I'm pretty sure the NSA has recently been granted a bunch of patents covering this kind of thing. Just wait till Compaq gets cease-and-desist letters from Janet Reno... You thought going up against RIAA on intellectual property was hard... Try the US Government.
The fact that the local militias (I suspect there's probably quite a few up there in the NW) didn't enter the fray to defend the rights of the citizens really leads one to question whether these so-called militias really do consider themselves to be the citizens' armies against government oppression that are conceptualized in the Constitution, or whether they're just a bunch of redneck thugs who like to have an excuse to play with guns. Though I'm not generally a fan of such institutions, and I am by no means generally a gun control advocate, I now suspect that "militias" are much less than what they claim to be.
With all things related to computers, it's best to placate the powers that minimize uptimes. Our servers are named: Belial Belphegore Baal Abbadon Ravana Mephisto Pookah Toklosh The Judeo-christian focus is predominately a reflection of the current employees, rather than any kind of theological implication as to the severity of their evilness.
I have an email in my saved mail dated 8/25/99 advising someone who was asking about installing pcmcia-cs drivers for an ambicom 10/100 card about that they should search through www.google.com/linux -- it's long been the first place I go for linux searches, seems a lot more comprehensive than the google search on RedHat's site.
OPEC has a master plan for re-domination of the US and Europe; it's simple, yet stunningly effective. They call it the SUV, or, in some circles, the Monster Truck. The beauty of it is that while the Buick Electra undoubtedly competes with the Ford Expedition for sheer lack of miles per gallon, the Expedition uses far more raw materials in its contruction, being something like 4 times as tall. Now a lot of those materials are plastics, which are made from (all together now) OPEC oil. Those sneaky damned Arabs, I see we bomb em some more.
What ISP are you dialing up through that you saw port 80 open? I've noticed that disturbingly Netcom/Mindspring has started diverting all traffic aimed at port 80 through a proxy server of theirs. I suppose nominally this is to improve caching and make my web browsing faster or something, but you can bet they're tracking everywhere I browse. A side effect of this is that nmap will *always* show an open port 80, because when nmap sends packets aimed at port 80, they wind up going to Netcom's proxy server and not the intended host. Also means that if nmap is doing its fingerprint testing against that port 80, it will get the fingerprint of the proxy, not of the actual host. If the machine you're portscanning from is going through a Netcom dialup, you're probably just seeing the port 80 on their proxy, and not on the dreamcast. The fact that 12345 and 12346 are also both showing up is also indicative that a router somewhere between your scanner and the dreamcast is doing some filtering/proxying/monitoring. Unless it's just coincidence, I can't imagine why Sega would open those ports.
There is a meta-topic that I've become increasingly concerned with in recent years. The topic is the apparent willingness of our legislators to not head the Consititution of this country in preparing bills which in many cases then become law. The Supremes frequently strike down the stupider ones, but they should never have been called upon to do so. A great example is the CDA. Everyone knew it would never fly before it was passed and then signed. But the congress knew that they could pass the law, get some "I'm for the children" votes at the next election, and just let the Supremes clean up their act for them. Clinton could have just vetoed the bill to save time and money of course, but (a) he too likes the "I'm for the kids" votes, and (b) the presidency has an ever longer and more prestigious history of violating the constitution. Ok, so the CDA gets struck down, just as everyone expects. Not a month later, CDA-2 is proposed. Again, everyone knows it's a constitutional obscenity. Again, everyone wants the "I'm for the kids" votes, and everyone votes for it. Again, millions in tax dollars are going to be spent in cancelling it in court. This is just one example. There are many, many, many more. What recourse do the people have when their elected representatives waste time and tax dollars legislating "feel good" laws that are blatantly illegal? Wait till the next election and throw out the bums? We all know that just doesn't happen. On the drug link law, Feinstein's not up again until 2004 -- who the fuck is going to remember this then? By 2004, the law will have been overturned by the courts for a good 3 or so years. Probably Feinstein will be in the news talking about her stance on abortion, and about how she loves being a woman, and doing ads on TV for breast cancer stamps to get the women's vote, and then whoring herself on the technology circuit and in Hollywood, getting all the rich people to stoke her coffers so she can't lose. And what's the alternative anyway? A nazi^H^H^H^Hrepublican like Micheal Huffington, her last serious opponent? Please. So can we sue our government for wasting time and money? Has anyone else ever thought of that? Suing to recover wasted tax dollars, not from the government, but by holding the individual legislators responsible. It might be a bit harder to fund that TV election campaign if you're having to siphon funds off to pay down your civil rights abuse judgement. It's not some unseen "government" that's abusing my constitutional right to (a) publish information about whatever I damned well like, and (b) link to other people's sites that I either agree or disagree with. It's not "the man"; it's not "the republicans" or "the democrats". It's individuals. Individuals who are certainly smart enough to know that what they're doing is both illegal and just plain wrong. Diane Feinstein, Orrin Hatch, I'm coming after *you*. You personally, not at the polls, but in civil court. If you repress me, and illegally attempt over and over to take away my rights under the constitution, I will do something about it.
Two points: (a) Spanning more pages is only half the story. You need to combine huge page indexes with a lookup scheme like google's where the chaff is separated from the wheat. Otherwise you'll just be drowning in 5 times as many useless hits, and you'll need a search engine to search through the 100,000+ hits returned for your query to find what you're actually interested in. (b) Does anyone have statistics for what %age of the web is excluded in/robots.txt?
The cognoscenti who are a little familiar with Oracle's web/ftp presences might, like myself, have just skipped going through Oracle's frequently-overloaded technet webserver and just gone straight to Oracle's FTP site and grabbed the stuff from there directly. Higher likelyhood of connection, can get ncftp to hammer if you can't connect first time, and also, it's anonymous!
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Sounds like a great way for ESR to spend his VA Linux IPO money.
I'm pretty sure the NSA has recently been granted a bunch of patents covering this kind of thing. Just wait till Compaq gets cease-and-desist letters from Janet Reno... You thought going up against RIAA on intellectual property was hard... Try the US Government.
The fact that the local militias (I suspect there's probably quite a few up there in the NW) didn't enter the fray to defend the rights of the citizens really leads one to question whether these so-called militias really do consider themselves to be the citizens' armies against government oppression that are conceptualized in the Constitution, or whether they're just a bunch of redneck thugs who like to have an excuse to play with guns. Though I'm not generally a fan of such institutions, and I am by no means generally a gun control advocate, I now suspect that "militias" are much less than what they claim to be.
With all things related to computers, it's best to placate the powers that minimize uptimes. Our servers are named: Belial Belphegore Baal Abbadon Ravana Mephisto Pookah Toklosh The Judeo-christian focus is predominately a reflection of the current employees, rather than any kind of theological implication as to the severity of their evilness.
I have an email in my saved mail dated 8/25/99 advising someone who was asking about installing pcmcia-cs drivers for an ambicom 10/100 card about that they should search through www.google.com/linux -- it's long been the first place I go for linux searches, seems a lot more comprehensive than the google search on RedHat's site.
OPEC has a master plan for re-domination of the US and Europe; it's simple, yet stunningly effective. They call it the SUV, or, in some circles, the Monster Truck. The beauty of it is that while the Buick Electra undoubtedly competes with the Ford Expedition for sheer lack of miles per gallon, the Expedition uses far more raw materials in its contruction, being something like 4 times as tall. Now a lot of those materials are plastics, which are made from (all together now) OPEC oil. Those sneaky damned Arabs, I see we bomb em some more.
...and if I hack it, do I get to ride free?
...does that make it a hack-me cab?
What ISP are you dialing up through that you saw port 80 open? I've noticed that disturbingly Netcom/Mindspring has started diverting all traffic aimed at port 80 through a proxy server of theirs. I suppose nominally this is to improve caching and make my web browsing faster or something, but you can bet they're tracking everywhere I browse.
A side effect of this is that nmap will *always* show an open port 80, because when nmap sends packets aimed at port 80, they wind up going to Netcom's proxy server and not the intended host. Also means that if nmap is doing its fingerprint testing against that port 80, it will get the fingerprint of the proxy, not of the actual host.
If the machine you're portscanning from is going through a Netcom dialup, you're probably just seeing the port 80 on their proxy, and not on the dreamcast. The fact that 12345 and 12346 are also both showing up is also indicative that a router somewhere between your scanner and the dreamcast is doing some filtering/proxying/monitoring. Unless it's just coincidence, I can't imagine why Sega would open those ports.
There is a meta-topic that I've become increasingly concerned with in recent years. The topic is the apparent willingness of our legislators to not head the Consititution of this country in preparing bills which in many cases then become law. The Supremes frequently strike down the stupider ones, but they should never have been called upon to do so. A great example is the CDA. Everyone knew it would never fly before it was passed and then signed. But the congress knew that they could pass the law, get some "I'm for the children" votes at the next election, and just let the Supremes clean up their act for them. Clinton could have just vetoed the bill to save time and money of course, but (a) he too likes the "I'm for the kids" votes, and (b) the presidency has an ever longer and more prestigious history of violating the constitution. Ok, so the CDA gets struck down, just as everyone expects. Not a month later, CDA-2 is proposed. Again, everyone knows it's a constitutional obscenity. Again, everyone wants the "I'm for the kids" votes, and everyone votes for it. Again, millions in tax dollars are going to be spent in cancelling it in court. This is just one example. There are many, many, many more. What recourse do the people have when their elected representatives waste time and tax dollars legislating "feel good" laws that are blatantly illegal? Wait till the next election and throw out the bums? We all know that just doesn't happen. On the drug link law, Feinstein's not up again until 2004 -- who the fuck is going to remember this then? By 2004, the law will have been overturned by the courts for a good 3 or so years. Probably Feinstein will be in the news talking about her stance on abortion, and about how she loves being a woman, and doing ads on TV for breast cancer stamps to get the women's vote, and then whoring herself on the technology circuit and in Hollywood, getting all the rich people to stoke her coffers so she can't lose. And what's the alternative anyway? A nazi^H^H^H^Hrepublican like Micheal Huffington, her last serious opponent? Please. So can we sue our government for wasting time and money? Has anyone else ever thought of that? Suing to recover wasted tax dollars, not from the government, but by holding the individual legislators responsible. It might be a bit harder to fund that TV election campaign if you're having to siphon funds off to pay down your civil rights abuse judgement. It's not some unseen "government" that's abusing my constitutional right to (a) publish information about whatever I damned well like, and (b) link to other people's sites that I either agree or disagree with. It's not "the man"; it's not "the republicans" or "the democrats". It's individuals. Individuals who are certainly smart enough to know that what they're doing is both illegal and just plain wrong. Diane Feinstein, Orrin Hatch, I'm coming after *you*. You personally, not at the polls, but in civil court. If you repress me, and illegally attempt over and over to take away my rights under the constitution, I will do something about it.
Two points: /robots.txt?
(a) Spanning more pages is only half the story. You need to combine huge page indexes with a lookup scheme like google's where the chaff is separated from the wheat. Otherwise you'll just be drowning in 5 times as many useless hits, and you'll need a search engine to search through the 100,000+ hits returned for your query to find what you're actually interested in.
(b) Does anyone have statistics for what %age of the web is excluded in
What exactly is a "small" kernel fault? Did only the TCP stack crash? Perhaps only half the screen turned blue with hex numbers on it?
The cognoscenti who are a little familiar with Oracle's web/ftp presences might, like myself, have just skipped going through Oracle's frequently-overloaded technet webserver and just gone straight to Oracle's FTP site and grabbed the stuff from there directly. Higher likelyhood of connection, can get ncftp to hammer if you can't connect first time, and also, it's anonymous!