Run everything over encrypted tunnels. Yeah it may be a performance hit but I'd rather not run the risk of an easy snoop.
What we need is a book for router manus that teaches them how to not enable default SSIDs and admin passwords for wireless networks. My neighbor would probably thank them.
without changing file sizes... let me stick my pirated version of War and Piece in my Hello world application.
According to the article that you didn't read it seems that the amount of text that you can imbed without affecting the filesize is determined by the original file's contents.
You wouldn't be able to fit War and Peace into most files but you could fit about 1.44KB of text into a 500k file or so (according to their examples).
For me, 802.11G is by fast enough by far for my uses. B is good enough for web traffic. Hopefully this introduction of new A, and now N configerations will lower prices more for the G routers making it even easier to find access points. *crosses fingers for easier wardriving*
Unless you are moving large files on a regular basis over the network B (and even lower) is fast enough for most people's needs (web traffic or internal).
I don't know too many people that have 10mbit connections to the net. Most people would do just fine w/B's 11mbs.
I would say that a lot of OS distributors shoot themselves in the foot on a rollout. At least this upgrade is free and basically transparent for most people.
I remember when most people would wait for a RedHat build after a X.0 rollout. I remember when MacOS X would require you to pay for upgrades, and I remember when IT departments were deploying patches for known exploits and got burned in the ass when a worm was released.
Just another example of how the world works in different ways.
I read through some of the "reviews" linked through a MS employee's? blog. They were mostly people saying that the install went well but they have minor issues with it (ie slow downs).
Personally I have installed it and have been using it since I learned of its release on Slashdot a couple weeks ago. It's nothing impressive for me but I didn't notice any slow downs.
I griped about my personal issues with the updated "features" and the nagging it causes.
exactly. VNC, while great if you are really interested in controlling a PC remotely, isn't all that useful for trojans/worms.
You're much better off with a powerful spam relay or self-replicating worm than control over a user's PC, nevermind access via a remote shell like some of the recent worms have allowed.
Other than fucking with the heads of the users you have infected I don't really see the point. You'd have to be using their machine when they aren't around, you'd have to be doing this in person over VNC which could be very very slow depending on upstream, and it just wouldn't be as useful as a shell which *could* be scripted to automate your desired effect.
2) go live it up in north korea, or cuba, or iran, or afghanistan, or iraq, or mexico, or canada, or england, or any other country on Earth. 3) Don't ever come back, because it sucks really bad here and you can have more freedom elsewhere 4) when you realise its worse everywhere else, tuff shit.
Now, now, since you posted as an AC and are obviously trolling I will give you +1 Troll, good for you, that's as far as you'll get today.
Now for your lesson in reality:
The USA was built on freedom from oppression. We were never meant to have a fasicst controlling party lording over us with fear tactics, federal laws, etc.
The other countries you mention are irrelevant for our lesson here as they were never built on freedom. People that lived there were never able to exercise the freedoms we used to have here.
Now, because of our terrorist friends blowing shit up in this country our fascist ruling party has decided that telling people that allowing for a detraction of our true freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism is the way to go.
When you realize that we are now worse off than we were 5 years ago as far as freedom goes you will realize that it is YOU that is in "shit".
I don't see a problem with using this as a way to deter that.
And this is exactly what the *good* "citizens" of our fine country are supposed to say. "I have nothing to hide please take my finger prints."
I say the hell with that. Just because we have nothing to hide does not mean that we should happily fork over our identities.
As far as it being a useful technology. Yes, it's a fantastic overuse of a technology. I always felt that a key or a temporary code worked better. Perhaps I am just old-fashioned that way probably just paranoid.
The government wants us to be paranoid over terrorists to detract from being paranoid about them. I'm not fooled.
Well since access to the crown is no longer permitted using a large NES controller to walk the Statue over to the city is probably not going to happen.
If they do happen to do it they might want to pad her feet. A lot of advancements have occured in the size of sneakers since Spangler and Ray decided to use this method back in the 1990s.
Is lindows (aka linspire) the real salvation of linux? A pretty graphical interface? High processor requirements? A prioritary installation process?
It depends on your definition of "salvation". Personally I don't think Linux needs to be saved from anything. It's doing what it does well already.
People seriously believe that Linux is ready for the desktop and should compete side by side with Windows. By bundling a proprietary installer, rip-off applications and accessories we aren't "saving" Linux we are feeding it straight to the devil.
How about we teach people to use what is right for their particular needs? Unix does what Unix does best. Windows does what Windows does best. Yes, you can make either one do what you want after tweaking, fooling, etc, but on the face they both do their intended purposes best out of the box. That's my HO and I am sticking to it.
My point being his lack of concern stems from the simple fact that he is in a country that doesn't harbor the DMCA and thus has no reason to be concerned.
To be honest, Apple's products become much more useful (and more desirable to purchase) when people come out with neat hacks like this.
The only thing that makes it more attractive is that Apple finds a way to close the hole exposed by John's (or his friends') hack and the RIAA continues to let Apple distribute their wares for a reduced price.
Once Apple cannot guarantee that the music is protected from "theft" then the RIAA will pull the plug on our "cheap" downloading.
Of course they will, I don't even know why you bothered to mention it. The real question is will it fit under the provisions allowing for reverse engineering or will it fall under the category of malicious code breaking?
We all know what it should fall under. What category Apple's lawyers make it fall under is a different story.
I have a T-mobile Sidekick/Hiptop and I have always thought of doing that while playing NTN but it's just not fast enough. You are better off guessing or waiting for them to tell you the answer (depending on the game type).
What wireless net access *is* good for (as explained by a friend) is finalizing drunken bar arguments over stupid shit like "what was the name of the juice that the Gummi Bears drank to make them bounce?" "Gummiberry Juice" is the correct answer in case you were wondering.
Sadly the bartender wouldn't name a shot after it.
Article: "...text messages will still be sent, although not at premium rates." "Mosquito's Trojan does not do any other damage..."
Most people I know here the US do not have unlimited SMS plans. Most people don't know much about text messaging at all. So these people would be sending SMS messages out and being billed for it regardless of the numbers being "premium rate" or not.
Thus it does do damage as your bill goes up that month.
For most people SMS' will show up on their bill as most people don't do much FREE sending of SMS' (at least here in the states). I think that these people would see their bill go up and find out the reason for it.
Personally, if I were charged for SMS' without my consent I would want to recoup those costs myself as well.
"Once we are in the 3G world, we basically have a broadband connection, so phones will be closer to PCs in terms of functionality.
"Having that connectivity historically leads to the spread of viruses."
Once more and more devices run the same OS/software and more and more people are using that same OS/software more and more viruses will be written for it. Bandwith has little to do with it.
SMS' to "premium numbers" are annoying and don't require massive mobile bandwith to work.
Welcome to Slashdot where trolls troll about trolling, high UIDs trolls troll about low UIDs trolling, and where people whine about subjective moderation.
([1] OK, my best result is Darl et al serving time, but I'll settle for Joe Q WallStreet knowing that SCO's business model was suicide)
Lying, cheating, stealing, and then cooking the books to cover it has been a suicide business model for years yet it doesn't stop companies from continuing to do it.
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Run everything over encrypted tunnels. Yeah it may be a performance hit but I'd rather not run the risk of an easy snoop.
What we need is a book for router manus that teaches them how to not enable default SSIDs and admin passwords for wireless networks. My neighbor would probably thank them.
without changing file sizes... let me stick my pirated version of War and Piece in my Hello world application.
According to the article that you didn't read it seems that the amount of text that you can imbed without affecting the filesize is determined by the original file's contents.
You wouldn't be able to fit War and Peace into most files but you could fit about 1.44KB of text into a 500k file or so (according to their examples).
SCO doesn't have to realize anything. The investors that keep pumping money into SCO are the ones that need to realize it and pull the fuck out.
For me, 802.11G is by fast enough by far for my uses. B is good enough for web traffic. Hopefully this introduction of new A, and now N configerations will lower prices more for the G routers making it even easier to find access points. *crosses fingers for easier wardriving*
Unless you are moving large files on a regular basis over the network B (and even lower) is fast enough for most people's needs (web traffic or internal).
I don't know too many people that have 10mbit connections to the net. Most people would do just fine w/B's 11mbs.
I would say that a lot of OS distributors shoot themselves in the foot on a rollout. At least this upgrade is free and basically transparent for most people.
I remember when most people would wait for a RedHat build after a X.0 rollout. I remember when MacOS X would require you to pay for upgrades, and I remember when IT departments were deploying patches for known exploits and got burned in the ass when a worm was released.
Just another example of how the world works in different ways.
I read through some of the "reviews" linked through a MS employee's? blog. They were mostly people saying that the install went well but they have minor issues with it (ie slow downs).
Personally I have installed it and have been using it since I learned of its release on Slashdot a couple weeks ago. It's nothing impressive for me but I didn't notice any slow downs.
I griped about my personal issues with the updated "features" and the nagging it causes.
YMMV.
exactly. VNC, while great if you are really interested in controlling a PC remotely, isn't all that useful for trojans/worms.
You're much better off with a powerful spam relay or self-replicating worm than control over a user's PC, nevermind access via a remote shell like some of the recent worms have allowed.
Other than fucking with the heads of the users you have infected I don't really see the point. You'd have to be using their machine when they aren't around, you'd have to be doing this in person over VNC which could be very very slow depending on upstream, and it just wouldn't be as useful as a shell which *could* be scripted to automate your desired effect.
2) go live it up in north korea, or cuba, or iran, or afghanistan, or iraq, or mexico, or canada, or england, or any other country on Earth.
3) Don't ever come back, because it sucks really bad here and you can have more freedom elsewhere
4) when you realise its worse everywhere else, tuff shit.
Now, now, since you posted as an AC and are obviously trolling I will give you +1 Troll, good for you, that's as far as you'll get today.
Now for your lesson in reality:
The USA was built on freedom from oppression. We were never meant to have a fasicst controlling party lording over us with fear tactics, federal laws, etc.
The other countries you mention are irrelevant for our lesson here as they were never built on freedom. People that lived there were never able to exercise the freedoms we used to have here.
Now, because of our terrorist friends blowing shit up in this country our fascist ruling party has decided that telling people that allowing for a detraction of our true freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism is the way to go.
When you realize that we are now worse off than we were 5 years ago as far as freedom goes you will realize that it is YOU that is in "shit".
I don't see a problem with using this as a way to deter that.
And this is exactly what the *good* "citizens" of our fine country are supposed to say. "I have nothing to hide please take my finger prints."
I say the hell with that. Just because we have nothing to hide does not mean that we should happily fork over our identities.
As far as it being a useful technology. Yes, it's a fantastic overuse of a technology. I always felt that a key or a temporary code worked better. Perhaps I am just old-fashioned that way probably just paranoid.
The government wants us to be paranoid over terrorists to detract from being paranoid about them. I'm not fooled.
Well since access to the crown is no longer permitted using a large NES controller to walk the Statue over to the city is probably not going to happen.
If they do happen to do it they might want to pad her feet. A lot of advancements have occured in the size of sneakers since Spangler and Ray decided to use this method back in the 1990s.
Is lindows (aka linspire) the real salvation of linux? A pretty graphical interface? High processor requirements? A prioritary installation process?
It depends on your definition of "salvation". Personally I don't think Linux needs to be saved from anything. It's doing what it does well already.
People seriously believe that Linux is ready for the desktop and should compete side by side with Windows. By bundling a proprietary installer, rip-off applications and accessories we aren't "saving" Linux we are feeding it straight to the devil.
How about we teach people to use what is right for their particular needs? Unix does what Unix does best. Windows does what Windows does best. Yes, you can make either one do what you want after tweaking, fooling, etc, but on the face they both do their intended purposes best out of the box. That's my HO and I am sticking to it.
Go ahead and download for *free* (notice the difference in my *free* and your "free"). Support bands that support the distribution of their music.
sharingthegroove.org and FurthurNET are two excellent resources for free music.
My point being his lack of concern stems from the simple fact that he is in a country that doesn't harbor the DMCA and thus has no reason to be concerned.
To be honest, Apple's products become much more useful (and more desirable to purchase) when people come out with neat hacks like this.
The only thing that makes it more attractive is that Apple finds a way to close the hole exposed by John's (or his friends') hack and the RIAA continues to let Apple distribute their wares for a reduced price.
Once Apple cannot guarantee that the music is protected from "theft" then the RIAA will pull the plug on our "cheap" downloading.
He just doesn't give a shit for petty politics (DMCA crap).
Of course he doesn't care about the DMCA. He lives in another country.
I can't imagine that this would really upset Apple since you're still buying their hardware.
Because they not only want you to buy the Airport Express they want you to buy the iPod and purchase from iTMS.
Of course they will, I don't even know why you bothered to mention it. The real question is will it fit under the provisions allowing for reverse engineering or will it fall under the category of malicious code breaking?
We all know what it should fall under. What category Apple's lawyers make it fall under is a different story.
$200.00 - Cell phone with bluetooth and GPRS for all-time internet access
Or, depending on your needs, a PCMCIA card that accept the GPRS slice.
I have a T-mobile Sidekick/Hiptop and I have always thought of doing that while playing NTN but it's just not fast enough. You are better off guessing or waiting for them to tell you the answer (depending on the game type).
What wireless net access *is* good for (as explained by a friend) is finalizing drunken bar arguments over stupid shit like "what was the name of the juice that the Gummi Bears drank to make them bounce?" "Gummiberry Juice" is the correct answer in case you were wondering.
Sadly the bartender wouldn't name a shot after it.
Article:
"...text messages will still be sent, although not at premium rates."
"Mosquito's Trojan does not do any other damage..."
Most people I know here the US do not have unlimited SMS plans. Most people don't know much about text messaging at all. So these people would be sending SMS messages out and being billed for it regardless of the numbers being "premium rate" or not.
Thus it does do damage as your bill goes up that month.
It has nothing to do with software? Yes it surely does. Java-enabled phones run software. Thus OS/software is relevant.
For most people SMS' will show up on their bill as most people don't do much FREE sending of SMS' (at least here in the states). I think that these people would see their bill go up and find out the reason for it.
Personally, if I were charged for SMS' without my consent I would want to recoup those costs myself as well.
"Once we are in the 3G world, we basically have a broadband connection, so phones will be closer to PCs in terms of functionality.
"Having that connectivity historically leads to the spread of viruses."
Once more and more devices run the same OS/software and more and more people are using that same OS/software more and more viruses will be written for it. Bandwith has little to do with it.
SMS' to "premium numbers" are annoying and don't require massive mobile bandwith to work.
Welcome to Slashdot where trolls troll about trolling, high UIDs trolls troll about low UIDs trolling, and where people whine about subjective moderation.
([1] OK, my best result is Darl et al serving time, but I'll settle for Joe Q WallStreet knowing that SCO's business model was suicide)
Lying, cheating, stealing, and then cooking the books to cover it has been a suicide business model for years yet it doesn't stop companies from continuing to do it.