Just like the Borg on Star Trek, really. Just a few nanoprobes in the blood...bam! An hour later you're connected to the Borg network and assimilating by the thousands. Far worse than grey goo.
Much of the commentary on the SCO distributed denial of service scenario, including our own, has been based on the premise that SCO badly wants to keep their web site running. This may not be the case: unlike Microsoft, which has a real business to run and a real need to keep its web site operational, SCO Executives may not strongly care about the availability of www.sco.com. After all, Michael Doyle's half a billion dollar patent win against Microsoft scarcely hinged on the response times of the Eolas web site. In fact, the author of the MyDoom virus has delegated control of directing the most enormous volume of http traffic that the Internet has yet seen to hostmaster@sco.com. On a whim, SCO can direct that Tsunami at an object of their choosing, simply by changing an A record in named.conf in time for the change to propagate by Sunday.
In this context, SCO Executives may have latitude to consider alternative defenses which do not involve having to parlay with low-down-no-good-Linux-loving-CDN-providers.
Solution 1: Move the SCO site to somewhere that has the clue and the clout to cope.
Consequences: SCO Executives buy a small business shared hosting account at Yahoo, noting that it runs on FreeBSD, not Linux, and point www.sco.com at the new account.
webhosting.yahoo.com stays up, and serves all the http requests from the infected machines at the same speed that the www.yahoo.com front page normally loads. Virus author kicks the cat in frustration. SCO's entire corporate cash resources exhausted by Yahoo's bandwidth surcharges in the first eight minutes. Yahoo pre-announces record quarter for hosting division.
Solution 2: Take www.sco.com out of the DNS.
Consequences: Everyone has a quiet weekend. SCO Execs drink Budweiser and watch the Superbowl. Global media considers that the virus author "has won". Anti-virus company Execs do not return journalists' calls on "What was all that fuss?"
Solution 3: Point www.sco.com at someone you don't like.
Consequences: SCO Executives take a poll on which web site annoys them the most. Slashdot wins. hostmaster@sco.com CNames www.sco.com to slashdot.org. SCO Execs cackle demonically at the prospect of slashdotting Slashdot.
Linux community notices DNS change propagating within five minutes. Eric Raymond calls for "restraint in the face of SCO's continual provocation". Undeterred, Linux community launches internet-wide round the clock hackathon, and finds six "trivially insecure" US military installations shortly after the US military go home on Friday afternoon. Spend Saturday soaking up the totally awesome graphics on the Stealth bomber flight simulators, and then obliterate most of Utah, sco.com name servers and all, on Sunday morning hours before the DDoS is due to hit Slashdot. SCO Execs still laughing themselves helpless about the/. Effect when the bomb hits.
New, previously unknown Linux Thought Leader declares that "we have met the enemy, and they are gone". Traffic to Slashdot triples, Hemos weeps about the size of OSDN's unsold banner inventory. Follow up posts enthuse about the quality of the stealth bomber user interface, then propose that they should sort out "the problem in Redmond" before they give the US Military their network back in time for Monday morning. New Linux Thought Leader concurs, adding that there's a carding site in Moscow that really ticks him off, too. Armageddon.
Solution 4: Get to the Windows machines before they go off.
Consequences: SCO executives persuade Slashdot readers that Windows machines are their common enemy and that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Someone in the Linux community notices Colin Percival's Depenguinator program, and considers that with some minor modifications, it can be distributed by the MyDoom virus, and as its payload, download and install Debian 3.0r2, KDE, Open Office and Evolution. Changes name of program to "De Penguinator".
Entire set of infected Windows machines is reached and either co
If it works like the courts, the patent office might actually feel the need to work in a regular pattern and rule on things in the same way. If they keep working like this, maybe the bullshit will finaly cut down.
I used to use Mandrake 9.1 and never had such a problem. If you don't want more Mandrake but still want an easy to use distro, however, I highly recommend MEPIS. It automagically configures your NVidia card and keeps it up to date with apt-get.
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I don't have anything against Russians; I've never met one. However, the Russian gov't needs to wake up and do something about all of the criminals it harbors. They write all of the major viruses, distribute drugs, and distribute weapons. It's bleedin obvious where all the problems come from, it's time for something to happen.
I think that the ISP's are required to keep a log of who used the address and at what time. The identification for that probably comes from the MAC address of the modem they loaned to you.
Thanks to KDict applet. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Indemnify 1. To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure. "The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shallfall out." --Sir W. Temple.
2. "To make restitution or compensation for, as for that whichis lost; to make whole; to reimburse; to compensate."
--Beattie.
Good thing Konquerer lacks compatibility with everything odd! I don't even get half the ads that are on web pages just through the browser's compatibilty problems, though important content almost always makes its way through.
Right on! Furthermore, when these people have power, they still won't have computers. Even if they got computers, they'd have bigger problems on their mind.
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Yeah...I got it to boot with no problems, but I can't raise eth0 and am thus not able to run nvidia-installer. :-(
Yeah yeah...Debian has had kernel 2.6 binaries for a while now in apt-get.
Just like the Borg on Star Trek, really. Just a few nanoprobes in the blood...bam! An hour later you're connected to the Borg network and assimilating by the thousands. Far worse than grey goo.
Where can I get one of those "Live free or die" Linux license plates that it shows Linus holding? I gotta have one!
Much of the commentary on the SCO distributed denial of service scenario, including our own, has been based on the premise that SCO badly wants to keep their web site running. This may not be the case: unlike Microsoft, which has a real business to run and a real need to keep its web site operational, SCO Executives may not strongly care about the availability of www.sco.com. After all, Michael Doyle's half a billion dollar patent win against Microsoft scarcely hinged on the response times of the Eolas web site.
/. Effect when the bomb hits.
In fact, the author of the MyDoom virus has delegated control of directing the most enormous volume of http traffic that the Internet has yet seen to hostmaster@sco.com. On a whim, SCO can direct that Tsunami at an object of their choosing, simply by changing an A record in named.conf in time for the change to propagate by Sunday.
In this context, SCO Executives may have latitude to consider alternative defenses which do not involve having to parlay with low-down-no-good-Linux-loving-CDN-providers.
Solution 1: Move the SCO site to somewhere that has the clue and the clout to cope.
Consequences: SCO Executives buy a small business shared hosting account at Yahoo, noting that it runs on FreeBSD, not Linux, and point www.sco.com at the new account.
webhosting.yahoo.com stays up, and serves all the http requests from the infected machines at the same speed that the www.yahoo.com front page normally loads. Virus author kicks the cat in frustration. SCO's entire corporate cash resources exhausted by Yahoo's bandwidth surcharges in the first eight minutes. Yahoo pre-announces record quarter for hosting division.
Solution 2: Take www.sco.com out of the DNS.
Consequences: Everyone has a quiet weekend. SCO Execs drink Budweiser and watch the Superbowl. Global media considers that the virus author "has won". Anti-virus company Execs do not return journalists' calls on "What was all that fuss?"
Solution 3: Point www.sco.com at someone you don't like.
Consequences: SCO Executives take a poll on which web site annoys them the most. Slashdot wins. hostmaster@sco.com CNames www.sco.com to slashdot.org. SCO Execs cackle demonically at the prospect of slashdotting Slashdot.
Linux community notices DNS change propagating within five minutes. Eric Raymond calls for "restraint in the face of SCO's continual provocation". Undeterred, Linux community launches internet-wide round the clock hackathon, and finds six "trivially insecure" US military installations shortly after the US military go home on Friday afternoon. Spend Saturday soaking up the totally awesome graphics on the Stealth bomber flight simulators, and then obliterate most of Utah, sco.com name servers and all, on Sunday morning hours before the DDoS is due to hit Slashdot. SCO Execs still laughing themselves helpless about the
New, previously unknown Linux Thought Leader declares that "we have met the enemy, and they are gone". Traffic to Slashdot triples, Hemos weeps about the size of OSDN's unsold banner inventory. Follow up posts enthuse about the quality of the stealth bomber user interface, then propose that they should sort out "the problem in Redmond" before they give the US Military their network back in time for Monday morning. New Linux Thought Leader concurs, adding that there's a carding site in Moscow that really ticks him off, too. Armageddon.
Solution 4: Get to the Windows machines before they go off.
Consequences: SCO executives persuade Slashdot readers that Windows machines are their common enemy and that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Someone in the Linux community notices Colin Percival's Depenguinator program, and considers that with some minor modifications, it can be distributed by the MyDoom virus, and as its payload, download and install Debian 3.0r2, KDE, Open Office and Evolution. Changes name of program to "De Penguinator".
Entire set of infected Windows machines is reached and either co
You can't really expect some PGP thing to hold up in court. Your average judge or juror won't even know what PGP is.
If it works like the courts, the patent office might actually feel the need to work in a regular pattern and rule on things in the same way. If they keep working like this, maybe the bullshit will finaly cut down.
I always knew there was a connection between Wendy's and the FBI.
You're right. I just looked at my boxes and All Stars was with my SNES and SMB3 was with my NES. Both were bundled, though.
The problem with power supplies is not buzzing, but fans...I think.
SMB3 was bundled with hardware! When I got my NES (circa 1991), it came with SMB3 and SMB All Stars.
Actually, the NVidia shell script installer will build its own kernel modules if it can't download binaries for your version. It's really great.
I used to use Mandrake 9.1 and never had such a problem. If you don't want more Mandrake but still want an easy to use distro, however, I highly recommend MEPIS. It automagically configures your NVidia card and keeps it up to date with apt-get.
I don't have anything against Russians; I've never met one. However, the Russian gov't needs to wake up and do something about all of the criminals it harbors. They write all of the major viruses, distribute drugs, and distribute weapons. It's bleedin obvious where all the problems come from, it's time for something to happen.
The highlight:
Finding out Fallout 3 was in development
The lowlight:
Finding out Fallout 3 was cancelled
If there were no copyrights, someone with an account at NYT could post the article somewhere else, then the rest of us could read it.
Put out more energy than it takes in? Once again, never trust the AP for science.
I think that the ISP's are required to keep a log of who used the address and at what time. The identification for that probably comes from the MAC address of the modem they loaned to you.
I still think nuclear is the best option for power, beating chemical, solar, and even mouse-wheel.
Thanks to KDict applet.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Indemnify
1. To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure.
"The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shallfall out."
--Sir W. Temple.
2. "To make restitution or compensation for, as for that whichis lost; to make whole; to reimburse; to compensate."
--Beattie.
This is exactly why open source is important. We need to be able to program our own phones to prevent these sorts of things from being a bother.
Good thing Konquerer lacks compatibility with everything odd! I don't even get half the ads that are on web pages just through the browser's compatibilty problems, though important content almost always makes its way through.
Anybody know just what is new in this version? Is it as big an upgrade from 3.1.5 to 3.2 as it was from 3 to 3.1?
Totally different files can end up with the same hashes. There goes the whole system.
Right on! Furthermore, when these people have power, they still won't have computers. Even if they got computers, they'd have bigger problems on their mind.