It sounds like you have played some of the MMORPGs out there where a wizard can dish out more damage than 5 warriors in full battle kit.
Magic was not comonplace in middle earth - it was, well, magical!
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And a good flamebait and troll question is one that was hotly debated for over a week in a law class this semister:
Should CGI child porn be legal? (is it exploiting children if there was never a child involved to begin with?)
Don't bother replying, as there is no side of the debate that I haven't heard in excruciating detail. If you think it is a hot topic for discussion or you have some uniuqe insite, send it to ask-slashdot.
It is a sad testament to our times that this topic would even come up in a criminal law textbook.
With all the whining about national security, I was expecting to see detailed blueprints. But instead we get poor quality diagrams. Hell, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, real plans for tested models are probably available on the international arms market for the right price, or even surplus parts. Or you can just pick them up from France, Sudan, or on the black market in Iraq.
I saw better diagrams in highschool textbooks from that era. Go to a use book store. The theory has been out there, but the precision parts and the highly toxic and radioactive components are just a trifle hard to come by.
I know that you alarmists believe that the local militia is going to hurry over to Ace Hardware and get all the supplies tonight to be the first one on the block to have their own H-Bomb. Can't let those Pinkoes and Furriners beat them to it.
Yes any death is sad, but it was only four deaths in the whole project.
Calculate the number of man-years for the project, then realize that these guys are not computer geeks. They actually work in dangerous conditions, extreme cold, summer's heat, dust, mud, and a major portion of the work went on after dark. 4 deaths is an amazingly good record for a job of that magnitude.
Now that number will probably be surpassed within the month by deaths due to drunken or poor driving in Boston.
The state will probably lose that many on the Holiday weekend.
Those future deaths certainly can be avoided, but will they? How many will die on that stretch of highway in the next 12 months?
When your time is up, you get your ticket punched and move on. No use trying to dawdle - just climb in the boat and cross the river styx.
Compare the price of external SCSI cables! I remember looking at CompUSA for one when I needed a replacement Right-NOW to fix an HP workstation. $69 for a 3' ( one meter) Belkin SCSI-1 cable. The only SCSI items in the store were in the Apple section. Belkin cables were available mail order for about $10 back then. All I can surmise is this: Apple users are used to paying more, so the retailers shaft them every chance they get, part of the mistique of owning an Apple. Time for the consumers to revolt...
That is why I recycle all my personal papers into tinder for my wood stove. Properly rolled and bound newpaper "logs" burn for a long time, and give up some nice heat. I use the cheap single cut shredder to shred everything with personal info, this is good enough for starting the fire. I cut the address from my old trade periodicals before I drop them off at the waiting room at my Doctor's office. Better computer magazines than Women's Day.
Now before all of you green geeks flame me, the county stopped collecting paper, ever since the price dropped. They had a scandal when it was exposed that they were dumping sorted recycle paper in the landfill with regular garbage.
As far as I know they still properly recycle glass, plastic and metals.
Come on! It is his sig. A Movie quote by the looks of it, I'll bet it is from Animal house or one of those. If you want me to go to google and look it up for you I will after I get some coffee.
how many people can read this code ?
They just read IE patch download and install it. It's Free OSS. Then they install a piece of spyware promoted by slashdot.
If they dare complain about it, and some asshat like you tell them "Just read the code it's obvious it's spyware".
OSS just lost another potential costumer because of that. Thanks you please don't come again.
The OSS community checks the source so your average user does not have to learn to read code.
Now Microsoft releases a patch and Ziff-Davis, CNN, InfoWorld et al promote it and it installs more vulnerabilities than it fixed. But NO independant audit of the source code ever happens. Yet you trust it! Why is that? Is this because of Microsoft's proven security track record or its World reknown record for customer service?
OSS did not lose a customer in you, you are oviously a microsoft user for life.
It Phones home? Horrors! I thought that was copyrighed by Microsoft as a feature of XP.
Which website states this? If you are failing to comprehend what it says on hesse.de, I'll explain: When it gets a redirect URL, it sends the URL to a CGI script so it can show the operator (you) how you are being redirected. This cgi script has to reside somewhere, so it is on their server.
So why is it ok to use an OS that spys on you and not use a patch to fix that OS?
You must just be overly critical that a bunch of unorganized unwashed hippies fixed the mistakes made by a bunch of organized unwashed yuppies.
Check the source if you mistrust it. Or better yet, stop using IE and your problems are gone. Or shut up, and wait till longhorn fixes all of these problems.
It's good to be proud of your branch, but you have been brainwashed! The Marines were the First Armed force, so they must have preemptivly stolen all that!
I've worked and trained with the devil-dogs and know that I can trust ANY marine with my life. It takes someone special to do the dirty jobs, and I Salute you across the digital divide!
Semper Fi man!
(Don't you love the cowards comments?
Must feel strange to live their lives being protected by men that are better than they are.)
All the Army Watercraft are not navy!
The Army Transportation Corps (wo)man the tugboats. They handle the ship to shore transport of equipment and supplies.
Not sure of the numbers now, but back in the 80s, the US Army has more watercraft than the Navy, more aircraft than the Airforce, and more grunts than the Marines.
Check FAS.org for more info on the "Army's navy"
Another good place for information on the Transportation corps is Ft Eustis
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As an ex VMware user I'll tell you why I dropped the product. I have used VMware in corporate settings, to run the requsite Windows apps on my Linux workstations. Budgetary connstraints hit enterprise "cost centers" hard in 2000, and it was far easier to adapt low cost solutions than to prariedog by asking for capital equipment for projects like network management, development, and security.
I stopped using VMware as their support for kernel upgrades diminished. This happened gradually, as their VMware for Windows product evolved. Forcing users to stick with a stock kernel for the lifecycle of a VMware release smacks of lack of concern for the customer base.
If this was a free, user supported project, I could live with some of the limitations of VMware. However, as a paying customer, I expect more for my money.
Not only will the Ba'athists be less inclined to fight, but the "Lion of Tikrit" was found hiding in a hole in the ground, and submitted to the disgrace of a televised medical exam.
This is a great shame for the fearless leader to be found hiding. The Iraqi are no longer afraid of his return to power. One of the Iraqi reporters at the press conference pointedly asked if the ban on capital punishment could be lifted in this case, Paul Bremmer and his Iraqi counterpart in the conditional government had to remain noncommittal.
Some of us can not or will not use wireless. I had to wire my parents house, since my mother has an older pacemaker. They say it should not interfere, but hell, I'm poor and can't afford to replace my mother!
My place is a clutter of wires because I am a jerk! I don't want the neighbors sniffing my packets. I do have a wireless nic in the laptop from work, and yes, I can connect to their unsecured AP.
I have used both relay racks and the closed cabinets. Relay racks will work for just about anything, deep servers can have the "ears" mid-mounted. Chatsworth also has heavy duty shelving. The only downside to the relay racks are the narrow base, and the possibility of tipping over. Bolting to a floor is probably not an option if you rent.
Re:How does this help us, or Sun
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This helps me by giving me true Solaris experience. This helps Sun by giving me true Solaris experience.
I agree that using Solaris is not the best use of an Intel box, but working within the limitations of Solaris is a great learning experience for the Linux admin. One more OS to add to the Resume, it proves to potential employers that you are willing to learn the different Operating systems and are not a zealot for a particular operating system or worse, a particular Linux distribution.
This is not the same as Solaris experience on Sparc boxes, but it will help bridge the gap. I have seen Human Resource drones ignore senior system admins with Sun and IBM experience when looking for HP-UX people, it is not hard to imagine that they would do the same for Solaris admins. If it gets your foot in the door to interview with someone who knows the difference between Sol-9-sparc and Sol-9-x86 then the interviewer should be able to know that your IRIX or AIX experience will transfer to their systems.
Now if Solaris for Intel is someone's only "real unix" experience, I doubt if they will be able to parley that and their home linux exerience into a Solaris sys-admin slot. In fact I hope not!
I know that I will not put Solaris or HP-UX on my resume, but I do put Openview. I spent 3 years using Linux as a front end for some network monitoring apps that ran on openview. The HP-UX guys kept the box running, and I ran the monitors.
My point exactly on ftp.sco.com, I check them during the incident, and response time seemed normal.
What bothers me avout the whole incident is that we just have one confirmation that there was a 32 hour attack on SCO.
Just where are all the zombies? What OS where they running? What vulnerability on the zombies was exploited? Where are the rest of the confirmations that this was a DDOS?
Answers to the above questions were flying all over the 'net when Microsoft was DDOSed, where are they now? I know more people hate Microsoft than SCO, but the people with the tools to detect the DDoS attacks are vendor neutral.
An interesting quote from CAIDA:
"Around 2:50 AM PST Thursday morning, December 11, the attacker(s) began to attack SCO's ftp (file transfer protocol) servers in addition to continuing the web server attack. Together www.sco.com and ftp.sco.com experienced a SYN flood of over 50,000 packet-per-second early Thursday morning. By mid-morning Thursday (9 AM PST), the attack rate had reduced considerably to around 3,700 packets per second. Throughout Thursday morning, the ftp server received the brunt of the attack, although the high-intensity attack on the ftp server lasted for a considerably shorter duration than the web server attack. At 10:40 AM PST, SCO removed their web servers from the Internet and stopped responding to the incoming attack traffic. Their Internet Service Provider (ISP) appears to have filtered all traffic destined for the web and ftp servers until they came back online at 5 PM PST."
So not only did the ISP filter the traffic for the ftp servers, it seems to have mirrored the ftp server, since I was able to explore the ftp site and also download download an ISO:
SCOX Dev CD
So the Bandwidth to the DDoSed ftp server either was not saturated, or the ftp server was not DDoSed, or maybe, just maybe, it was an inside job!
Not sure if the private sector is forced to take cash, I know for a fact that the government does not have to take cash. Many government services require a moneyorder or certified check, such as the Penna vehicle sales tax. The application states not to send cash, and they discourage the use of personal checks with warnings of delays in service till the check clears.
There is a law or IRS regulation requiring IRS notification of any cash purchase of $10,000 or more. I remember seeing the notice hanging in the local Radio Shack back in the early 90's Can you pay the IRS with coins? Been tried, and it doesn't work.
The government makes the laws, those laws can be written to favor them. Many laws already are written that way: The Government states that you owe taxes, You have to furnish proof that you do not. If you owe back taxes, along with taxes and possible penalties, you also have to pay interest. If you prove that the Government owes you, they do not have to pay interest, nor are they penalized for holding on to your money. Why is this so? Because they wrote the rules to favor those in power, while trying to limit fraud and abuse of the system.
The Government that prints the statement of legal tender on the bills can choose to stop printing that statement. They stopped giving the bearer of silver certificates the equivalant value of sterling silver in the 60's, what makes you certain that they will honor cash in the future?
Just because there are less identical copies of an OS out there does not make it more secure.
Just because there are more identical copies of an OS out there does not excuse multiple, unpatched, vulnerabilities!
The Underlying OS is what is secure or not. The Mac OS has a flaw, openBSD has a flaw, the Linux kernel has flaws, Open Source applications have flaws, and the Windows OS series have severe cracks in the foundation of their operating systems.
Why do all the Microsoft apologists point to vulnerabilities in other Operating Systems as a justification for having the worst security track record in the history of computing?
If not the Pentax get an old Minolta XD-11. The XD-11 had a full manual but also has aperature and shutter priority.
Enjoy, and don't let them go in a divorce! I should have fought for the cameras instead of the kids... the Judge gave her both! The kids came back to me full time a few years later, the camera equipment she sold!
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And who is forcing you to work in an evil corporation that treats you like a machine?
Ever hear of being an Entrepreneur?
Then you can be an evil corporate master.
MORON
Learn to spell before you spiel
Like anyone would listen to an ignorant asshat democrat like you!
It sounds like you have played some of the MMORPGs out there where a wizard can dish out more damage than 5 warriors in full battle kit.
Magic was not comonplace in middle earth - it was, well, magical!
And a good flamebait and troll question is one that was hotly debated for over a week in a law class this semister:
Should CGI child porn be legal?
(is it exploiting children if there was never a child involved to begin with?)
Don't bother replying, as there is no side of the debate that I haven't heard in excruciating detail. If you think it is a hot topic for discussion or you have some uniuqe insite, send it to ask-slashdot.
It is a sad testament to our times that this topic would even come up in a criminal law textbook.
With all the whining about national security, I was expecting to see detailed blueprints. But instead we get poor quality diagrams. Hell, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, real plans for tested models are probably available on the international arms market for the right price, or even surplus parts. Or you can just pick them up from France, Sudan, or on the black market in Iraq.
I saw better diagrams in highschool textbooks from that era. Go to a use book store. The theory has been out there, but the precision parts and the highly toxic and radioactive components are just a trifle hard to come by.
I know that you alarmists believe that the local militia is going to hurry over to Ace Hardware and get all the supplies tonight to be the first one on the block to have their own H-Bomb. Can't let those Pinkoes and Furriners beat them to it.
Yes any death is sad, but it was only four deaths in the whole project.
Calculate the number of man-years for the project, then realize that these guys are not computer geeks. They actually work in dangerous conditions, extreme cold, summer's heat, dust, mud, and a major portion of the work went on after dark. 4 deaths is an amazingly good record for a job of that magnitude.
Now that number will probably be surpassed within the month by deaths due to drunken or poor driving in Boston.
The state will probably lose that many on the Holiday weekend.
Those future deaths certainly can be avoided, but will they? How many will die on that stretch of highway in the next 12 months?
When your time is up, you get your ticket punched and move on. No use trying to dawdle - just climb in the boat and cross the river styx.
Compare the price of external SCSI cables! I remember looking at CompUSA for one when I needed a replacement Right-NOW to fix an HP workstation. $69 for a 3' ( one meter) Belkin SCSI-1 cable. The only SCSI items in the store were in the Apple section. Belkin cables were available mail order for about $10 back then. All I can surmise is this: Apple users are used to paying more, so the retailers shaft them every chance they get, part of the mistique of owning an Apple. Time for the consumers to revolt...
That is why I recycle all my personal papers into tinder for my wood stove.
Properly rolled and bound newpaper "logs" burn for a long time, and give up some nice heat.
I use the cheap single cut shredder to shred everything with personal info, this is good enough for starting the fire.
I cut the address from my old trade periodicals before I drop them off at the waiting room at my Doctor's office. Better computer magazines than Women's Day.
Now before all of you green geeks flame me, the county stopped collecting paper, ever since the price dropped. They had a scandal when it was exposed that they were dumping sorted recycle paper in the landfill with regular garbage.
As far as I know they still properly recycle glass, plastic and metals.
Come on! It is his sig. A Movie quote by the looks of it, I'll bet it is from Animal house or one of those. If you want me to go to google and look it up for you I will after I get some coffee.
how many people can read this code ? They just read IE patch download and install it. It's Free OSS.
Then they install a piece of spyware promoted by slashdot.
If they dare complain about it, and some asshat like you tell them "Just read the code it's obvious it's spyware".
OSS just lost another potential costumer because of that. Thanks you please don't come again.
The OSS community checks the source so your average user does not have to learn to read code.
Now Microsoft releases a patch and Ziff-Davis, CNN, InfoWorld et al promote it and it installs more vulnerabilities than it fixed. But NO independant audit of the source code ever happens. Yet you trust it! Why is that? Is this because of Microsoft's proven security track record or its World reknown record for customer service?
OSS did not lose a customer in you, you are oviously a microsoft user for life.
It Phones home? Horrors! I thought that was copyrighed by Microsoft as a feature of XP.
Which website states this? If you are failing to comprehend what it says on hesse.de, I'll explain: When it gets a redirect URL, it sends the URL to a CGI script so it can show the operator (you) how you are being redirected. This cgi script has to reside somewhere, so it is on their server.
So why is it ok to use an OS that spys on you and not use a patch to fix that OS?
You must just be overly critical that a bunch of unorganized unwashed hippies fixed the mistakes made by a bunch of organized unwashed yuppies.
Check the source if you mistrust it. Or better yet, stop using IE and your problems are gone. Or shut up, and wait till longhorn fixes all of these problems.
It's good to be proud of your branch, but you have been brainwashed! The Marines were the First Armed force, so they must have preemptivly stolen all that!
I've worked and trained with the devil-dogs and know that I can trust ANY marine with my life. It takes someone special to do the dirty jobs, and I Salute you across the digital divide!
Semper Fi man!
(Don't you love the cowards comments?
Must feel strange to live their lives being protected by men that are better than they are.)
It is common knowledge:
Kiwis are flightless birds!
Sorry, Just couldn't resist
All the Army Watercraft are not navy!
The Army Transportation Corps (wo)man the tugboats. They handle the ship to shore transport of equipment and supplies.
Not sure of the numbers now, but back in the 80s, the US Army has more watercraft than the Navy, more aircraft than the Airforce, and more grunts than the Marines.
Check FAS.org for more info on the "Army's navy"
Another good place for information on the Transportation corps is Ft Eustis
As an ex VMware user I'll tell you why I dropped the product. I have used VMware in corporate settings, to run the requsite Windows apps on my Linux workstations. Budgetary connstraints hit enterprise "cost centers" hard in 2000, and it was far easier to adapt low cost solutions than to prariedog by asking for capital equipment for projects like network management, development, and security.
I stopped using VMware as their support for kernel upgrades diminished. This happened gradually, as their VMware for Windows product evolved. Forcing users to stick with a stock kernel for the lifecycle of a VMware release smacks of lack of concern for the customer base.
If this was a free, user supported project, I could live with some of the limitations of VMware. However, as a paying customer, I expect more for my money.
Not only will the Ba'athists be less inclined to fight, but the "Lion of Tikrit" was found hiding in a hole in the ground, and submitted to the disgrace of a televised medical exam.
This is a great shame for the fearless leader to be found hiding. The Iraqi are no longer afraid of his return to power. One of the Iraqi reporters at the press conference pointedly asked if the ban on capital punishment could be lifted in this case, Paul Bremmer and his Iraqi counterpart in the conditional government had to remain noncommittal.
Some of us can not or will not use wireless. I had to wire my parents house, since my mother has an older pacemaker. They say it should not interfere, but hell, I'm poor and can't afford to replace my mother!
My place is a clutter of wires because I am a jerk! I don't want the neighbors sniffing my packets. I do have a wireless nic in the laptop from work, and yes, I can connect to their unsecured AP.
I have used both relay racks and the closed cabinets. Relay racks will work for just about anything, deep servers can have the "ears" mid-mounted. Chatsworth also has heavy duty shelving. The only downside to the relay racks are the narrow base, and the possibility of tipping over. Bolting to a floor is probably not an option if you rent.
This helps me by giving me true Solaris experience.
This helps Sun by giving me true Solaris experience.
I agree that using Solaris is not the best use of an Intel box, but working within the limitations of Solaris is a great learning experience for the Linux admin. One more OS to add to the Resume, it proves to potential employers that you are willing to learn the different Operating systems and are not a zealot for a particular operating system or worse, a particular Linux distribution.
This is not the same as Solaris experience on Sparc boxes, but it will help bridge the gap. I have seen Human Resource drones ignore senior system admins with Sun and IBM experience when looking for HP-UX people, it is not hard to imagine that they would do the same for Solaris admins. If it gets your foot in the door to interview with someone who knows the difference between Sol-9-sparc and Sol-9-x86 then the interviewer should be able to know that your IRIX or AIX experience will transfer to their systems.
Now if Solaris for Intel is someone's only "real unix" experience, I doubt if they will be able to parley that and their home linux exerience into a Solaris sys-admin slot. In fact I hope not!
I know that I will not put Solaris or HP-UX on my resume, but I do put Openview. I spent 3 years using Linux as a front end for some network monitoring apps that ran on openview. The HP-UX guys kept the box running, and I ran the monitors.
Well that shatters the stereotype of geeks and sex.
At least in Finland the geeks can get close to a woman, or a damn fine facimile of one.
My point exactly on ftp.sco.com, I check them during the incident, and response time seemed normal.
What bothers me avout the whole incident is that we just have one confirmation that there was a 32 hour attack on SCO.
Just where are all the zombies? What OS where they running? What vulnerability on the zombies was exploited? Where are the rest of the confirmations that this was a DDOS?
Answers to the above questions were flying all over the 'net when Microsoft was DDOSed, where are they now? I know more people hate Microsoft than SCO, but the people with the tools to detect the DDoS attacks are vendor neutral.
An interesting quote from CAIDA:
"Around 2:50 AM PST Thursday morning, December 11, the attacker(s) began to attack SCO's ftp (file transfer protocol) servers in addition to continuing the web server attack. Together www.sco.com and ftp.sco.com experienced a SYN flood of over 50,000 packet-per-second early Thursday morning. By mid-morning Thursday (9 AM PST), the attack rate had reduced considerably to around 3,700 packets per second. Throughout Thursday morning, the ftp server received the brunt of the attack, although the high-intensity attack on the ftp server lasted for a considerably shorter duration than the web server attack. At 10:40 AM PST, SCO removed their web servers from the Internet and stopped responding to the incoming attack traffic. Their Internet Service Provider (ISP) appears to have filtered all traffic destined for the web and ftp servers until they came back online at 5 PM PST."
So not only did the ISP filter the traffic for the ftp servers, it seems to have mirrored the ftp server, since I was able to explore the ftp site and also download download an ISO: SCOX Dev CD
So the Bandwidth to the DDoSed ftp server either was not saturated, or the ftp server was not DDoSed, or maybe, just maybe, it was an inside job!
Not sure if the private sector is forced to take cash, I know for a fact that the government does not have to take cash.
Many government services require a moneyorder or certified check, such as the Penna vehicle sales tax. The application states not to send cash, and they discourage the use of personal checks with warnings of delays in service till the check clears.
There is a law or IRS regulation requiring IRS notification of any cash purchase of $10,000 or more. I remember seeing the notice hanging in the local Radio Shack back in the early 90's
Can you pay the IRS with coins?
Been tried, and it doesn't work.
The government makes the laws, those laws can be written to favor them. Many laws already are written that way:
The Government states that you owe taxes, You have to furnish proof that you do not. If you owe back taxes, along with taxes and possible penalties, you also have to pay interest.
If you prove that the Government owes you, they do not have to pay interest, nor are they penalized for holding on to your money. Why is this so? Because they wrote the rules to favor those in power, while trying to limit fraud and abuse of the system.
The Government that prints the statement of legal tender on the bills can choose to stop printing that statement. They stopped giving the bearer of silver certificates the equivalant value of sterling silver in the 60's, what makes you certain that they will honor cash in the future?
viruses attack the OS!
Just because there are less identical copies of an OS out there does not make it more secure.
Just because there are more identical copies of an OS out there does not excuse multiple, unpatched, vulnerabilities!
The Underlying OS is what is secure or not. The Mac OS has a flaw, openBSD has a flaw, the Linux kernel has flaws, Open Source applications have flaws, and the Windows OS series have severe cracks in the foundation of their operating systems.
Why do all the Microsoft apologists point to vulnerabilities in other Operating Systems as a justification for having the worst security track record in the history of computing?
So not a bandwidth consuming DDOS just like groklaw stated...
But then again, we are a bunch of unwashed amateurs, and THEY Wrote UNIX and know all about how to keep it secure and running...
So It must be something We are doing.
I'll check back later, looks like we are killing your server.
I saw only Black and White before the site slowed. B&W is a great medium, one that is hard to master, you have what it takes.
Keep up the great work.
If not the Pentax get an old Minolta XD-11. The XD-11 had a full manual but also has aperature and shutter priority.
Enjoy, and don't let them go in a divorce! I should have fought for the cameras instead of the kids... the Judge gave her both! The kids came back to me full time a few years later, the camera equipment she sold!