The english version of the Al-Jazeera TV's website was online since Monday. The adress is: http://english.aljazeera.net
I could see it on Thursday and now it is gone. Washington Post has a article about a hack attack. Apparently the name of the website does not resolve.
What i found very suspicious are these imposter sites: http://www.aljazeerah.us/ and http://www.aljazeerah.info/
Only the latter has a little headline that the website is not connected in any way to Al-Jazeera TV.
These sites can be easily confused with the original site and it already happened.
Imagine something like foks.news in a arab country without a clear statement that it is not us media.
ps: I already submitted the story about the imposter sites but slashdot did not post it.
That's why i am posting it here...
I was wondering what has convinced fellow Slahshdoters to take the stance they have now on the state of affairs with Iraq?
For me it was the Frontline documentaries on PBS which focused on the history of Saddam.
Now i know why the US is going to war: It takes only a single TV show to convince a US citizen that killing people is actually a good thing.
I live in germany and i feel the same. When i was younger i could not believe how nazi germany had started. And i was pretty sure that once democracy was there (for a long enough period of time) people would care for their fundamental rights and not have taken them away like hot potatoes.
Tell you something: it's not orange, it is RED and no, it is not terrorists.
This whole "Cyber-Warfare" is not to harm the enemy (come on, what kind of net controlled infrastructure do you expect in IRAQ ?).
It is to destroy a information source they cannot control otherwise. It is to prevent the rest of the world from seeing something real about the war (remember vietnam?) or some propaganda from the other side.
This is not meant to harm the enemy directly (what kind of net structure do you expect in iraq ?).
I think internet access from within Iraq would be a big threat for the US because there would be a hole in the media control they want to establish (clean war). So what they can do with "Cyber-Warfare" is to prevent american people from seeing cruel pictures of war - and in turn to keep them thinking that everything is allright...
There's a story at pcworld, that describes how navy slashdotters will be equipped with 802.11b networking allowing them to slashdot from anywhere within the ship. The point of the article also gets into the issue of cutting manpower for the ships - going from 300 people on each to destroyer to 90, giving the rest even more time for slashdot.
Sooner or later, the widespread distribution of near-perfect digital copies will destroy the market for commercial recordings, and make the production of the very product consumers seem so eager to pirate impossible.
I want music, not commercial recordings. And i am lucky, because:
### timeline ###
(past)...
music - music - music - music and industry (present) - music - music - music...(future)
We have the right to copy!
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Before digital music and p2p we had to pay for music because we did not have the power to distribute or copy music on our own. Copy protection and charging money for copies was reasonable these days.
Now we have the right to copy music because we can easily do so and we cannot easily enforce protection...
We are in the digital age now and we should face it:
digital => no copy protection
Thats like
sun => hot
And who pays those poor musicians, filmmakers and... ?
I am sure we will find a mean to get good artist paid (or they will find it themselves) but we cannot do it by enforcing unnatural laws.
Yeah, if those blond people shoot at similar looking people than it would make the kiddies wonder why they have to shoot at all. I would appreciate that,-)
it is human behavior they want to have emulated... that's most propable not the same as maximizing payoffs (even if its the intention of the human to win)...
so the algorithm should produce data sets similar to human data sets. then it would be much easier to have a human detector before developing a human emulator... otherwise, how to test the emulator (before going to contest)??
for humans (i think) there are a lot of possible strategies (e.g.,revenge or even stupidity, intended 'randomness',always cooperative)... a neural network or similar would learn a 'general' strategy that would not really represent every one of the human strategies...
while it's maybe easy (???) to create that amount of code each day for 10000+ lines of code it is not for 700000+. you will have to spend a lot of time thinking about your interfaces and doing tests and i am sure some parts have to be completely rewritten.
Even if we know how to create a species from a genome sequence it would not live long without it's specific environment (in most cases). So all this talk about conservation by collecting genome sequences is bullshit.
for example www.therealpriceforprinters.org...
it works like this:
1. enter your usage expectation
the printer should work for: 5 years
average color usage in %: 10
average pages you want to print a day: 23
2. get the real price
Lexmark Model X: $$$ ...
HP Model Y: $$$ ...
[now someone wants to do it ?]
if the consumer would get a chance to estimate the REAL PRICE of a product EASILY than the companies would gain nothing by making unnecessary complicated and more expensive buisness models (like chips in cartridges)...
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The english version of the Al-Jazeera TV's website was online since Monday. The adress is:
http://english.aljazeera.net
I could see it on Thursday and now it is gone. Washington Post has a article about a hack attack. Apparently the name of the website does not resolve.
What i found very suspicious are these imposter sites:
http://www.aljazeerah.us/ and http://www.aljazeerah.info/
Only the latter has a little headline that the website is not connected in any way to Al-Jazeera TV.
These sites can be easily confused with the original site and it already happened.
Imagine something like foks.news in a arab country without a clear statement that it is not us media.
ps: I already submitted the story about the imposter sites but slashdot did not post it. That's why i am posting it here...
I was wondering what has convinced fellow Slahshdoters to take the stance they have now on the state of affairs with Iraq?
For me it was the Frontline documentaries on PBS which focused on the history of Saddam.
Now i know why the US is going to war:
It takes only a single TV show to convince a US citizen that killing people is actually a good thing.
Anyone has an idea what could be achieved by sending fake information ?
Can you guess that MicrosoftSomethingSomething will not get openMicrosoftSomethingSomething anytime soon ?
Tell you something: it's not orange, it is RED and no, it is not terrorists.
DO something for YOUR rights NOW !!
It is to destroy a information source they cannot control otherwise. It is to prevent the rest of the world from seeing something real about the war (remember vietnam?) or some propaganda from the other side.
wake up,look at your calendar, it's 1984...
I think internet access from within Iraq would be a big threat for the US because there would be a hole in the media control they want to establish (clean war). So what they can do with "Cyber-Warfare" is to prevent american people from seeing cruel pictures of war - and in turn to keep them thinking that everything is allright...
There's a story at pcworld, that describes how navy slashdotters will be equipped with 802.11b networking allowing them to slashdot from anywhere within the ship. The point of the article also gets into the issue of cutting manpower for the ships - going from 300 people on each to destroyer to 90, giving the rest even more time for slashdot.
Whether DNA is inactive or not is part of the code. You cannot write an arbitrary data sequence and hope you still have an intron (inactive code).
when did i buy it anyway ? can't remember anymore...
I want music, not commercial recordings. And i am lucky, because:
### timeline ###
(past) ...
music - music - music - music and industry (present) - music - music - music ...(future)
Before digital music and p2p we had to pay for music because we did not have the power to distribute or copy music on our own. Copy protection and charging money for copies was reasonable these days.
Now we have the right to copy music because we can easily do so and we cannot easily enforce protection...
We are in the digital age now and we should face it:
digital => no copy protection
Thats like
sun => hot
And who pays those poor musicians, filmmakers and ... ?
I am sure we will find a mean to get good artist paid (or they will find it themselves) but we cannot do it by enforcing unnatural laws.
It's time to die, dinos...
Let them produce bullshit, because otherwise the bullshit would be worse. What kind of arguing is that ?
Lets build schools ;-)
Damn, and i thought everyone is a terrorist these days...
It's always good to get the real facts from guys like YOU.
ps:
Yeah, if those blond people shoot at similar looking people than it would make the kiddies wonder why they have to shoot at all. I would appreciate that ,-)
so the algorithm should produce data sets similar to human data sets. then it would be much easier to have a human detector before developing a human emulator... otherwise, how to test the emulator (before going to contest)??
for humans (i think) there are a lot of possible strategies (e.g.,revenge or even stupidity, intended 'randomness',always cooperative)... a neural network or similar would learn a 'general' strategy that would not really represent every one of the human strategies...
simplified it's digital radio, isn't it? some did radio transmission up to the bounds of our solarsystem...
yeah "terrorism"... maybe we should do another "war" on it...
while it's maybe easy (???) to create that amount of code each day for 10000+ lines of code it is not for 700000+. you will have to spend a lot of time thinking about your interfaces and doing tests and i am sure some parts have to be completely rewritten.
What about trying to save some of this species...
Even if we know how to create a species from a genome sequence it would not live long without it's specific environment (in most cases). So all this talk about conservation by collecting genome sequences is bullshit.
Turn the TV ;-)
the printer should work for: 5 years
average color usage in %: 10
average pages you want to print a day: 23
Lexmark Model X: $$$
HP Model Y: $$$
[now someone wants to do it ?]
if the consumer would get a chance to estimate the REAL PRICE of a product EASILY than the companies would gain nothing by making unnecessary complicated and more expensive buisness models (like chips in cartridges)...