I dont know what is happening here at Slashdot, but I seriously hope taco, michael, and the others get off the SCO bandwagon... Why the hell do they only seem to accept mainly SCO, LINUX, and Anti Microsoft articles is becoming so yesterday, and I hope they (and I know some of you are reading this) start accepting things outside of the typical media whore range of articles that have appeared here for the past few months.
2003-08-11 NSA's Statement on Cybersecurity (articles,security) (rejected)
2003-08-19 DNA based game playing computer (science,science) (rejected)
2003-09-06 Brown Dwarfs fingerprinted (radio,science) (rejected)
2003-09-06 Study Indicates Possible Surface Water on Mars (science,science) (rejected)
Researchers at the Technion claim to have found an effective way to crack the encoding system for cellular telephone conversations conducted over GSM (Global System for Mobile) networks. The team of researchers in Haifa, including Professor Eli Biham and doctoral students Elad Barkan and Natan Keller, presented their findings at the Crypto 2003 conference held two weeks ago at the University of California, Santa Barbara. GSM is one of the two standards widely used for cellular service. This digital technology was originally developed for Europe, but now accounts for over 70 percent of the world market. There are now some 540 cellular companies providing GSM services to approximately 870 million subscribers throughout the world. Full story
It has been 14 years since two little-known electrochemists announced what sounded like the biggest physics breakthrough since Enrico Fermi produced a nuclear chain reaction on a squash court in Chicago. Using a tabletop setup, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, of the University of Utah, said they had induced deuterium nuclei to fuse inside metal electrodes, producing measurable quantities of heat. That was the opening bell for one of the craziest periods in science. Cold fusion, if real, promised to solve the world's energy problems forever. Scientists around the world dropped what they were doing to try to replicate the astounding claim. Full story
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune. Each lump of ice and rock is roughly the size of Philadelphia and orbits just beyond Neptune and Pluto, where they may have rested since the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. The objects reside in a ring-shaped region called the Kuiper Belt, which houses a swarm of icy rocks that are leftover building blocks, or "planetesimals," from the solar system's creation. The results of the search were announced by a group led by Gary Bernstein of the University of Pennsylvania at a meeting of NASA's Division of Planetary Sciences in Monterey, Calif. Full article
Agreed with the majority of your post except for the final paragraph. Has anyone done any study, well I guess it would be rather impossible in a way, but some form of study pertaining to geniuses in the past as compared to now?
Think about this for a minute now. Sure we have had some cool neat things come here and there within the past century, but to date there has never been another Michaelangelo, Mozart, Machiavelli, Homer, etc. Sure tech has helped us some what but advanced as in what? If we were living on an island free of technology we would still survive because it is in our nature.
For the most part, I do agree with your post, but I strongly disagree with the statement somewhat. Egyptians didn't have computers yet the pyramids were built, stonehedge, easter island (which reminds me, does anyone notice the mouths are all in binary like format one opened one close, etc.), the great wall. To date there haven't even been projects of those magnitudes, and they were all done without any form of technology available to us now.
Wow so I'm not alone in this world. (for those who know me) Anyway, I wrote up an article about the Blaster scapegoat, guess I'll do another one. The ONE THING TO NOTE (I will not rant on about this too much) is how supposedly he accessed information on federal agents. Not to start a conspiracy theory thread or flame war, but shouldn't this be the obvious reason why they are going after this guy. Think about that for a bit. Sure he accessed their site, but they should also go after the vendor if they're sincere about being pissed off at the actions of this guy. If a car salesman sells you a car and states it has an alarm, yet the alarm doesn't work who do you blame the thief? Or would you go back to the salesman. Shit, sorry I have no time to finish this/. rambling, the feds are here because I decided to use POST to send information to my bank.
FBI Guidelines Value Security Over Privacy
By Jeffery L. Bineham
St. Cloud Times 26 June 2002: 5B.
At first blush the new FBI guidelines appear harmless and reasonable. When Attorney General John Ashcroft announced on May 29 that agents would be allowed to surf the internet, use commercial databases, visit any public place, or attend any public event, my reaction was disbelief that previous guidelines prohibited such commonplace activities.
As Ashcroft noted, "even a 12-year old" can surf the web, just as any citizen can frequent public events and public places or employ databases to gather information. The FBI should have the same rights to gather information as everyone else. And the need to gather that information is greater in this time of increased threat. As President Bush indicated, "The FBI needed to change. The organization didn't meet the times."
But the first blush doesn't always coincide with the final conclusion. We might decide that the new guidelines are justified and necessary. Before we do that, however, we should examine the premises that undergird this policy change, and we should consider what the new policies imply with regard to our security and our privacy.
The new guidelines are based on two premises. The first is that we have entered a more dangerous era that justifies new investigative procedures. But have we? The threat of future terrorist attacks on U.S. soil is no greater now than it was before September 11. Perhaps, given increased security and awareness, it is less. So one objection is that neither the domestic nor foreign situations have changed enough to justify revisions in FBI policies.
The second premise is that the same standards of information collection should govern FBI agents and ordinary citizens. But significant differences exist between agents and non-agents, so that when an ordinary citizen surfs the web or attends a political meeting it is a fundamentally different activity than when an FBI agent surfs the web or attends a political meeting. The agent is in position to collect data into a file, to build a case, to set the stage for an arrest, and thus to intimidate. The history of the FBI certainly makes this fear credible.
Still it seems reasonable to allow FBI agents access to means of observation that are available to other residents of the United States. Recent polls indicate that the public is willing to concede more investigative powers to the FBI, so my hunch is that most citizens will accept the two premises I have presented here.
But even if the new guidelines are justifiable, they are still unnecessary, because the FBI may already engage in these activities. The only requirement is that they establish suspicion of criminal activity. The requirement is not stringent. Indeed, the old guidelines allow preliminary inquiries of 90 days during which the FBI can conduct web searches, engage in surveillance, utilize data collection services, and employ other investigative techniques even without indication of criminal activity. The new guidelines allow the FBI to engage in these activities for a year even if the investigation reveals no criminal activity. In sum, the FBI can now use these procedures not simply to investigate suspicions of criminal conduct, but to generate the suspicion in the first place.
So what does this mean? The FBI can document what you say in internet chatrooms or in religious and political meetings. They can ascertain what magazines you subscribe to or what books you buy. They can access your credit profile, your telephone records (made many international calls lately?), and your travel itineraries. And they can do this without any evidence of a crime or a potential crime. None of these changes in domestic policies increases their abilities to monitor international terrorist organizations. The FBI already has wide latitude to conduct foreign investigations without evidence of criminal activity. The new guidelines apply only to domestic surveillance.
Almost everything is for sale on the Internet -- even the Social Security numbers of top government officials like CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General John Ashcroft, consumer advocates warned Wednesday.
The California-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said for $26 each it was able to purchase the Social Security numbers and home addresses for Tenet, Ashcroft and other top Bush administration officials, including Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser. [
original story]
Can you say propaganda? Asscroft and his cabals are using this instance to promote the USA PATRIOT ACT which is odd considering some of the things he proposes will affect businesses... But wait let's call the kettle black now shall we?
When Border Patrol agents came across the corpses of 14 Mexican immigrants who died trying to cross the searing Arizona desert in 2001, a brand new tool helped U.S. authorities identify the bodies and, eventually, the smugglers who abandoned them.
The tool was a database containing the personal information of 65 million voting-age Mexican citizens. The U.S. government bought access to it for $1 million a year from a giant data vendor called ChoicePoint.
U.S. drug and immigration investigators prized the data, accorting to the Department of Homeland Security and other law enforcement sources, because it gave them latitude to track suspects inside Mexico without alerting local authorities. original article)
Yes I know this is a pseudo trollish post, but the write-up mentions e-voting as being just as hackable right... But is it just as <bushism>stealable</bushism> (Dr Evil laugh muwahahaha.... muwahahaha)
Independent films aren't being pushed out of the box office. The problems with indy lies in distribution. Just because you see more mainstream films in the theaters doesn't mean hollywood is shafting indy filmmakers, it just means that bigger fish have more money to promote their film and get it out to the public.
IndieDVD, an artist-friendly alliance of independent filmmakers, assembles collections of independent film, animation and video to distribute on compilation DVDs as well as full-length feature films. We strive to include special DVD features and effects that enhance the viewing experience and are unavailable in traditional viewing formats like VHS. These may include such special features as director's commentary, additional camera angles and alternate endings.
Took me one minute to find a distributor for DVD so I wouldn't know what would be the problem or the complaint. Sure it's not information on releasing to the theaters, but I didn't put effort into looking too much since I'm at work so I find the statement about not finding distribution a nit too harsh, maybe someone isn't lookintg hard enough.
So why have any type of network access to the system other than what is required within the grounds of the facility?
It is a matter of convenience to be able to access offices from other offices, as we as people have become so lazy due to the boom in computer usage. It is much easier to be able to perform tasks using computers rather than doing things manually, and depending on what job duties you have, it can actually be a bit safer for the worker. However, in my opinion, people have just become lazy as shit and choose to use machines as an excuse for avoiding working. I say this as coincidentally (while I watch the news) a reporter just stated that 90% of working people are unhappy at their jobs. So why take an extra step when a computer could eliminate five steps.
Sure, it's an investment up front to move to solar, but it is doable, and some states even offer tax credits.
It's a nice thought but unless you live somewhere country-like, it's unfeasible to most people. Here's why, now firstly sure it is expensive to set up, but you would have to live in a geographically correct place as well. Say Florida, California, Arizona, Texas. States where it is rather sunny as opposed to say Seattle.
You could use alternatives such as windmills, but again you would need massive space. When I was in Sweden, the government there was trying to limit where windmills could be used, as they often killed birds, some of which may have been rare, or on the verge of existence.
I wish I wasn't too lazy and tired to offer links to prove my Swedish claims, but I'm sure anyone can find it on Google.
Would driving this car require a boating license at the same time. What happens if you're pulled over by the harbor cops or something, would you have to produce some other form of licensing to drive this on water... Now just think of touring France or Holland and seeing this car in action. Sure it sounds nice but does it really serve a purpose? My guess is, it won't be long until government claims only drug runners will be buying this.
Seriously, I try to keep different partitions set for specific things, this helps in case something gets borked on one drive, it won't mess up other partitions, of course there are backups made to ensure not much is lost.
Try doing something like this (if on *nix)
/dev/hda3/home/$USERNAME/pers (personal stuff like diaries or so)
/dev/hda4/home/$USERNAME/codes (if you're a programmer)
/dev/hda5/home/$USERNAME/music (take a guess)
Get the picture? The good thing about this setup is, one could always umount in case someone gets physical access to the machine, heck it could be scripted to mount and unmount on login and logout. Or you could encrypt the partitions for added security.
At first it looks bulky, but in the end it's very easy to maintain since everything tends to fall in place. e.g. If you're scripting you could just cd/home/$USERNAME/code and not have to wonder where to save this. Unless you're really odd (like me) and begin everything with test.c or test.py or something.
IBM says its prototype combines the strength of analyzing traffic directed at IP addresses assigned to computers on a network with the ability to look at the unassigned addresses worms also target.
What good would this do (checking unassigned addresses) as most worms (at least polymorphic ones) replicate and spread to other users it (the worm) finds on the machine. Hrmm sounds odd typing because I'm tired. Ok, for instance most MS based worms such as Blaster, Sobig, etc., tend to rip a list of address from programs on the infected machine. Blaster and Sobig sent out spoofed emails which differed from the normal worm a bit. Anyway, if a machine is sending info (while infected) to an unassigned IP address, what difference would it make since it somehow obtained the information locally.
Now, I understand that some virii writers often leave some 'h3ll0 i j4m l33t' message, but this is a rarity, so I find it obsolete.
It also can sniff out the signatures of known attacks. By testing the software at a large ISP, IBM can collect more data on worm traffic and help decide how to bring Billy Goat to market, says Adrian Schlund, a manager at IBM Global Services.
This is a bold statement for IBM to make considering they are now claiming to sniff out attacks. Considering attacks change, all they could do is update their rules, which means you could get by without this product if you have an experienced network engineer who has network anamoly detection experience. Hell if you've read enough RFC's and Cisco books, anyone would be able to detect and halt attacks using freeware such as snort.
Oh well it sounded good for a minute, it's a shame they didn't included any screenshots or specs in the article.
I tried to submit something similar before as an article but it was denied... and I sincerely thought it is very relevant to this. According to the NSA's "Statement on Cybersecurity" paper released earlier this year, there were a few people who are spooked as the government seems to want to either backdoor or control somehow software under the guise of 'tougher security'
A significant cybersecurity improvement over the next decade will be found in
enhancing our ability to find and eliminate malicious code in large software applications. Beyond the matter of simply eliminating coding errors, this capability must find malicious software routines that are designed to morph and burrow into critical applications in an attempt to hide. There is little coordinated effort today to develop tools and techniques to examine effectively and efficiently either source or executable software. I believe that this problem is significant enough to warrant a considerable effort coordinated by a truly National Software Assurance Center. This center should have representatives from academia, industry, federal government, national laboratories and the national security community all working together and sharing techniques to solve this growing threat.
And to add insult to injury to MS, a letter was sent to Tom Ridge asking the Dept. of Homeland Sec to limit or stop it's use of MS products due to insecurity.
Personally I would stop using machines if it were possible to have some form of monitoring of my actions without my authorization. Aside from that it's not a secret that the NSA has been accused of corporate espionage, so I would hope large corporations would think twice about giving them any form of say when it comes to codes for commercial software.
wordpad, calc and outlook express =P
i dont have an office suite installed and i dont need it. im not an accountant, i dont use spreadsheets and wordpad or even write are more than i'll ever need in terms of text formatting.
Is this the same outlook that gets targeted by dozens of viruses, that takes someones list and sends out copies of the same virus?
>Zipfiles
builtin to windows xp
I wonder does zip have better compression then say bzip, or gzip? Last I checked I saved more space using bzip than windows zip.
>PDF files
isnt the acrobat reader plugin instamagically downloaded when you first browse to a pdf?
Good old Adobe PDF. I love the way it jacks up my processor in Windows, I guess this could be your reason to like it too, I mean who the hell needs free ram space?
>MP3's
WMplayer
Oh man oh man, I loooove WMplayer spyware. I like the way it decides to just check up on album information when I'm playing it. I mean its not like the server that it's connecting to is snooping my information. Checking what I'm listening to maybe even putting together a massive list for the RIAA that says "Hey look at user foo, he's listened to 10,000 albums this month.
>Instant Messaging
MSN messenger
How did you know another one of my favorites. I love getting a zillion 'Stop this Pop-up' ads from MSN. Yay "MS: Who do you want to spam today?"
>IRC
telnet =P
Oh boy you're the best I mean why not use telnet and let everyone using a sniffer see my information coming down the pipes. Can I have your rocket science knowledge?
>Decent FTP Client
ftp.exe IS a decent ftp client. i thought we linux freaks enjoyed working with the console?
FTP on any OS is rather dumb nowadays considering sftp is freely available under both OS'.
If you're an out of work geek, consider looking into the "old smoke-stack" industries for places where you could apply your software skills in helping companies improve margins through better automation and more efficient processes.
I think for the out of work geeks, if they could've they would've and they wouldn't've (Bushism) been out of work geeks. Odd you should mention this, SecurityFocus' job list recently had a thread going on with people ranting about how bad the industry is. Personally I've found it's always good to know at least two other things to avoid falling into depression if the industry is bad and your out of work. I remember one of the threads where a CISSP certified guy was now cleaning airplanes, and he stated he was happier doing that, then being in the tech field.
Oh well on-topic comment now, pardon me for being the first to say this, but does anyone here honestly have 4 hours to sit through this? I would rather waste my four hours reading some crypto files, or learning something different. I think this may be good for teens, and younger kids, but I can't think of any reason to waste 4 hours, heck not even 1 hour, looking at a clip. If I want to learn about something I'll google it thank you. Now hopefully you can place some real 'News for nerds' this weekend there taco/michael/etc.
Frankensteins in the Pentagon
DAPRA's Creepy Bioengineering Program
By Cheryl Seal
25 August 2003
DARPA Bioengineering Program Seeks to Turn Soldiers Into Cyborgs
Not long ago, the public was stunned by the practical and moral idiocy of the Pentagon researcher (and unprosecuted war criminal) John Poindexter, who proposed a 'football pool' scheme for predicting terrorist attacks. We all laughed at such insanity and were relieved to see the scheme speedily deep-sixed. However, this bit of lunacy was just the lightest ice in the tip of the very large, very dark iceberg that the Pentagon's research program, better known as DARPA, has become.
Just a few weeks before the bizarro world 'terrorism gambling' project was exposed, a DARPA (which stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)-sponsored conference was held in Washington, DC, that showcased the latest love child of the Bush Pentagon: military bioengineering. The euphemisms being used by the Pentagon to disguise the true nature of this research are being spread as thick as bondo and cheap paint at a used car lot. For example, the title of the conference was: 'Harvesting Biology for Defense Technology,' while the subheading of the section on human 'bioengineering' was entitled, rather ominously, in light of the military's history, 'Enhancing Human Performance.'
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I dont know what is happening here at Slashdot, but I seriously hope taco, michael, and the others get off the SCO bandwagon... Why the hell do they only seem to accept mainly SCO, LINUX, and Anti Microsoft articles is becoming so yesterday, and I hope they (and I know some of you are reading this) start accepting things outside of the typical media whore range of articles that have appeared here for the past few months.
- 2003-08-11 NSA's Statement on Cybersecurity (articles,security) (rejected)
- 2003-08-19 DNA based game playing computer (science,science) (rejected)
- 2003-09-06 Brown Dwarfs fingerprinted (radio,science) (rejected)
- 2003-09-06 Study Indicates Possible Surface Water on Mars (science,science) (rejected)
- 2003-09-07 GSM cellular phone encryption cracked (articles,security) (rejected)
Researchers at the Technion claim to have found an effective way to crack the encoding system for cellular telephone conversations conducted over GSM (Global System for Mobile) networks. The team of researchers in Haifa, including Professor Eli Biham and doctoral students Elad Barkan and Natan Keller, presented their findings at the Crypto 2003 conference held two weeks ago at the University of California, Santa Barbara. GSM is one of the two standards widely used for cellular service. This digital technology was originally developed for Europe, but now accounts for over 70 percent of the world market. There are now some 540 cellular companies providing GSM services to approximately 870 million subscribers throughout the world. Full storyIt has been 14 years since two little-known electrochemists announced what sounded like the biggest physics breakthrough since Enrico Fermi produced a nuclear chain reaction on a squash court in Chicago. Using a tabletop setup, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, of the University of Utah, said they had induced deuterium nuclei to fuse inside metal electrodes, producing measurable quantities of heat. That was the opening bell for one of the craziest periods in science. Cold fusion, if real, promised to solve the world's energy problems forever. Scientists around the world dropped what they were doing to try to replicate the astounding claim. Full story
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune. Each lump of ice and rock is roughly the size of Philadelphia and orbits just beyond Neptune and Pluto, where they may have rested since the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. The objects reside in a ring-shaped region called the Kuiper Belt, which houses a swarm of icy rocks that are leftover building blocks, or "planetesimals," from the solar system's creation. The results of the search were announced by a group led by Gary Bernstein of the University of Pennsylvania at a meeting of NASA's Division of Planetary Sciences in Monterey, Calif. Full article
Think about this for a minute now. Sure we have had some cool neat things come here and there within the past century, but to date there has never been another Michaelangelo, Mozart, Machiavelli, Homer, etc. Sure tech has helped us some what but advanced as in what? If we were living on an island free of technology we would still survive because it is in our nature.
For the most part, I do agree with your post, but I strongly disagree with the statement somewhat. Egyptians didn't have computers yet the pyramids were built, stonehedge, easter island (which reminds me, does anyone notice the mouths are all in binary like format one opened one close, etc.), the great wall. To date there haven't even been projects of those magnitudes, and they were all done without any form of technology available to us now.
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Wow so I'm not alone in this world. (for those who know me) Anyway, I wrote up an article about the Blaster scapegoat, guess I'll do another one. The ONE THING TO NOTE (I will not rant on about this too much) is how supposedly he accessed information on federal agents. Not to start a conspiracy theory thread or flame war, but shouldn't this be the obvious reason why they are going after this guy. Think about that for a bit. Sure he accessed their site, but they should also go after the vendor if they're sincere about being pissed off at the actions of this guy. If a car salesman sells you a car and states it has an alarm, yet the alarm doesn't work who do you blame the thief? Or would you go back to the salesman. Shit, sorry I have no time to finish this
St. Cloud Times 26 June 2002: 5B.
At first blush the new FBI guidelines appear harmless and reasonable. When Attorney General John Ashcroft announced on May 29 that agents would be allowed to surf the internet, use commercial databases, visit any public place, or attend any public event, my reaction was disbelief that previous guidelines prohibited such commonplace activities.
As Ashcroft noted, "even a 12-year old" can surf the web, just as any citizen can frequent public events and public places or employ databases to gather information. The FBI should have the same rights to gather information as everyone else. And the need to gather that information is greater in this time of increased threat. As President Bush indicated, "The FBI needed to change. The organization didn't meet the times."
But the first blush doesn't always coincide with the final conclusion. We might decide that the new guidelines are justified and necessary. Before we do that, however, we should examine the premises that undergird this policy change, and we should consider what the new policies imply with regard to our security and our privacy.
The new guidelines are based on two premises. The first is that we have entered a more dangerous era that justifies new investigative procedures. But have we? The threat of future terrorist attacks on U.S. soil is no greater now than it was before September 11. Perhaps, given increased security and awareness, it is less. So one objection is that neither the domestic nor foreign situations have changed enough to justify revisions in FBI policies.
The second premise is that the same standards of information collection should govern FBI agents and ordinary citizens. But significant differences exist between agents and non-agents, so that when an ordinary citizen surfs the web or attends a political meeting it is a fundamentally different activity than when an FBI agent surfs the web or attends a political meeting. The agent is in position to collect data into a file, to build a case, to set the stage for an arrest, and thus to intimidate. The history of the FBI certainly makes this fear credible.
Still it seems reasonable to allow FBI agents access to means of observation that are available to other residents of the United States. Recent polls indicate that the public is willing to concede more investigative powers to the FBI, so my hunch is that most citizens will accept the two premises I have presented here.
But even if the new guidelines are justifiable, they are still unnecessary, because the FBI may already engage in these activities. The only requirement is that they establish suspicion of criminal activity. The requirement is not stringent. Indeed, the old guidelines allow preliminary inquiries of 90 days during which the FBI can conduct web searches, engage in surveillance, utilize data collection services, and employ other investigative techniques even without indication of criminal activity. The new guidelines allow the FBI to engage in these activities for a year even if the investigation reveals no criminal activity. In sum, the FBI can now use these procedures not simply to investigate suspicions of criminal conduct, but to generate the suspicion in the first place.
So what does this mean? The FBI can document what you say in internet chatrooms or in religious and political meetings. They can ascertain what magazines you subscribe to or what books you buy. They can access your credit profile, your telephone records (made many international calls lately?), and your travel itineraries. And they can do this without any evidence of a crime or a potential crime. None of these changes in domestic policies increases their abilities to monitor international terrorist organizations. The FBI already has wide latitude to conduct foreign investigations without evidence of criminal activity. The new guidelines apply only to domestic surveillance.
Funny when I just read the following: Can you say propaganda? Asscroft and his cabals are using this instance to promote the USA PATRIOT ACT which is odd considering some of the things he proposes will affect businesses... But wait let's call the kettle black now shall we?Where's Tyler Durden when we need him most
Yes I know this is a pseudo trollish post, but the write-up mentions e-voting as being just as hackable right...
But is it just as <bushism>stealable</bushism> (Dr Evil laugh muwahahaha
"Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in!"
RICO? Please
me chinese me play trick me ping -f'in on your nick
if it's vulnerable to blaster... !@!
Independent films aren't being pushed out of the box office. The problems with indy lies in distribution. Just because you see more mainstream films in the theaters doesn't mean hollywood is shafting indy filmmakers, it just means that bigger fish have more money to promote their film and get it out to the public. Took me one minute to find a distributor for DVD so I wouldn't know what would be the problem or the complaint. Sure it's not information on releasing to the theaters, but I didn't put effort into looking too much since I'm at work so I find the statement about not finding distribution a nit too harsh, maybe someone isn't lookintg hard enough.
Come - on! I grew up in Alfalfa County
As long as your mayor isn't named Buckwheat,or Spanky, you should not be ashamed to live in Alfalfa. (*points and laughs*)
So why have any type of network access to the system other than what is required within the grounds of the facility?
It is a matter of convenience to be able to access offices from other offices, as we as people have become so lazy due to the boom in computer usage. It is much easier to be able to perform tasks using computers rather than doing things manually, and depending on what job duties you have, it can actually be a bit safer for the worker. However, in my opinion, people have just become lazy as shit and choose to use machines as an excuse for avoiding working. I say this as coincidentally (while I watch the news) a reporter just stated that 90% of working people are unhappy at their jobs. So why take an extra step when a computer could eliminate five steps.
It's a nice thought but unless you live somewhere country-like, it's unfeasible to most people. Here's why, now firstly sure it is expensive to set up, but you would have to live in a geographically correct place as well. Say Florida, California, Arizona, Texas. States where it is rather sunny as opposed to say Seattle.
You could use alternatives such as windmills, but again you would need massive space. When I was in Sweden, the government there was trying to limit where windmills could be used, as they often killed birds, some of which may have been rare, or on the verge of existence.
I wish I wasn't too lazy and tired to offer links to prove my Swedish claims, but I'm sure anyone can find it on Google.
Would driving this car require a boating license at the same time. What happens if you're pulled over by the harbor cops or something, would you have to produce some other form of licensing to drive this on water... Now just think of touring France or Holland and seeing this car in action. Sure it sounds nice but does it really serve a purpose? My guess is, it won't be long until government claims only drug runners will be buying this.
Seriously, I try to keep different partitions set for specific things, this helps in case something gets borked on one drive, it won't mess up other partitions, of course there are backups made to ensure not much is lost.
Try doing something like this (if on *nix)
- /dev/hda3
/home/$USERNAME/pers (personal stuff like diaries or so)
- /dev/hda4
/home/$USERNAME/codes (if you're a programmer)
- /dev/hda5
/home/$USERNAME/music (take a guess)
Get the picture? The good thing about this setup is, one could always umount in case someone gets physical access to the machine, heck it could be scripted to mount and unmount on login and logout. Or you could encrypt the partitions for added security.At first it looks bulky, but in the end it's very easy to maintain since everything tends to fall in place. e.g. If you're scripting you could just cd /home/$USERNAME/code and not have to wonder where to save this. Unless you're really odd (like me) and begin everything with test.c or test.py or something.
IBM says its prototype combines the strength of analyzing traffic directed at IP addresses assigned to computers on a network with the ability to look at the unassigned addresses worms also target.
What good would this do (checking unassigned addresses) as most worms (at least polymorphic ones) replicate and spread to other users it (the worm) finds on the machine. Hrmm sounds odd typing because I'm tired. Ok, for instance most MS based worms such as Blaster, Sobig, etc., tend to rip a list of address from programs on the infected machine. Blaster and Sobig sent out spoofed emails which differed from the normal worm a bit. Anyway, if a machine is sending info (while infected) to an unassigned IP address, what difference would it make since it somehow obtained the information locally.
Now, I understand that some virii writers often leave some 'h3ll0 i j4m l33t' message, but this is a rarity, so I find it obsolete.
It also can sniff out the signatures of known attacks. By testing the software at a large ISP, IBM can collect more data on worm traffic and help decide how to bring Billy Goat to market, says Adrian Schlund, a manager at IBM Global Services.
This is a bold statement for IBM to make considering they are now claiming to sniff out attacks. Considering attacks change, all they could do is update their rules, which means you could get by without this product if you have an experienced network engineer who has network anamoly detection experience. Hell if you've read enough RFC's and Cisco books, anyone would be able to detect and halt attacks using freeware such as snort.
Oh well it sounded good for a minute, it's a shame they didn't included any screenshots or specs in the article.
I tried to submit something similar before as an article but it was denied
Personally I would stop using machines if it were possible to have some form of monitoring of my actions without my authorization. Aside from that it's not a secret that the NSA has been accused of corporate espionage, so I would hope large corporations would think twice about giving them any form of say when it comes to codes for commercial software.
uh that's why you use ssh to a machine to use an irc client dumb arse
Is this the same outlook that gets targeted by dozens of viruses, that takes someones list and sends out copies of the same virus?
>Zipfiles builtin to windows xp
I wonder does zip have better compression then say bzip, or gzip? Last I checked I saved more space using bzip than windows zip.
>PDF files isnt the acrobat reader plugin instamagically downloaded when you first browse to a pdf?
Good old Adobe PDF. I love the way it jacks up my processor in Windows, I guess this could be your reason to like it too, I mean who the hell needs free ram space?
>MP3's WMplayer
Oh man oh man, I loooove WMplayer spyware. I like the way it decides to just check up on album information when I'm playing it. I mean its not like the server that it's connecting to is snooping my information. Checking what I'm listening to maybe even putting together a massive list for the RIAA that says "Hey look at user foo, he's listened to 10,000 albums this month.
>Instant Messaging MSN messenger
How did you know another one of my favorites. I love getting a zillion 'Stop this Pop-up' ads from MSN. Yay "MS: Who do you want to spam today?"
>IRC telnet =P
Oh boy you're the best I mean why not use telnet and let everyone using a sniffer see my information coming down the pipes. Can I have your rocket science knowledge?>Decent FTP Client ftp.exe IS a decent ftp client. i thought we linux freaks enjoyed working with the console?
FTP on any OS is rather dumb nowadays considering sftp is freely available under both OS'.
>and A News reader. Outlook express?
See above.
I think for the out of work geeks, if they could've they would've and they wouldn't've (Bushism) been out of work geeks. Odd you should mention this, SecurityFocus' job list recently had a thread going on with people ranting about how bad the industry is. Personally I've found it's always good to know at least two other things to avoid falling into depression if the industry is bad and your out of work. I remember one of the threads where a CISSP certified guy was now cleaning airplanes, and he stated he was happier doing that, then being in the tech field.
Oh well on-topic comment now, pardon me for being the first to say this, but does anyone here honestly have 4 hours to sit through this? I would rather waste my four hours reading some crypto files, or learning something different. I think this may be good for teens, and younger kids, but I can't think of any reason to waste 4 hours, heck not even 1 hour, looking at a clip. If I want to learn about something I'll google it thank you. Now hopefully you can place some real 'News for nerds' this weekend there taco/michael/etc.
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It's likely not going to be posted so here goes my contribution for Slashnack news...
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), is now in full swing with a "Biodefense project" that seems to be a mixture of Star Trek meets Private Ryan. In an article featured at Guerrilla News, author Cheryl Seal criticizes the program which seems to have terms like 'Brain Interface Program' and 'Engineered Tissue', and there is an extensive write up on the ethics of this sort of testing on animals titled 'Roborat Ethics'. Browsing over DARPA's site I found BIODYNOTICS aka Biologically Inspired Multifunctional Dynamic Robots. According to DARPA the BIODYNOTICS Program represents a new thrust area for DSO that will comprise a multidisciplinary, multi-pronged approach with far reaching impact on robotic capabilities for national security applications. Borgs anyone?
DAPRA's Creepy Bioengineering Program
By Cheryl Seal
25 August 2003
DARPA Bioengineering Program Seeks to Turn Soldiers Into Cyborgs
Not long ago, the public was stunned by the practical and moral idiocy of the Pentagon researcher (and unprosecuted war criminal) John Poindexter, who proposed a 'football pool' scheme for predicting terrorist attacks. We all laughed at such insanity and were relieved to see the scheme speedily deep-sixed. However, this bit of lunacy was just the lightest ice in the tip of the very large, very dark iceberg that the Pentagon's research program, better known as DARPA, has become.
Just a few weeks before the bizarro world 'terrorism gambling' project was exposed, a DARPA (which stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)-sponsored conference was held in Washington, DC, that showcased the latest love child of the Bush Pentagon: military bioengineering. The euphemisms being used by the Pentagon to disguise the true nature of this research are being spread as thick as bondo and cheap paint at a used car lot. For example, the title of the conference was: 'Harvesting Biology for Defense Technology,' while the subheading of the section on human 'bioengineering' was entitled, rather ominously, in light of the military's history, 'Enhancing Human Performance.'
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meant to state negative impacts for the protesters sorry too little sleep will do it