All facts begin as dreams, dreamt by a wizard. If the wizard crosses the path of a scorned widow, then he shares it at the town council. Now, it is a hypothesis, and it is time to drown the wizard. If he floats, he is an evil wizard and must be burned alive. If he drowns, then the hypothesis is true! The king is told and he consults with his menagerie of birds. If the king is satisfied, then it becomes an Old Wives Tale and science is once more advanced!
I for one am in favor of fusing the French. The only question is what to fuse them with? Maybe an octopus. I don't know what you'd get, but it'd sure throw up a lot of arms when it surrendered!
I'm kinda curious about that myself. I still see attacks from Code Red / Nimda worms in my apache logs. Is that the fault of Microsoft or the end user? Microsoft did issue a patch, but the end user didn't apply it. Does that absolve MS of any money I would have lost because of increased bandwidth usage?
One set of attacks came over and over from the same IP address (apparently it was stuck or something) and I found the business it belonged to. I wrote them telling them how to fix it, and they completely refused to do anything about it, saying it wasn't their problem! Does that now make them liable for not applying the patch to fix the buggy software that is now damaging other computers?
My end solution was to disable their IIS server using the exploit they refused to patch. Not exactly legal, but they gave me little choice. They patched it after that I'm guessing, since I never saw the IP in the logs again.:)
I think making software companies liable for their products so they would be forced to fix reported bugs would be a great idea. I remember a year or so ago I found a bug in a game by Activision, and I dutifully reported it to them. I didn't make it public at the time, since I wanted to give them a fair amount of time to issue a patch, but their complete refusal to do anything about it leaves me little choice. Maybe they don't think that fixing the bug in Ghostbusters that prevents you from entering one of the buildings on the map from a certain direction isn't worthy of their attention, but dammit I paid $30 for that game back in 1984, and it interferes with my enjoyment of the product! The customer support rep's excuse? "I'm sorry sir, I've never heard of a 'Commodore,' so I must assume we do not support it." Where does it end?
As much as I hate to side with USWest / QWest...
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As much as I hate to side with USWest / QWest / Whatever the hell they choose to call themselves these days, I don't think anyone is entitled to a refund. I was somewhat irritated about the whole mess, but it wasn't QWest's fault and I believe they did they best they could to deal with it. Amazingly enough I not only got a letter but a phone call as well with information about the problem and what to do about it. It was a bit difficult to convince the person who called that I did know what I was doing and was at no risk, but that's besides the point. My service was out for maybe half a day at the most, and I had enough mp3, divx, and pornography to "weather the storm.":) Perhaps a good analogy could be comparing them to a gas station. They agree to sell you fuel, but they are not responsible if hooligans come in the night and fill your gas tank with sugar. You'd at the very least lose the gas you bought and possibly could suffer damages to your vehicle.
If you didn't know enough to set up your computer properly when you connected it to the internet, I have no sympathy for you. Were it up to me, everyone would be required to begin their computer using with a Commodore 64 and then move up to more sophisticated machines. (And yes, there ARE web browsers for Commies. Not bad ones at that.) There seems to be a mentality out there that just because you throw money at something it'll work right all of the time. Either learn how to use it properly or don't bitch when some juggalo comes in the night and exploits your misconfiguration. You aren't entitled to a refund.
Great, now that I can easily get a copy of DeCSS, I'm gonna print it up in red and green text and use it as gift wrapping paper this year! What are they going to do, confiscate my presents?
I've seen this happen, and it's easy to reproduce. When I was testing out a spark gap I made for my tesla coil, I was doing it near to my computer. Not a very smart thing to do in general, but I was listening to MP3s while I work.:) Anyway, as soon as I switched it on, my box locked up, made some fucked-up "R2-D2" noises, and crashed. I immediately turned off the TC power supply, rebooted my computer, and it locked up again. I was freaking out for a minute that I had killed my box, but luckily it worked after I shut it off for a few seconds and turned it back on. If a small spark gap can knock out a computer from 2.5 meters away, just think what a BIG one could do.:)
that's why you always feel like you're getting screwed if you order albums from other countries.:) Still, whatever the conversion rate is (I'm gonna take a random guess and say 2.5 dollars per pound, and that's prolly way off), $87.50 is a small price to pay for that ninja, if it ever comes to exist.
I don't know about the TEMPEST protection, but I suspect that whoever build this just shielded everything and figured that it could defeat the government. I seem to remember reading (many years ago) an article on a device that could read the emissions of a CRT (at least the older kind) from a respectable distance. The fact that this guy has put an old-style monocrome, probably high-radiation type, on that makes me think that he doesn't know what he's doing. It'd be interesting to know if anyone has actually TESTED his system. As far as being able to take abuse goes, my old Xerox 8086 looks like it could handle more than that PC clone could. That thing's built like a tank and has survived: Being dropped from a height of 1.5 meters. a power surge which fried a power strip. being run with a tesla coil next to it. (for fun! Made it reset, but no other damage):)
Lets see this spy-tech computer do that!
"Remember, it's not falling out the airplane that kills you. It's the sudden STOP!"
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All facts begin as dreams, dreamt by a wizard. If the wizard crosses the path of a scorned widow, then he shares it at the town council. Now, it is a hypothesis, and it is time to drown the wizard. If he floats, he is an evil wizard and must be burned alive. If he drowns, then the hypothesis is true! The king is told and he consults with his menagerie of birds. If the king is satisfied, then it becomes an Old Wives Tale and science is once more advanced!
I love the power clove. It's so bad.
You bite your fingernails?
I for one am in favor of fusing the French. The only question is what to fuse them with? Maybe an octopus. I don't know what you'd get, but it'd sure throw up a lot of arms when it surrendered!
Just kick someone's ass your first day. They'll leave your stuff alone.
Well, to be fair to the scientists, all their mothers told them not to stare at the sun, so can we really blame them for not seeing it?
I'm kinda curious about that myself. I still see attacks from Code Red / Nimda worms in my apache logs. Is that the fault of Microsoft or the end user? Microsoft did issue a patch, but the end user didn't apply it. Does that absolve MS of any money I would have lost because of increased bandwidth usage?
:)
One set of attacks came over and over from the same IP address (apparently it was stuck or something) and I found the business it belonged to. I wrote them telling them how to fix it, and they completely refused to do anything about it, saying it wasn't their problem! Does that now make them liable for not applying the patch to fix the buggy software that is now damaging other computers?
My end solution was to disable their IIS server using the exploit they refused to patch. Not exactly legal, but they gave me little choice. They patched it after that I'm guessing, since I never saw the IP in the logs again.
I think making software companies liable for their products so they would be forced to fix reported bugs would be a great idea. I remember a year or so ago I found a bug in a game by Activision, and I dutifully reported it to them. I didn't make it public at the time, since I wanted to give them a fair amount of time to issue a patch, but their complete refusal to do anything about it leaves me little choice. Maybe they don't think that fixing the bug in Ghostbusters that prevents you from entering one of the buildings on the map from a certain direction isn't worthy of their attention, but dammit I paid $30 for that game back in 1984, and it interferes with my enjoyment of the product! The customer support rep's excuse? "I'm sorry sir, I've never heard of a 'Commodore,' so I must assume we do not support it." Where does it end?
As much as I hate to side with USWest / QWest / Whatever the hell they choose to call themselves these days, I don't think anyone is entitled to a refund. I was somewhat irritated about the whole mess, but it wasn't QWest's fault and I believe they did they best they could to deal with it. Amazingly enough I not only got a letter but a phone call as well with information about the problem and what to do about it. It was a bit difficult to convince the person who called that I did know what I was doing and was at no risk, but that's besides the point. My service was out for maybe half a day at the most, and I had enough mp3, divx, and pornography to "weather the storm." :) Perhaps a good analogy could be comparing them to a gas station. They agree to sell you fuel, but they are not responsible if hooligans come in the night and fill your gas tank with sugar. You'd at the very least lose the gas you bought and possibly could suffer damages to your vehicle.
:)
If you didn't know enough to set up your computer properly when you connected it to the internet, I have no sympathy for you. Were it up to me, everyone would be required to begin their computer using with a Commodore 64 and then move up to more sophisticated machines. (And yes, there ARE web browsers for Commies. Not bad ones at that.) There seems to be a mentality out there that just because you throw money at something it'll work right all of the time. Either learn how to use it properly or don't bitch when some juggalo comes in the night and exploits your misconfiguration. You aren't entitled to a refund.
Besides, they'd prolly just spend it on crack.
Great, now that I can easily get a copy of DeCSS, I'm gonna print it up in red and green text and use it as gift wrapping paper this year! What are they going to do, confiscate my presents?
:)
"How the MPAA Stole Xmas"
I've seen this happen, and it's easy to reproduce. When I was testing out a spark gap I made for my tesla coil, I was doing it near to my computer. Not a very smart thing to do in general, but I was listening to MP3s while I work. :) Anyway, as soon as I switched it on, my box locked up, made some fucked-up "R2-D2" noises, and crashed. I immediately turned off the TC power supply, rebooted my computer, and it locked up again. I was freaking out for a minute that I had killed my box, but luckily it worked after I shut it off for a few seconds and turned it back on. If a small spark gap can knock out a computer from 2.5 meters away, just think what a BIG one could do. :)
£35 != $35
:) Still, whatever the conversion rate is (I'm gonna take a random guess and say 2.5 dollars per pound, and that's prolly way off), $87.50 is a small price to pay for that ninja, if it ever comes to exist.
£35 > $35
that's why you always feel like you're getting screwed if you order albums from other countries.
I don't know about the TEMPEST protection, but I suspect that whoever build this just shielded everything and figured that it could defeat the government. I seem to remember reading (many years ago) an article on a device that could read the emissions of a CRT (at least the older kind) from a respectable distance. The fact that this guy has put an old-style monocrome, probably high-radiation type, on that makes me think that he doesn't know what he's doing. It'd be interesting to know if anyone has actually TESTED his system. As far as being able to take abuse goes, my old Xerox 8086 looks like it could handle more than that PC clone could. That thing's built like a tank and has survived: :)
Being dropped from a height of 1.5 meters.
a power surge which fried a power strip.
being run with a tesla coil next to it. (for fun! Made it reset, but no other damage)
Lets see this spy-tech computer do that!
"Remember, it's not falling out the airplane that kills you. It's the sudden STOP!"