God no - nobody would seriously enter talks with him. The smart thing would be to realise that bin Ladens power comes not from his inner evil but from the constituency of downtrodden, angry Moslems he represents.
deal with the social circumstances that cause bin Laden, not the man himself.
I do blame the IRA bombings on British occupation of Ulster. I just thought that was an extra irrelevance, so didn't include it.
We Brits fought the IRA for 90 years and the bombs kept exploding. Then 3 years of talks nearly solved the whole thing (no more IRA attacks on the British mainland although they're still up to their usual criminal crap in Ulster)
I'm 20 miles out but many friends work in London. it's taken several hours to confirm they're all safe
My closest friends were 10 minutes late on the train.. and missed the aldgate bomb by 10 minutes as a result
All the stupid people who thought war could make us safer are to blame for this. Thank you, Tony Blair. You stopped the IRA bombing london then started al Qaida doing it. Sheer fucking genius.
I predict that networking sites will be swamped by Opera users asking why their routers are crashing and what port-forwarding is, and how to set up their "new oprah download thingy lolbbq"
Slashdot ought to call it Viennux then. I wonder why it is that most French cities have their original names in English but so many German/Austrian cities (Vienna, Munich/Munchen, Koln/Cologne, etc) do not..?
More likely he's on one of those "irresponsible n00b-friendly" ISPs which does what I'd hope they would all do, and supplies a NAT modem OR blocks the RPC ports.
You're an irresponsible prat, and you're on an ISP that blocks the RPC ports and TCP 445. (Some do this now to protect their network from people like you)
For christs sake at least install zonealarm so you can find out whats on your PC and talking to the outside world
I seem to recall some cases of software firewalls (if this is what you meant) which don't initiate before the NIC driver comes online, meaning the PC has a few seconds where it can acquire an IP and receive packets before protection commences.
Good design practice should prevent this but it'll never be quite as good as a hardware f/wall. Decent FW devices can be found for very cheap prices now.
If you really can't run a hardware firewall due to a need for many open incoming posrt, the 2nd-best solution is to use a modem with routing ability and direct ports 445, 593 and 135-139 to a dead address (remember to send them to an address outside the router's DHCP range so that address can never be assigned to an unprotected machine). These ports represent Windows file/print sharing, RPC Endpoint mapper (a major exploit target) and RPC comms ports.
Killing those 5 ports stops 80-90% of remote attacks, although if you are running a web server, but not actually serving remote users, block ports 80 and 8080 as well to kill frontpage server extensions overflow attacks.
the question to which I replied was generic, not specific to you. If you look you'll see that your own post up there among its various moddings was modded troll and overrated, evidencing what I said.
Also, if you observe you'll see that trolls are oftenthe peole posting full-text in their own name, and will often be trol-modded for it. A bit of googling will evidence every statement I've made
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eBay's better for system components like RAM - especially for older machines - than it is for top-of-the-line stuff. Networking kit like broadband routers or wifi NICs often sell on eBay for 10-15% higher than from a major online retaileer like ebuyer.
That said, I upgraded several friends' Dell GX1s to 600mhz using processors bought on eBay for less than £10 each total.
Most/. troll messageboards advise wannabe trolls to copy the article text in full as it often gets modded up, giving some trolls enough karma to get mod points to abuse.
Really, article text should only be copied if the server is slowed down and should be posted anonymously. There is now a tradition here that people who post article text under their own name should be modded down.
Intelligent use of NAT can get a lot of users into one IP. 9 out of ten surfers only need outgoing-initialed connections (web surfing, email, instant messaging, IP-based broadcasting and legal music download software).
Most surfers are considerably safer behind NAT anyway, as shielding incoming TCP connections on ports 135-139, 445 and 593 kills 9 out of 10 Windows remote exploits stone cold dead. Deploying technologies like uPNP in the ISP routers can negate the inability to accept incoming packets nmany low-grade server style apps (Messenger, VoIP)
In an ideal world yes, every device could be addressed by its own IP address, but in this world I don't want some cracker port-scanning my fridge and getting a backdoor through a butter overflow exploit.
I don't trust any modern operating system enough to run it without a hardware firewall device, and I always keep that (it's a linux-based consumer router) well-patched up to date and with all remote admin functions disabled and locked down.
As a regular fixer of friends PCs, I would love to see ISPs provide the option of fully-NATted connections. I'd recommend them. It'd save me so much time trawling eBay for bargain routers for my friends.
Pleasure to help.
I'm finding most of the javascript in tech sites at least is advertising scripts - copying banner ads, flash layovers, text ads and popups from other domains.
I already run AdBlock so I don't see them, but actually NoScript is doing most of the work AdBlock does anyway.... it makes a pretty good adblocking client as well.
actually I just replied to the other guy.. but, yes I agree it's an imperfect solution that would risk sending users back to IE. There's a taskbar icon that can in two clicks whitelist the current site, though.
Noscript works with an icon in the status bar - the idea being that to enable javascript the user clicks and allows the site. It's not really a solution for the clueless, as they'll just go back to using IE to get their "features" back.
sure as hell alleviates the symptoms for the semi-tech-minded though !
Easier to use an extension like NoScript - a javascript permission whitelist - to selectively allow pages to run scripts, then control passes to where it should be - the user
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God no - nobody would seriously enter talks with him. The smart thing would be to realise that bin Ladens power comes not from his inner evil but from the constituency of downtrodden, angry Moslems he represents.
deal with the social circumstances that cause bin Laden, not the man himself.
I do blame the IRA bombings on British occupation of Ulster. I just thought that was an extra irrelevance, so didn't include it.
We Brits fought the IRA for 90 years and the bombs kept exploding. Then 3 years of talks nearly solved the whole thing (no more IRA attacks on the British mainland although they're still up to their usual criminal crap in Ulster)
Fuck the people who involved us in a pointless, illegal, illegitimate war thousands of miles away. They brought this down upon our peaceful country
Blair and Bush are as resonsible for this as bin Laden is.
I'm 20 miles out but many friends work in London. it's taken several hours to confirm they're all safe
My closest friends were 10 minutes late on the train.. and missed the aldgate bomb by 10 minutes as a result
All the stupid people who thought war could make us safer are to blame for this. Thank you, Tony Blair. You stopped the IRA bombing london then started al Qaida doing it. Sheer fucking genius.
I predict that networking sites will be swamped by Opera users asking why their routers are crashing and what port-forwarding is, and how to set up their "new oprah download thingy lolbbq"
Slashdot ought to call it Viennux then.
I wonder why it is that most French cities have their original names in English but so many German/Austrian cities (Vienna, Munich/Munchen, Koln/Cologne, etc) do not..?
More likely he's on one of those "irresponsible n00b-friendly" ISPs which does what I'd hope they would all do, and supplies a NAT modem OR blocks the RPC ports.
You're an irresponsible prat, and you're on an ISP that blocks the RPC ports and TCP 445. (Some do this now to protect their network from people like you)
For christs sake at least install zonealarm so you can find out whats on your PC and talking to the outside world
I seem to recall some cases of software firewalls (if this is what you meant) which don't initiate before the NIC driver comes online, meaning the PC has a few seconds where it can acquire an IP and receive packets before protection commences.
Good design practice should prevent this but it'll never be quite as good as a hardware f/wall. Decent FW devices can be found for very cheap prices now.
If you really can't run a hardware firewall due to a need for many open incoming posrt, the 2nd-best solution is to use a modem with routing ability and direct ports 445, 593 and 135-139 to a dead address (remember to send them to an address outside the router's DHCP range so that address can never be assigned to an unprotected machine). These ports represent Windows file/print sharing, RPC Endpoint mapper (a major exploit target) and RPC comms ports. Killing those 5 ports stops 80-90% of remote attacks, although if you are running a web server, but not actually serving remote users, block ports 80 and 8080 as well to kill frontpage server extensions overflow attacks.
it was ripped by someone to make a version called "drink beer" - the words are fairly predictable.
the question to which I replied was generic, not specific to you. If you look you'll see that your own post up there among its various moddings was modded troll and overrated, evidencing what I said.
Also, if you observe you'll see that trolls are oftenthe peole posting full-text in their own name, and will often be trol-modded for it. A bit of googling will evidence every statement I've made
eBay's better for system components like RAM - especially for older machines - than it is for top-of-the-line stuff. Networking kit like broadband routers or wifi NICs often sell on eBay for 10-15% higher than from a major online retaileer like ebuyer.
That said, I upgraded several friends' Dell GX1s to 600mhz using processors bought on eBay for less than £10 each total.
Most /. troll messageboards advise wannabe trolls to copy the article text in full as it often gets modded up, giving some trolls enough karma to get mod points to abuse.
Really, article text should only be copied if the server is slowed down and should be posted anonymously. There is now a tradition here that people who post article text under their own name should be modded down.
oops
(/. Microsoft icon shows Gates with Borg-style implants..)
Thank Christ, finally someone who "gets" it
Intelligent use of NAT can get a lot of users into one IP. 9 out of ten surfers only need outgoing-initialed connections (web surfing, email, instant messaging, IP-based broadcasting and legal music download software).
Most surfers are considerably safer behind NAT anyway, as shielding incoming TCP connections on ports 135-139, 445 and 593 kills 9 out of 10 Windows remote exploits stone cold dead. Deploying technologies like uPNP in the ISP routers can negate the inability to accept incoming packets nmany low-grade server style apps (Messenger, VoIP)
In an ideal world yes, every device could be addressed by its own IP address, but in this world I don't want some cracker port-scanning my fridge and getting a backdoor through a butter overflow exploit.
I don't trust any modern operating system enough to run it without a hardware firewall device, and I always keep that (it's a linux-based consumer router) well-patched up to date and with all remote admin functions disabled and locked down.
As a regular fixer of friends PCs, I would love to see ISPs provide the option of fully-NATted connections. I'd recommend them. It'd save me so much time trawling eBay for bargain routers for my friends.
... the best response is to read each thread carefully, using an ad-blocker..
YOU'LL TAKE THIS PUN FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!!!
damn that wasn't good. I even felt like Charlton Heston....
Pleasure to help.
I'm finding most of the javascript in tech sites at least is advertising scripts - copying banner ads, flash layovers, text ads and popups from other domains.
I already run AdBlock so I don't see them, but actually NoScript is doing most of the work AdBlock does anyway.... it makes a pretty good adblocking client as well.
actually I just replied to the other guy.. but, yes I agree it's an imperfect solution that would risk sending users back to IE. There's a taskbar icon that can in two clicks whitelist the current site, though.
I think they'd be unwilling to allow users to post comments on their largely unmoderated site for fear of libel lawsuits
Noscript works with an icon in the status bar - the idea being that to enable javascript the user clicks and allows the site. It's not really a solution for the clueless, as they'll just go back to using IE to get their "features" back.
sure as hell alleviates the symptoms for the semi-tech-minded though !
Easier to use an extension like NoScript - a javascript permission whitelist - to selectively allow pages to run scripts, then control passes to where it should be - the user
Ideally, an opensource initiative would support OpenOffice or export OASIS-format data.....