Slackware's ISO, on ftp.freesoftware.com (try/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-7.0/iso/) is easy to grab, has fast transfer rates, and is in an obviously named directory..
I think the site is trying to target newer Linux adoptees with burners and an itch to try out a few different distros. Nothing else makes sense:-) ---
Is that even though this company (AMD) has a great product that everyone wants, and is making money, etc.. the stock price will likely still be low, and might even drop on this news, thanks to those fscking day traders who can't tell the difference between an OS and a hardware manufacturer.
Yes, the same day traders that somehow made MS stock go up when the Findings of Fact slapped MS, but made every tech stock go down when Judge Jackson made it the Findings of Law. Sigh. ---
This reminds me a lot of Greg Egan's short story "Mitochondrial Eve".. Basically, a religion springs up around tracing ancestry via the mitochondria.. Eventually, of course, the men trace their ancestry via the Y chromosome. Then there is a lot of large scale fighting between the people, because humans are still nasty to each other.. they've just decided on new borders of right and wrong.
Since you obviously have an understanding of the matter, I'd love to see some "advanced cryptography" feature articles posted to K5, thanks to you.
Your "critisms" remind me a lot of the same "critisms" that "Beginning Security" parts 1 and 2 brought. They didn't mention a single thing about auditing code, probing firewalls, setting up security policies, etc. If you look at the feature box on K5, you'll see those went under different headings ("Security the Border," "Bullet Proof Code," etc).
What I'm doing is trying to help some of the newbies to become more clueful, and help others avoid problems. Once they've mastered the material, or at least have a basic understanding of the problem, they can move on to the more advanced stuff. ---
Slashdot targets "News for nerds" and other "Stuff that matters." Unfortunately, as in cases like this, we get a bit of a conflict when the story poster doesn't see the relevance.
Rather than harrrasing Mr. Malda, why don't you move to a site that has story moderation so you can see if the general populace wants to read and discuss such a story? Kuro5hin.org is the place. It's oriented towards technology and culture -- not just news about nerdy things or things that matter. We've even had stock stories before.
I agree with Mr. Malda that this story doesn't really fit with Slashdot, it could fit on other sites. So why not use them? ---
I received many such emails -- then they stopped:-).
For other people, you might want to look into the Art of Lart. It's a great document specifying how to deal with spam, who's reponsible, and various counter measures.
My usual policy is to trace out any ISPs reponsible -- wether they are the providers for the originator, or they are a "Reflector" open relay. I also mail any service listed in the email. abuse@, postmaster@, webmaster@, and manager@ cluster-emails tend to get noticed. Add to that the usual fun of calling their 1-888 numbers, and you have a recipe for revenge.
Speaking of which, I was recently spammed by these nutrional people selling pill which cure snoring. 1-888-688-6354 -- it's a laugh.
These people did not say that encryption should be regulated. They said trust should be enforced by social structures. And they're right, it should be. However, because our knowledge tools are outstripping out evolved control mechanisms, we find situations were encryption makes sense every day.
You don't worry about people bursting in on your room, because it's private. That's where privacy is enforced by the social structure -- people all value it, and so all avoid compromising others' privacy. But large groupings of people, such as New York, stretch the control mechanisms. True, people avoid eye contact, physical contact, etc, as much as possible, there are conflicts that occur. Worse, when you mix in a government which has also scaled past its original goals into other areas, you once again lose more privacy.
Their comments are interesting from a sociological stand point. I'm glad someone was willing to speak about why encryption exists, and how we can make it so we don't need it. The answer is trust. ---
That's more a symptom of the United States not having a proper social system. Chances are that person was starving because of no job, and welfare wouldn't help him. Only malicous people committ crimes for no reason, and they are an incredibly small percentage of crime.
You'll want to head over to kuro5hin.org for freer discussions on this an other topics.. No karma:-) ---
Ahhh.. Didn't read it, did you? It's the first article. You can't go onto discussing encryption algorithms before the subject has even been introduced.
Read the next few articles on the topic. I'll get into specific ciphers at a later point in time. ---
. If the latter happened there would be no need to support Napster because there would be no fear that it might set a precedent for attacking tools that do have significant legitimate uses.
And maybe, just maybe, we'll see the banning of hand guns in the United States of America. Really, how often do you need to shoot something on the way to work? Compare that to how often people are shot by hand guns via crime or mis-use. ---
Two wonderful solutions (probably more are possible):
Local users get sudo access to certain things. No need for local root.
man 5 exports, and they setup your NFS server to squash root (under Linux, it's default, and you have to override with no_root_squash). For example, I use "/inst 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro,root_squash)" for my Slackware install NFS share. No need to export shares that allow root to muck up things.
Either way, you stop handing out root privileges like it's christmass -- a definite security benefit:-) ---
Are you telling me that people will honestly become distraught over the interface enough that they will avoid a perfectly good browser? Isn't that a bit like the bigotry of the 1950s, where people judged you by skin colour instead of content?
Sigh. I'll never understand Mac users. I hope they can live with their, "looks great, acts funky" IE 4.5 browser. ---
I should also point out for the record that FreeBSD is undergoing a similar code audit to the OpenBSD effort of a few years back, and is in the process of merging most of the OpenBSD code security fixes (it's been stalled for a little while due to release engineering efforts for FreeBSD 4.0, but I expect it to pick up steam again now that the developers can refocus their sights).
(sarcasm on)If Microsoft has taught us anything, it's the importance of getting a product out ASAP, rather than fixing any of those naughty security bugs and holes which can be fixed in v n.1 and n.2. (sarcasm off) ---
; Brute force/. fuck asm ; Copyright (c) 2000 Dylan Griffiths ; This program is released under the conditions of the GNU public licence v2 ; Please see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for more information. .MODEL small .STACK 200h .DATA Fuck DB 'Fuck the ' FUCK_LEN EQU $ - Fuck Enemies DB ' NSA MSFTMPAARIAA' ENEMY_LEN EQU 4 Endl DB '!',13,10 ENDL_LEN EQU $ - Endl FUDGE DW ? .CODE main: ; Setup data segment mov ax, @data mov ds, ax mov si, 4 ; 4 x loop;) prn_loop: mov ax, 4 mul si mov [FUDGE], ax ; Get our "fudge factor" for offset in enemy string mov bx, 1 mov ah, 40h mov cx, FUCK_LEN mov dx, OFFSET Fuck int 21h mov bx, 1 mov ah, 40h mov cx, ENEMY_LEN mov di, Offset Enemies add di, FUDGE mov FUDGE, di ; Kludge around x86 lack of general registers. Gets proper offset. ; There *is* a better way to do this, but this way is fun. mov dx, [FUDGE] int 21h mov bx, 1 mov ah, 40h mov cx, ENDL_LEN mov dx, OFFSET Endl int 21h
dec si ; One less bottle of beer on the wall jnz prn_loop
; End mov ah, 4ch int 21h END main ; Compiles fine with TASM 5 (tasm fuck, tlink fuck, fuck) ; Now I know why basic was written, ; this took me an hour!
.. that any tyranny does not stand over time. Yes, the companies and other interests that control things through force of money can slowly leech away the rights of people, but eventually people will notice what is going on. Taking away the right to reproduce something/you/ own for/your own/ enjoyment is something that affects anyone who can afford a player and content.
Once people unite against corporations, things will change. We shall use all peaceful means to overcome tyranny, and succeed. ---
Postfix supports TLS (which uses client SSL certificates for authentication) via a separate patch (which will be integrated now that the US is not such a police-state WRT crypto), as well as pop-before-SMTP authentication (where a user gets POP or IMAP mail, which adds their IP to an "allowed relay" database for a time period).
It depends if these authorities are the same as the ones who are unable to make the distinction between copyright violation (illegal duplication) and playback rights (unencrypt to watch purchased movies) in the DeCSS case.
Maybe someday people will also understand that there are other TLDs. I mean, it's embarrasing to hear someone go, "I know dot-com, it's an internet address."
And the companies that have no A records for the top level of the site are very annoying. somesite.com -- "Host valid, no address found" whereas www.somesite.com works. Amateurs!
I especially hate companies that have canada.com instead of.ca -- that's just namespace polution. ---
Unreal single player was.. bad. Why? While it did offer nice image quality, and had a story line that was good, the weapons felt.. like toys. The "pew-pew" of the laser gun did not compare to the throaty "whooomp" of a rocket launcher. It also ran fairly slowly compared to anything at the time. Half-Life, OTOH, had less graphics quality, but a better story line, better feeling weapons, and faster performance on many machines.
One of the other things that put me off of Unreal was that the game itself was sold -- but it was beta code. They didn't exactly go out of their way to mention it was beta before you spent money on the game.
Architecture wise, the Unreal engine is not designed as well as it should've been. Why? Once you get past 400Mhz/128mb of ram with a TNT2, frame rates in Unreal just do not scale very well, if at all. On equivalent hardware, Quake 3: Arena scales very well, and even has hooks for SMP implementation. Why? Likely because JC + company carefull designed it, whereas the Unreal engine "evolved" and now faces a bottleneck problem because of it. ---
Windows has many "features" that are consistant across the various implementations:
Features no one understands
Backwards compatibility with software written 20 years ago
CP/M-like file system hierarchies
Physical representation of hardware over that pansy "abstraction" stuff
A browser in every DLL and app via IE
Closed source for increased security
But don't just go by my word. Go spend a few K on a Windows NT server licence, hardware, and documentation, then play with it. You'll know it's Windows because it feels "right," and because it flashes its monitor a very pretty sky blue to let you know it wants your attention. Surveys say that 60% of everyone's favourite colour is blue. ---
Slashdot Mirror
Slackware's ISO, on ftp.freesoftware.com (try /pub/linux/slackware/slackware-7.0/iso/) is easy to grab, has fast transfer rates, and is in an obviously named directory..
:-)
I think the site is trying to target newer Linux adoptees with burners and an itch to try out a few different distros. Nothing else makes sense
---
Is that even though this company (AMD) has a great product that everyone wants, and is making money, etc.. the stock price will likely still be low, and might even drop on this news, thanks to those fscking day traders who can't tell the difference between an OS and a hardware manufacturer.
Yes, the same day traders that somehow made MS stock go up when the Findings of Fact slapped MS, but made every tech stock go down when Judge Jackson made it the Findings of Law. Sigh.
---
This reminds me a lot of Greg Egan's short story "Mitochondrial Eve" .. Basically, a religion springs up around tracing ancestry via the mitochondria.. Eventually, of course, the men trace their ancestry via the Y chromosome. Then there is a lot of large scale fighting between the people, because humans are still nasty to each other .. they've just decided on new borders of right and wrong.
Sigh.
---
Since you obviously have an understanding of the matter, I'd love to see some "advanced cryptography" feature articles posted to K5, thanks to you.
Your "critisms" remind me a lot of the same "critisms" that "Beginning Security" parts 1 and 2 brought. They didn't mention a single thing about auditing code, probing firewalls, setting up security policies, etc. If you look at the feature box on K5, you'll see those went under different headings ("Security the Border," "Bullet Proof Code," etc).
What I'm doing is trying to help some of the newbies to become more clueful, and help others avoid problems. Once they've mastered the material, or at least have a basic understanding of the problem, they can move on to the more advanced stuff.
---
It's "Da5id"
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Slashdot targets "News for nerds" and other "Stuff that matters." Unfortunately, as in cases like this, we get a bit of a conflict when the story poster doesn't see the relevance.
Rather than harrrasing Mr. Malda, why don't you move to a site that has story moderation so you can see if the general populace wants to read and discuss such a story? Kuro5hin.org is the place. It's oriented towards technology and culture -- not just news about nerdy things or things that matter. We've even had stock stories before.
I agree with Mr. Malda that this story doesn't really fit with Slashdot, it could fit on other sites. So why not use them?
---
Haiku these are not
Poor silly moderators
But Senru they are
---
I received many such emails -- then they stopped :-).
For other people, you might want to look into the Art of Lart. It's a great document specifying how to deal with spam, who's reponsible, and various counter measures.
My usual policy is to trace out any ISPs reponsible -- wether they are the providers for the originator, or they are a "Reflector" open relay. I also mail any service listed in the email. abuse@, postmaster@, webmaster@, and manager@ cluster-emails tend to get noticed. Add to that the usual fun of calling their 1-888 numbers, and you have a recipe for revenge.
Speaking of which, I was recently spammed by these nutrional people selling pill which cure snoring. 1-888-688-6354 -- it's a laugh.
---
These people did not say that encryption should be regulated. They said trust should be enforced by social structures. And they're right, it should be. However, because our knowledge tools are outstripping out evolved control mechanisms, we find situations were encryption makes sense every day.
You don't worry about people bursting in on your room, because it's private. That's where privacy is enforced by the social structure -- people all value it, and so all avoid compromising others' privacy. But large groupings of people, such as New York, stretch the control mechanisms. True, people avoid eye contact, physical contact, etc, as much as possible, there are conflicts that occur. Worse, when you mix in a government which has also scaled past its original goals into other areas, you once again lose more privacy.
Their comments are interesting from a sociological stand point. I'm glad someone was willing to speak about why encryption exists, and how we can make it so we don't need it. The answer is trust.
---
Anyways..
:-)
That's more a symptom of the United States not having a proper social system. Chances are that person was starving because of no job, and welfare wouldn't help him. Only malicous people committ crimes for no reason, and they are an incredibly small percentage of crime.
You'll want to head over to kuro5hin.org for freer discussions on this an other topics.. No karma
---
Tsk, Rusty, stop hogging all the credit ;-)
---
Ahhh.. Didn't read it, did you? It's the first article. You can't go onto discussing encryption algorithms before the subject has even been introduced.
Read the next few articles on the topic. I'll get into specific ciphers at a later point in time.
---
. If the latter happened there would be no need to support Napster because there would be no fear that it might set a precedent for attacking tools that do have significant legitimate uses.
And maybe, just maybe, we'll see the banning of hand guns in the United States of America. Really, how often do you need to shoot something on the way to work? Compare that to how often people are shot by hand guns via crime or mis-use.
---
- Local users get sudo access to certain things. No need for local root.
- man 5 exports, and they setup your NFS server to squash root (under Linux, it's default, and you have to override with no_root_squash). For example, I use "/inst 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro,root_squash)" for my Slackware install NFS share. No need to export shares that allow root to muck up things.
Either way, you stop handing out root privileges like it's christmass -- a definite security benefit---
I agree. That movie was great. I've watched it many times on video ;-) (No, not just for the skin parts)
---
Are you telling me that people will honestly become distraught over the interface enough that they will avoid a perfectly good browser? Isn't that a bit like the bigotry of the 1950s, where people judged you by skin colour instead of content?
Sigh. I'll never understand Mac users. I hope they can live with their, "looks great, acts funky" IE 4.5 browser.
---
I should also point out for the record that FreeBSD is undergoing a similar code audit to the OpenBSD effort of a few years back, and is in the process of merging most of the OpenBSD code security fixes (it's been stalled for a little while due to release engineering efforts for FreeBSD 4.0, but I expect it to pick up steam again now that the developers can refocus their sights).
(sarcasm on)If Microsoft has taught us anything, it's the importance of getting a product out ASAP, rather than fixing any of those naughty security bugs and holes which can be fixed in v n.1 and n.2. (sarcasm off)
---
; Brute force /. fuck asm
.MODEL small
.STACK 200h
.DATA
.CODE ;)
; Copyright (c) 2000 Dylan Griffiths
; This program is released under the conditions of the GNU public licence v2
; Please see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for more information.
Fuck DB 'Fuck the '
FUCK_LEN EQU $ - Fuck
Enemies DB ' NSA MSFTMPAARIAA'
ENEMY_LEN EQU 4
Endl DB '!',13,10
ENDL_LEN EQU $ - Endl
FUDGE DW ?
main:
; Setup data segment
mov ax, @data
mov ds, ax
mov si, 4 ; 4 x loop
prn_loop:
mov ax, 4
mul si
mov [FUDGE], ax
; Get our "fudge factor" for offset in enemy string
mov bx, 1
mov ah, 40h
mov cx, FUCK_LEN
mov dx, OFFSET Fuck
int 21h
mov bx, 1
mov ah, 40h
mov cx, ENEMY_LEN
mov di, Offset Enemies
add di, FUDGE
mov FUDGE, di
; Kludge around x86 lack of general registers. Gets proper offset.
; There *is* a better way to do this, but this way is fun.
mov dx, [FUDGE]
int 21h
mov bx, 1
mov ah, 40h
mov cx, ENDL_LEN
mov dx, OFFSET Endl
int 21h
dec si ; One less bottle of beer on the wall
jnz prn_loop
; End
mov ah, 4ch
int 21h
END main
; Compiles fine with TASM 5 (tasm fuck, tlink fuck, fuck)
; Now I know why basic was written,
; this took me an hour!
---
One might as well question why people say, "with all due respect" just before saying words that are not the least bit respectful ;)
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.. that any tyranny does not stand over time. Yes, the companies and other interests that control things through force of money can slowly leech away the rights of people, but eventually people will notice what is going on. Taking away the right to reproduce something /you/ own for /your own/ enjoyment is something that affects anyone who can afford a player and content.
Once people unite against corporations, things will change. We shall use all peaceful means to overcome tyranny, and succeed.
---
Postfix supports TLS (which uses client SSL certificates for authentication) via a separate patch (which will be integrated now that the US is not such a police-state WRT crypto), as well as pop-before-SMTP authentication (where a user gets POP or IMAP mail, which adds their IP to an "allowed relay" database for a time period).
;-)
It's also free, as in freedom, and gratis
---
It depends if these authorities are the same as the ones who are unable to make the distinction between copyright violation (illegal duplication) and playback rights (unencrypt to watch purchased movies) in the DeCSS case.
Just a little food for thought.
---
Maybe someday people will also understand that there are other TLDs. I mean, it's embarrasing to hear someone go, "I know dot-com, it's an internet address."
.ca -- that's just namespace polution.
And the companies that have no A records for the top level of the site are very annoying. somesite.com -- "Host valid, no address found" whereas www.somesite.com works. Amateurs!
I especially hate companies that have canada.com instead of
---
Unreal single player was.. bad. Why? While it did offer nice image quality, and had a story line that was good, the weapons felt .. like toys. The "pew-pew" of the laser gun did not compare to the throaty "whooomp" of a rocket launcher. It also ran fairly slowly compared to anything at the time. Half-Life, OTOH, had less graphics quality, but a better story line, better feeling weapons, and faster performance on many machines.
One of the other things that put me off of Unreal was that the game itself was sold -- but it was beta code. They didn't exactly go out of their way to mention it was beta before you spent money on the game.
Architecture wise, the Unreal engine is not designed as well as it should've been. Why? Once you get past 400Mhz/128mb of ram with a TNT2, frame rates in Unreal just do not scale very well, if at all. On equivalent hardware, Quake 3: Arena scales very well, and even has hooks for SMP implementation. Why? Likely because JC + company carefull designed it, whereas the Unreal engine "evolved" and now faces a bottleneck problem because of it.
---
But don't just go by my word. Go spend a few K on a Windows NT server licence, hardware, and documentation, then play with it. You'll know it's Windows because it feels "right," and because it flashes its monitor a very pretty sky blue to let you know it wants your attention. Surveys say that 60% of everyone's favourite colour is blue.
---