the article was well written but I think it's sort of filled with FUD to give it that "OH MY GOD" kind of edge to it. Sorry don't want to be a troll but I see discrepencies in the article.
I wonder what will happen if some of my theories were crafted. Now you'd be looking at massive backbones going to hell.
So someone writes and says they're a 13 year old script kiddie who knows that the FBI will traceroute, etc, etc, etc., and this is believable? Highly doubtable. As for the attacks, I would say Mr. Gibson should have his uplink provider hire some clueful router administrators who would've fixed the problem in a heart beat.
Lack of understanding from those involved often create more harm than they help. UDP packets coming in to a website? And the admins couldn't think firsthand network skills SYN --> ACK --> SYN, 3 way TCP handshaking? They need to go back and study up using some Cisco Press material.
Anyways for those who haven't seen the page yet or are in charge of networking, and or firewall equipment, check out Stopping DoS which is a "do this now" tutorial to stop beating around the bush and cut DoS attacks at both the firewall, and network (router) level. It's not an rfc, not a write up of what a DoS attack is, simply a "fuck it's 3am and I'm getting DoS'ed now how do I stop this shit" paper.
Sadly I can only see the downsides to this than any upsides for a baby factory. So what's going to happen? What purpose would this actually serve is society? Sure many people who can't have kids would stand to gain a child, but at the same time I think of all those kids who are abandoned, left in foster homes, killed, etc., and I cant come to a logical conclusion for this.
Now if I were in the military, sure maybe I'd look into making my own "Dark Angel" like kids, but when I think of the ethics behind it all I say it stinks.
Thats all we need, Esther and Billy Bob running the fiber industry. Damnit isn't chewing tobacco enough!
Seriously though... I doubt anything will come out of this for the people who were suckered into a class action lawsuit, since the lawyers are the only real winners in class action suits for one... Secondly I'm guessing this likely has to do with Qwest since I'm too lazy to read YALSA (Yet Another Lawsuit Article) but seen the mention of railroad tracks...
So if this does have to do with Qwest here's my.02SKR on it. Qwest paid the railroad companies to lay down the fiber alongside the railways, meaning if the railroad companies agreed, the agreed because they had the rights to do so, meaning its their property, and whatever they want to do with it is fine.
You can't tell a company they can't place their fiber lines after paying the railroad company(ies), because the railroad company(ies) already paid for that land bottom line. Now if they wanted to make stinkers they should be suing the railroad companies for not disclosing the fact that they (the rr companies) would sublet out the land, which still wouldn't make sense unless the RR company(ies) is/are leasing the land. Then even still it's not the fiberco to hold accountable it's still the RR company(ies) fault.
One thing you have to keep in mind is that most ISP's, well a lot of them are sort of owned by one large corp. or have some form of agreement somewhere down the line. What's more is the fact that some of those ISP's may be providing colo services for some of those companies sending the spam.
Too many spammers have a variety of resources at their disposals to continue spamming, mixmaster remailers, horrible configurations of sendmail from corporations, and nickle and dime webservers, etc.
Now what may work, is going after those responsible for the advertisements contained in spam. Example www.joebloworsomething.com hires someone to promote their site, and those people send promotions out via way of spam, I feel holding the people at the site responsible is better fitted.
Now bear with me on this a second. Sure it can seem somewhat unfair, but no one asks for spam, and by using someone's resources (bandwidth, whatever) companies should be made aware of how much their actions cause versus the amount of people who actually reply to spam. Think about it, company X sends say 20,000 spam emails a day, of which 1 replies and actually buys something, but out of those 20,000 500 decide to take company X to small claims court bitching...
See the laws fail when they're passed because you can't have one country's law dictate what is law in another country, and many politicians fail to see that when they waste time and money with their so called AntiSpam bills. You don't cut weeds in the garden half assed, you cut them at the root.
Certainly it's not dead, and with all the security incidences going on, more and more companies will eventually turn to other means of safeguarding data than the usual suspects (PKI, etc).
One of the problems with hw based encryption, is the pricing however major corporations esepcially in the financial markets look to hw, as does the military, but there are actually some restrictions on what can be sold due to crypto laws.
And FYI when you say hw crypto you should note that there are different types of hw, e.g. network, optical, embedded, datalink, etc.
network based Caneware is capable of encrypting and decrypting at through put rates from 1200 bps to 750 kbps full duplex and supports I/O rates up to the T1 rate (1.544 Mbps). cost is $19,500.
embedded based Fascinator can be used for non-tactical communication nets. It is approved for use at all classification levels. the MCX-100, NX 300, Portable Repeater, SABER, SPECTRA, SYNTOR X-9000, SYNTO X-9000 E, Console Interface Unit, and SPECTRA Mobile SVMS have been endorsed. This product is available from Motorola, Inc. The price ranges from $495 for hand-held to $1200 for portable repeaters.
optical based KG-189 is a trunk encryptor designed to be compatible with Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) standard interfaces. It provides optical transport at both the RED and BLACK interfaces to communications systems. The KG-189 program currently consists of models supporting two standard SONET data rates. The OC-3 model operates at 155 Mb/s and the OC-12 model operates at 622 Mb/s. The development of a model supporting the SONET OC-48 data rate of 2.5 Gigab/s has been terminated. The KG-189 supports BENIGN fill capability, traditional key and remote loading of FIREFLY vectors. It is approved for use at all classification levels. The product was developed by Motorola GSTG and Nortel. Production of the KG-189 is provided by Motorola Sectel. The cost for the OC-3 model is $37,654, and the OC-12 model is $62,664.
datalink based Motorola STU-III SECTEL serves as two-wire and four-wire switched telephone systems used in CONUS and Overseas. They are approved for use at all classification levels. The authorized vendor is Motorola, Inc. The cost for a STU-III Sectel is $3,795.
Well it certainly looks nice, but nice looks does not make for a good laptop. I've had crappy experiences with their server line (Proliant's) which would make me think 3 times before personally buying anything for myself from Compaq. I do however wonder how this will stand up to CEO types who like the VAIO, certainly this is a better looking laptop than Sony.
Damnit I wish they'd bring back the good old Tadpoles to whip some ass on the market. It's a shame they were so expensive =[ I've used one for a few months as a job requirement some while back and feel in love with it.
Didn't slashdot touch off on this a few months back http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/22/0124253.shtm l... IMO, I think Usenet is solely trying to protect another company from ripping something they purchased, they have every right to, however for them to even attempt to go after every nickle and dime site mirrorring archives would be costly for them.
So I see this solely as something of a warning to companies who may think of making money of some sort in the future nothing more. Aside from worthless jokes, cheesy porn, and millions of 31337 hax0r3r posts 98% of which make no sense, I've found Usenet useless 95% of the times, and have found better private mailing lists for my needs, so I see no big deal with this news.
(just noticed my subjects make little sense most times... oh well)
Figure a coder makes US$40,000 a year minimum. That's a LOT of Paypal donations - I've never
heard of anything like this happening.
Lets guesstimate there are about 20,000 concerned Unix users who decide "Oh what the hell it's only a $2 pay pal donation" it could happen. The fact remains has anyone tried it, people likely have also said... "Linux sounds like a funny OS it couldn't happen, I've never heard of anything like this." get the picture?
This doesn't include the other expenses folks have that are usually supplied by an employer like machines, bandwidth, conferences with hotel & travel, books, etc.
Someone point me in the right place to look here. Theo Deraadt travels a'la donations sent in from people purchasing OpenBSD, and he loves what he does. Many people may not see eye to eye with him as a person for one reason or another, but he's accomplished a heck of a lot.
Hosting a popular site costs thousands of dollars a month in bandwidth alone. Great you'll offer up your server - howzabout when it's a few meg for the installable and a few thousand folks dl it, gonna keep offering it up?
What are you talking about SourceForge, and a handful of others offer space, and if I had to do it I would. I'm not concerned with what's coming in and out of my network since it's free. ALL FREE, an nice pipe without any concerns, and if someone were offered it without any strings, yet they still made an excuse, then they should comment on the entire scope of the problem as opposed to making it a financial thing.
Whattabout when the script-kiddy vermin start trying to take you down?
Been there, done that, its definitely nothing new to my site, that's the last of my concerns.
Finally what's this about lost code? It's all Open Source - none of the projects you've listed have lost any code. What they've lost is momentum and what was in folks heads, the reasons why decisions were made and the intimate knowledge of the code being worked on day in & out.
Maybe I should have phrased it better (little sleep does that) When projects go under, one seldom sees anything return from that project. There were plenty of minor OS' that were developed that have nothing to show for themselves, and the code may still be around, but developmental code often gets lost in the sauce. Personally I think the remains of it all should be posted should someone else have an insight to continue on with some of the work someone else never got a chance to finish
Deutsche Bank has something they use which is similar for security purposes. I don't know what exactly the name is, but I saw a briefer on it while on a contracting assignment. The program supposedly lays in the background over a period of time, and analyzes the user's input, keystroke methods, wpm's, amounts of typos, mouse movements, and creates a profile for the user, so should they leave and forget to log off their terminals, it'll lock anyone out should they sit down and not match the credos.
Shit I wish I knew the name of it exactly since it was developed as part of a Bell Labs project from way back, but I can't think of it =[
I'm somewhat baffled by some of these developers lack of funding. Surely many know how good the open source OS' are, yet within the past two months we're seeing that not even free is a good enough price for many to pay. Ok so we all know how expensive it can be for hosting, development work, etc., but what amazes me is that none of these developers seem to look to the community who uses their products in order to get some financial help.
Frankly it's simple, regardless of what anyone thinks, create a pay pal account and have donations come in for the ongoing development of software. Sure many are going to argue that removes the purpose of free open source, but the fact is, it still is free although a donation is helpful. This would not fall along the lines of shareware since it isn't coded with time based mechanisms to render obsolete after X amount of days.
As for hosting or something similar, we know that becomes expensive as well, but there are many alternatives to going out and renting co-lo space for some of these project. Ask around, there are many people who would assist, personally if a developer asked me, I'd gladly host their site without thinking twice as a way of giving back for the software I use.
Are things all coming down to someone not being able to afford to do something? If that's the case it's the poorest excuse in the book in my eyes. Eazel, Slackware, Mandrake (although its denied), and the list seems to get one shop longer it seems every other week. Understandably people move on from their projects, which is something that puzzles me as well. If you're no longer going to develop a certain product many use, why not put out the source for someone to continue on?
Sourcforge is a nice repository for the code, and I'm sure the ethical developer to take over would keep copyrights in tact. It's disturbing to see something free, and kick ass become such a burden. In theory it should be the other way around... What a puzzling Internet we surf in isn't it?
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Sorry I'm far from a scientist but shouldn't NASA be benchmarking on how to actually get people to the moon. If I'm not mistaken, man can only stay in space for X amount of time before deterioration of the bones start to occur. If this is the case would it even matter if plants could exist on the planet if people couldn't eventually get there?
Maybe someone would care to share information on the human anatomy in space, I know I've passed by URL's before indicating why astronauts couldn't stay in space for prolonged times, maybe someone has bookmarked it or studied it. With that in mind, I wonder what will be done via way of speed, ship, etc., to get there. Has NASA been in the works with some ultra high speed shuttle or something.
I got to thinking about people who have neat ideas like this, Runix, NewOS, AtheOS, etc., and I wonder about how this helps the community (showing the different ways Linux is being used, etc) and thought about someone creating the all in one marketing site for Linux to show how many different configurations, installations you could create with it.
The site of course would be a non profit site sort of like a Source Forge, where developers could post their latest work, which could be referred to in trade shows, LinuxWorld Expo's etc., so Fortune 500's could see all of the neat things that could be done from this OS (Linux) and others like it.
On its own, its nothing more than a novelty (Runix) but when you have hundreds of different creations all in one place, I think it strenghtens the notion that Linux and others like it should be looked into more often, as opposed to dumping money buying, or leasing for that matter (*cough XP*) software when it's freely available.
Sorry I couldn't post on the gaming side of this story because I don't play them (well actually XBoard, Dopewars, and XBill I'll admit it) so forgive my gratuitous post
Interesting one of my friends found FOIA information about weapons grade Uranium that was missing, stolen, eaten, disappearing, $INSERT_FAVORITE_TERM_HERE, throughout the 1940's - 1980's. Along with those disappearances, many people were killed, and it was alleged that a) enough was gone for 30 potent weapons, b) some had gotten into the water supply for experimentation, etc.
Anyways for those who're interested check out MKUraniumcide
I said they should note that a SYN - ACK - SYN needs to occur which is TCP based, not UDP so all UDP traff should be blocked since for a website you'd need that 3 way connection, not a UDP based connection. Re-read my post.
As for your "it is hard through a general purpose router" comment, bs you could easily drop all UDP packets without worry if your not providing any UDP based services, and it won't affect (dropping the UDP packets won't) the router as much as having to route the packets.
Hopefully common sense will one day prevail when it comes to people purchasing things online, and when using programs created by those companies you've made the purchases from.
When one goes to buy things online, your often going to see something like a radio button asking whether you want something in the future, or would like to subscribe to, or other option, and this is no different then when you go into department stores, and the cashier asks if you'd like to sign up for another credit card, or would like to receive X_OTHER information via mail, etc.
Marketing companies, and marketing departments try to use the data for obvious reasons, to sell you more products, but at times they also use that data to try to predict trends in what to sell next, or what to add. However the differences when you buy online, and in person is, in person you can look someone dead in the eye and say no, but on the net you really have little control.
Spyware programs which claim never to use people information for the company's personal gain are almost always a sham, and I feel this way after working with a company who developed a product they claimed wasn't spyware, but yet tracked when the user logged in with the program, what the person purchsed, etc., when I asked my bosses about it, it was amusing to see the obscurity they placed behind tracking information.
Lets be realistic here, using a program by a company which sells goods, is going to by some means monitor something, and you should be aware that no matter what is said, that information can be tracked to you no matter what the company says, either by a username, trends in shopping, or even IP addresses, and that's the bottom line any way you slice it. How else do you expect them to make money?
On a side note, after sleeping 3 hours within the past 48, I wonder if I make any sense!@
I was being generous with figures, and based it on a extreme lowball, trying to give an all around generic base.
Judges would likely favor anything LEA's have to say to them in order to make their (the Fed's) case easier. The same applies to the case where the feds placed a keystroke logger on a mobster's pc. Sure the mobster sent information which were supposed to be a client attorney priveledge, but the it still didn't matter.
See what happens with technology, is judges, most lawyers, shit even the many in the FBI don't understand it, so many LEA's will pull strings, or distort things so out of proportion most judges, and DA's will simply think Big Brother is being honest about it all, and they sign warrants, etc.
In all fairness sure the FBI should have arrested the guys, but by breaking into their computers, they're no better than the Russian hackers themselves, by any means. Who gave them the approval on the Russian side to do so? You can't have things single sided all the time, or its junk justice plain and simple. If you claim to play things by the book then play it by the book and respect law, not another Big Brother distortion of what's law, they didn't write it, and they sure don't follow it.
The Justice system in regards to comp crime is a joke, and with the EU signing those Cybercrime bills things will only get worse, as LEA's (law enforcement agencies for those unfamiliar) will manipulate the judiciary system in worse ways than ever.
Personally I think this would only help in a short term manner, and here's why. So you plan on selling say 100,000 shares of Mandrake stock at let's be fair with the price, in accordance to whats going on around NASDAQ, 6.00 (US) which would give Mandrake an extra 600,000.00 US which is enough to hold them for a short while.
A team of 20 developers at 35,000.00 a year would leave the company 100,000.00 a year under, not including office space, equipment, etc. So unless they plan on selling a massive amount of stock with people willing to continously buy from them, how could they expect to recoup any money to pay back investors who purchased it from them?
So there stock goes up let's say to twice that amount, because more people think it's a good idea. Ok eventually they'd still have to turn a hell of a lot of profit to keep the investors happy else they'd fall miserably, as many companies have within the past few years.
I wish them the best, but I doubt it would work. If you take a look at some of the strong companies in their field, let's say Baltimore Technologies, which is one of my favorites. They specialize in security based products, and have a strong market segment, yet their stock is doing poorly (under 3.00) so what makes you think a company like Mandrake could cut it in the market, when proven companies are having a hard time...
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For those who don't know the gist of it all, the RIAA is also looking into creating its own Napster-like product which is even more hypocritical.
The debate will always continue on whether Napster has a right to do so or not. I say if the RIAA is going after Napster, they should also go after TDK, Maxell, Sony, and all other cassette makers, because gosh darnit for years millions of people have stole by recording music onto cassettes and distributing them.
If I find the article with the relevant information regarding their product I'll post it, hopefully someone else who saw the article which may have been on ZDNet or so will post it for me since I'm working (har har) and not reading
And on that note I intend to sue them since I didn't know these packets would traverse to this network...
Drugs became illegal in the US because of these exact types of stupid legislators. Now, it's part of our culture. Walk down the street and you can find zillions of people who actually believe that pot kills.
I'll get flamed for this but who cares.
I beg to differ on your notion of drugs becoming legal. Should marijuana be legal? Personally I think it should, but at the same time I think it would be a bad idea for simple reasons. As it stands its an old law, but by changing this law what's to say that somewhere down the line heroin and cocaine addicts won't start the same "Legalize It" tactics? Why should it be only a legalize pot issue when pot isn't the only drug?
Now... Studies have shown, and I personally have seen effects of those studies, that a large portion of people who recreated with `weed' often graduated on to harder drugs. This is not to say everyone will, but you still have a large portion who can, and if they do, then you should know there is no such thing as an ethical crackhead. These people rob and kill for their drugs.
So I don't think legalizing just one because people are bitching about it is a good thing unless you're not going to stop playing favorites and legalize them all, period.
Just my two cents on this... Now I don't smoke so it makes no difference to me, however it does make a difference when you play sides, which is unfair.
Same with video games. Once they ban them, it's easy to "educate" people with PR campaigns.
It's not the job of the government to educate in fact its quite the opposite when it comes to situations like this. You have to remember that the majority of the politicians nowadays are old cronies. So getting them to understand is fruitless no matter how you try to educate them, if they don't want to listen, they won't hear you no matter how loud you speak.
Truth won't matter. Science won't matter. Research won't matter. They will believe it because they don't think about it, and are afraid to take a minority stand.
Truth does matter, unfortunately many people don't look at the truth in these cases. They've been spoon fed by Uncle Sam for too long.
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Thats right let the government take control of the tasks which I as a parent am supposed to have control over.
I don't want to be a responsible parent and teach my kid right from wrong, I want to live in a society who dictates that for me. Uncle Sam hit the ball right on its mark, I mean why should I tell my kids how to act in society, or the differences from movies, video games, and reality when I could push the blame on those darn folks who make those games.
Look when I was growing up sure we listened to people like Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, and we never once bit the head off a bat, unlike that wretched Marilyn Manson.
When I grew up, we didn't look at films by John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood and decide to go shoot up our schools. My great government at the time did their darndest best to make sure guns didn't flood the schools, and education back then was the focal point of society.
No more. I say forget spending on education and send that money towards the prison systems, where all the kids will rot for playing video games. Least when I grew up we didn't have video games. We just had World War II, and Vietnam, real man games.
Damned kids
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The only way to calcel out these attacks is to disable valid services running in your network.
Actually your wrong. I wrote "Daemonic" when I was writing "Theories in DoS", a paper on higher network level based attacks such as BGP, OSPF based attacks. Now what Daemonic does is sends pseudo random garbage (spoofed) to any port you specify.
Simple lame little DoS attack right? Now even if you don't have the service running for the port your sending the data to, it'll still crap out your Windows2000 box with ease. Now if you send it with a multicast source address which is weirder (haven't benchmarked) things really get odd.
Either way it'll bang up your network. Now FYI sending data through to a port thats not running still has to get there which means the network can still amass latency, which is where you would want to nip it at the butt with your router or firewall.
The attacked used a compromised Earthlink account. O.k. so then Earthlink could easily check their router's info since they all have caller ID to determine who the heck called the number.
I do feel sad for the guy, and the article was well written but I think it's sort of filled with FUD to give it that "OH MY GOD" kind of edge to it. Sorry don't want to be a troll but I see discrepencies in the article.
I wonder what will happen if some of my theories were crafted. Now you'd be looking at massive backbones going to hell.
So someone writes and says they're a 13 year old script kiddie who knows that the FBI will traceroute, etc, etc, etc., and this is believable? Highly doubtable. As for the attacks, I would say Mr. Gibson should have his uplink provider hire some clueful router administrators who would've fixed the problem in a heart beat.
Lack of understanding from those involved often create more harm than they help. UDP packets coming in to a website? And the admins couldn't think firsthand network skills SYN --> ACK --> SYN, 3 way TCP handshaking? They need to go back and study up using some Cisco Press material.
Anyways for those who haven't seen the page yet or are in charge of networking, and or firewall equipment, check out Stopping DoS which is a "do this now" tutorial to stop beating around the bush and cut DoS attacks at both the firewall, and network (router) level. It's not an rfc, not a write up of what a DoS attack is, simply a "fuck it's 3am and I'm getting DoS'ed now how do I stop this shit" paper.
Sadly I can only see the downsides to this than any upsides for a baby factory. So what's going to happen? What purpose would this actually serve is society? Sure many people who can't have kids would stand to gain a child, but at the same time I think of all those kids who are abandoned, left in foster homes, killed, etc., and I cant come to a logical conclusion for this.
Now if I were in the military, sure maybe I'd look into making my own "Dark Angel" like kids, but when I think of the ethics behind it all I say it stinks.
Thats all we need, Esther and Billy Bob running the fiber industry. Damnit isn't chewing tobacco enough!
Seriously though... I doubt anything will come out of this for the people who were suckered into a class action lawsuit, since the lawyers are the only real winners in class action suits for one... Secondly I'm guessing this likely has to do with Qwest since I'm too lazy to read YALSA (Yet Another Lawsuit Article) but seen the mention of railroad tracks...
So if this does have to do with Qwest here's my
You can't tell a company they can't place their fiber lines after paying the railroad company(ies), because the railroad company(ies) already paid for that land bottom line. Now if they wanted to make stinkers they should be suing the railroad companies for not disclosing the fact that they (the rr companies) would sublet out the land, which still wouldn't make sense unless the RR company(ies) is/are leasing the land. Then even still it's not the fiberco to hold accountable it's still the RR company(ies) fault.
One thing you have to keep in mind is that most ISP's, well a lot of them are sort of owned by one large corp. or have some form of agreement somewhere down the line. What's more is the fact that some of those ISP's may be providing colo services for some of those companies sending the spam.
IMHO these sound neater
Stupid Problematic Asshole Messaging
Some Poor Asshole Menacing
Someone Posting Anonymous Manuer
Too many spammers have a variety of resources at their disposals to continue spamming, mixmaster remailers, horrible configurations of sendmail from corporations, and nickle and dime webservers, etc.
Now what may work, is going after those responsible for the advertisements contained in spam. Example www.joebloworsomething.com hires someone to promote their site, and those people send promotions out via way of spam, I feel holding the people at the site responsible is better fitted.
Now bear with me on this a second. Sure it can seem somewhat unfair, but no one asks for spam, and by using someone's resources (bandwidth, whatever) companies should be made aware of how much their actions cause versus the amount of people who actually reply to spam. Think about it, company X sends say 20,000 spam emails a day, of which 1 replies and actually buys something, but out of those 20,000 500 decide to take company X to small claims court bitching...
See the laws fail when they're passed because you can't have one country's law dictate what is law in another country, and many politicians fail to see that when they waste time and money with their so called AntiSpam bills. You don't cut weeds in the garden half assed, you cut them at the root.
Stolen Uranium, and unsolved murders? non fiction at its best
Certainly it's not dead, and with all the security incidences going on, more and more companies will eventually turn to other means of safeguarding data than the usual suspects (PKI, etc).
One of the problems with hw based encryption, is the pricing however major corporations esepcially in the financial markets look to hw, as does the military, but there are actually some restrictions on what can be sold due to crypto laws.
And FYI when you say hw crypto you should note that there are different types of hw, e.g. network, optical, embedded, datalink, etc.
network based
Caneware is capable of encrypting and decrypting at through put rates from 1200 bps to 750 kbps full duplex and supports I/O rates up to the T1 rate (1.544 Mbps). cost is $19,500.
embedded based
Fascinator can be used for non-tactical communication nets. It is approved for use at all classification levels. the MCX-100, NX 300, Portable Repeater, SABER, SPECTRA, SYNTOR X-9000, SYNTO X-9000 E, Console Interface Unit, and SPECTRA Mobile SVMS have been endorsed. This product is available from Motorola, Inc. The price ranges from $495 for hand-held to $1200 for portable repeaters.
optical based
KG-189 is a trunk encryptor designed to be compatible with Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) standard interfaces. It provides optical transport at both the RED and BLACK interfaces to communications systems. The KG-189 program currently consists of models supporting two standard SONET data rates. The OC-3 model operates at 155 Mb/s and the OC-12 model operates at 622 Mb/s. The development of a model supporting the SONET OC-48 data rate of 2.5 Gigab/s has been terminated. The KG-189 supports BENIGN fill capability, traditional key and remote loading of FIREFLY vectors. It is approved for use at all classification levels. The product was developed by Motorola GSTG and Nortel. Production of the KG-189 is provided by Motorola Sectel. The cost for the OC-3 model is $37,654, and the OC-12 model is $62,664.
datalink based
Motorola STU-III SECTEL serves as two-wire and four-wire switched telephone systems used in CONUS and Overseas. They are approved for use at all classification levels. The authorized vendor is Motorola, Inc. The cost for a STU-III Sectel is $3,795.
And the list goes on
Well it certainly looks nice, but nice looks does not make for a good laptop. I've had crappy experiences with their server line (Proliant's) which would make me think 3 times before personally buying anything for myself from Compaq. I do however wonder how this will stand up to CEO types who like the VAIO, certainly this is a better looking laptop than Sony.
Damnit I wish they'd bring back the good old Tadpoles to whip some ass on the market. It's a shame they were so expensive =[ I've used one for a few months as a job requirement some while back and feel in love with it.
Didn't slashdot touch off on this a few months back http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/22/0124253.sht
So I see this solely as something of a warning to companies who may think of making money of some sort in the future nothing more. Aside from worthless jokes, cheesy porn, and millions of 31337 hax0r3r posts 98% of which make no sense, I've found Usenet useless 95% of the times, and have found better private mailing lists for my needs, so I see no big deal with this news.
Murder, Genocide, MKUltra, and stolen Uranium
(just noticed my subjects make little sense most times... oh well)
Figure a coder makes US$40,000 a year minimum. That's a LOT of Paypal donations - I've never
heard of anything like this happening.
Lets guesstimate there are about 20,000 concerned Unix users who decide "Oh what the hell it's only a $2 pay pal donation" it could happen. The fact remains has anyone tried it, people likely have also said... "Linux sounds like a funny OS it couldn't happen, I've never heard of anything like this." get the picture?
This doesn't include the other expenses folks have that are usually supplied by an employer like machines, bandwidth, conferences with hotel & travel, books, etc.
Someone point me in the right place to look here. Theo Deraadt travels a'la donations sent in from people purchasing OpenBSD, and he loves what he does. Many people may not see eye to eye with him as a person for one reason or another, but he's accomplished a heck of a lot.
Hosting a popular site costs thousands of dollars a month in bandwidth alone. Great you'll offer up your server - howzabout when it's a few meg for the installable and a few thousand folks dl it, gonna keep offering it up?
What are you talking about SourceForge, and a handful of others offer space, and if I had to do it I would. I'm not concerned with what's coming in and out of my network since it's free. ALL FREE, an nice pipe without any concerns, and if someone were offered it without any strings, yet they still made an excuse, then they should comment on the entire scope of the problem as opposed to making it a financial thing.
Whattabout when the script-kiddy vermin start trying to take you down?
Been there, done that, its definitely nothing new to my site, that's the last of my concerns.
Finally what's this about lost code? It's all Open Source - none of the projects you've listed have lost any code. What they've lost is momentum and what was in folks heads, the reasons why decisions were made and the intimate knowledge of the code being worked on day in & out.
Maybe I should have phrased it better (little sleep does that) When projects go under, one seldom sees anything return from that project. There were plenty of minor OS' that were developed that have nothing to show for themselves, and the code may still be around, but developmental code often gets lost in the sauce. Personally I think the remains of it all should be posted should someone else have an insight to continue on with some of the work someone else never got a chance to finish
Deutsche Bank has something they use which is similar for security purposes. I don't know what exactly the name is, but I saw a briefer on it while on a contracting assignment. The program supposedly lays in the background over a period of time, and analyzes the user's input, keystroke methods, wpm's, amounts of typos, mouse movements, and creates a profile for the user, so should they leave and forget to log off their terminals, it'll lock anyone out should they sit down and not match the credos.
Shit I wish I knew the name of it exactly since it was developed as part of a Bell Labs project from way back, but I can't think of it =[
I'm somewhat baffled by some of these developers lack of funding. Surely many know how good the open source OS' are, yet within the past two months we're seeing that not even free is a good enough price for many to pay. Ok so we all know how expensive it can be for hosting, development work, etc., but what amazes me is that none of these developers seem to look to the community who uses their products in order to get some financial help.
Frankly it's simple, regardless of what anyone thinks, create a pay pal account and have donations come in for the ongoing development of software. Sure many are going to argue that removes the purpose of free open source, but the fact is, it still is free although a donation is helpful. This would not fall along the lines of shareware since it isn't coded with time based mechanisms to render obsolete after X amount of days.
As for hosting or something similar, we know that becomes expensive as well, but there are many alternatives to going out and renting co-lo space for some of these project. Ask around, there are many people who would assist, personally if a developer asked me, I'd gladly host their site without thinking twice as a way of giving back for the software I use.
Are things all coming down to someone not being able to afford to do something? If that's the case it's the poorest excuse in the book in my eyes. Eazel, Slackware, Mandrake (although its denied), and the list seems to get one shop longer it seems every other week. Understandably people move on from their projects, which is something that puzzles me as well. If you're no longer going to develop a certain product many use, why not put out the source for someone to continue on?
Sourcforge is a nice repository for the code, and I'm sure the ethical developer to take over would keep copyrights in tact. It's disturbing to see something free, and kick ass become such a burden. In theory it should be the other way around... What a puzzling Internet we surf in isn't it?