I can foresee an awesomely blackhat use for exploiting this. Remember back in 2008-2009 when there was a major attack that relied on SEO manipulation to direct susceptible users to a page to download "video codecs" (actually a slurry of malware)? Yeah, I can bet that Google is going to find themselves in a race to defeat similar manipulation. How many people have a friend/coworker/acquaintance who friends anyone and everyone on Facebook or any other social network? All it takes is for one of those to be a front for a botnet owner. The botnet +1's the link to a redirect, it gets recommended to everyone connected to the front account, some of those individuals follow the link and get infected, and then their own newly botted computers start the process all over again. Hooray social media worms!
Now, I know from my own research that Google does do some detection and flags potentially malicious sites. But if this attack were coupled with a 0day or an undisclosed security hole, it could have decidedly non-trivial impact.
Damn, you're right. It says that in order to get Debian ARM running on the NSLU, they had to byte swap it (ie, turn the kernel around so the processor would read it as if it were in big-endian). And the tag next to the mention of the 10/100 interface, is, as the gp said, not supported in little endian mode.
My hat is off to you, good sir, and I shall await the return of my reading comprehension skills before I make another attempt at an informative post.
The key there is the "not yet supported in little-endian mode" (emphasis mine). Endianness refers to which end of the data the processor starts chewing on first. Big endian means it reads the most significant bit first, little means it starts from the least sig bit.
ARM processes things in what is known as a byte-sexual method, ie, either big or little endian. What tfa is saying is that eth0 port should work just fine under Debian ARM in big-endian mode (otherwise having this thing set up as a network storage device is pretty useless unless you're planning on exclusively USB hubbing it).
Then again, maybe it isn't that simple. I'll be the first to admit that I've never worked an enterprise project that required updating for DST, so maybe I'm missing something.
I'd figure it would be based on a calendar function, so it shouldn't be that hard to tell your program to adjust at a different time. What I'd be more worried about is projects that aren't US based not updating for new support of the US DST.
This is why I keep a lot of my applications set to Zulu time and just do conversions. I like doing away with cultural timing practices with regards to technology. My calendar on my blog expresses dates in yyyy.ddd format and only shows time in 24hr cdt because most of my readership is in Alabama. Although the case is definitely there for my still using cultural conventions in my timekeeping practices. Oh well, it's more understandable to most people than seconds since the Unix epoch:-)
You know how every new parent used to say, "I'm scared and exhilirated at the same time," and "Boy, I wish kids came with an instruction manual"? Thanks to this culture of regulation, future parents won't have to worry about lack of documentation!
I agree with the posts upset over the fact that companies are getting slammed over parents' inability to parent, but at the same time, I think there should be at least some modicum of responsibility on the developer's part, especially when it is found that the developer knew that objectionable material existed and was not forthcoming about the existence of that material (to the point of gutless blameshifting that only makes them look more culpable once it was found that the underlying code existed on all platform versions). If Rockstar had no intention of allowing that content to be released THEN WHY DID THEY LEAVE IT IN THERE? I can understand if it was a single programmer (or maybe team) that threw in an objectionable minigame, though that seems unlikely to me, but that's not Rockstar's story so far.
Personally, I like a nice, cathartic, violent kill-fest first person shooter, and even had a lot of fun playing GTA3 and GTA:VC. I haven't played San Andreas, but this type of behaviour on Rockstar's part doesn't make me want to shell out cash to buy it now. This smells like someone wanted to include something and attempted to beat an ESRB rating by putting it in as an easter egg. Maybe possibly someone trying to challenge the ESRB's system itself; too bad for them, they've now got egg on their face.
And as someone already said, Penny Arcade's article and comic sum up the situation pretty nicely.
Cool. I might check it out. I've got a lot of friends who are interested in stargazing, but are a little impatient with my attempts to explain things regarding astronomy (one reason I don't wish to be a teacher). I've been casually looking for an easy to use amateur's guide to help me figure out how to make myself understandable.
Also, I like how it's a Hacks book on a physical science. Too many people, even in tech, think that hacking is only about computers. It's nice to reiterate that a hack is any type of bending or slick utilization of the rules to make a job easier. Whatever platform your hack is based on is your business.
In seriousness, is there a reason for trying to build a bipedal, humanoid, robot? I mean, this looks cool and all, but what are the advantages (or conversely, disadvantages) to such a design (IANSC [I Am Not Susan Calvin])?
Not only that, but why wouldn't you set the system up so that you have power going to the switch from the mythical PoE net (not sure how the architecture is proposed, if someone could point me to a good link I'd appreciate it)? I mean, what would be the point in a power over ethernet system if you couldn't have a redundant power distribution? Or am I being overly dense tonight?
If we lived in a world without cell phones, I would say that yes, this would be a likely outcome. However, I live in a college town, where I'd say 9/10 people have a cell phone as their primary means of telecommunication. The attitude toward a land line is that it's for old people and businesses.
I'd say that we will eventually have PoE, but I don't think it will be a necessary consequence of VoIP or telephony. I have VoIP, but I use it exclusively for the three hours a day I work as a call desk support monkey for my company. If I had an emergency, I have my cell phone on me as well.
This is something I've wondered about a lot: how many slashdotters out there use VoIP as their primary telecommunications resource? How many would use telephony once x gets improved?
Where my father went to school, CS was writing compilers, the intricacies of the interaction between input and the system itself. It was a "why does it work this way?" approach, like a physical science. But it was also a program that looked at how the machine itself worked, not just the programming aspects.
When I was looking at schools and finally settled on a dual program in Physics and Electrical/Computer Engineering, I researched the CS program at the university I am currently attending, I found that the program was (perversely) a Software Engineering Lite. You actually learn more useful stuff in Software Engineering. (Flamebait protection: it is altogether possible that this is unique to my school, as it is known for it's engineering curriculum...I didn't start looking into a second major in the computing field until my Sophomore year, so I didn't look at how other schools did things)
I decided to go into ECE because (at my uni) it is closest to the program my dad did in college, it is a nice blend of software and electrical engineering. You learn the skills needed to design and produce software applications, as well as the skills to design systems that better fit the needs of a certain project.
A tip to anyone considering double majors where either is an Engineering or hard science: do it before your Sophomore year!
I realize I'm about to open a potential can of worms, but I really must know. I'm not that experienced with X, other than using GNOME or KDE. What are the pros and cons between XFree86 and X.Org? I think most of the boxen I've used were XFree86 based, and I am uncertain whether I have ever used one based on X.Org.
But try convincing someone who's only used Windows. Hell, I've put Knoppix on a failed Windows box just to tide a user over until they could get something more permanent, or new hardware, whatever.
I got nothing but stupid bitching for weeks.
And yes, I know that Linux shouldn't do something just because it'll make some idiot happy (would you hand out root access just because it was easier?), but I'm convinced that the sheep will only go after an OS that is known.
My post wasn't about Linux not being able to do something XP could, it was to say that the only reason to consolidate Linux is to catch the users that look for Big Software. Personally, I think that Linux is great, more secure, and more powerful than XP on most machines.
If the goal for Linux is to put it on the desktop, then yes, there needs to be some sort of consolidation; otherwise it looks chaotic to Joe User. If however the goal is a distant optimized OS that can handle anything, used mainly by root users, then the present model insures that good distros flourish while the bad waste away into obscurity (what is "good"? again, question of goals).
Who is the target audience for Linux? The average user who surfs the internet and plays solitaire? Or your typical computer savvy/. reader? One gets easily confused by chaos and will eventually seek One Big OS (ie Windows) while the other will prefer to be a sort of OS connoisseur.
Soon citizens of the world will cede their computing power to Oblivion Corp. owing to the wanton programs my minions have distributed. I thought my purchasing department had finally indulged in too much of the Evil Weed of Strategerizing when they approached me with this plan. A dark day dawns, internet traveller.
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If you need to have a video to adequately explain how a social media promoter operates, You Are Doing It Wrong (tm).
I can foresee an awesomely blackhat use for exploiting this. Remember back in 2008-2009 when there was a major attack that relied on SEO manipulation to direct susceptible users to a page to download "video codecs" (actually a slurry of malware)? Yeah, I can bet that Google is going to find themselves in a race to defeat similar manipulation. How many people have a friend/coworker/acquaintance who friends anyone and everyone on Facebook or any other social network? All it takes is for one of those to be a front for a botnet owner. The botnet +1's the link to a redirect, it gets recommended to everyone connected to the front account, some of those individuals follow the link and get infected, and then their own newly botted computers start the process all over again. Hooray social media worms!
Now, I know from my own research that Google does do some detection and flags potentially malicious sites. But if this attack were coupled with a 0day or an undisclosed security hole, it could have decidedly non-trivial impact.
#closes firefox with fark.com, b3ta.com, and several webcomics tabbed#
What was your question again? I was doing.... ummm.... research, yeah that's it.
Think about all the wonderful things it could fix!
Like a whale it hears singing.
::Dreams of all the wonderful friends the repairbot would meet on his travels. Unfortunately he would be so lonely as all the sealife runs away.::Look! He's pining!
Oh God. Someone mod this boy up.
My hat is off to you, good sir, and I shall await the return of my reading comprehension skills before I make another attempt at an informative post.
ARM processes things in what is known as a byte-sexual method, ie, either big or little endian. What tfa is saying is that eth0 port should work just fine under Debian ARM in big-endian mode (otherwise having this thing set up as a network storage device is pretty useless unless you're planning on exclusively USB hubbing it).
Thank you, thank you.
Then again, maybe it isn't that simple. I'll be the first to admit that I've never worked an enterprise project that required updating for DST, so maybe I'm missing something.
I'd figure it would be based on a calendar function, so it shouldn't be that hard to tell your program to adjust at a different time. What I'd be more worried about is projects that aren't US based not updating for new support of the US DST.
This is why I keep a lot of my applications set to Zulu time and just do conversions. I like doing away with cultural timing practices with regards to technology. My calendar on my blog expresses dates in yyyy.ddd format and only shows time in 24hr cdt because most of my readership is in Alabama. Although the case is definitely there for my still using cultural conventions in my timekeeping practices. Oh well, it's more understandable to most people than seconds since the Unix epoch :-)
I agree with the posts upset over the fact that companies are getting slammed over parents' inability to parent, but at the same time, I think there should be at least some modicum of responsibility on the developer's part, especially when it is found that the developer knew that objectionable material existed and was not forthcoming about the existence of that material (to the point of gutless blameshifting that only makes them look more culpable once it was found that the underlying code existed on all platform versions). If Rockstar had no intention of allowing that content to be released THEN WHY DID THEY LEAVE IT IN THERE? I can understand if it was a single programmer (or maybe team) that threw in an objectionable minigame, though that seems unlikely to me, but that's not Rockstar's story so far.
Personally, I like a nice, cathartic, violent kill-fest first person shooter, and even had a lot of fun playing GTA3 and GTA:VC. I haven't played San Andreas, but this type of behaviour on Rockstar's part doesn't make me want to shell out cash to buy it now. This smells like someone wanted to include something and attempted to beat an ESRB rating by putting it in as an easter egg. Maybe possibly someone trying to challenge the ESRB's system itself; too bad for them, they've now got egg on their face.
And as someone already said, Penny Arcade's article and comic sum up the situation pretty nicely.
IIIIIIIIN SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE.
Cool. I might check it out. I've got a lot of friends who are interested in stargazing, but are a little impatient with my attempts to explain things regarding astronomy (one reason I don't wish to be a teacher). I've been casually looking for an easy to use amateur's guide to help me figure out how to make myself understandable.
Also, I like how it's a Hacks book on a physical science. Too many people, even in tech, think that hacking is only about computers. It's nice to reiterate that a hack is any type of bending or slick utilization of the rules to make a job easier. Whatever platform your hack is based on is your business.
In seriousness, is there a reason for trying to build a bipedal, humanoid, robot? I mean, this looks cool and all, but what are the advantages (or conversely, disadvantages) to such a design (IANSC [I Am Not Susan Calvin])?
I'd say that we will eventually have PoE, but I don't think it will be a necessary consequence of VoIP or telephony. I have VoIP, but I use it exclusively for the three hours a day I work as a call desk support monkey for my company. If I had an emergency, I have my cell phone on me as well.
This is something I've wondered about a lot: how many slashdotters out there use VoIP as their primary telecommunications resource? How many would use telephony once x gets improved?
When I was looking at schools and finally settled on a dual program in Physics and Electrical/Computer Engineering, I researched the CS program at the university I am currently attending, I found that the program was (perversely) a Software Engineering Lite. You actually learn more useful stuff in Software Engineering. (Flamebait protection: it is altogether possible that this is unique to my school, as it is known for it's engineering curriculum...I didn't start looking into a second major in the computing field until my Sophomore year, so I didn't look at how other schools did things)
I decided to go into ECE because (at my uni) it is closest to the program my dad did in college, it is a nice blend of software and electrical engineering. You learn the skills needed to design and produce software applications, as well as the skills to design systems that better fit the needs of a certain project.
A tip to anyone considering double majors where either is an Engineering or hard science: do it before your Sophomore year!
Take any unprotected Windows boxen and a decompiler and voila! Fuel with minimal work. Hey, now we have cross industrial uses for honeypots!
::chortle:: My first ever Flamebait mod (IIRC). Also my first ever positive mod Flamebait. Someone with mod points have mercy on me?
I realize I'm about to open a potential can of worms, but I really must know. I'm not that experienced with X, other than using GNOME or KDE. What are the pros and cons between XFree86 and X.Org? I think most of the boxen I've used were XFree86 based, and I am uncertain whether I have ever used one based on X.Org.
So... that Mr. Fusion I ordered off of eBay will actually work?
But try convincing someone who's only used Windows. Hell, I've put Knoppix on a failed Windows box just to tide a user over until they could get something more permanent, or new hardware, whatever.
I got nothing but stupid bitching for weeks.
And yes, I know that Linux shouldn't do something just because it'll make some idiot happy (would you hand out root access just because it was easier?), but I'm convinced that the sheep will only go after an OS that is known.
My post wasn't about Linux not being able to do something XP could, it was to say that the only reason to consolidate Linux is to catch the users that look for Big Software. Personally, I think that Linux is great, more secure, and more powerful than XP on most machines.
Who is the target audience for Linux? The average user who surfs the internet and plays solitaire? Or your typical computer savvy /. reader? One gets easily confused by chaos and will eventually seek One Big OS (ie Windows) while the other will prefer to be a sort of OS connoisseur.
Soon citizens of the world will cede their computing power to Oblivion Corp. owing to the wanton programs my minions have distributed. I thought my purchasing department had finally indulged in too much of the Evil Weed of Strategerizing when they approached me with this plan. A dark day dawns, internet traveller.
BC: Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.