You can clog a mid-connection router that's failovered by too much traffic. That way, it looks to everybody coming from that router that the links slashdotted, when in reality, and request originating from that segment is "slashdotted".
Both of You are right;-) I got mixed up with 5 letter game companies that end with "O".
I felt the Dejap release was quite good, but they didnt need that "I betcha Arche fucks like a tiger" comment. And I didnt know it's being released on the GBA;-)
It'll be fun to see what they changed, as it's quite a dark game.
Superb game! The intro sequence is a FULL VOCAL song in this SNES game. It then starts you out on some sort of a boss scene where 4 guys cleans up on some boss.
And at the end, he then explains why he did all what he did throught the game. I'll leave out what he says...
And this wasnt made by Square.. It was made by the the football game kings, Tecmo.
Ten years ago, I posted a message announcing a new Linux project:
From: Ian A Murdock (imurdock@shell.portal.com) Date: August 16, 1993 6:09:59 PST Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development Subject: New release under development; suggestions requested
Fellow Linuxers,
This is just to announce the imminent completion of a brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release. This is a release that I have put together basically from scratch; in other words, I didn't simply make some changes to SLS and call it a new release. I was inspired to put together this release after running SLS and generally being dissatisfied with much of it, and after much altering of SLS I decided that it would be easier to start from scratch. The base system is now virtually complete (though I'm still looking around to make sure that I grabbed the most recent sources for everything), and I'd like to get some feedback before I add the "fancy" stuff.
[...]
(Full post available here.)
When I posted this message a decade ago, Linux was in use by maybe a few tens of thousands of people around the world, and most of those people were either running their own homebrew Linux system or Peter MacDonald's SLS, the Softlanding Linux System. Red Hat Software was but a twinkle in Marc Ewing's eye.
I had been using Linux for several months, since January of 1993. Not long after, I was hooked. Like most other early Linux enthusiasts, what hooked me was not Linux itself, but rather the community that had formed around it.
It's difficult to remember, because open source and open development projects are commonplace now, but in 1993, what I saw happening seemed completely illogical. How could people without any master plan, from different parts of the world, speaking different languages and not getting paid, come together to build something as complex as an operating system? The fascinating thing was that it worked.
The software coming from the GNU project was well-known and similar in many ways. It was also free and it lived on the Internet. But GNU software was developed the old fashioned way, with small, closely-knit teams behind closed doors (as Eric Raymond famously noted years later in his essay "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"). Linux was developed in a strikingly different and seemingly haphazard manner.
After a few weeks of dipping the proverbial toe in the water, I was swept away by all that was happening, and the power of what I had stumbled across quickly became clear. Invariably, a college kid such as myself would run across Linux (often in search of a way to run UNIX at home to save winter treks to the computer lab), take a look, register astonishment at what was happening, and then give it a try. Often, that was all it took.
The instinct to give back, to contribute to the community that didn't know you but that had already given you so much, was palpable. In mid-1993, I found my niche: I saw a need for a nicely packaged Linux "distribution," although from my initial post on August 16, 1993, it appears that this term wasn't in widespread use yet.
As briefly mentioned earlier, in those days people generally bootstrapped their own Linux systems from the ground up or used the SLS distribution. A few other distributions were available, notably MCC Interim from the Manchester Computing Centre and TAMU from Texas A&M University, but these efforts were mostly dormant by the time I found Linux. In early 1993, SLS was king.
I had harsh words for it at the time, but I cannot emphasize this enough: SLS was a breakthrough achievement, because it represented the first time Linux had been packaged for an audience broader than its own developers. Previous distributions tended to stop at the kernel, the basic utilities, and the development toolchain. SLS included a window system, document formatting tools, games, and other tools that a broader user community could appr
Why would a bookie, an eight-foot-tall bookie, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Jamicans. That does not make sense. But more important, you have to ask yourself - what does this have to do with this case?
>>>I agree. This is one of the things that people often fail to realize. As Microsoft moves from 90% to 70% we will be much closer to the computing environment of the 1980s where compatability was a major issue. Computer users were forced on a regular basis to deal with conversion issues.
I remember those days well too. I disagre, not the idea behind what you say, but your assumption. Those days, there were basic editors for each type of format, and different programs for each computer.
There were different CPU's, different architechures, no real language linking all of them together, and no way to transfer information easily (internet).
Now there's X86, PPC/G5 and misc minis (sun, SGI, HP, IBM...). There's a FREE C, C++, ASM, PASCAL, FORTRAN, LISP, and PERL compiler available for each system. And we can thank Stallman for the C and C++ compiler.
Hardware compatibility is no problem due to portable source.
Document portability and compatibility is no problem with open standards. What'd happen if Adobe bit it? They released the format, so we'd probably still use it. What if MS bit the dust? Good luck converting those documents correctly. However, Ksuite, ABIword, Star/OpenOffice and the other Free Open source software is immune to document loss due to compatibility. If a filter for XYZ open software doesnt have a filter in ABC open source software, hire a programmer to add it.
>>>>>>Where to begin... For starters, the double slit experiment, to see the neat effects of single electron interference, must be done in a vacuum. The electorns must not be influenced by anything else at all, like air/gas molecules. Also, it must be done at temperatures near absolute zero, where the thermal bath of the environment doesn't wash out the quantum effect you are talking about... Just not possible on a portable system...
It's just as portable as those nifty Lava Lamps;-)
Nope, it happened 4 or 5 years ago here in Indiana.
The mother was pregenant and she was heavy into drugs. Allegedly, she was with friends at a drug party and she OD'ed into a coma for a few days. When she awoke, the baby died.
The prosecuter could get a few drug charges with no problem (on her, in her, around her). Well, he charges successfully Murder 2 (20 years). The jury agrees.
The reason I say this is consistency to the law. I'm against abortion, but if the majority of the public wants it, make it possible. To take money for killing your baby is legal vs. Taking drugs to (accidently) kill your baby-murder 2 is INCONSISTENT.
We can challenge whether we think rules are wrong or right, but we need a 'platform' to stand on.
>>>if lives can be saved by studying those who have left - then why in the world would we stand in the way of that?
Who cares about saving lives (seriously, not tounge in cheek)? This is scientific exploration. If we save more lives every year, overcrowding comes that much sooner.
>>>religious opposition in the 19th and early 20th century maintained that if we allowed study of cadavers or donation of organs that people would be killed and abducted and harvested by notorious individuals in the name of 'science'.
Here in the US, it doesnt seem to happen, but I assume that China is probably headed that way. Homeless, I would bet, be the first targets. Much easier to get away with.
>>>but that did not happen. nor will people go out of their way to abort fetuses just so they can get stem cells. scientists are not growing fetuses to harvest stem cells.
>>>this unfortunately ignites the whole abortion debate, which i doubt will ever be resolved. but legally, if I, as next of kin, have the right to determine whether the body of a loved one is to be donated to science; why shouldn't these mothers who exercised their legal right to terminate their pregnancies, also have that same legal right to donate?
Then what you're going to get is one of these arguments (along woth possible rebuttals.
1: Religous bla bla bla 1R: You've already won. Prove $deity exists to me. Now prove whay I believe $deity laws.
2: Who cares about religion, youre depriving Life/Liberty/PursuitofHappiness in babies. That's the cornerstone of our country 2R: Tough one. Could say it isnt life (leads into #3).
3: New life starts by the 2 parental DNA strands to create a new and unique DNA which reproduces. 3R: You can argue about "life", but it's the commonly scientific accepted meaning of life. You could claim 'reproductive freedom'
4: Could claim "Reproductive Freedom" where you can kill any unborn babies. 4R: Abortions allowed. OD'ing and killing your unborn baby gets you 20. What the government is saying is it's legal to hire a "doctor" to off your unborn baby. However it's also murder when they want it to be. By substating that (upheld) sentance, they are agreeing that they allow Murder For Hire
Simply that's the abortion issue right there. As it stands, the state can see it as accepted practice (abortion) or as muder. Their rules, their choice. Until Judges can resolve the internal conflict, this argument will happen. If it's illegalized, back to underground abortions (2x4's, nasty chemicals, drug overdoses, modified claw-vacumn).
Still, are "Humans" sacred (religious)? Cant answer that, but it probably means sentient creature. If the species (or themselves) has the capibility to understand themselves, then they should get the Unalienable Rights granted to all humans.
""and these 'special' branches of the conversation will be shown in a different font to indicate this""
Yep, and in real life, the text you hear after X special event is GREEN (!?). Oh, sorry. That's Neverwinter nights.
But still, SOOOOOOOO REALISTIC for an rpg. I guess you gotta tell the (l)users what text is different. Cant actually use your head to figure it out yourself.
>>>Is there any way to be sure that the logs are genuine to begin with, especially the paper versions?
nope
>>>If it's done by someone in the same building, physical security is 0 and any theory is possible really.
Not quite right. If they used IPSEC or IPX with signature-authentication (signs every packet with pgp-like hardness, and everything ignores unless right).
>>>The logging machine could have been tampered with or swapping ethernet cards in two machines: MACs are swapped and probably IPs.
The loggging machine can be made impervious to attacks. Simply pull TX and capture that way. Of course, it wont stop management from simply editing the logs.
>A final thought occured to me- try to obtain more information about how your company stores log data. If they log DHCP information, the server should be able to tell what MAC address was assigned which IP at what times. Sure, someone could clone your MAC, but they'd have to know what your MAC was first, so i suspect a hacker would simply make up a MAC instead of cloning one.
No, they wouldnt. If X hacker was trying to "Hack The Planet", they'd use a decoy to glean any info about their internal network. Only AFTER basic mapping of the scene, would they set up a hackbox to attack. Best is to choose a psychological profile that would seem to hack, and then use their information (mac, ip, passwds) to make it plausible that THEY did it.
Simply enough, getting a MAC address and an IP is SIMPLE SIMPLE SIMPLE. Ping it once and read the arp cache. That doesnt stop spoofing, but you can detect that later.
Even if he did do it, he was WAAAAY too messy. As if they wanted him to get caught to take heat off of the real one.
Slashdot Mirror
or WinNuke95
Perhaps you are SLASHDOTTING a pipe.
You can clog a mid-connection router that's failovered by too much traffic. That way, it looks to everybody coming from that router that the links slashdotted, when in reality, and request originating from that segment is "slashdotted".
Because then ytou'd have craptastic mobo's like Intel Itanium made for nVidia chipset.
Trust me, none of these companies would want to make something that simple.
Do you know what's SOOOOO great about standards??
There's sooooooo many to choose from!!
(PoOO! Tang!!) Thankyou Thankyou. I'll be here all night.
I was also going to ask you. Do you know where the book "Tale Phantasia" can be found? I would LOVE reading the book along playing the game.
I've looked all over the net with no sucess. I've also called up japanese book/manga distributors. No luck at all.
Both of You are right ;-) I got mixed up with 5 letter game companies that end with "O".
;-)
I felt the Dejap release was quite good, but they didnt need that "I betcha Arche fucks like a tiger" comment. And I didnt know it's being released on the GBA
It'll be fun to see what they changed, as it's quite a dark game.
Perhaps if we allow all these shit patents clog up the 'system', the people and other companies will revolt?
Just an idea..
Try "Tales of Phantasia".
Superb game! The intro sequence is a FULL VOCAL song in this SNES game. It then starts you out on some sort of a boss scene where 4 guys cleans up on some boss.
And at the end, he then explains why he did all what he did throught the game. I'll leave out what he says...
And this wasnt made by Square.. It was made by the the football game kings, Tecmo.
>>>Poor people don't have any rights, anyway.
The syetem we created, they dont. You need money for basic essentials, but what if you're violated some way??? Pay the court cost? Yeah, right.
In this country, money speaks. If you dont have it, you're nobody.
Wonderful values, arent they? What'd you learn in school?
Then please explain how.
Do you know what's soo great about standards?
There's SOOOO many to choose from !
(POOO! TANG!) Thank you thank you. I'll be here all night.
Oh yeah. I've always had minimum pingtime of about 30 seconds to render a damned page. And I'm on DSL.
Seems scoop isnt all what they thought. Guess they shold have chosen slashcode.
Debian a Decade Ago
Ian Murdock
Ten years ago, I posted a message announcing a new Linux project:
From: Ian A Murdock (imurdock@shell.portal.com)
Date: August 16, 1993 6:09:59 PST
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: New release under development; suggestions requested
Fellow Linuxers,
This is just to announce the imminent completion of a brand-new Linux release,
which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release. This is a release that I have put
together basically from scratch; in other words, I didn't simply make some
changes to SLS and call it a new release. I was inspired to put together this
release after running SLS and generally being dissatisfied with much of it,
and after much altering of SLS I decided that it would be easier to start
from scratch. The base system is now virtually complete (though I'm still
looking around to make sure that I grabbed the most recent sources for
everything), and I'd like to get some feedback before I add the "fancy" stuff.
[...]
(Full post available here.)
When I posted this message a decade ago, Linux was in use by maybe a few tens of thousands of people around the world, and most of those people were either running their own homebrew Linux system or Peter MacDonald's SLS, the Softlanding Linux System. Red Hat Software was but a twinkle in Marc Ewing's eye.
I had been using Linux for several months, since January of 1993. Not long after, I was hooked. Like most other early Linux enthusiasts, what hooked me was not Linux itself, but rather the community that had formed around it.
It's difficult to remember, because open source and open development projects are commonplace now, but in 1993, what I saw happening seemed completely illogical. How could people without any master plan, from different parts of the world, speaking different languages and not getting paid, come together to build something as complex as an operating system? The fascinating thing was that it worked.
The software coming from the GNU project was well-known and similar in many ways. It was also free and it lived on the Internet. But GNU software was developed the old fashioned way, with small, closely-knit teams behind closed doors (as Eric Raymond famously noted years later in his essay "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"). Linux was developed in a strikingly different and seemingly haphazard manner.
After a few weeks of dipping the proverbial toe in the water, I was swept away by all that was happening, and the power of what I had stumbled across quickly became clear. Invariably, a college kid such as myself would run across Linux (often in search of a way to run UNIX at home to save winter treks to the computer lab), take a look, register astonishment at what was happening, and then give it a try. Often, that was all it took.
The instinct to give back, to contribute to the community that didn't know you but that had already given you so much, was palpable. In mid-1993, I found my niche: I saw a need for a nicely packaged Linux "distribution," although from my initial post on August 16, 1993, it appears that this term wasn't in widespread use yet.
As briefly mentioned earlier, in those days people generally bootstrapped their own Linux systems from the ground up or used the SLS distribution. A few other distributions were available, notably MCC Interim from the Manchester Computing Centre and TAMU from Texas A&M University, but these efforts were mostly dormant by the time I found Linux. In early 1993, SLS was king.
I had harsh words for it at the time, but I cannot emphasize this enough: SLS was a breakthrough achievement, because it represented the first time Linux had been packaged for an audience broader than its own developers. Previous distributions tended to stop at the kernel, the basic utilities, and the development toolchain. SLS included a window system, document formatting tools, games, and other tools that a broader user community could appr
:So what's the drawback again?
The government's not getting their cut.
Why would a bookie, an eight-foot-tall bookie, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Jamicans. That does not make sense. But more important, you have to ask yourself - what does this have to do with this case?
I wouldnt be surprised for one bit if the GOVT blocked consumer celluar signals near crucial buildings.
>>>I agree. This is one of the things that people often fail to realize. As Microsoft moves from 90% to 70% we will be much closer to the computing environment of the 1980s where compatability was a major issue. Computer users were forced on a regular basis to deal with conversion issues.
I remember those days well too. I disagre, not the idea behind what you say, but your assumption. Those days, there were basic editors for each type of format, and different programs for each computer.
There were different CPU's, different architechures, no real language linking all of them together, and no way to transfer information easily (internet).
Now there's X86, PPC/G5 and misc minis (sun, SGI, HP, IBM...). There's a FREE C, C++, ASM, PASCAL, FORTRAN, LISP, and PERL compiler available for each system. And we can thank Stallman for the C and C++ compiler.
Hardware compatibility is no problem due to portable source.
Document portability and compatibility is no problem with open standards. What'd happen if Adobe bit it? They released the format, so we'd probably still use it. What if MS bit the dust? Good luck converting those documents correctly. However, Ksuite, ABIword, Star/OpenOffice and the other Free Open source software is immune to document loss due to compatibility. If a filter for XYZ open software doesnt have a filter in ABC open source software, hire a programmer to add it.
>>>>>>Where to begin... For starters, the double slit experiment, to see the neat effects of single electron interference, must be done in a vacuum. The electorns must not be influenced by anything else at all, like air/gas molecules. Also, it must be done at temperatures near absolute zero, where the thermal bath of the environment doesn't wash out the quantum effect you are talking about... Just not possible on a portable system...
;-)
It's just as portable as those nifty Lava Lamps
Nope, it happened 4 or 5 years ago here in Indiana.
The mother was pregenant and she was heavy into drugs. Allegedly, she was with friends at a drug party and she OD'ed into a coma for a few days. When she awoke, the baby died.
The prosecuter could get a few drug charges with no problem (on her, in her, around her). Well, he charges successfully Murder 2 (20 years). The jury agrees.
The reason I say this is consistency to the law. I'm against abortion, but if the majority of the public wants it, make it possible. To take money for killing your baby is legal vs. Taking drugs to (accidently) kill your baby-murder 2 is INCONSISTENT.
We can challenge whether we think rules are wrong or right, but we need a 'platform' to stand on.
Quake Kicks ass. The reason is there's Sooo many mods out there, and Quake is easy on your GFX card.
Damn near anybody can play it fast.
>>>if lives can be saved by studying those who have left - then why in the world would we stand in the way of that?
Who cares about saving lives (seriously, not tounge in cheek)? This is scientific exploration. If we save more lives every year, overcrowding comes that much sooner.
>>>religious opposition in the 19th and early 20th century maintained that if we allowed study of cadavers or donation of organs that people would be killed and abducted and harvested by notorious individuals in the name of 'science'.
Here in the US, it doesnt seem to happen, but I assume that China is probably headed that way. Homeless, I would bet, be the first targets. Much easier to get away with.
>>>but that did not happen. nor will people go out of their way to abort fetuses just so they can get stem cells. scientists are not growing fetuses to harvest stem cells.
>>>this unfortunately ignites the whole abortion debate, which i doubt will ever be resolved. but legally, if I, as next of kin, have the right to determine whether the body of a loved one is to be donated to science; why shouldn't these mothers who exercised their legal right to terminate their pregnancies, also have that same legal right to donate?
Then what you're going to get is one of these arguments (along woth possible rebuttals.
1: Religous bla bla bla
1R: You've already won. Prove $deity exists to me. Now prove whay I believe $deity laws.
2: Who cares about religion, youre depriving Life/Liberty/PursuitofHappiness in babies. That's the cornerstone of our country
2R: Tough one. Could say it isnt life (leads into #3).
3: New life starts by the 2 parental DNA strands to create a new and unique DNA which reproduces.
3R: You can argue about "life", but it's the commonly scientific accepted meaning of life. You could claim 'reproductive freedom'
4: Could claim "Reproductive Freedom" where you can kill any unborn babies.
4R: Abortions allowed. OD'ing and killing your unborn baby gets you 20. What the government is saying is it's legal to hire a "doctor" to off your unborn baby. However it's also murder when they want it to be. By substating that (upheld) sentance, they are agreeing that they allow Murder For Hire
Simply that's the abortion issue right there. As it stands, the state can see it as accepted practice (abortion) or as muder. Their rules, their choice. Until Judges can resolve the internal conflict, this argument will happen. If it's illegalized, back to underground abortions (2x4's, nasty chemicals, drug overdoses, modified claw-vacumn).
Still, are "Humans" sacred (religious)? Cant answer that, but it probably means sentient creature. If the species (or themselves) has the capibility to understand themselves, then they should get the Unalienable Rights granted to all humans.
""and these 'special' branches of the conversation will be shown in a different font to indicate this""
Yep, and in real life, the text you hear after X special event is GREEN (!?).
Oh, sorry. That's Neverwinter nights.
But still, SOOOOOOOO REALISTIC for an rpg. I guess you gotta tell the (l)users what text is different. Cant actually use your head to figure it out yourself.
>>>Is there any way to be sure that the logs are genuine to begin with, especially the paper versions?
nope
>>>If it's done by someone in the same building, physical security is 0 and any theory is possible really.
Not quite right. If they used IPSEC or IPX with signature-authentication (signs every packet with pgp-like hardness, and everything ignores unless right).
>>>The logging machine could have been tampered with or swapping ethernet cards in two machines: MACs are swapped and probably IPs.
The loggging machine can be made impervious to attacks. Simply pull TX and capture that way. Of course, it wont stop management from simply editing the logs.
>A final thought occured to me- try to obtain more information about how your company stores log data. If they log DHCP information, the server should be able to tell what MAC address was assigned which IP at what times. Sure, someone could clone your MAC, but they'd have to know what your MAC was first, so i suspect a hacker would simply make up a MAC instead of cloning one.
No, they wouldnt. If X hacker was trying to "Hack The Planet", they'd use a decoy to glean any info about their internal network. Only AFTER basic mapping of the scene, would they set up a hackbox to attack. Best is to choose a psychological profile that would seem to hack, and then use their information (mac, ip, passwds) to make it plausible that THEY did it.
Simply enough, getting a MAC address and an IP is SIMPLE SIMPLE SIMPLE. Ping it once and read the arp cache. That doesnt stop spoofing, but you can detect that later.
Even if he did do it, he was WAAAAY too messy. As if they wanted him to get caught to take heat off of the real one.
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