Figures...Microsoft changed the Acid2 test in order to pass it and now claims that they are the only ones who pass the test now.
In other news, what the hell is going on in the world? First Duke Nukem Forever looks like it will happen and now IE8 passes Acid2?!?!? Am I in bizarro world?
Spoofing is mostly a dead art because TCP uses sequence numbers on packets now and those numbers are pretty near truly random. Mitnik style attacks won't work anymore because of this.
While you may not be able to establish a connection, you could still possibly trigger the c&c server to target another c&c server if just trying to connect to a certain port would trigger it. A simple SYN packet sent to the proper port with a forged source address would set it off...
I agree with the solar panels and the home generator, I think that every house should have these things.
The UV water purifier isn't needed here in New Orleans. Our tap water has been and continues to be some of the cleanest and best tasting in the country. Our tap water comes from the Mississippi and as such is treated and filtered more that just about any other city. The Mississippi has a lot of chemicals that are deposited in it from the more Northern states that we have to filter out. I would say a Brita filter would be sufficient.
Regarding the climate management, I agree. Many of the older houses in New Orleans have very high ceilings and tall attics to accommodate the increased heat during the summer. I would look into some energy efficient windows and do your best to insulate your house to keep heat out and your AC in.
You joke about the cache of weapons, but honestly, it's not a bad idea in any city...
Being a resident of New Orleans, I'm curious where you saw these houses with toxic waste on them. All of the flooded houses have a scum line but that is more from normal dirt and grime that exists in any city. The real concern that a buyer needs to consider is mold contamination in the house. The mold is the real toxic danger, which is why many companies have sprung up that treat the mold problem.
Many outsiders who only watch the news have no idea what things are like down here. Midcity is coming back just fine and people are starting to renovate and rebuild in the Lakefront area. The only areas that remain uninhabited for the most part are around the lower ninth ward, which was a run down area to start with, and the other immediate areas near the major flood wall breaches.
I agree with your argument (with the already mentioned revision of the word dependent to specific). I would like to revise my earlier solution. If I were to attempt to create such an exploit, which I will not do, I would create a simple check that would determine the keycode and the resulting character. Using this information I can make an exploit that is completely locale independent.
Of course a very simple work around to avoid the possibility of being exploited in such a manner is to type all posts in a simple text editor. The exploit will not work if you copy and paste text into the textarea/input type=text
OPEN PARANOIA TAG what if the writers of my OS left an exploitable buffer overflow that allowed hackers to get this information without my involvement at all!!?!??!?! Oh no!!!!!!! Run for the hills!!!!!!!!! CLOSE PARANOIA TAG
No this flaw is NOT locale dependent. This particular proof of concept IS locale dependent but it can be designed for any locale that the code writer wishes to target. If I were to want to design this flaw for your locale, I would change the expected location of the ';' key.
After reading the Supreme court oral arguments in their entirety, it appears that the MS lawyer was driving towards the point that software in and of itself is not patentable because a standalone program, Quickbooks for example, requires MS Windows or a MS Windows emulator to run thereby suggesting that MS truly owns the rights to all software that runs within their environment. This is a very disturbing claim and one that the Justices dismantled quite quickly.
The oral arguments are quite interesting and can be found at www.supremecourtus.gov
There are many interesting aspects of software patents that are discussed
I agree with this logic. I have my normal gmail address as well as a throwaway. I just sign up for junk with the throwaway addy. I can check it and don't care how much junk goes there. No need to remember myname667847736292347865623785623459465@whatever.c om. flashbcksjunk@gmail.com works great for me. that is not my throwaway btw.
The long term problems with this type of system should be obvious to everyone. The power companies have a different rate schedule for a reason. Their prices are based off of demand. If enough people start using this system, then the peak times will alter and therefore the prices will become essentially a flat-fee.
Down here in the oven(New Orleans) our power bills skyrocket during the summer because of added cooling costs from the AC and fridge. As a consequence, the price of power is actually lowered to allow people to survive. There are even laws in place that prevent the power company from cutting off power due to unpaid bills because people can die without AC(it's a sad world we live in that people depend on this so heavily). During the winter months our power costs more because of lowered usage. This past winter, our rates actually were lowered a bit because it was such a hot winter. I know this seems counter-intuitive but it is in fact the case. Supposing that the end user had the capability to store very substantial amounts of power during the summer, when rates are lower and therefore used less power during the winter(a very hypothetical case), then the prices during the winter would increase because of the lowered usage. So this system seems highly worthless to me.
And to modify your sig: Those who can't RTFA, complain about stupid crud
Quote from the third paragraph in the article: It concluded that the subject was 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry, New Scientist magazine was told.
Assumptions:
1) you have a file perlfile.pl
2) first line of perlfile.pl is: #!/usr/bin/perl
3) the execute bit is NOT set
Results:
When you type in:./perlfile.pl at the prompt nothing will happen
If you type perl perlfile.pl then your script will run. But this is not the same as running an executable. In this case you are running a program that then reads a script file that "runs a program." These two things are totally different
However, if you do set the execute bit on perlfile.pl and run./perlfile.pl from the prompt then your shell will read the first line of your file (remember it is: #!/usr/bin/perl) and determine that this file needs to be run by that program, essentially doing the same as above. This way just makes it easier to run the program. Bash scripts work the exact same way.
And you think this has something to do with a defect?
I have a feeling that this has to do witht he fact that some people are getting almost $1000 on ebay selling thse things. Some people probably just bought them so that they could turn around and sell them before xmas when everyone will be in a mad rush to find one.
I'm from New Orleans and Bill Oliver used to be my neighbor. I knew this man for a few years and I do not believe that he would do such a thing. This is probably a case where the "city officials" are bending the truth a bit. Hell, I remember when I was in high school, I accudentally hit Mr. Oliver's car when I was in a rush to get to school. I knocked on his door to tell him about it and he just laughed it off and made some joke about how he had a dent there that he wanted to fix anyway. This supposed angry rescission of the offer is probably a case of Mr. Oliver telling the "city officials" that the building is not ready to be occupied yet and is being spun into something completely different to help int he acceptance of city-wide free WiFi.
I for one hope that the WiFi stays. I'll still pay for my Cox Communications cable modem for the faster speeds at home, but it would be nice to bring my laptop to the park and be able to get an internet connection there.
Ahem, I'm from New Orelans and I was there over thanksgiving and I do recall seeing lots of people that weren't largely affluent white folks. Why I would say that it's about 50/50 right now. Many of the "way below the poverty line" people have not returned, but they couldn't benefit from WiFi anyway, thay have no computers.
I guess that by your argument, we should also abandon any town along the mississippi river. I do seem to recall that a large number of the northern states enduredmassiveflooding in 2001, 1997, 1993,...
Lots of places flood. Are you saying that we shouldn't bother rebuilding any place that floods? Ok, I'll play along...we abandon any place that ever floods.
Well the next time a big earthquake hits California people will start to complain about assistance to those idiots that live on a well known seismic fault line...no more living on the Southern California coastline.
Well a few years down the line a big old F5 tornado tears through Oklahoma City and devistates everything in it's path. 500K people have no homes and someone like you starts complaining that they were stupid to live in an area known as Tornado Alley. Screw them, we shouldn't have to assist them in their time of need. You guys are on your own. We abandon any areas that commonly are hit by tornados.
Wouldn't you know it? a few more years down the line Mt. St. Helens erupts and covers hundreds of thousands of people die not only from the lava flow but also the dust cloud that comes with it. You are getting up in your years, but the people are waiting to hear your complaints. You being the man of honor that you are, start the rally to abandon all states that could be affected by another such eruption.
Then lo and behold something happens to your home town. It's another freakish natural disaster and some guy starts lobbying to abandon your home town. Where do you stand now?
I agree with you on the uses of this new technology. I was merely saying that a sniper does not measure his range in miles. I do agree that a sniper can shoot over a mile, and apparantly in some rare circumstances can shoot 4 miles with a Browning M2 with some serious optics mounted to it. Nonetheless, the conventional sniper shoots within a range of 1500 meters (100 meters short of a mile). Snipers do not carry Browning M2's into battle. They weigh around 85 pounds without a tripod.
This anti-sniper tech is designed to identify the location of the non-base sniper who is crawling around in the woods or is holed up in a building as you describe in your Full Metal Jacket scenario.
A good sniper's ranges are listed in miles, not feet.
Are you kidding me? "in miles" suggests that you mean to imply that a good sniper can shoot more than one mile. In actuality, a snipers range is measured in meters not miles or feet and several.50 cal sniper rifles can shoot a maximum of 1500-1600 meters while remaining accurate enough to provide one shot one kill accuracy.
The military sniper relies on being a sneaky bastard by using natural cover and remaining hidden from view. A good sniper will take one shot, hit his target, and remain perfectly still until he determines that it is safe for him to move or unless he determines that he must move and risk giving away his position.
I really dislike this attitude that some of you guys have. The whole: It is not a problem because it has already been patched. The problem is the same with MANY worms that take over computers. The patches may exist to prevent the problem but the bigger problem is getting joe user to apply those patches.
We geeks regularly update our software with the latest patches as soon as they come out. Joe user does not even look at the little circle in the top corner of his browser and know that it even means that an update is available. Hell, I have friends that I made FF converts right when version 1.0 came out. I was at one of their houses recently and lo and behold, they still had version 1.0. The problems that these exploits open up are not a big deal to those of us who regularly install the updates. The problems are for our parents, grandparents, little sisters and brothers who do not care as much about computers as we do. They will have these exploits run on them. They are the ones we need to protect.
I would rather concentrate on... common sense (don't build a city below water level - for example).
I'm sorry but this is the most ridiculous argument I hear from people and shows how little informed people are. New Orleans, my home, was originally built in the bend of the river for a reason...that section is above sea level. But this isn't the problem that I have with your argument. You claim that common sense would suggest against building a city there. By your argument, San Francisco is a bad location because it is on a tectonic plate fault line. All of Maine is foolish because of the incredibly harsh winters. Middle America is foolish because of the high probability of tornadoes. Any city in the desert is stupid because there is no water.
New Orleans was built for a reason. The Port of New Orleans is the largest port in the United States by tonnage and the fifth-largest in the world.
Bah! This isn't even original! Some guy did this back in the late 90's. It was done by a guy called Dr. Freeze (I can't find the website anymore). He submerged his MB in a cooler filled with mineral oil and used an AC to cycle the oil out and re-cool it.
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This guy should be proud that he managed to swallow an exercise ball
Figures...Microsoft changed the Acid2 test in order to pass it and now claims that they are the only ones who pass the test now.
In other news, what the hell is going on in the world? First Duke Nukem Forever looks like it will happen and now IE8 passes Acid2?!?!? Am I in bizarro world?
Oh oh oh! Pick me!
Spoofing is mostly a dead art because TCP uses sequence numbers on packets now and those numbers are pretty near truly random. Mitnik style attacks won't work anymore because of this.
While you may not be able to establish a connection, you could still possibly trigger the c&c server to target another c&c server if just trying to connect to a certain port would trigger it. A simple SYN packet sent to the proper port with a forged source address would set it off...
I agree with the solar panels and the home generator, I think that every house should have these things.
The UV water purifier isn't needed here in New Orleans. Our tap water has been and continues to be some of the cleanest and best tasting in the country. Our tap water comes from the Mississippi and as such is treated and filtered more that just about any other city. The Mississippi has a lot of chemicals that are deposited in it from the more Northern states that we have to filter out. I would say a Brita filter would be sufficient.
Regarding the climate management, I agree. Many of the older houses in New Orleans have very high ceilings and tall attics to accommodate the increased heat during the summer. I would look into some energy efficient windows and do your best to insulate your house to keep heat out and your AC in.
You joke about the cache of weapons, but honestly, it's not a bad idea in any city...
Being a resident of New Orleans, I'm curious where you saw these houses with toxic waste on them. All of the flooded houses have a scum line but that is more from normal dirt and grime that exists in any city. The real concern that a buyer needs to consider is mold contamination in the house. The mold is the real toxic danger, which is why many companies have sprung up that treat the mold problem.
Many outsiders who only watch the news have no idea what things are like down here. Midcity is coming back just fine and people are starting to renovate and rebuild in the Lakefront area. The only areas that remain uninhabited for the most part are around the lower ninth ward, which was a run down area to start with, and the other immediate areas near the major flood wall breaches.
I agree with your argument (with the already mentioned revision of the word dependent to specific). I would like to revise my earlier solution. If I were to attempt to create such an exploit, which I will not do, I would create a simple check that would determine the keycode and the resulting character. Using this information I can make an exploit that is completely locale independent.
Of course a very simple work around to avoid the possibility of being exploited in such a manner is to type all posts in a simple text editor. The exploit will not work if you copy and paste text into the textarea/input type=text
OPEN PARANOIA TAG what if the writers of my OS left an exploitable buffer overflow that allowed hackers to get this information without my involvement at all!!?!??!?! Oh no!!!!!!! Run for the hills!!!!!!!!! CLOSE PARANOIA TAG
No this flaw is NOT locale dependent. This particular proof of concept IS locale dependent but it can be designed for any locale that the code writer wishes to target. If I were to want to design this flaw for your locale, I would change the expected location of the ';' key.
After reading the Supreme court oral arguments in their entirety, it appears that the MS lawyer was driving towards the point that software in and of itself is not patentable because a standalone program, Quickbooks for example, requires MS Windows or a MS Windows emulator to run thereby suggesting that MS truly owns the rights to all software that runs within their environment. This is a very disturbing claim and one that the Justices dismantled quite quickly. The oral arguments are quite interesting and can be found at www.supremecourtus.gov There are many interesting aspects of software patents that are discussed
I agree with this logic. I have my normal gmail address as well as a throwaway. I just sign up for junk with the throwaway addy. I can check it and don't care how much junk goes there. No need to remember myname667847736292347865623785623459465@whatever.c om. flashbcksjunk@gmail.com works great for me. that is not my throwaway btw.
I hope that the intended alien intelligence also has the flash plug in that is required.
The long term problems with this type of system should be obvious to everyone. The power companies have a different rate schedule for a reason. Their prices are based off of demand. If enough people start using this system, then the peak times will alter and therefore the prices will become essentially a flat-fee.
Down here in the oven(New Orleans) our power bills skyrocket during the summer because of added cooling costs from the AC and fridge. As a consequence, the price of power is actually lowered to allow people to survive. There are even laws in place that prevent the power company from cutting off power due to unpaid bills because people can die without AC(it's a sad world we live in that people depend on this so heavily). During the winter months our power costs more because of lowered usage. This past winter, our rates actually were lowered a bit because it was such a hot winter. I know this seems counter-intuitive but it is in fact the case. Supposing that the end user had the capability to store very substantial amounts of power during the summer, when rates are lower and therefore used less power during the winter(a very hypothetical case), then the prices during the winter would increase because of the lowered usage. So this system seems highly worthless to me.
And to modify your sig: Those who can't RTFA, complain about stupid crud
Quote from the third paragraph in the article:
It concluded that the subject was 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry, New Scientist magazine was told.
doh! heh
This is so not true.
./perlfile.pl at the prompt nothing will happen
./perlfile.pl from the prompt then your shell will read the first line of your file (remember it is: #!/usr/bin/perl) and determine that this file needs to be run by that program, essentially doing the same as above. This way just makes it easier to run the program. Bash scripts work the exact same way.
Assumptions:
1) you have a file perlfile.pl
2) first line of perlfile.pl is: #!/usr/bin/perl
3) the execute bit is NOT set
Results:
When you type in:
If you type perl perlfile.pl then your script will run. But this is not the same as running an executable. In this case you are running a program that then reads a script file that "runs a program." These two things are totally different
However, if you do set the execute bit on perlfile.pl and run
And you think this has something to do with a defect?
I have a feeling that this has to do witht he fact that some people are getting almost $1000 on ebay selling thse things. Some people probably just bought them so that they could turn around and sell them before xmas when everyone will be in a mad rush to find one.
I'm from New Orleans and Bill Oliver used to be my neighbor. I knew this man for a few years and I do not believe that he would do such a thing. This is probably a case where the "city officials" are bending the truth a bit. Hell, I remember when I was in high school, I accudentally hit Mr. Oliver's car when I was in a rush to get to school. I knocked on his door to tell him about it and he just laughed it off and made some joke about how he had a dent there that he wanted to fix anyway. This supposed angry rescission of the offer is probably a case of Mr. Oliver telling the "city officials" that the building is not ready to be occupied yet and is being spun into something completely different to help int he acceptance of city-wide free WiFi.
I for one hope that the WiFi stays. I'll still pay for my Cox Communications cable modem for the faster speeds at home, but it would be nice to bring my laptop to the park and be able to get an internet connection there.
Ahem, I'm from New Orelans and I was there over thanksgiving and I do recall seeing lots of people that weren't largely affluent white folks. Why I would say that it's about 50/50 right now. Many of the "way below the poverty line" people have not returned, but they couldn't benefit from WiFi anyway, thay have no computers.
Where exactly do you get your information?
I guess that by your argument, we should also abandon any town along the mississippi river. I do seem to recall that a large number of the northern states endured massive flooding in 2001, 1997, 1993,...
Lots of places flood. Are you saying that we shouldn't bother rebuilding any place that floods? Ok, I'll play along...we abandon any place that ever floods.
Well the next time a big earthquake hits California people will start to complain about assistance to those idiots that live on a well known seismic fault line...no more living on the Southern California coastline.
Well a few years down the line a big old F5 tornado tears through Oklahoma City and devistates everything in it's path. 500K people have no homes and someone like you starts complaining that they were stupid to live in an area known as Tornado Alley. Screw them, we shouldn't have to assist them in their time of need. You guys are on your own. We abandon any areas that commonly are hit by tornados.
Wouldn't you know it? a few more years down the line Mt. St. Helens erupts and covers hundreds of thousands of people die not only from the lava flow but also the dust cloud that comes with it. You are getting up in your years, but the people are waiting to hear your complaints. You being the man of honor that you are, start the rally to abandon all states that could be affected by another such eruption.
Then lo and behold something happens to your home town. It's another freakish natural disaster and some guy starts lobbying to abandon your home town. Where do you stand now?
I agree with you on the uses of this new technology. I was merely saying that a sniper does not measure his range in miles. I do agree that a sniper can shoot over a mile, and apparantly in some rare circumstances can shoot 4 miles with a Browning M2 with some serious optics mounted to it. Nonetheless, the conventional sniper shoots within a range of 1500 meters (100 meters short of a mile). Snipers do not carry Browning M2's into battle. They weigh around 85 pounds without a tripod. This anti-sniper tech is designed to identify the location of the non-base sniper who is crawling around in the woods or is holed up in a building as you describe in your Full Metal Jacket scenario.
A good sniper's ranges are listed in miles, not feet.
.50 cal sniper rifles can shoot a maximum of 1500-1600 meters while remaining accurate enough to provide one shot one kill accuracy.
Are you kidding me? "in miles" suggests that you mean to imply that a good sniper can shoot more than one mile. In actuality, a snipers range is measured in meters not miles or feet and several
The military sniper relies on being a sneaky bastard by using natural cover and remaining hidden from view. A good sniper will take one shot, hit his target, and remain perfectly still until he determines that it is safe for him to move or unless he determines that he must move and risk giving away his position.
I really dislike this attitude that some of you guys have. The whole: It is not a problem because it has already been patched. The problem is the same with MANY worms that take over computers. The patches may exist to prevent the problem but the bigger problem is getting joe user to apply those patches.
We geeks regularly update our software with the latest patches as soon as they come out. Joe user does not even look at the little circle in the top corner of his browser and know that it even means that an update is available. Hell, I have friends that I made FF converts right when version 1.0 came out. I was at one of their houses recently and lo and behold, they still had version 1.0. The problems that these exploits open up are not a big deal to those of us who regularly install the updates. The problems are for our parents, grandparents, little sisters and brothers who do not care as much about computers as we do. They will have these exploits run on them. They are the ones we need to protect.
I would rather concentrate on ... common sense (don't build a city below water level - for example).
I'm sorry but this is the most ridiculous argument I hear from people and shows how little informed people are. New Orleans, my home, was originally built in the bend of the river for a reason...that section is above sea level. But this isn't the problem that I have with your argument. You claim that common sense would suggest against building a city there. By your argument, San Francisco is a bad location because it is on a tectonic plate fault line. All of Maine is foolish because of the incredibly harsh winters. Middle America is foolish because of the high probability of tornadoes. Any city in the desert is stupid because there is no water. New Orleans was built for a reason. The Port of New Orleans is the largest port in the United States by tonnage and the fifth-largest in the world.
Bah! This isn't even original! Some guy did this back in the late 90's. It was done by a guy called Dr. Freeze (I can't find the website anymore). He submerged his MB in a cooler filled with mineral oil and used an AC to cycle the oil out and re-cool it.
Well I actually only read one today then I remembered that it was april fools and gave up hope on slashdot for the day
As for my posting...I know it's really sad
I just don't waste time at work as well because I don't feel like reading these stories