Last I checkeded, the best cure for ignorance was education. The best way to defeat education is laziness, complancency and apathy. Ignorance is why the internet is such a problem for most people. They don't know how it works, they don't know how computers work, and they sure don't want to learn anytime soon. They want the one-click-easy-button without having to learn anything. Sad to say, (and I suppose it's a troll, but it's the truth) many of these one-click-easy-button people are admins. There used to be a day when you had to know something about how computers worked in order to use one. You can be an asset to yourself this way. Until someone *wants* to be educated, you cannot teach them anything.
Kororaa will fix it and life will continue. It's actually a good thing this happened because the GPL is still confusing to a lot of people and this will bring some amount of awareness with it.
>The stars, with even a rudimentary timepiece, are sufficient to provide a good > guide to general direction.
If you have an analog (eg: big-hand, little-hand) wristwatch, you can find a general northerly direction by pointing a twig or matchstick in straight up position over the center-pin of the hands. slowly turn your body until the shadow of the matchstick falls over the hour-hand, 12 O'clock is "about" north. It's not perfect because the seasons have an affect on the shadow as well as how early or late in the day it is, but if you have no idea which way your direction is, but you know it's 10:00 am, this will get you some amount of certainty.
But Einstein should be allowed the opportunity to be mistaken. After all, he was only human. Maybe the most intelligent one in the world during his time, but alas, still only human. susceptible to mistakes and mis-perceptions. There have been others during their day, some claimed the world was flat, others claimed the earth was the center of all that rotated in the heavens. Many people died for refuting these widely held beliefs. Da Vinci nearly lost his head over some of his vocalizations. Einstein's knowledge was vast, but still limited by his own perceptions, understandings, and convictions. It is silly to believe Einstein has already exactly figured out everything that needs figuring out - and correctly.
All the worlds government's store their pr0n collections up there in case of nuclear war.
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I seem to recall the hydrogen burning engine has already been proven. The real prize should go to the that can get refueling stations put in every city of your country without the oil mafia breaking everyone's legs.
The worst thing you can do when you find yourself in a hole is to keep digging. If you are unhappy with your security infrastructure, then change it. Don't just 'accept' it as 'dismal' because your software vendor pimps that out as your only option. For all I know the person reading this right now has my personal information on their network somewhere, and the only thing between my information and some cracker is a piss poor security decision they've 'accepted'.
"I wrote a tiny Perl script that tied together other people's programs that search for blank passwords, so you could scan 65,000 machines in just over eight minutes."
65000/8 = 8125 per min. 8125/60 = 135 per sec.
Dunno about that. Just the time it takes to bring up a socket and get some syn/ack going chews up a good portion of a second. Maybe he was searching a local password database.
It's sad times indeed when you have to explain to a programmer to test his code. It sounds to me like the easy-buttons are catching up with laziness and breeding stupidity.
We've determined that since you have a LAN and people using it, you have files being transferred over it. Since we know your lan works just like the internet, you must be using it for pirating music. All your lan are belong to us.
Now that's almost as silly as voting in an Oil Whore (tm) for president, and then wondering why they want to kick ass in an oil rich country. Yea, that'd never happen.
Seems like I read something years ago about Microsoft buying part of Amazon or something. Seems like it would be the logical decision, especially if you are out to kill google
If they are running XP on them now, but this is irrelevant of the hardware platform. The x86 issue has nothing to do with vulnerabilities other than portability or binary compatibility of the virus/worm itself. The biggest problem with virus/worms/phishing is plain old fashioned ignorance, and that is the most portable vulnerability that can be found on every hardware/software platform.
Nice idea, but a lot of ignorant banks and such do not realize there is more to the world than microsoft and don't excersize compatibility in their coding. Most likely, people will be stuck witht 2 browsers eventually.
It's been interesting reading over the replies and how quickly mob mentality gets perpetuated. One dude wanted to beat him with a baseball bat until dead. Spam is annoying and intrusive, but what's spooky is how the witch-hunt sets in when so many people feed off each other. Besides, if you think this one bust is going to stop spam and phishing you're sadly mistaken. People need to be educated on email use just like they do for using their computer. The spam/phishing problem is largely an ignorance issue. Maybe Best Buy should start including some web-use educational material in that shrink wrap.
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I'm all for it, whatever it does. As long as I can watch.
Last I checkeded, the best cure for ignorance was education. The best way to defeat education is laziness, complancency and apathy. Ignorance is why the internet is such a problem for most people. They don't know how it works, they don't know how computers work, and they sure don't want to learn anytime soon. They want the one-click-easy-button without having to learn anything. Sad to say, (and I suppose it's a troll, but it's the truth) many of these one-click-easy-button people are admins. There used to be a day when you had to know something about how computers worked in order to use one. You can be an asset to yourself this way. Until someone *wants* to be educated, you cannot teach them anything.
With human genes in your rice, it's very possible.
Kororaa will fix it and life will continue. It's actually a good thing this happened because the GPL is still confusing to a lot of people and this will bring some amount of awareness with it.
> Not a big surprise for a country that doesn't respect intellectual property.
I was thinking more along the lines of not a big surprise, period.
He's just the poor bastard that got busted, that's all.
"That might explain how a grizzly got to the region, but few can explain how it managed to get along with a polar bear long enough to mate."
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>The stars, with even a rudimentary timepiece, are sufficient to provide a good
> guide to general direction.
If you have an analog (eg: big-hand, little-hand) wristwatch, you can find a general northerly direction by pointing a twig or matchstick in straight up position over the center-pin of the hands. slowly turn your body until the shadow of the matchstick falls over the hour-hand, 12 O'clock is "about" north. It's not perfect because the seasons have an affect on the shadow as well as how early or late in the day it is, but if you have no idea which way your direction is, but you know it's 10:00 am, this will get you some amount of certainty.
could be a shitter. You could go to mcdonalds *and* gas up at the same time.
But Einstein should be allowed the opportunity to be mistaken. After all, he was only human. Maybe the most intelligent one in the world during his time, but alas, still only human. susceptible to mistakes and mis-perceptions. There have been others during their day, some claimed the world was flat, others claimed the earth was the center of all that rotated in the heavens. Many people died for refuting these widely held beliefs. Da Vinci nearly lost his head over some of his vocalizations. Einstein's knowledge was vast, but still limited by his own perceptions, understandings, and convictions. It is silly to believe Einstein has already exactly figured out everything that needs figuring out - and correctly.
Is to post your vnc server on slashdot, thereby disabling any vnc access for you http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/05/vnc-flaw- proof-of-concept.html
All the worlds government's store their pr0n collections up there in case of nuclear war.
I seem to recall the hydrogen burning engine has already been proven. The real prize should go to the that can get refueling stations put in every city of your country without the oil mafia breaking everyone's legs.
The worst thing you can do when you find yourself in a hole is to keep digging. If you are unhappy with your security infrastructure, then change it. Don't just 'accept' it as 'dismal' because your software vendor pimps that out as your only option. For all I know the person reading this right now has my personal information on their network somewhere, and the only thing between my information and some cracker is a piss poor security decision they've 'accepted'.
"I wrote a tiny Perl script that tied together other people's programs that search for blank passwords, so you could scan 65,000 machines in just over eight minutes."
65000/8 = 8125 per min.
8125/60 = 135 per sec.
Dunno about that. Just the time it takes to bring up a socket and get some syn/ack going chews up a good portion of a second. Maybe he was searching a local password database.
sounds like a sacrificial alter for foreskin removal.
It's sad times indeed when you have to explain to a programmer to test his code. It sounds to me like the easy-buttons are catching up with laziness and breeding stupidity.
WTF? That one dude must have shammed about a pound of hair in along with it. http://www.electric-clothing.com/images/pics/1024x 768/chipped-2.jpg
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if (((people((wouldstop() == TRUE)(((&& (using_shitty_shortcuts() == FALSE))))))))
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It's possible that something like this may be easier to spot.
And while we're at it, start using your curly braces correctly as well.
We've determined that since you have a LAN and people using it, you have files being transferred over it. Since we know your lan works just like the internet, you must be using it for pirating music. All your lan are belong to us.
"Osmanagich is a construction contractor from Texas who came to the US when the Bosnian war started. He has no education whatsoever in any science. "
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Now that's almost as silly as voting in an Oil Whore (tm) for president, and then wondering why they want to kick ass in an oil rich country. Yea, that'd never happen.
Seems like I read something years ago about Microsoft buying part of Amazon or something. Seems like it would be the logical decision, especially if you are out to kill google
All of a sudden I feel like ordering Italian, not sure why.
If they are running XP on them now, but this is irrelevant of the hardware platform. The x86 issue has nothing to do with vulnerabilities other than portability or binary compatibility of the virus/worm itself. The biggest problem with virus/worms/phishing is plain old fashioned ignorance, and that is the most portable vulnerability that can be found on every hardware/software platform.
Nice idea, but a lot of ignorant banks and such do not realize there is more to the world than microsoft and don't excersize compatibility in their coding. Most likely, people will be stuck witht 2 browsers eventually.
It's been interesting reading over the replies and how quickly mob mentality gets perpetuated. One dude wanted to beat him with a baseball bat until dead. Spam is annoying and intrusive, but what's spooky is how the witch-hunt sets in when so many people feed off each other. Besides, if you think this one bust is going to stop spam and phishing you're sadly mistaken. People need to be educated on email use just like they do for using their computer. The spam/phishing problem is largely an ignorance issue. Maybe Best Buy should start including some web-use educational material in that shrink wrap.