A ground zero host/vector is a host that wasn't infected by another machine, but by an individual who wished the machine to infect other machines. A ground zero host does not necessarily need to have the same exact code as the code it sends out, for example, in this case, it would be unproductive for the ground zero host to have the original code since it erodes the filesystem of the host.
Actually, North Korea has the untested ability to launch an ICBM. I don't think we would need to worry to much about that... If someone really wants to get the United States, they'll put the nuke in a tanker or something, put it in the San Francisco bay or somewhere similar, then set it off.
Remember, Japan hit the United States first in WWII, when the United States wasn't expecting it. Terrorists hit the United States when the US wasn't prepared... don't expect a nuke to come from the some obvious location like the silos of Kim il-Jong. (I guess that's the argument for eternal vigilance and PATRIOT act type things, though)
After being a "gifted" child for quite a while now (I didn't set it myself, it's a label assigned to me by the school district), I have found that being in groups such as the one you suggest don't work. Think about it: you're surrounded by people who probably know half about the topic as you do. All they want is you to get them points or whatever. Most of them are quite open with their words in telling you that basically they like you on the team only because you're "smart." That doesn't at all enforce a positive view of the social world upon the kid. I personally feel that to get the kid in a social position, you need positive reinforcement of the benefits of social interaction, not the negativities.
Heres my question for all the law-people on/. - if the FCC decides to regulate VoIP, what happens if I start my own personal VoIP network? Must I be regulated too?
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My local trendy cafe/art gallery, The Canvas (Lincoln and 9th in San Francisco, right on the corner) now has free wireless during business hours. You can walk in, and its full of people - most with a laptop, but they also have one important thing: the food they bought at the cafe. So, the Canvas can get 1.5 mbit DSL for $40 a month, and get at least 40 more people a day buying more food, probably at least amounting to the total cost of the DSL per month, every day.
The problem is, a good system would allow exactly those kinds of comments. Slashdot, for example, allows you to post whatever you want, but you can get modded down and not be seen. A similar system would work for teacher reviews - if you want to read all of the "drivel" (per se) then go ahead.
Since port 3127 isn't used that much, except for the 50,000+ trojaned computers, does anyone else agree that it would be viable to have mega-ops at all those switching stations block port 3127 for say... 5 days, until patches get out and what not? That way, we wouldn't have those huge spreads from seed machines in Russia or what not spreading to the small suburban streets of... say... Washington, Oklahoma? I'm sure MS and SCO would agree, and they have the funding to back any damages from applications using port 3127 that are actually legit.;)
The worst example I saw was the FBI NCIC 2000 manual [PDF]. It gives you examples of how to look up criminal records and such... which could be very useful to the criminally vested social engineer.
Does anyone with knowledge of Austrailian law know if the Austrailian treaty will violate some of their freedoms in the way the American DMCA has violated some of the United States citizen's freedoms contained within the constitution? This wouldn't sound so outrageous if the freedoms contained within the treaty didn't really tread upon Austrailian constitution/law, but if not...
One problem is that there are a lot of PDA's that almost no one writes software and have weird/uncommon processors. For example, my Jornada 548 runs on an SH3 processor - I can't run Linux because of the SH3 processor, which no one has written the specific kernel patch for... So, do developers try to develop a uC-Linux based kernel for the SH3 (which I've heard is hard to do) or do they try to write software that replaces the Jornada PIM, and open-source it? (which no one has done yet...) So, now, I'm basically stuck with PocketWord, PocketOutlook, PocketCalendar... and no one is willing to write any software to replace it... jeez, maybe I had best learn how to code for WindowsCE 2000.
You can easily see that with a service such as MSN Hotmail, who already sells your personal info, your standard "I had best enter the correct info, or else bad things could happen" person can easily give them (as this project puts it) about $10 worth of personal info right in the sign-up boxes. MSN could then do a search through some of these free services and get even more money, as the information gains value if it is all stored in one location. We can then see how offering free email to the unwashed masses can be very profitable.
Really piss me off. Yeah, sure, they're blind, but who cares? They ripped off the phone system and people's tax dollars for their own personal profit. Read the part of the story where the guy gets out of prison, and they're building his (very very expensive) new house?
As of the most recent harvard Chinese censorship study, slashdot is not censored. (from their Emperical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China found here)
Who said they would be doing it to vandalize? I'm sure that some company would want these people to do something like the Che art, except in their company logo or something similar. Obviously, the driver system they are using (check out the fonts) is advanced enough that they can create almost anything in B&W that they want.
I don't think the local flora would be very prominent in the most common areas of land mines - those beings roads, trails, and other such areas that people must travel across.
Ack, due to Russian music laws, people using www.allofmp3.com in Russia can pay 1 cent per megabyte of mp3 or ogg or whatever, legally. However, once you download any of that into your American computer, its illegal since the RIAA isn't getting its "proper" share of the money.
I've seen projects like this (Digital Archive Project) where people recover old shows and release them, but does anyone know where they found this "lost" episode? A recorded tape? An old master somewhere? It would be interesting to see the quality of it when it gets released in comparison to the other "non-lost" episodes. Also would be very interesting to hear the whole story of this episode... how it got lost, where they found it, how they updated it. Maybe a good idea for a book.
Plus, you're getting the same quality as vinyl, since most Electronica/Techno is worked on as 44khz... if they offer really high quality encodes, the quality difference will be negligible... What I really want to see is a label that does classical or something record at >100 khz and distribute the music as 524 kbit [insert uber-format here] files.
Yeah, but what about us with "real" set ups? Maybe just a sound-card hooked up to a mixer to a nice pair of numark headphones or something, but I can hear the difference between CDs/HiQual Mp3s versus vinyl. Then again, if you encode straight from vinyl and encoded at say... 88 khz and 524 kbits, you would get higher than CD quality. Besides, it is a record label, and they should have access to the masters, right? (then again it is techno/electronica, mostly done at 44khz and the equivalent of 320 kbits mp3 encoding anyways, so why argue for electronica vinyl/mp3? Why not classical vinyl/mp3?)
Well, what about the fact that some laptops play music? Or that some PDAs play music? Or that a cellphone might include a music player? Or that a cell phone does some of the PDA's jobs? We're already merging a lot of devices, and it just seems like the slippery slope from here.
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A ground zero host/vector is a host that wasn't infected by another machine, but by an individual who wished the machine to infect other machines. A ground zero host does not necessarily need to have the same exact code as the code it sends out, for example, in this case, it would be unproductive for the ground zero host to have the original code since it erodes the filesystem of the host.
Actually, North Korea has the untested ability to launch an ICBM. I don't think we would need to worry to much about that... If someone really wants to get the United States, they'll put the nuke in a tanker or something, put it in the San Francisco bay or somewhere similar, then set it off.
Remember, Japan hit the United States first in WWII, when the United States wasn't expecting it. Terrorists hit the United States when the US wasn't prepared... don't expect a nuke to come from the some obvious location like the silos of Kim il-Jong. (I guess that's the argument for eternal vigilance and PATRIOT act type things, though)
After being a "gifted" child for quite a while now (I didn't set it myself, it's a label assigned to me by the school district), I have found that being in groups such as the one you suggest don't work. Think about it: you're surrounded by people who probably know half about the topic as you do. All they want is you to get them points or whatever. Most of them are quite open with their words in telling you that basically they like you on the team only because you're "smart." That doesn't at all enforce a positive view of the social world upon the kid. I personally feel that to get the kid in a social position, you need positive reinforcement of the benefits of social interaction, not the negativities.
Heres my question for all the law-people on /. - if the FCC decides to regulate VoIP, what happens if I start my own personal VoIP network? Must I be regulated too?
My local trendy cafe/art gallery, The Canvas (Lincoln and 9th in San Francisco, right on the corner) now has free wireless during business hours. You can walk in, and its full of people - most with a laptop, but they also have one important thing: the food they bought at the cafe. So, the Canvas can get 1.5 mbit DSL for $40 a month, and get at least 40 more people a day buying more food, probably at least amounting to the total cost of the DSL per month, every day.
The problem is, a good system would allow exactly those kinds of comments. Slashdot, for example, allows you to post whatever you want, but you can get modded down and not be seen. A similar system would work for teacher reviews - if you want to read all of the "drivel" (per se) then go ahead.
Since port 3127 isn't used that much, except for the 50,000+ trojaned computers, does anyone else agree that it would be viable to have mega-ops at all those switching stations block port 3127 for say... 5 days, until patches get out and what not? That way, we wouldn't have those huge spreads from seed machines in Russia or what not spreading to the small suburban streets of... say... Washington, Oklahoma? I'm sure MS and SCO would agree, and they have the funding to back any damages from applications using port 3127 that are actually legit. ;)
3127 is apparently the backdoor created by the other mydoom viruses. As another poster mentioned, its a giant botnet, now at someone's disposal.
Thats the whole part - getting the police dispatcher to run it for you. Which sounds better?
" Hi, I'm in the downtown office and our system is down. Can you do a 'lookup 24644434' for me? "
" Hi, I'm in the downtown office and our system is down. Can you find the criminal record for 'Bob Heizinburg' who lives in San Diego? "
That first example doesn't actually work, since I haven't read the whole manual trying to actually find out how to do a look up.
The worst example I saw was the FBI NCIC 2000 manual [PDF]. It gives you examples of how to look up criminal records and such... which could be very useful to the criminally vested social engineer.
Does anyone with knowledge of Austrailian law know if the Austrailian treaty will violate some of their freedoms in the way the American DMCA has violated some of the United States citizen's freedoms contained within the constitution? This wouldn't sound so outrageous if the freedoms contained within the treaty didn't really tread upon Austrailian constitution/law, but if not...
Just make sure that some specific slashdot trolls NEVER EVER come into communication with him.
One problem is that there are a lot of PDA's that almost no one writes software and have weird/uncommon processors. For example, my Jornada 548 runs on an SH3 processor - I can't run Linux because of the SH3 processor, which no one has written the specific kernel patch for... So, do developers try to develop a uC-Linux based kernel for the SH3 (which I've heard is hard to do) or do they try to write software that replaces the Jornada PIM, and open-source it? (which no one has done yet...) So, now, I'm basically stuck with PocketWord, PocketOutlook, PocketCalendar... and no one is willing to write any software to replace it... jeez, maybe I had best learn how to code for WindowsCE 2000.
Had anyone else not heard about this company before today?
You can easily see that with a service such as MSN Hotmail, who already sells your personal info, your standard "I had best enter the correct info, or else bad things could happen" person can easily give them (as this project puts it) about $10 worth of personal info right in the sign-up boxes. MSN could then do a search through some of these free services and get even more money, as the information gains value if it is all stored in one location. We can then see how offering free email to the unwashed masses can be very profitable.
Really piss me off. Yeah, sure, they're blind, but who cares? They ripped off the phone system and people's tax dollars for their own personal profit. Read the part of the story where the guy gets out of prison, and they're building his (very very expensive) new house?
As of the most recent harvard Chinese censorship study, slashdot is not censored. (from their Emperical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China found here)
Who said they would be doing it to vandalize? I'm sure that some company would want these people to do something like the Che art, except in their company logo or something similar. Obviously, the driver system they are using (check out the fonts) is advanced enough that they can create almost anything in B&W that they want.
I don't think the local flora would be very prominent in the most common areas of land mines - those beings roads, trails, and other such areas that people must travel across.
Ack, due to Russian music laws, people using www.allofmp3.com in Russia can pay 1 cent per megabyte of mp3 or ogg or whatever, legally. However, once you download any of that into your American computer, its illegal since the RIAA isn't getting its "proper" share of the money.
I've seen projects like this (Digital Archive Project) where people recover old shows and release them, but does anyone know where they found this "lost" episode? A recorded tape? An old master somewhere? It would be interesting to see the quality of it when it gets released in comparison to the other "non-lost" episodes. Also would be very interesting to hear the whole story of this episode... how it got lost, where they found it, how they updated it. Maybe a good idea for a book.
Plus, you're getting the same quality as vinyl, since most Electronica/Techno is worked on as 44khz... if they offer really high quality encodes, the quality difference will be negligible... What I really want to see is a label that does classical or something record at >100 khz and distribute the music as 524 kbit [insert uber-format here] files.
Yeah, but what about us with "real" set ups? Maybe just a sound-card hooked up to a mixer to a nice pair of numark headphones or something, but I can hear the difference between CDs/HiQual Mp3s versus vinyl. Then again, if you encode straight from vinyl and encoded at say... 88 khz and 524 kbits, you would get higher than CD quality. Besides, it is a record label, and they should have access to the masters, right? (then again it is techno/electronica, mostly done at 44khz and the equivalent of 320 kbits mp3 encoding anyways, so why argue for electronica vinyl/mp3? Why not classical vinyl/mp3?)
Well, what about the fact that some laptops play music? Or that some PDAs play music? Or that a cellphone might include a music player? Or that a cell phone does some of the PDA's jobs? We're already merging a lot of devices, and it just seems like the slippery slope from here.
In general, $20 CD-ROM drives don't get much support from their manufacturer.