Yeah, you're not kidding. PL/1 was one of the first languages I learned back in the early 80's and I'm ever so glad that I never had to put that knowledge to any real use other than academics. Though I did find my old box of programming manuals from back then and right on top was my PL/1 and APL manuals from IBM. I wonder if those are worth anything these days...
Thanks. Do you have any other sources for Linux rootkit info? I've been studying Vista kits for the past few months and find them horrifyingly simple to implement.
Where in that ruling did it address that matter? It all points to the Sonny Bono copyright extension act but I can't find any mention of what you're suggesting.
I never mentioned any number other than the $20,000+ paid for my SGI boxes... And 900-100 isn't a range of numbers, it's 1/2 of an equation equaling 800. Please try again so I'll know what your point was...or maybe respond to the person you actually intended the reply to reach.
Encryption is to prevent your data from escaping if someone stole your laptop. It however will NOT prevent the thief from installing a keylogger(which is what TFA is basically describing) which can then be used to discover your passphrase and eventually gain access to the system.
If you lose a laptop and then recover it, you can be fairly certain that your data was never leaked but you cannot be certain that someone didn't tamper with your system so they could steal the data later. At that point the best you could do would be mount the volume on a completely different system and move any data you hadn't already backed up, then wipe the drive/bios fully..though after yesterday's article about the BIOS "rootkit" that is Computrace, I'd be wary of the hardware at that point.
VERY good point. I own(ed) several Silicon Graphics workstations. Even though it would have been true, my justification never involved "well, if you add the fact that these don't crash every 20 minutes, the productivity makes them worth the $20,000+ paid for them". Nope, my justification was "ever see all those special effects in movies? They used THIS computer brand to make most of them, not a PC, not a Mac".
HAHAHAHAHAHA!! So your last prediction a year and a half ago was that the earth would start overheating and we'd all be dead by now but NOW you're saying this "suppressed planet" isn't going to really affect us for another year. So which is it? You've claimed to be an expert but you don't seem to even be able to get your estimations remotely close.
"CFLs have a power factor of around 0.5, which means they use twice as much power as rated. For example a 15 watt CFL uses 15 watts in your home, but then it uses another 15 watts at the central power plant due to the need to "rebalance" the power and restore the PF to 1.0. TOTAL == 30 watts burned"
Can you please elaborate on this point? I'm inclined to call bullshit if for no other reason than that 15 watts used at 110v looks the same regardless of the device using it but I'm willing to give you a chance to explain yourself as maybe you were oversimplifying your point.
Actually you have a helluva point, though you may not have caught it. I forgot that I was looking at the.tar.gz version of the kernel so the source code is much larger uncompressed. And yes, I'm aware my figures were off..I don't worry about specifics like that unless I'm actually coding.
So the sunspots have returned, where's your god, er, magnetic planet now?
Care to explain how EVERY observatory, especially those not under United States governmental control, would be even remotely willing to suppress this information?
However, that said, if you really believe this, can I buy your house/car/stereo for a dollar? I mean you won't have any use for it in a few months if you're right so put your money where your mouth is.
Hey, it's me again. It's been a year and a half(Jan 2008) since you first told me that this planet you speak of would kill us within 6-12 months but we're not dead yet. No astronomers have mentioned its existence so is it invisible as well? You told me that there'd be all sorts of panic about this thing by now but the only person I can find mentioning this BS is you. Care to explain? I'm all ears, and I have a telescope handy so if you want to tell me where I'm supposed to be looking, I'll be happy to prove/disprove your assertion here.
Two years ago I bought my father a dvd player for $10. He didn't need one, he needed something that would play a dvd full of mp3's and it was the right price. Just hooked it up to a tiny screen and he had a remote control.
Nah, I don't hang out with known criminals like yourself, despite the public opinion to the contrary. Your arguements are laughable.
Take a real challenge, start your own dating site EXACTLY like I have in a region of under 300,000 people and email me when you get over 200 real and active members, starting from a completely blank slate - ZERO seed accounts, no budget for advertising(that includes posting messages about it ANYWHERE), lockout out-of-area visitors with a Geo-IP database(I'll make an exception for googlebot and the like), and your free accounts should expire after 90 days of inactivity on the account. You also have to offer it for free with no ad revenue and, well, I'll just let you figure out what the spammers are going to do with 90% of your time but suffice to say that you can't let the spammers keep their accounts on your site to count toward your numbers either. Regardless, you'll never email me cause you'll never be able to accomplish it; you'll see exactly what I see every time I set up a site, you'll try everything that everyone I know in the business has tried previously, you'll fail exactly like each and every one of us has and then you'll realize that you don't have the answers that you thought you did. Seriously, try it. I'll even show you were to get the free software to do the setup and I'll walk you through every little bit to do it, but you'll also have to deal with removing the seed accnts that come with the database to make it 100% legit. If you think you can do better and want to sling names then maybe you should take that walk I've been talking about, my shoes are waiting.
That said, I wiped my database just so I can collect data as a sociology experiment and publish the findings here; I think that the hate-filed asshats here will have a few less harsh words after I show what really happens without monetary resources.
They don't get on the site. Period. Since I ain't getting paid for any of it, including fighting the extensive number of spammers(far more than any other site I manage by about 2,000 fold; dating sites are a prize to them for V!agra spam), I have no obligation, desire or otherwise to provide the service outside the community.
Hell after the bullshit that everyone has tried to put me through I'm thinking about just wiping the database as an experiment to show that without such a technique, users don't sign up for sites with zero members if you have zero budget for advertising, etc. It'd make for a great sociology experiment and I could grab front page of/. once I have my data. That'd give the little old women here something to complain about as well I guess.
No, you don't because, duh, you're not here and I have no reason to disclose my operation to judgemental losers. And I'll answer your last question with
I appreciate your level-headedness - you're the first thusfar. You see, you'd THINK that people shouldn't need to resort to "tricks" to get people to join but let me let you inside what REALLY happens when you have a site that has under 10 users, and this is the biggie..even if it's free. User finds site, looks around, and potentially joins. You get that far right? No, they don't potentially join because they don't see any activity, OR if they do join they leave and never return(they'll barely return if there IS a lot of activity, why people think otherwise I have no clue) because a good dating site won't fill a user's inbox with a match(that's the easiest way to get marked as a spammer). Then people will say to run an affiliate program to get people to join, to which I have to ask, with WHAT? There's no budget for this hobby. OR if I do have one then what happens is a bunch of spammers sign up as affiliates, they spam the hell out of every other site on the planet and I get my site knocked off of any search results I might be lucky enough to achieve because of their actions. Or those people will say to advertise; again, with what? I don't have time to promote it online because plentyoffish.com has their spammy doorway pages that drown out any search results I might benefit from, AND I'm a local site so I'd have to find other local sites to advertise on....there aren't any. So what else is there to make people think that there is a reason to join? There's another site that's at least claiming to be local based that won't even let you see if there are ANY members before you join the site. Should I try that instead? What it all boils down to is that there are no easy answers besides buying out an already established site. Despite everyone saying there should be a better way, no one has any answers because the few that work everyone thinks makes it a scam or fraud.
I've got 5 years in this business at this point, I setup this site at least 30 different times from scratch, and time and time again if I had less than 200 users it was just as good to never start because no one thought enough of it to join or return no matter how free it was, commercial, homebrew, or open source software/themes didn't matter either. The *only* thing that ever mattered was the number of users on the site; that's what they're there no matter what the price. Make yourself a friend in the dating site business and ask them how much work there is to get noticed at all and to retain a userbase, you'll find that if they're making ANY money, they're far worse than anything I've ever done.
I'd LOVE to say it wasn't like that at all but that IS human nature whether we want to believe it or not; they think in terms of herd mentality because that's what makes them feel comfortable but they also get super high and mighty when you point out what they fell for to make them comfortable enough to be themselves in the first place, as made evident with the large number of people calling me a scammer and accuse me of committing fraud despite them having zero proof, just the voices in their heads telling them that's the way it should be.
How would you know? How would ANY of you know? You don't because you've made assumptions that aren't yours to make. You're using your moral standards without any form of check to know if maybe you're crossing the line. It takes more for me to come here and even address everyone's asinine child-like behavior and abuse than it does for some little asshole to hide behind an AC and sling lies and false accusations. I'm sure if you weren't afraid of the truth you'd post with your real credentials.
No, I mean they don't MAKE a lot of money even if they have 100% real profiles. Did you have a problem comprehending that easy statement? You overestimate how lucrative the dating site market really is, and my role in this but then again the moment I attack you for being a dick and paying more attention to this than something that really matters, you'll just tell me that I don't know you, yet you'll call me a scammer, accuse me of fraud and all sorts of nasty things that, and I love this part, are simply not true and wholly made up in your little minds. Kudos.
Doesn't matter. I can take it down for a year and I won't notice anything except for more free time and a fatter wallet. Besides, if someone were to try to break in then I'd say they don't have their priorities straight and should check the mirror.
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Yeah, you're not kidding. PL/1 was one of the first languages I learned back in the early 80's and I'm ever so glad that I never had to put that knowledge to any real use other than academics. Though I did find my old box of programming manuals from back then and right on top was my PL/1 and APL manuals from IBM. I wonder if those are worth anything these days...
Thanks. Do you have any other sources for Linux rootkit info? I've been studying Vista kits for the past few months and find them horrifyingly simple to implement.
Just slap some DRM on the data; that's always worked to keep people out in the past.
Where in that ruling did it address that matter? It all points to the Sonny Bono copyright extension act but I can't find any mention of what you're suggesting.
I never mentioned any number other than the $20,000+ paid for my SGI boxes... And 900-100 isn't a range of numbers, it's 1/2 of an equation equaling 800. Please try again so I'll know what your point was...or maybe respond to the person you actually intended the reply to reach.
Encryption is to prevent your data from escaping if someone stole your laptop. It however will NOT prevent the thief from installing a keylogger(which is what TFA is basically describing) which can then be used to discover your passphrase and eventually gain access to the system.
If you lose a laptop and then recover it, you can be fairly certain that your data was never leaked but you cannot be certain that someone didn't tamper with your system so they could steal the data later. At that point the best you could do would be mount the volume on a completely different system and move any data you hadn't already backed up, then wipe the drive/bios fully..though after yesterday's article about the BIOS "rootkit" that is Computrace, I'd be wary of the hardware at that point.
VERY good point. I own(ed) several Silicon Graphics workstations. Even though it would have been true, my justification never involved "well, if you add the fact that these don't crash every 20 minutes, the productivity makes them worth the $20,000+ paid for them". Nope, my justification was "ever see all those special effects in movies? They used THIS computer brand to make most of them, not a PC, not a Mac".
HAHAHAHAHAHA!! So your last prediction a year and a half ago was that the earth would start overheating and we'd all be dead by now but NOW you're saying this "suppressed planet" isn't going to really affect us for another year. So which is it? You've claimed to be an expert but you don't seem to even be able to get your estimations remotely close.
"CFLs have a power factor of around 0.5, which means they use twice as much power as rated. For example a 15 watt CFL uses 15 watts in your home, but then it uses another 15 watts at the central power plant due to the need to "rebalance" the power and restore the PF to 1.0. TOTAL == 30 watts burned" Can you please elaborate on this point? I'm inclined to call bullshit if for no other reason than that 15 watts used at 110v looks the same regardless of the device using it but I'm willing to give you a chance to explain yourself as maybe you were oversimplifying your point.
Great, so even our electrons are fucking bisexual as well.
Actually you have a helluva point, though you may not have caught it. I forgot that I was looking at the .tar.gz version of the kernel so the source code is much larger uncompressed. And yes, I'm aware my figures were off..I don't worry about specifics like that unless I'm actually coding.
So the sunspots have returned, where's your god, er, magnetic planet now?
Care to explain how EVERY observatory, especially those not under United States governmental control, would be even remotely willing to suppress this information?
However, that said, if you really believe this, can I buy your house/car/stereo for a dollar? I mean you won't have any use for it in a few months if you're right so put your money where your mouth is.
Hey, it's me again. It's been a year and a half(Jan 2008) since you first told me that this planet you speak of would kill us within 6-12 months but we're not dead yet. No astronomers have mentioned its existence so is it invisible as well? You told me that there'd be all sorts of panic about this thing by now but the only person I can find mentioning this BS is you. Care to explain? I'm all ears, and I have a telescope handy so if you want to tell me where I'm supposed to be looking, I'll be happy to prove/disprove your assertion here.
Two years ago I bought my father a dvd player for $10. He didn't need one, he needed something that would play a dvd full of mp3's and it was the right price. Just hooked it up to a tiny screen and he had a remote control.
Eat a goat turd. You already suck cock.
Nah, I don't hang out with known criminals like yourself, despite the public opinion to the contrary. Your arguements are laughable.
Take a real challenge, start your own dating site EXACTLY like I have in a region of under 300,000 people and email me when you get over 200 real and active members, starting from a completely blank slate - ZERO seed accounts, no budget for advertising(that includes posting messages about it ANYWHERE), lockout out-of-area visitors with a Geo-IP database(I'll make an exception for googlebot and the like), and your free accounts should expire after 90 days of inactivity on the account. You also have to offer it for free with no ad revenue and, well, I'll just let you figure out what the spammers are going to do with 90% of your time but suffice to say that you can't let the spammers keep their accounts on your site to count toward your numbers either. Regardless, you'll never email me cause you'll never be able to accomplish it; you'll see exactly what I see every time I set up a site, you'll try everything that everyone I know in the business has tried previously, you'll fail exactly like each and every one of us has and then you'll realize that you don't have the answers that you thought you did. Seriously, try it. I'll even show you were to get the free software to do the setup and I'll walk you through every little bit to do it, but you'll also have to deal with removing the seed accnts that come with the database to make it 100% legit. If you think you can do better and want to sling names then maybe you should take that walk I've been talking about, my shoes are waiting.
That said, I wiped my database just so I can collect data as a sociology experiment and publish the findings here; I think that the hate-filed asshats here will have a few less harsh words after I show what really happens without monetary resources.
They don't get on the site. Period. Since I ain't getting paid for any of it, including fighting the extensive number of spammers(far more than any other site I manage by about 2,000 fold; dating sites are a prize to them for V!agra spam), I have no obligation, desire or otherwise to provide the service outside the community.
/. once I have my data. That'd give the little old women here something to complain about as well I guess.
Hell after the bullshit that everyone has tried to put me through I'm thinking about just wiping the database as an experiment to show that without such a technique, users don't sign up for sites with zero members if you have zero budget for advertising, etc. It'd make for a great sociology experiment and I could grab front page of
No, you don't because, duh, you're not here and I have no reason to disclose my operation to judgemental losers. And I'll answer your last question with
Modded as troll?!!? WTF, that does not equal "I don't agree with you".
So why haven't you grabbed your followers and taken them to heaven, Jesus?
Really, I'm not concerned with "morals" those involve judgement. What's the old phrase..judge not...
I appreciate your level-headedness - you're the first thusfar. You see, you'd THINK that people shouldn't need to resort to "tricks" to get people to join but let me let you inside what REALLY happens when you have a site that has under 10 users, and this is the biggie..even if it's free. User finds site, looks around, and potentially joins. You get that far right? No, they don't potentially join because they don't see any activity, OR if they do join they leave and never return(they'll barely return if there IS a lot of activity, why people think otherwise I have no clue) because a good dating site won't fill a user's inbox with a match(that's the easiest way to get marked as a spammer). Then people will say to run an affiliate program to get people to join, to which I have to ask, with WHAT? There's no budget for this hobby. OR if I do have one then what happens is a bunch of spammers sign up as affiliates, they spam the hell out of every other site on the planet and I get my site knocked off of any search results I might be lucky enough to achieve because of their actions. Or those people will say to advertise; again, with what? I don't have time to promote it online because plentyoffish.com has their spammy doorway pages that drown out any search results I might benefit from, AND I'm a local site so I'd have to find other local sites to advertise on....there aren't any. So what else is there to make people think that there is a reason to join? There's another site that's at least claiming to be local based that won't even let you see if there are ANY members before you join the site. Should I try that instead? What it all boils down to is that there are no easy answers besides buying out an already established site. Despite everyone saying there should be a better way, no one has any answers because the few that work everyone thinks makes it a scam or fraud.
I've got 5 years in this business at this point, I setup this site at least 30 different times from scratch, and time and time again if I had less than 200 users it was just as good to never start because no one thought enough of it to join or return no matter how free it was, commercial, homebrew, or open source software/themes didn't matter either. The *only* thing that ever mattered was the number of users on the site; that's what they're there no matter what the price. Make yourself a friend in the dating site business and ask them how much work there is to get noticed at all and to retain a userbase, you'll find that if they're making ANY money, they're far worse than anything I've ever done.
I'd LOVE to say it wasn't like that at all but that IS human nature whether we want to believe it or not; they think in terms of herd mentality because that's what makes them feel comfortable but they also get super high and mighty when you point out what they fell for to make them comfortable enough to be themselves in the first place, as made evident with the large number of people calling me a scammer and accuse me of committing fraud despite them having zero proof, just the voices in their heads telling them that's the way it should be.
How would you know? How would ANY of you know? You don't because you've made assumptions that aren't yours to make. You're using your moral standards without any form of check to know if maybe you're crossing the line. It takes more for me to come here and even address everyone's asinine child-like behavior and abuse than it does for some little asshole to hide behind an AC and sling lies and false accusations. I'm sure if you weren't afraid of the truth you'd post with your real credentials.
No, I mean they don't MAKE a lot of money even if they have 100% real profiles. Did you have a problem comprehending that easy statement? You overestimate how lucrative the dating site market really is, and my role in this but then again the moment I attack you for being a dick and paying more attention to this than something that really matters, you'll just tell me that I don't know you, yet you'll call me a scammer, accuse me of fraud and all sorts of nasty things that, and I love this part, are simply not true and wholly made up in your little minds. Kudos.
Doesn't matter. I can take it down for a year and I won't notice anything except for more free time and a fatter wallet. Besides, if someone were to try to break in then I'd say they don't have their priorities straight and should check the mirror.