Here is your chance to shut AOL down. All you need to do is log onto their servers in Germany. (Anonomously of course), do illegal stuff, and contact people that would be hurt by this and have them sue AOL.
If AOL (and other ISPs) suddenly withdrew from Germany, what would happen?
Maybe other countries would see that a law like this isn't such a great idea?
Other new science techniques are helping out too. A few years ago, somebody analyzed a lock of Napolean's hair. They found that Napolean had been slowly poisoned, as there doses of arsenic preserved in the hair.
I'm in the US, and I have an account at SFNB.com. I highly recommend it. In addition to 6% interest checking, they offer online bill pay. The only drawback is that they don't implement OFX, so I have to copy and paste stuff from their website.
If a fish tank doesn't do it for you, you can buy a tape of a fire to put in your TV. It adds a really great atmosphere to any room without a fireplace. em hm.
I would expect Mattel to include sites with this decryption scheme on their block list. If I were installing this software on say, my childs computer, to keep my kid from the horrors of the internet, I would expect that sites that tell my kid how to disable the software I put in place would also be blocked.
Any site that allows you to expose the links from a particular category, IMHO, should be included in that category. Rather than a underhanded manipulation strategy, it appears to me to be a straight forward programming decision.
Now trying to block the sites (by taking them dwon) for people who aren't running their software is another story....
The course on Operating Systems I took at Cornell University had nothing to do with any specific operating system, or device drivers, or anything that I think it would really be easy to teach using linux. The only way I could see this working is by showing source code from the linux kernal as a real world example of how stuff as done.
We spent a lot of time working with the things that you would need to have programs running simultanously on a single processor: mutex, protected memory schemes, and such.
Maybe other colleges teach less theoretical OS classes, but I really don't see how it would fit in with what I took. (Granted after taking the coure I'm in no way a kernal hacker either, so there is probably a place for this somewhere...)
All the graphics are saved as jpegs even though they all have large swatches of single color and sharp boundaries between colors. They really should be saved as gifs. In almost every one, there are visible distortion around the boundaries. This is especially true in the ones that have text. </rant>
This kind of scheme would in effect disable the "Print Screen" button. Print screen works by looking at the contents of your video buffer. With this scheme the video buffer would be encrypted. Only the monitor would be able to unencrypt, and the monitor, would not be programmed to give you back the unencrypted data in digital format.
It seems like this scheme would be quite effective against that.
Stability is very important to people. IMHO it is the only reason that anybody ever upgraded from Win95 to Win98. The two look identical, run the same apps, but people bought upgrades like crazy.
Having said that though, I think that user level has a long way to go with stability. I have redhat 6.0 at work. It crashes all the time (well every couple weeks.) Actually, its either Gnome or Enlightenment that crashes, I'm not sure which. But its all the same to me, I lose my work, have to restart all my programs. Usually I reboot the computer just to make sure, too. The stability of linux isn't just the kernel anymore.
After having dissed enlightenment, I have to say that its far better than its windows equivelent. When I use a windows computer I feel so contstrained be the single desktop that I'm presented with.
Sun's developer connection reports 9342 open bugs for java. Sun's Java has also been around for a while.
Bugzilla reports 5422 open bugs for mozilla. Granted mozilla is only alpha, but still.
Now if Microsoft really integrates everything into the OS as they claim, this bug count should include bugs for IE and their version of java as well.;-)
There is no way you can launch this type of DoS attack from a windows box. I haven't met one yet that wouldn't need to be rebooted too often to launch a nice stream of packets.;-)
He maintains CUP and JLex, which is where I first ran into him.
I'm hoping he will come to the EFF Fundraiser in boston next week so I can meet him in person. Especially since he feels this way about this issue.:-) While I'm at it, I hope you all come.
I think we should just make it illegal to sell hard disks over 1GB. Think about it, about the only reason that you would want a large hard drive, is to store media. If people had no place to put their music, they wouldn't download it. The only way to get digital music, would be to stream it and the RIAA could easily control that.
Plus, microsoft would undoubtably latch on to this brilliant scheme. I think that we would all appretiate the reduction in bloatware that this would cause.
The more I think about it, the more I would like a story queue and moderation of stories. I think there is a lot of news for nerds that doesn't get reported on slashdot because it is good but not great, or because there are a dozen better stories that day.
On days that I'm really bored at work, I'd like to be able to read 50 news for nerds stories, but on days when I'm busy, I'd like to be able to see just the cream of the crop, maybe 5 or so.
More stories! Moderate stories!Threshhold for stories!
I guess, all in all, it isn't much different than me posting a link to a page that has malicious code, except that I don't have to have any servers that support it. That way nobody can contact my ISP and have them get involved, and I can do it anonymously to avoid any legal problems.
Let me demonstrate this by posting the link that I created. If example.com supported this script, and "malicious code" were actually malicious, clicking on this link would screw you.:-)
I really doubt that slashdot is immune to this. The article brings up the point that malicious scripts can be submitted in links like this one. When you click on them you execute malicious code.
Slashdot wouldn't allow this (i assume) because it would see the script tag and not allow it.
It would be very easy to fool slashdot in this instance. (I haven't tried it, so correct me if I am wrong.) When URLs are submitted to a server, they are often URL encoded. That is characters are replaced by their respective ascii values. You probably have seen a %20 in place of a space many times, its one of the most common, but it can be done with any character. The first thing that a server usually does when it gets a page request is to URL unencode the URL.
Isn't this an inherent danger for other things as well?
Say that I went to My University (MyU.edu) and I had a computer in my dorm room on the campus network (my.resnet.MyU.edu) then I could set cookies for resnet.MyU.edu or MyU.edu, or mess up other peoples cookies that were set for the same. I'm sure MyU.edu wouldn't be happy with me messing around with the user ID variables of people visiting the MyU website at MyU.edu, would they?
Actually, I think the military had hackers beaten by a mile. Although they don't limit themselves to three letters (or even 10 letters for that matter).
Slashdot Mirror
If AOL (and other ISPs) suddenly withdrew from Germany, what would happen?
Maybe other countries would see that a law like this isn't such a great idea?
Now, where to start?
Other new science techniques are helping out too. A few years ago, somebody analyzed a lock of Napolean's hair. They found that Napolean had been slowly poisoned, as there doses of arsenic preserved in the hair.
I'm in the US, and I have an account at SFNB.com. I highly recommend it. In addition to 6% interest checking, they offer online bill pay. The only drawback is that they don't implement OFX, so I have to copy and paste stuff from their website.
If a fish tank doesn't do it for you, you can buy a tape of a fire to put in your TV. It adds a really great atmosphere to any room without a fireplace. em hm.
Any site that allows you to expose the links from a particular category, IMHO, should be included in that category. Rather than a underhanded manipulation strategy, it appears to me to be a straight forward programming decision.
Now trying to block the sites (by taking them dwon) for people who aren't running their software is another story....
We spent a lot of time working with the things that you would need to have programs running simultanously on a single processor: mutex, protected memory schemes, and such.
Maybe other colleges teach less theoretical OS classes, but I really don't see how it would fit in with what I took. (Granted after taking the coure I'm in no way a kernal hacker either, so there is probably a place for this somewhere...)
All the graphics are saved as jpegs even though they all have large swatches of single color and sharp boundaries between colors. They really should be saved as gifs. In almost every one, there are visible distortion around the boundaries. This is especially true in the ones that have text.
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Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy currently has 5 books....
And here I thought a Chrysalid was the rag top on a Chrystler.
One with a magnetic personality?
It seems like this scheme would be quite effective against that.
Lets see. That cuts my work day down to 2-3 hours, I work maybe 12 hours a week?
Having said that though, I think that user level has a long way to go with stability. I have redhat 6.0 at work. It crashes all the time (well every couple weeks.) Actually, its either Gnome or Enlightenment that crashes, I'm not sure which. But its all the same to me, I lose my work, have to restart all my programs. Usually I reboot the computer just to make sure, too. The stability of linux isn't just the kernel anymore.
After having dissed enlightenment, I have to say that its far better than its windows equivelent. When I use a windows computer I feel so contstrained be the single desktop that I'm presented with.
Sun's developer connection reports 9342 open bugs for java. Sun's Java has also been around for a while.
Bugzilla reports 5422 open bugs for mozilla. Granted mozilla is only alpha, but still.
Now if Microsoft really integrates everything into the OS as they claim, this bug count should include bugs for IE and their version of java as well. ;-)
There is no way you can launch this type of DoS attack from a windows box. I haven't met one yet that wouldn't need to be rebooted too often to launch a nice stream of packets. ;-)
He maintains CUP and JLex, which is where I first ran into him.
I'm hoping he will come to the EFF Fundraiser in boston next week so I can meet him in person. Especially since he feels this way about this issue. :-) While I'm at it, I hope you all come.
You could tip your hand in this contest by getting a set of perl poetry magnets.
Plus, microsoft would undoubtably latch on to this brilliant scheme. I think that we would all appretiate the reduction in bloatware that this would cause.
On days that I'm really bored at work, I'd like to be able to read 50 news for nerds stories, but on days when I'm busy, I'd like to be able to see just the cream of the crop, maybe 5 or so.
More stories! Moderate stories!Threshhold for stories!
I guess, all in all, it isn't much different than me posting a link to a page that has malicious code, except that I don't have to have any servers that support it. That way nobody can contact my ISP and have them get involved, and I can do it anonymously to avoid any legal problems.
Click Here
The article brings up the point that malicious scripts can be submitted in links like this one. When you click on them you execute malicious code.
<A href="http://example.com/comment.cgi?mycomment= <SCRIPT>malicious code</SCRIPT>"> Click Here</A>
Slashdot wouldn't allow this (i assume) because it would see the script tag and not allow it.
It would be very easy to fool slashdot in this instance. (I haven't tried it, so correct me if I am wrong.) When URLs are submitted to a server, they are often URL encoded. That is characters are replaced by their respective ascii values. You probably have seen a %20 in place of a space many times, its one of the most common, but it can be done with any character. The first thing that a server usually does when it gets a page request is to URL unencode the URL.
So now imagine that I create the link:
<A href="http://example.com/comment.cgi?mycomment= %60%83%67%82%73%80%84%62malicious code%60%47%83%67%82%73%80%84%62"> Click Here</A>
Now Slashdot doesn't find script tags, but the server that gets the URL still does.
It probably would be a good addition the mix of riddles, programming questions, and stress busters that we already use.
Say that I went to My University (MyU.edu) and I had a computer in my dorm room on the campus network (my.resnet.MyU.edu) then I could set cookies for resnet.MyU.edu or MyU.edu, or mess up other peoples cookies that were set for the same. I'm sure MyU.edu wouldn't be happy with me messing around with the user ID variables of people visiting the MyU website at MyU.edu, would they?
Actually, I think the military had hackers beaten by a mile. Although they don't limit themselves to three letters (or even 10 letters for that matter).