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  1. Re:Wavelength restrictions on FCC Rules Open Source Code Is Less Secure · · Score: 1

    Now consider a Trojan - Logic Bomb that broadcasts for reinsertion upon disk wipe or BIOS [EFI, firmware] resets.
    Greatest hits indeed.

    Transistor Packet Radio

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=231687&cid=188 25941

    Needs more cowbell.

  2. Answer on The Current State of the Malware/AntiVirus Arms Race · · Score: 1

    Here is Fred Cohen's take on the general subject:

    http://all.net/resume/bio.html

    http://all.net/journal/newsletter/index.html

    http://all.net/Analyst/index.html

    Ref.

    http://all.net/

    Paper:
    An Undetectable Computer Virus

    http://www.research.ibm.com/antivirus/SciPapers/VB 2000DC.htm

    Could this be the end of the Mac - PC flamewar?

    Logic:

    "... we can't stop here, this is bat country."

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    Hunter S. Thompson

  3. Recording Contract Math on Paul McCartney On Music In the Digital World · · Score: 1

    I worked in show business for over 25 years, you know, last I checked they still pay the Band cash for live performances, care to ask why?
    This link info is old but ultimately relevant.

    Courtney Love Does the Math (2000)

    "They can't torture me like they could Lucinda Williams."

    http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/l ove/print.html

    Not the "dumb chick" they make her out as.

    McCartney's no fool. Surround yourself with quality people.

    "Because we were bloody brilliant. Pure genius, that's all. 'We were very good,' he [McCartney] said modestly,' " and he smiles for his failure to conjure up the requisite humility. "The good thing is, now you can say that. People used to say, 'Don't you think you're a bit conceited?' And I'd say, 'I know what you mean, you could say it's conceited, but I really do know we're good. I can feel it every time we write a song.' Because John and I were very good collaborators. We really helped each other massively and admired each other greatly."

    No brag, just a fact. [flamewar ensues]

    Funny thing about his music, a personal thing, I'd buy his latest album/CD - whatever, slap it on and without fail I'd HATE it, put it away, then come back to it - find myself playing it more and more - to where finally it was my favorite album - most every time ... this would happen.
    "Something in the wayyy ...."

    My all time favorite? His first:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCartney_(album)

  4. Re:Macromedia xRes on The History of Photoshop · · Score: 1

    mad.frog,

    Thanks for the clarification, I wasn't aware of that.
    I had based my comment on:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_xRes

    "xRes can still be seen in an effective cut down version: Macromedia Fireworks, released later designed specifically for web graphics."

    I really likes xRes and was terribly dismayed at it's demise, the large format [.LRG] was brilliant.

    xRes 3.0

    http://macuser.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/reviews/15894/x res-30.html?searchString=

    xRes 2.0

    http://macuser.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/reviews/15894/x res-30.html?searchString=

  5. Macromedia xRes on The History of Photoshop · · Score: 1

    Macromedia xRes was the only serious competition Photoshop ever had, xRes had a Large File format that Adobe lacked in PS [briefly]. It was a really nice application.
    It died an agonizing death, it became Fireworks.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_xRes

    http://www.adobe.com/support/xres/ts/documents/tn3 830.html

  6. The Official Photoshop History - Honest on The History of Photoshop · · Score: 1

    DON'T be fooled by cheap imatations, NO!

    Russell Brown Comes Clean, Reveals All:

    "Mr. Brown said in a phone call that he wanted to make a definitive statement regarding the "official story" behind Photoshop, its development by John and Thomas Knoll and exactly how it was acquired by Adobe Systems, Inc."

    http://www.photoshopnews.com/2005/05/06/russell-br own-comes-clean

    For the impatient:

    http://video.photoshopnews.com/Official_Photoshop_ History.mov

    Photoshop Splash Screens:

    http://photoshopnews.com/feature-stories/photoshop -splash-screens/

    Who loves you baby?

  7. Room 604 on MIT Wirelessly Powers a Lightbulb · · Score: 1
  8. Kid, See the Phsychiatrist - Room 604 on MIT Wirelessly Powers a Lightbulb · · Score: 3, Informative

    To VAXcat's comment here:

    http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23774 1&cid=19430481

    [right fscking on]

    And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."
    -Alice's Restaurant, Arlo Guthrie

    First place Nicola Tesla broadcasted HF power around the world. [Colorado Springs, CO] - 1 wire, many bulbs.
    At one point he so overloaded the local grid he burned up the Plant turbines, where upon he sent his assistants to rebuild it properly - no charge of course.
    Fascinating man.

    http://www.teslascience.org/archive/descriptions/p icture14.htm

    The City of Colorado Springs, CO ignores Tesla historically [think of what else resides there], I was at this very spot in '05 - the neighborhood is suburban, the people in the house that occupy this historic site - haven't got a clue of what they're sitting on. None of them do, "never heard of 'em."

    Tesla's Wardenclyffe plant. [Wardenclyffe (now Shoreham) on Long Island]

    http://www.teslascience.org/archive/descriptions/W P010.htm

    Where Westinghouse, to whom Tesla had forgiven millions in royalties, abandoned him. Frightened that his AC empire would crumble.
    See, Niagara Falls:

    http://www.teslascience.org/archive/descriptions/N F021.htm

    Truly the most. ignored. genius. ever.

  9. Thinly Veiled Disguise on Online Reputation Is Hard To Do · · Score: 1

    These aliases are truly, and only, thinly veiled disguises. Unless you use aliases like a one time pad.
    The proof is all through my post, at this point I must stop this charade.
    I shall at some time be found out for who and what I truly am.
    A very well trained Great Pyrenees. [I work for a Shepherd]
    Fravia says it best [fabulous site]:

    http://www.searchlores.org/noanon.htm

    http://www.searchlores.org/fobegano.htm

    BONUS !

    http://www.searchlores.org/trolls.htm

    I really like the idea of OpenID

    http://openid.net/

    I think it would further a type of "vetting" or track record for such discourse that requires it / be enhanced by reputations. A HOSTS file of sorts like the academics of ARPANET lore. [I was but a pup]
    So, tell me whose advice would you trust concerning sheep herding? Hmmmmm? I chase them for a living, hence, you could trust my advice.

    Otherwise:

    http://digg.com/

    For those of you that think me just another lap dog, I say, ... If only!

    http://www.gailgiles.com/Jack.jpg

    [I like CATS (Broadway version), long walks in the meadow, old shoes, Slashdot, ...]

  10. Furthermore on New Anti-Forensics Tools Thwart Police · · Score: 1

    Must Read:

    Forensic Discovery [download!]
    Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema

    http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/forensic-discov ery/

    Must Go:

    http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/

  11. Mac Forensics on New Anti-Forensics Tools Thwart Police · · Score: 1

    MacForensicsLab

    http://www.macforensicslab.com/

    http://www.macforensicslab.com/mfl_analysis.html

    If you are a super criminal you have state protection, See:
    Attorney General Alberto Gonzales:

    http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/ 16/0137205

    http://tedscolumn.blogspot.com/2007/05/more-from-d epartment-of-injustice.html

    http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9719339-7.html

    But if you've got something [below] this insidious, you're just screwed:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?c=a rticlecomments&op=display_comments&ArticleID=11372 &expand_all=true&mode=threaded

    You'd need Fred: [site is run off a locked volume - DVD]

    http://all.net/

    He also has, White Glove Linux, LE is for law enforcement only. [click "prices" on left]

    http://all.net/WG/dist/index.html

    Fred's, The Man(TM)

  12. For Real on Pitting a Mac Plus Against an AMD Dual Core · · Score: 1

    I'v got a Macintosh Plus [1Mb]
    (Valley Girl) O-M-G !!!
    ALL the women want me.
    I AM leet.

    Seriously, it runs a [small :-] server ... offline:

    http://www.machttp.org/modules.php?op=modload&name =Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=6

    Like others:

    http://www.ld8.org/servers/servers.html

    It's 21 years old for Christ's sake. My Wife has a PowerMac 2x 2,5 MHz G5 and it *feels* snappier than that.
    The point is BIGGER MHz EVEN BIGGER bloat, we've gained so little.
    The constant "arms race" of MHz to bloat makes most gains moof, er - moot.

    Further:

    http://www.lowendmac.com/compact/plus.shtml

    http://lowendmac.com/musings/macplus.shtml

    http://macplus.mia.net/

    http://www.nd.edu/~jvanderk/sysone/

    Mactracker:

    http://www.mactracker.ca/

  13. Richard Clarke on Countdown on China Crafts Cyberweapons · · Score: 3, Informative

    Richard Clarke, top counter-terrorism adviser to presidents of both parties interview.
    Countdown with Keith Olbermann in January '07.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16771741/

    My Summary:

    http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=18061 138&sid=222938

  14. Forget Who You're For on Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds? · · Score: 1

    Forget "who you're for", read this:

    MY KINGDOM FOR MOD POINTS

    http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=236259&cid =19277405

    Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason

    http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1622015,0 0.html

    Contrary-ism and political hit-jobs by programmed imbeciles.
    [you think I'm kidding?]

    http://www.smokingpolitics.com/2007/05/we_guarante e_al_gore_will_be_a.html

    I'm Independent, I haven't decided.

  15. Re:MY KINGDOM FOR MOD POINTS on Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds? · · Score: 1

    MOD UP! - ROTFLOL
    So funny, so utterly and fantastically on the mark. #1 and #2 indeed.
    Apathy is killing the USA.
    Forget "who you're for", read this:

    Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason

    http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1622015,0 0.html

    Contrary-ism and political hit-jobs by programmed imbeciles.
    [you think I'm kidding?]

    http://www.smokingpolitics.com/2007/05/we_guarante e_al_gore_will_be_a.html

    I'm am Independent, I haven't decided, so I can be ambiguous.

    But, my dear "Anomolous Cowturd" please feel free to apply for citizenship by crossing our northern/southern border, we'll go out every weekend, find drunk Americans [no shortage here!], and beat the crap out of them.
    We also have some good museums.

  16. Re:Object Lesson | LINK on Cleaning up Thunder Bluff · · Score: 1

    A Rape in Cyberspace
    (Or TINYSOCIETY, and How to Make One)
    Chapter One of Julian Dibbell's My Tiny Life, 1998

    http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle.html

  17. Object Lesson on Cleaning up Thunder Bluff · · Score: 1

    From an Internet long, long ago ...

    Chapter One of Julian Dibbell's My Tiny Life, 1998.
    (First published in somewhat different form in The Village Voice, December 1993.)

    Call me Dr. Bombay.
    Mr. Bungle was a problem.

    "They say he raped them that night. They say he did it with a cunning little doll, fashioned in their image and imbued with the power to make them do whatever he desired. They say that by manipulating the doll he forced them to have sex with him, and with each other, and to do horrible, brutal things to their own bodies. And though I wasn't there that night, I think I can assure you that what they say is true, because it all happened right in the living room -- right there amid the well-stocked bookcases and the sofas and the fireplace -- of a house I came later to think of as my second home."

    It's an object lesson.
    If they start "meowing", well, it's time to leave.

    http://gandalf.home.digital.net/trollfaq.html

  18. Tutti all' Opera! - Fravia on Firefox Going the Big and Bloated IE Way? · · Score: 1

    Tutti all' Opera! - Fravia
    (Die M$explorer, die!)

    Or ... the ultimate reference.

    http://www.searchlores.org/tuttiope.htm

    * :-]

  19. Optimized Firefox 2.0.0.3 Mac G4 | G5 | Intel on Firefox Going the Big and Bloated IE Way? · · Score: 1

    Why can't the "Official" Firefox have optimized builds?

    Sounds like a plan to me:
    Optimized Firefox 2.0.0.3 Mac G4 | G5 | Intel

    http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2007/03/29/fire fox-2002

  20. Not All the [DOJ] Missing Emails Are Missing on Not All the DOJ Missing Emails Are Missing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The reason I submitted this story is that "our" Media won't report the NEWS [north, east, west, south].
    I'm from a [former] Newspaper family and have a "dog in this hunt".
    If our information systems are compromised/co-opted we'll become instruments of mis/dis-information and a tool of our New Overlord, which, of course, we would then welcome.
    Hard evidence of this is slowly revealing itself, and in turn being suppressed by the very power intrusted to serve the people.

    It's the definition of "news" that has been jeopardized, along with the right to know.

  21. Tools on Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers · · Score: 1

    Tools.
    Some of you folks are pretty gullible.
    Skew the vote 3% - 4%, within the margin of error. Plausible deniability.
    This ain't rocket science with collusion.
    There are just too many links, in defense of this.
    Most of you have had your reality replaced, in other words you've been pwded!
    They "hacked" your reasoning, said a few key words - boom!
    "We don't need no stinkin' paper trail - NO!"
    Blind to the obvious.
    Substituted reality - the new bliss.

    Authoritarianism, works every time.

    Flame away, I'm out.

    http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/wa s_the_2004_election_stolen

    http://www.wheresthepaper.org/index.html

    http://www.votergateproject.com/

    http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/

  22. Transistor Packet Radio on Laptops And Flat Panels Now Vulnerable to Van Eck Methods · · Score: 1

    Nonillion said:
    "however some people still balk at this as 'science fiction'. I can assure you it's not. It's this kind of thing that should be waking up manufactures to the perils of shitty RFI design. Spewing broad band spectrum pollution not only causes radio interference, but also opens you to security problems."

    Amen, Brother.

    And when it "science fictions" across your purview - if you catch it, it becomes pretty real.
    Because these techniques aren't at your favorite |-|ol3 'r US exploit sites. (Why do you think they call them elite?)

    These guys "get it" -

    "The Air Force [US] now dominates both air and space above a theater of operations, so it has "cross-domain dominance" there. But the Air Force must gain dominance in cyberspace as well, because cyberspace superiority is now a prerequisite to effective operations in all other warfighting domains."

    The "electromagnetic spectrum" is pliable, a Faraday cage is your only refuge.
    Attacks involve using RF in ways not usually used; for data over RF or VHF etc. - Packet radio, "radio modem".
    It IS rocket science.
    It appears they understand that.

    This is Key:

    "According to Dr. Kass, cyberspace is neither a mission nor an operation. Instead, cyberspace is a strategic, operational and tactical warfighting domain -- a place in which the Air Force or other services can fight.

    "The domain is defined by the electromagnetic spectrum," Dr. Kass said. "It's a domain just like air, space, land and sea. It is a domain in and through which we deliver effects -- fly and fight, attack and defend -- and conduct operations to obtain our national interests."

    The cyber domain includes all the places an electron travels. The electron, which is part of the atom, can travel from one atom to the next. This concept is key to electronic communication and energy transmission.

    An electron may travel from a cell phone to a cell tower, for instance. The path the electron takes, the shape of its path, the speed it travels, and the direction it travels are all critical to ensuring the cell phone works and that a usable signal is received. As part of a signal, an electron can travel from a handheld computer to a reception tower, over a wire to a telephone, to a television through an antenna, from a radio transmitter to radio, and from computer to computer as part of a network.

    The electron can also travel, as part of energy transmission, from a microwave oven to popcorn seeds to make them pop, from generators over a wire to a light bulb, and from an X-ray machine through bone to a detection plate to make an image for a doctor to review.

    The places where the electron travels is the cyber domain, or cyberspace. And the ability to deliver a full range of cyber effects -- to detect, deter, deceive, disrupt, defend, deny, and defeat any signal or electron transmission -- is the essence of fighting in cyberspace."

    http://www.iwar.org.uk/news-archive/2006/10-05.htm

    Faraday Cage:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

    FCC ID, FCC level B emissions

    http://www.austinlinks.com/Crypto/tempest.html

    Your phone company or telephone manufacturer may be able to supply you with free modular filters, although the design frequencies of these filters may not be high enough to be effective through much of the EMI spectrum of interest. Keep telephone lines away from power supplies of computers or peripherals and the rear of CRTs: the magnetic field often associated with those device can inductively transfer to unshielded lines just as if the telephone line were directly electrically connected to them. Since this kind of coupling decreases rapidly with distance, this kind of magnetic induction can be virtually eliminated by keeping as much distance (several feet or more) as possible betwe

  23. Road to Ruin on Preparing for the Worst in IT · · Score: 1

    Why would you (as a disciple of terror) ruin the one conduit that runs in to millions of businesses and homes?
    This is pre-internet thinking and the road to ruin.

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=210824&cid=171 77778

    Think about the geniuses in WWII and what they (the Axis Powers) had operational (hint: Jets).
    (BTW where did those geniuses end up?)
    You wouldn't blow up the road to Rome before you used it to conquer IT.
    Blow shit up? That's soooo American ... think people.

    Examples:
    A coalition of Madmen (using countries as groups)
    Axis powers of World War II

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_Powers

    A coalition of Madmen (using Al-Qaeda as an umbrella)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda

    It depends solely on the level of talent and organization.

  24. Wrong On So Many Levels on New Way to Patch Defective Hardware · · Score: 1

    Wonderful for "clean room" hardware software.

    "Whether Torrellas's technology will make its way into commercial computers, however, is uncertain. "Their analysis of where bugs occur is excellent," says Wilson Snyder, a principal engineer for the high-performance computer-hardware manufacturer SiCortex, based in Maynard, MA. "It provides a good, detailed look at signals that should be analyzed to discover bugs." Hardware manufacturers could learn from the basic research behind Phoenix, Snyder says, and use it to eliminate hardware problems before chips hit the stores. But he questions whether manufacturers would ever implement Phoenix itself. Adding Phoenix onto an existing chip would take time and money, he points out."

    For your Sister's computer ... not so much:

    Joanna Rutkowska:

    http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2006/06/int roducing-blue-pill.html

    Black Hat Conference:

    http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-federal-06/bh-fed- 06-speakers.html#Heasman

    http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-07/bh-dc-07-spe akers.html#Heasman

    [sarcasm]
    You can then just bypass the need for virtualization and just run a straight Malware OS(TM), saving us the bother of even using the web's intertube pipes for work - hell, you might even get a cut of all that "Bank" action from our new Overlords, which, of course, we'd welcome.
    [sarcasm]

  25. Macintosh System 7.1 - Simpletext on An Easter (Egg) Holiday? · · Score: 1

    Macintosh System 7.1.x [?] - Simpletext

    I've never seen this one published and I haven't been able to trigger it since.
    I was learning how to use Simpletext (on a Mac IIsi), (a simple editing application distributed with the early Macintoshes) I think I was using the "Help" feature - I was (am) painfully slow at times :-), step by laborious step I completed the "Help" task (a formatted letter) and felt like I understood how to use the menu, save, etc. better. Then "Help" pops up a font listing - "Pick a font and sign your work" (or something like that), so I pick one of them and type my name:

    MY NAME ... but the "font" was a scrawl type font, like writing with the wrong hand - when you were 12. No matter which font you used it was 15-18 pt. and was awful looking.

    I've never laughed so hard in my life. I was truly ROTFL.
    Since then that little egg has fueled my lust for eggs and what ultimately became disk forensics study.

    System 7.0 CD - Greg Marriot/Sheila Brady

    http://www.mackido.com/EasterEggs/CD-System70.html