Devil's prosecutor here (wow, what a change after playing his advocate all the time...)
Consider what you would do when you were marooned on an uninhabited island. Would you rather write your SOS message, put it in a bottle and cast it into the sea, or wait for one or more container ships to spill their cargo until you've collected enough parts (PC or laptop, matching battery pack, solar panels or a generator with matching fuel, a power converter, a satellite transceiver with matching dish, cables to hook all that up, etc.) until you could finally send a message asking for help?
My very sketchy idea (shoot it down if you like): - Setup a (seperate from the internet) inter-router network - Monitor traffic density and send status reports over the inter-router network - As soon as certain areas (IPs, IP blocks) reach a traffic density threshold, throttle! - ??? - Profit!
Fanatics flying airplanes into buildings killing thousands : Terrorists.
Haxors commanding botnets to DDOS servers : Cyber-terrorists.
Big corporations doing aggressive take-overs : Corporate terrorists.
Mass producers dumping products below cost overseas : Market terrorists.
Politicians sketching doom scenarios during campaigns to woo scared voters over to their party : Political (party) terrorists.
C'mon cut it out will ya, soon they will brand humans multiplying without limits sucking up resources and scaring other animals away and out of existence : Biosphere terrorists?
You know, according to some theory, black holes will eventually suck up most of the available matter in the universe, leaving it a dark cold desolate place with only some Hawking radiation to warm your soul. Should we call those : Universal Terrorists then?
Really, each and every example you give is just off assholes being found out. Should I care about that?
I'll bite into that, here goes.
Goons watching camera feeds for a living (Big Boss pays'em to do it.) Little old lady walks up to ATM. (Assume ATM not in view because of 'privacy concerns') Some time later l.o.lady walks away from ATM, now nervously clutching her purse. Hooded Goons dressed in black rush up to l.o.lady and mug her. (Alternative: One hooded black-clad goon pops the camera with an infrared laser (you know this works, do you?) before the others mug l.o.lady.
Are you satisfied now? If not, I bet lots of people can come up with similar scenarios involving people with valuable items which they putting in/take out of their cars/trucks/houses/whatever.
...if they could monitor everything I did and said 24/7.
Good point, but I put it on another tangent. There are trials underway with cameras capturing both video and audio that trigger on "noises that might indicate violent behaviour."
Since digital speech compression is already very efficient, what is there to stop the snoops from recording conversations 'on the side' and reserving hi-def audio for the 'interesting scenes'?
Anything is possible. Next 'they' might want everyone to wear an ankle or neck bracelet (like those already used in some places for house arrests) with a two-way radio, outfitted with their choice of: a quick-acting sedative, a lethal injection, a shocker or a combination thereof. Tamper-proof of course. Any messing around with them will instantly trigger the most incapacitating punishment available.
Which of the below programs (in somewhat pseudo-code-C), when executed, makes: A: the programmer; B: the operator who started the program; C: someone else; (none, one or more may qualify) a criminal?
1.
result = toss_a_coin();
if (result == Heads)
{
hack_the_system();
}
2.
while(number_of_cars_that_have_driven_down_the_str eet() 10) {
result = color(car_driving_down_the_street());
if (result == Red)
{
hack_the_system();
} else {
twiddle_thumbs(Once);
} }
...the sound of mobile phones and computers being crushed to bits....coming to a garbage truck NEAR YOU.
How long does this sick comedy have to go on before people decide it is time to kick all their stuff into the bin and go live in a cottage somewhere out in the woods with only the most basic amenities, keeping only a PO Box number for the bare essential communications?
I'm getting really pissed at the Powers That Be for pulling their virtual torture ropes ever tighter around privacy and personal liberty.
Soon people will decide that "Amish Paradise" is actually at a much more comfortable distance away from the proverbial Hell than the other alternatives.
(Kudos to Weird Al for making me borrow his song title.)
The great thing about Linux isn't in the details of the kernel, the big wonder is how so many good programmers decided to join in, when there already existed other free operating systems, such as FreeBSD and the Hurd to work on.
Seems it was a very close call indeed.
Remember 386BSD? Here's this article "The unknown hackers on Salon quoting Linus saying:
"If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never have happened."
As far as I know, 386BSD was in fact available before Linus made his first release.
I don't know what language and compiler you are using, but C compilers should have no problem at all with code with no line breaks (that's part of what makes obfuscated C such fun). The C preprocessor on the other hand does like its bread sliced.
Yeah, let's redesign biology as a microkernel. Wait, let's go up one level: a society. Easy to isolate functions (jobs/responsibilities), easy to add/remove functionality and resources while it is running (ranging from building projects via emigration/immigration to full-scale conquest of/by other societies), pretty fault-tolerant (if some individual malfunctions, society as a whole usually continues on). Will it turn out to be succesful? Well, we'll read all about it in the syslog^H^H^H^H^H^Hnewspapers.
Ship analogy helps again. If the engine room is on fire (sorry but can't resist reference to the Calypso incident), instead of just shutting down all operations aboard ship and praying to the god Neptunus to have mercy, it may be very advantageous if the radio room kept operating (to call for help, for instance), while the crew continued helping passengers to evacuate affected areas while informing them on what exactly is going on, etcetera.
Put that analogy to a server: if the SCSI system dies, it may be advantageous to inform all server processes that the filesystem is no longer accessible, so that they in turn can inform already connected or newly connecting clients that something is wrong, instead of just waiting for things to time out (remember those hanging NFS mounts with Zen-like time-out periods?)
In short, gracefully degrading service while informing those affected is way better than just "disappearing from the radar" with no clue to clients whatsoever.
Simple. With a compartmentalized ship you can repair or replace the faulty compartment while still at sea. With a single-compartment ship (with damage way below the waterline) you have to take it to the dry dock to do repairs (that is, if you're able to keep it afloat that long anyway...)
When I was getting a capture card just for composite video I simply gave up on finding one that didn't respect macrovision.
Too bad you didn't persevere a little longer. There's loads of tips to get rid of Macrovision. In particular, most(any?) card with a Brooktree8x8 chip can be made to ignore Macrovision with either the right software tools or with alternate drivers.
Slashdot Mirror
Devil's prosecutor here (wow, what a change after playing his advocate all the time...)
Consider what you would do when you were marooned on an uninhabited island. Would you rather write your SOS message, put it in a bottle and cast it into the sea, or wait for one or more container ships to spill their cargo until you've collected enough parts (PC or laptop, matching battery pack, solar panels or a generator with matching fuel, a power converter, a satellite transceiver with matching dish, cables to hook all that up, etc.) until you could finally send a message asking for help?
Quite workable methinks.
It could be implemented as an Azureus plugin
Sketchy scenario
- Monitor RSS feed(s) for antispam torrents
- Verify seeds for authenticity (apply crypto to taste)
- Share the torrents containing target IPs
- Blast the spammers!
My very sketchy idea (shoot it down if you like):
- Setup a (seperate from the internet) inter-router network
- Monitor traffic density and send status reports over the inter-router network
- As soon as certain areas (IPs, IP blocks) reach a traffic density threshold, throttle!
- ???
- Profit!
Fanatics flying airplanes into buildings killing thousands : Terrorists.
Haxors commanding botnets to DDOS servers : Cyber-terrorists.
Big corporations doing aggressive take-overs : Corporate terrorists.
Mass producers dumping products below cost overseas : Market terrorists.
Politicians sketching doom scenarios during campaigns to woo scared voters over to their party : Political (party) terrorists.
C'mon cut it out will ya, soon they will brand humans multiplying without limits sucking up resources and scaring other animals away and out of existence : Biosphere terrorists?
You know, according to some theory, black holes will eventually suck up most of the available matter in the universe, leaving it a dark cold desolate place with only some Hawking radiation to warm your soul. Should we call those : Universal Terrorists then?
Really, each and every example you give is just off assholes being found out. Should I care about that?
I'll bite into that, here goes.
Goons watching camera feeds for a living (Big Boss pays'em to do it.)
Little old lady walks up to ATM. (Assume ATM not in view because of 'privacy concerns')
Some time later l.o.lady walks away from ATM, now nervously clutching her purse.
Hooded Goons dressed in black rush up to l.o.lady and mug her.
(Alternative: One hooded black-clad goon pops the camera with an infrared laser (you know this works, do you?) before the others mug l.o.lady.
Are you satisfied now? If not, I bet lots of people can come up with similar scenarios involving people with valuable items which they putting in/take out of their cars/trucks/houses/whatever.
...if they could monitor everything I did and said 24/7.
Good point, but I put it on another tangent. There are trials underway with cameras capturing both video and audio that trigger on "noises that might indicate violent behaviour."
Since digital speech compression is already very efficient, what is there to stop the snoops from recording conversations 'on the side' and reserving hi-def audio for the 'interesting scenes'?
"Their choice" obviously not pertaining to the choice of the victims but to that of the 'authorities'.
Anything is possible. Next 'they' might want everyone to wear an ankle or neck bracelet (like those already used in some places for house arrests) with a two-way radio, outfitted with their choice of: a quick-acting sedative, a lethal injection, a shocker or a combination thereof.
Tamper-proof of course. Any messing around with them will instantly trigger the most incapacitating punishment available.
"Welcome to the desert of the real."--Morpheus
ok, f*ed Slashcode, insert "<" before 10 and before 50 in the 'while'.
"if the crime does not involve physical presence?"
h dot]
r eet() 10)
r eet() 50)
[sneak-a-little-philosophical-conundrum-onto-slas
Which of the below programs (in somewhat pseudo-code-C), when executed, makes: A: the programmer; B: the operator who started the program; C: someone else; (none, one or more may qualify) a criminal?
1.
result = toss_a_coin();
if (result == Heads)
{
hack_the_system();
}
2.
while(number_of_cars_that_have_driven_down_the_st
{
result = color(car_driving_down_the_street());
if (result == Red)
{
hack_the_system();
} else {
twiddle_thumbs(Once);
}
}
3.
while(number_of_cars_that_have_driven_down_the_st
{
result1 = color(car_driving_down_the_street());
result2 = color(previous_car_driving_down_the_street());
if ((result1 == Red) && (result2 == Blue))
{
hack_the_system();
} else {
twiddle_thumbs(Once);
}
}
Trick question: If the programs were started over a network link, where (location) did the crime(s), if any, take place?
...the sound of mobile phones and computers being crushed to bits. ...coming to a garbage truck NEAR YOU.
How long does this sick comedy have to go on before people decide it is time to kick all their stuff into the bin and go live in a cottage somewhere out in the woods with only the most basic amenities, keeping only a PO Box number for the bare essential communications?
I'm getting really pissed at the Powers That Be for pulling their virtual torture ropes ever tighter around privacy and personal liberty.
Soon people will decide that "Amish Paradise" is actually at a much more comfortable distance away from the proverbial Hell than the other alternatives.
(Kudos to Weird Al for making me borrow his song title.)
...running Windows CE?
oohh i'm feeling very lightheaded now, think i'm going to pass ouqef-\/.bafs,.
Seems it was a very close call indeed.
Remember 386BSD? Here's this article "The unknown hackers on Salon quoting Linus saying:
As far as I know, 386BSD was in fact available before Linus made his first release.
Ah. Good point :-)
I don't know what language and compiler you are using, but C compilers should have no problem at all with code with no line breaks (that's part of what makes obfuscated C such fun). The C preprocessor on the other hand does like its bread sliced.
Running suidperl and hitting your head hard on the keyboard drawing blood gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'tainted input'...
Yeah, let's redesign biology as a microkernel.
Wait, let's go up one level: a society. Easy to isolate functions (jobs/responsibilities), easy to add/remove functionality and resources while it is running (ranging from building projects via emigration/immigration to full-scale conquest of/by other societies), pretty fault-tolerant (if some individual malfunctions, society as a whole usually continues on).
Will it turn out to be succesful? Well, we'll read all about it in the syslog^H^H^H^H^H^Hnewspapers.
Your irony trumps his, big time.
"Who's not with us is against us"
Who was it again said something like that?
s/against us/with the terrorists/
John Simley
His (great-)+grandparents must be chuckling in their graves feeling very smug. Talk about typosquatting avant la lettre
Examples (from Google):
smiley : 37,100,000 results
simley : 105,000 results
simely : 1000 results
smilye : 10 results
Ship analogy helps again. If the engine room is on fire (sorry but can't resist reference to the Calypso incident), instead of just shutting down all operations aboard ship and praying to the god Neptunus to have mercy, it may be very advantageous if the radio room kept operating (to call for help, for instance), while the crew continued helping passengers to evacuate affected areas while informing them on what exactly is going on, etcetera.
Put that analogy to a server: if the SCSI system dies, it may be advantageous to inform all server processes that the filesystem is no longer accessible, so that they in turn can inform already connected or newly connecting clients that something is wrong, instead of just waiting for things to time out (remember those hanging NFS mounts with Zen-like time-out periods?)
In short, gracefully degrading service while informing those affected is way better than just "disappearing from the radar" with no clue to clients whatsoever.
Simple. With a compartmentalized ship you can repair or replace the faulty compartment while still at sea. With a single-compartment ship (with damage way below the waterline) you have to take it to the dry dock to do repairs (that is, if you're able to keep it afloat that long anyway...)
And worse, life is the absolute deadliest disease known to man. It has a 100.0% kill rate.
...and virtual suicide.
When I was getting a capture card just for composite video I simply gave up on finding one that didn't respect macrovision.
Too bad you didn't persevere a little longer. There's loads of tips to get rid of Macrovision. In particular, most(any?) card with a Brooktree8x8 chip can be made to ignore Macrovision with either the right software tools or with alternate drivers.
Sorry, forgot to add link.
Assuming you want to do it on PCs running Windows 2000 or later, have a look at this Step-by-Step Guide to Internet Protocol Security (IPSec).
For (Net)BSD, there's the IPSec FAQ