There's been a lot of interest in that pastebin post, over 5000 views. Symantec's silence/censorship is getting odder, and more futile, by the hour....
I'd disagree that we should "combine efforts" with other sites just because they use the same licence. One useful element of the Creative Commons licence is the machine readable licence embedded into webpages and media to enable search engines to locate them.
It's up to search engines to tap into this, and the efforts from Google and Yahoo (see http://creativecommons.org/find/) are a great first step.
Petrol Direct are the answer to the UK's rising fuel prices - cheap fuel by post, with innovative biofuel products too.
Check out Petrel(TM) a fuel source made from a mixture of seabird guano, combined with the rendered down, fermented and then distilled corpses of a variety of common gulls, albatrosses and terns.
And "Vin Diesel" - Made from the foulest and most undrinkable European wines
I've just received the following email via our datacenter, never seen one of these before, requesting preservation of digital communications, logs etc.... here's the message in full.
------------ A coordinated terrorist act requires communication between the parties involved. It is therefore likely that the perpretrators behind the multiple explosions in central London today have used telecommunications systems in the planning and execution of their act. The investigation into this crime will take many months and it is likely that the siginificance of specific communications data and current stored content will not become immediately apparent and there is a real risk that important evidence could be lost.
On behalf of all of the agencies involved in the investigation of this incident, I am requesting that, to the extent of what is reasonably practicable that you preserve all existing communications data and content of stored communications (email, SMS, voicemail) held by you in order that it is available to the investigation of this crime.
Data is exempt from the 1st Data Protection Principle if it is processed for the purpose of prevention and detection of crime or the apprehension and prosecution of offenders. (Section 29 (1) Data Protection Act 1998.)
This request relates only to the preservation of data and content which is currently stored. Any access requests to such data will be made through the appropriate legal process.
I will keep this matter under constant review and will notify you immediately of any change of circumstances. I will in any case update you on a monthly basis as to the on-going requirement for the preserved data.
Below I have included a list of the of data types that this request addresses. This list is not exclusive and you are asked to preserve any data that can be used to identify communications that have taken place and links to the parties.
* Content of email servers * Email server logs * Radius or other IP address to user resolution logs * Pager, SMS and MMS Messages currently on the network's platform * Content of voicemail platforms * Call data records (includes mobile, fixed line, international gateways & VoIP) * Subscriber records
Any questions in relation to this request should be addressed in the first instance by email to xxxx@xxxx.org. The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit is an operational unit of the National Crime Squad of England and Wales.
Signed
Jim Gamble Deputy Director General National Crime Squad Chair ACPO Data Communications Group
Cory Doctorow gave an interesting talk on the Broadcast Flag, touching on some of the differences in the European vs US histories and approaches, urging Europeans to reject the idea.
I like him because he was the first person to tell me about Netscape. Sometime in 1994 I was lead developer on a product that won an award presented by Douglas, so I got to meet him after the presentation.
We got talking about the Internet. "What browser are you using?" he asked. "Mosaic" I replied. "Well, I only use Netscape now, you should check it out the beta". Sounds silly now, but it was a hot tip back then!
He was a nice guy. I had been to see Pink Floyd at Earls Court some time before meeting him, and he had actually been on stage playing guitar on "Brain Damage". He seemed rather pleased with himself about that.
All the time I just wanted to ask lame HHGTTG fanboy questions though. Managed to curb that. I did ask for more Dirk Gently books though....
Yeah my knee jerk reaction to this was "never in a thousand years" too, don't forget that the person you are messaging may be using this service *and you'd never know*.
You are weirder - you can't go five words without a spelling mistake.
Although a work of fiction, Neal Stephenson's "Quicksilver" mentions the needles-in-eyes incident and covers many other episodes in Newton's life (and much more besides, I should add) - I'm sure by now most SlashDot readers have either loved it or loathed it, but if you haven't tried, give it a whirl....
Neal Stephenson is fond of using odd spellings in the book, so you should be right at home...
Just stick the sun+water=hydrogen doohickey on the roof of your house and fill up your car every morning with the previous day's lovely free fuel. I'm sure the likes of Texaco, Esso, BP et al will be *tripping over* themselves to develop it. Oh yes.
I'm sure we can expect the following exciting new releases if Microsoft makes this purchase. Not being much of a shining wit, I will leave the hard part up to you:
<pun involving "windows"> - some artist
<clever parody of blue-screen-of-death> - a band
<clumsy attempt at humurous title> - <artist with "gates" as surname>
<mildly amusing dig at open source> - obscure indie band
Slashdot Mirror
....but had to say "thankyou". Good luck with whatever you do in the future.
I preferred the bit at the end where they start dispatching the bad guys with shovels.
Now I want to play Left 4 Dead with a shovel!
There's been a lot of interest in that pastebin post, over 5000 views. Symantec's silence/censorship is getting odder, and more futile, by the hour....
Here are the strings: http://pastebin.com/m1e207a78
Here's a dump of strings found in the pifts.exe on pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/m1e207a78
Interesting padding buffer right at the end? Spoofed length or just room to grow some internal resource?
Interesting that this occurred shortly after one of the top bods in BBC new media is off to OFCOM shortly...
_ wtf.shtml
http://www.tomski.com/2007/06/from_bbc_to_psp_via
> (acoustic modem wardialing, anyone?)
:)
Not sure how that was a huge technical problem, particularly as name for that technique is derived from the name of the film which popularized it
I'm a developer of the Geograph website.
I'd disagree that we should "combine efforts" with other sites just because they use the same licence. One useful element of the Creative Commons licence is the machine readable licence embedded into webpages and media to enable search engines to locate them.
It's up to search engines to tap into this, and the efforts from Google and Yahoo (see http://creativecommons.org/find/) are a great first step.
It would never work, the temptation to insert a line about K9 sniffing Mrs Slocombe's pussy would be too great.
"OK, lay it on us, what's your idea?"
"well, there's this bisexual time-travelling conman...."
(awkward silence)
"...and that's it!"
"Brilliant! Here's a bag of moneys!"
Petrol Direct are the answer to the UK's rising fuel prices - cheap fuel by post, with innovative biofuel products too.
Check out Petrel(TM) a fuel source made from a mixture of seabird guano, combined with the rendered down, fermented and then distilled corpses of a variety of common gulls, albatrosses and terns.
And "Vin Diesel" - Made from the foulest and most undrinkable European wines
Marvellous.
I've just received the following email via our datacenter, never seen one of these before, requesting preservation of digital communications, logs etc.... here's the message in full.
------------
A coordinated terrorist act requires communication between the parties involved. It is therefore likely that the perpretrators behind the multiple explosions in central London today have used telecommunications systems in the planning and execution of their act. The investigation into this crime will take many months and it is likely that the siginificance of specific communications data and current stored content will not become immediately apparent and there is a real risk that important evidence could be lost.
On behalf of all of the agencies involved in the investigation of this incident, I am requesting that, to the extent of what is reasonably practicable that you preserve all existing communications data and content of stored communications (email, SMS, voicemail) held by you in order that it is available to the investigation of this crime.
Data is exempt from the 1st Data Protection Principle if it is processed for the purpose of prevention and detection of crime or the apprehension and prosecution of offenders. (Section 29 (1) Data Protection Act 1998.)
This request relates only to the preservation of data and content which is currently stored. Any access requests to such data will be made through the appropriate legal process.
I will keep this matter under constant review and will notify you immediately of any change of circumstances. I will in any case update you on a monthly basis as to the on-going requirement for the preserved data.
Below I have included a list of the of data types that this request addresses. This list is not exclusive and you are asked to preserve any data that can be used to identify communications that have taken place and links to the parties.
* Content of email servers
* Email server logs
* Radius or other IP address to user resolution logs
* Pager, SMS and MMS Messages currently on the network's platform
* Content of voicemail platforms
* Call data records (includes mobile, fixed line, international gateways & VoIP)
* Subscriber records
Any questions in relation to this request should be addressed in the first instance by email to xxxx@xxxx.org. The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit is an operational unit of the National Crime Squad of England and Wales.
Signed
Jim Gamble
Deputy Director General
National Crime Squad
Chair ACPO Data Communications Group
Cory Doctorow gave an interesting talk on the Broadcast Flag, touching on some of the differences in the European vs US histories and approaches, urging Europeans to reject the idea.
a st_flag.html
MPGs and MP3s here...worth a listen:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/26/corys_broadc
A fresh end? Is that by using some form of intimate wipe?
I like him because he was the first person to tell me about Netscape. Sometime in 1994 I was lead developer on a product that won an award presented by Douglas, so I got to meet him after the presentation.
We got talking about the Internet. "What browser are you using?" he asked. "Mosaic" I replied. "Well, I only use Netscape now, you should check it out the beta". Sounds silly now, but it was a hot tip back then!
He was a nice guy. I had been to see Pink Floyd at Earls Court some time before meeting him, and he had actually been on stage playing guitar on "Brain Damage". He seemed rather pleased with himself about that.
All the time I just wanted to ask lame HHGTTG fanboy questions though. Managed to curb that. I did ask for more Dirk Gently books though....
- The first step in the process for our technologies is to analyze a representative sample of music (up to date we have
- analized more than 1 Million tracks)
Analized? Analized? - what dedication these folks have. Brings tears to my eyes.Error! Unable to open file!
In order to open this file you must move 3 metres northwest of your present position
Yeah my knee jerk reaction to this was "never in a thousand years" too, don't forget that the person you are messaging may be using this service *and you'd never know*.
You are weirder - you can't go five words without a spelling mistake.
Although a work of fiction, Neal Stephenson's "Quicksilver" mentions the needles-in-eyes incident and covers many other episodes in Newton's life (and much more besides, I should add) - I'm sure by now most SlashDot readers have either loved it or loathed it, but if you haven't tried, give it a whirl....
Neal Stephenson is fond of using odd spellings in the book, so you should be right at home...
Just stick the sun+water=hydrogen doohickey on the roof of your house and fill up your car every morning with the previous day's lovely free fuel. I'm sure the likes of Texaco, Esso, BP et al will be *tripping over* themselves to develop it. Oh yes.
Fire in the Lexmark
Fire in the rebadged dell
Fire in the Lexmark
Fire in the gates of hell
Don't you want to know how we keep starting fires?
It's my Lexmark, It's my Lexmark, It's my Lexmark
Don't you want to know how we keep starting fires?
It's my Lexmark, It's my Lexmark, It's my Lexmark
Danger! Danger! High Voltage!
When we touch, When we print
Danger! Danger! High Voltage!
When we touch, when we print
when we touch
Just wait until the first virus is written for such a system which can be spread by touch alone!
"Damn, I've got the Blue Arm of Death! Could someone press my reset switch for me"
You don't need to take any other services from NTL for the 25/month package.
I've not found any port restrictions myself, I've successfully run a variety of services off my connection, including VNC.
...and the oscar goes to Jouster for "Post that brings tears welling in eyes"
I'm sure we can expect the following exciting new releases if Microsoft makes this purchase. Not being much of a shining wit, I will leave the hard part up to you:
<pun involving "windows"> - some artist
<clever parody of blue-screen-of-death> - a band
<clumsy attempt at humurous title> - <artist with "gates" as surname>
<mildly amusing dig at open source> - obscure indie band
Oh the fun you could have. If you had time.