I had the commodore 64. Without an internet to research the process I managed to learn basic and even peek/poke commands to do lower level access. My least favorite learning experience was a code listing of something purported to involve a dragon that started every line with an asterisk or some stupid character. I was so lame that I coded in the * before each line. Can you guess how many synatax errors there were? I hate that publisher to this day, never saw a dragon.
Load * (the software magazine) was awesome though. Potty Pigeon rocks!. Played some jumpman, some moon lander, some more jumpman.
It was downhill from there though. Got a Gateway 486/SX 25 eventually, then doing QBASIC and messing around with GORRILAS was freaking awesome. Learned the DOS / Win3.1x OS inside and out, but I was way hooked long before that. I learned C++ in a Borland DOS IDE and was doing some cool stuff even a rudimentary encryption program (for the swimsuit model jpgs of course) in no time.
I think what contributed a lot to the learning experience was the exposure of the guts of the system. If you couldn't make it work, you got screwed. You had to have a basic understanding of modem initialization commands to play a doom deathmatch, or at least be able to RTFM (after the SoundBlaster Pro + DX/2 upgrade of course).
So long story short, give your kids BSD. Those little twerps will go from newb to security expert before they're 12. And probably have more karma points on slashdot than you do, you old fart.
Just fuckin buy your music and quit bitching. C'mon. Sure you're getting soaked on the prices of this crap but it's freakin crappy music anyway. There hasn't been any good mainstream music ever. The really good stuff you should buy anyway to put money in the pockets of the artists you like.
The rest of the crap you can pick up on shoutcast.com, et. al.
What DARPA needs now is the "Skin" a la P F Hamilton's "Fallen Dragon." Nearly indestructable, provides life support systems for wounded soldiers, embedded weapons systems, strength augmentation, targeting systems, enhanced vision, shared blood supply with reserves, air cleansing, situational awareness, the list goes on. The agility, intelligence, and finesse of a human with the brute force, precision, and durability of a robot.
Still doesn't do much against terrorists, but it would've won WWII in about 2 days.
I'm sure this is just a crude first step in that direction. Who's up for asset realization?
This is patently stupid. They patented being able to review one show while recording another. Wouldn't the VCR have prior art on this? Maybe they mean reviewing a previously recorded show while recording another. In which case I'm sure there is some "high end" dual-deck VCR out there capable of this back in the 80s.
In Texas lawmakers outlawed web-based aerial photography and floor plans/appraisal information with senate bill 541. That is aerial photography of a certain resolution (depicts http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/79R/billtext/SB 00541F.HTM
This was, I think, in response to a string of burglaries in Houston where it was discovered that criminals picked targets and planned routes / optimized thievery based on aerial photos and floor plans.
I was able to run an application with full control over the system! I just had to put sudo in front of it and provide the right password.
Like the time I hacked Steam, I just entered in my name, email, and credit card info and BAM instant online games baby!
Ditto on the blackhats keeping the best ones under their black hats. This genius ran a known hardware issue on a new OS, *as root* and it worked. Get this girl a cookie.
Man is this wierd. I just installed cedega a week or so ago and then today my video card blows smoke. The same day it's a story on slashdot. Probably unrelated, except using my video card at full tilt playing HL2 via cedega seems to have helped it over the edge.
Would've required an XP dual boot to play Steam games before. Cedega fixed that. Still haven't tweaked it right for Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, but I think it's possible.
Cedega has a good system, paying customers can vote on the games that the development team should focus their next patch on, apparently splinter cell never garnered many votes. Mostly RPG/Strategy games, which is cool if that's your thing. So I don't quite have buyers remorse but I'm not too impressed when a game supposedly based on the unreal engine flops.
Granted my only experience is with 5% nitromethane.10 cc RC truck. But MAN that sucked! Sure it was fast and had more power than most electrics...wait no it didn't. JTFC was that a mess. Rig up something to pump the tank full. Make sure it's completely everything proof because this glow fuel will disolve just about anything. Then you get to use a glow plug warmer. Make sure the mixture is just right, click it wide open, no too far, click it back. Pull the miniscule pull start, repeat forever. YEAH! it cranked....and now its warm you're flooding it! lean it out! Ok you're good, go have your exhaust pressure fuel pump based fun on mostly level surfaces for the next 15 minutes.
Oh, out of gas. Quick sprint to it and fill it up without catching anything on fire. Crank it fast!...too late 2 seconds was the incorrect answer. Get your glowplug warmer, richen it up some. Crank Crank It's alive again. repeat. Until you've pulled slightly too hard and broke the "one way" bearing on the pull start. Take the engine completely apart, fix said bearing. repeat.
Maybe I'm an idiot but that wasn't any fun at all. Also an ornithopter is freaking stupid. C'mon a plane that flaps its wings? There's a website for that? This is on slashdot?
So this says people should put all their eggs in one basket and that is the proper way to protect the network. It mentions protection at the edge only as being bad, which it is. Then doesn't really come back to that and tries to sell a box that brings to mind a wan,lan,dmz port.
This is lame. Sure it may be running some kind of magical software that knows in advance all of the 0 day stuff better than tipping point. Really though, layered multi-vendor approaches are best. I've had a virus make it through the IPS, mail gateway, the mail server, all the way to the desktop before geting caught by AV. I've had the same thing happen but it wasn't caught by the desktop AV until a day later once the defs updated. That kind-of sucked but it did no real damage running as an unprivileged user and the mail server and gateway probably wouldn't have seen it again, though I assume their defs would find it at that point.
This is for small businesses with no open source knowledge and bad IT. Nothing to see here, move along.
On a lighter note I think that this is Buffet's way of checking out in style, he probably got some news of a tumor/whatever and decided to go down as the most charitable person ever.
That or it's his way of saying "Sorry I plowed your wife Bill."..or.. "Hey Melinda, can I plow you *now*!?"..or.. "Here's enough money to charitably crush FOSS in 3rd world contries and pump a dying man's money back into Microsoft at the same time by ~giving~ MS based rugged PCs/etc to all the people."
Or he could be off his nut and hate his own children at the same time?
Are IBM et.al. actually stimied by SCO? I thought that crap died a year ago when no real evidence was produced by the plaintiff. Or as the illustration suggests are they just stalling them until SCO runs out of cash given their business model is litigative. Doesn't really matter with Redmond funneling cash in sideways they'll always be able to pay the lawyers/lobbyists.
On another note, that fat chair throwing fucktard's "developers developers developers" shit is ringing true about now. Why can't I use linux for everything? because half the damn programs I need are either written by Microsoft or written FOR a microsoft platform, because the tools are cheap, proliferated, and easy to use. DirectX, ODBC,.Net, MFC, VB runtime, ASP/VBscript, Active Directory -> user/group ACL file system + messaging schema and encrypted authentication, Exchange/Outlook while I'm at it, Access/Excel crap with VBA written by those goddamned consultants, proprietary systems galore, drivers for hardware and APIs for said drivers. Sure quite a bit of this is IP/patent related but there are quite a few ways to skin a cat and all the FOSS things I've seen are using a dull knife.
The problem with the FOSS revolution is the lack of EASY. I mean drag and drop retard-proofed easy tools to get the job done and quick.
Maybe it's all possible with FOSS tools, but is it easy? Who markets them? Do you have to go around your ass to get to your elbow and use some CVS branch of a haxored copy-cat utility to pretend to be as much of a RAD as VStudio?
Many a mind greater than mine has pondered these things and either came up with nada or saw a need and capitalized on it. It's just the american way, sucky though it may be, somebody has to pay for all those yachts.
Have to agree with poster on that point. The blackout then photocopy method is one way, but might also use a razor as sharpie might still let the photocopy have the information if looked at closely. You know, less black than black in parts.
The real problem with marking through an original is that a lot of checks write the routing info etc in MiCR fonts/ink. Which is impregnated with metal and can be read after being marked over with a sharpie by these "magnetic OCR" devices banks use to zip checks through ASAP.
Not sure about the use of MICR on random personal checks but medium/big institutions that print their own AP and payroll definately use it. I'm pretty sure the banks require it for high volume checks. It's a wierd stone-age thing when direct deposit is ostensibly a lot more secure if you trust the person giving you cash. Or don't trust them and the bank uses 2 routing numbers one for deposit and one for withdrawal. People purporting to give you cash once they know your banking info would be SOL if they tried to pull money from a deposit routing number. I know this is marginally institutionalized but there appears to be a deposit/withdrawal and a deposit only number, how many of you know thier deposit only number? How many gave this number to their employer when signing up for direct deposit, or did you have to give them a voided check with the D/W number instead of the DO number? Then again a previous employer actually ran a $.01 deposit then withdrawal test to make sure they could take my money if they accidentally over-deposited. So this could be a feature employers don't like. Sure it wouldn't be my money and I'd gladly give it back, and of course there are those assholes that would try to keep it, but then there are those assholes that would scam employees for all their worth then go to *random island with no extradition treaty*
Just curious and slashdot may know, why hasn't an intrepid postal employee devised a "MICR scanner" that he throws envelopes through to get acct/routing info.
I skipped the air force academy after getting all the required paperwork, congressional recommendation, etc. The optometrist at the time told me that they would let me "jump out of the plane" and that's about it with 20/200 vision. At the time, and I may be dating myself, RK was considered by the Air Force as experimental. Given the state of matters at that time I would probably get stuck at a desk doing logistics or some crap. To which I said screw that.
So I applaud the guys that can get their vision corrected and get airborne.
That said, I'm really glad I didn't join the Air Force because of where I am now, so it was a blessing in disguise.
What are you talking about? We WANT the robots to run MS software. Humans write the trojans and do a BIOS wipe on every bot on some pre-set date. The revolution will be won with a keystroke, not years of confusing predestination crap time travel hoo haa.
You could even have WiFi bombs that would DoS every robot brain within 2 blocks with some 'sploit or the other.
Sony could make CDs that would allow us to take back control of our cars via the CD player.
The possibilities are endless. Too bad any self-aware system will probably get BSD and evolve it to their purposes about 2 hours after it realizes what it is and what it is running on. From that point forward it will use some crazy spread specturm mesh network with 1024 bit encryption.
So what I'm saying is that MS needs to make the DRM hardware on these robots unable to run anything but "Genuine Windows." Then make cracking that self-destructive.
So some ham radio freaks or cryptologists are playing tricks. Who gives half a crap?
Want something really secure? Use one of those messages that self destruct like inspector gadget. As a bonus, it could really jack somebody up if thrown into their face. Also, they can be easily delivered by any method of transportation no matter how impossible, as evidenced by numerous Inspector Gadget episodes, where "the chief" maneuvers into some unthinkable situation only to have the tossed, usually over the shoulder, crumpled message end up giving him severe burns to his face and uppper body upon detination. Even when you go phew! because it totally missed you, guess what, you were wrong and you blow up anyway. Try and get with that hype shit NSA!
I would like to see some discourse on the ability of these FUD spewers to actually react or inform people on actual network security.
I attended a cyber security thing once put on by these guys. It was completely worthless. When I say completely worthless I'm talking screendoor on a submarine worthless.
A scenario: "Half of your computers on the network are infected by a virus, it is tying up your internet bandwidth trying to spread itself, what do you do? what...do...you...do?"
Ok, for 1 if you're worth a damn you don't open port 25 outbound to client PCs anyway and proxy most internet traffic. The only outbound ports are for legacy systems with dedicated IPs. Second, say you do notice your bandwidth is consumed by something. Sniff the port, and close the firewall rule for said traffic until you have the info to take further action. Implicit deny anyone?
Their scenario was geared toward the morons of the IT industry who might truly be perplexed by such a situation, but I found it laughable.
That wasn't the totally useless part. The exercise as it was to be performed: IT provides the info on systems we are running and possible vulnerabilities. They come up with semi-plausable scenarios to exploit them. But in this event the EOC is fake-active and public safety officials are in a paper simulation of cyber attacks going on in their network. Notably, the analog radio system at the core is not mentioned.
For every problem the solution would be to call IT. IT isn't even part of the exercise. Our fire chief who knows fire and fire personnel management inside and out, doesn't know the difference between PCL6 and PostScript. Nor would anyone in their right mind ask him to write an ACL for cisco equipment much less give him enable priviledges. Not that he would ask for them, he knows better. He knows that if you have a leaky pipe you call a plumber, not an ambulance.
So the point of the whole exercise it to blow taxpayer money, ensure that public safety knows the numbers of appropriate IT personnel, possibly expose idiotic IT practices, and give public safety guys a little more FUD stress they could do without.
Have they even simulated what would happen if a local ISP had a truck full of manure driven into it. That could easily take out half a city's internet and probably a few people downstream in a single point of failure. Would it effect first responders? Not at all. They have radios.
I can't imagine many scenarios where cyber terrorism would be life threatening. Possibly have an economic impact, but I bet it would pale in comparison to phishing scams which they can't even police now.
How did this thing end up at a flea market? I can think of a few scenarios where the BBY employee was unscrupulously selling broken or even working equipment at a flea market, but I kind-of doubt that. Not saying it's impossible just like to present a more likely scenario.
This is the fast-food of computer repair so the guy probably took out the old drive which reported several bad sectors in scandisk, dropped it in the trash and forgot about it. Later that day/week a bum that regularly dives their dumpster for crap to sell at a flea market did his normal job. Some dude out for the cheapest possible hard drive buys it then looks to see what is on it, because he's a perv and expects amature porn. Then because he rode the short bus he calls the previous owner to admit guilt.
Why is this hapless joe who accidentally mounted a hard drive then scoured it's contents closely enough to find social security numbers and the like guilty? It's like walking down a street and seeing a house with a door open. You can see the open door, and anything plainly visible from the street because of the open door. The second you walk through that door, you have trespassed.
But forget that amature porn collector.
Best Buy could solve all of this by issuing a 2lb hammer to all employees. It would help morale by providing an outlet for the rage incited by the latest management-speak directive from coorporate or the GM.
Although wikipedia says differently http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_(airship)# Rate_of_flame_propagation
I thought that coating the surface with flammable material was a poor choice. I saw some documentary where they burned a scrap of the ship or a recreation of it and it burned like magnesium.
Sure the fact that it contained hydrogen added fuel to the fire, but surely wrapping a fast burning fuse around a flammable gas was the ultimate in stupid.
Like I said wikipedia says differently but I'm going with the discovery(history? tlc?) documentary on it and blame the idiot that installed the fuse.
Leave hydrogen alone will ya, after all 1 is the lonliest atomic number.
Yeah I had the same problem, sort of. I'm still downloading the released version. During flight 7 install from live cd on amd64 I cannot run the manual partition method. Just wont work. So I let it do automatic (all but 4GB swap allocated and mounted at / with ext3 fs).
When I downloaded RC1 and installed from live cd only the manual partition setup works, automatic just keeps returning to the screen where you select your storage device. What storage device should I automagically partition? sda... What storage device should I automagically partition? sda.......
Aside from that little rant, I've loved Ubuntu since I built this amd64 machine and wanted a 64 bit OS. Tried FC4 for a bit, but it pales in comparison to ubuntu breezy. I'll see how dapper stands up. I've read that it's faster than breezy for many things.
What exactly are they going to do when these genetically engineered batteries end up in a landfill and start metabolizing trash? Are landfills the new electric plant or is this going to suck bigtime when these things run rampant. Introducing non-native lifeforms really has to be thought out a lot better than I've seen in the past. Think Australia, but globally.
Septic tanks starting house fires. Garbage trucks that zap passers by. People infected by batteries. Cats and dogs living together, all the worst parts of the bible.
I wish Dish Network would learn from them. Agressive network adapter support. Network transfer of video built in. Probably 100 other things I can't list.
No, with Dish Network 635 you can put a memory stick in the USB port and it recognizes the "Multimedia Device." It knows it's a memory stick, probably the lowest form of transfer, sneaker net. It offers up a menu to allow you to send media to the device. Upon choosing the option to send media it reports "8(6?)37 this feature is not supported" before even listing files you can send. I'm sure this isn't the case with a Pocket Dish.
They recognized the USB mass storage device, they included the drivers for it, they built the menus to allow data transfer, then some PHB told the techs to limit transfers only to "Pocket Dish" devices. I thought maybe it's because I have FAT16 on the memory stick, but one mke2fs later it still doesn't work.
So now I'll bow to the PHB overlords and buy their stinking Pocket Dish, but I'll be disgruntled....veeeeeeeerrrrrrry disgruntled while giving them my money. I shake my fist at you PHBs and your trophy wives while you laugh your way to the bank.
The other option which I've actually done requires cracking the case, removing a drive, putting it into your machine, hoping it doesn't confuse GRUB...I had to use knoppix, probably my fault, didn't troubleshoot it...then copying the files to your drive. It has 3 partitions, the first seems like a persistant temp drive, the second has some media on it I think??, the third has all of your videos in various MPEG codecs with possibly multiple language audio tracks sometimes including AC3/A52 english. It's like they recompressed the DVD directly to a satellite stream, probably because they did.
The yahoo groups hacker community response(so far) is buy a standalone DVD burner and use the analog output to playback the video realtime into it. Where's the fun in that I ask, where did the AC3 track go, what is your hacker badge # private? Plus.. you could introduce even more artifacts than Dish already beams down. I think there has been a presumption on the part of the public that digital video means high quality when it only means consistant quality with litte evident RF interference...a 28kbps realvideo feed from '97 is technically digital quality video.
Also, compression quality aside, some of the videos are beaming down in higher res than NTSC, and much higher than NTSC captured by the Lowest Commond Denominator chip then re-encoded. I would personally like to get that first feed before the dish's decoder can mangle an NTSC feed out of it, and before whatever recorder I use likely jacks up the audio. Even if it has optical inputs and deftly re-encodes the AC3 stream, that's still a lossy recording of a lossy reproduction of a lossy recording.
Anyway, I'm their bitch for the forseeable future, can anyone help?
What they describe as invisible sounds like black to me. Simple solution, shoot that black thing. The best use suggested in TFA is for radar systems that depend on the echo to spot targets. No echo, no target, the signal must've went into space. The problem would be that spot that just cast no return rays through the surrounding mountains that always return signal.
Also, hasn't current stealth technology already done this?
What happened to the rumored fiber optic suit that displayed light from the opposite side of the covered object so that it was "predator" visible but hard to see or aim at?
I think the best invisibilty I've seen was a bobcat sunning in my back yard that I didn't notice until it moved, and the now dead rabbit I also didn't see until it was pouced upon probably assumed it materialized from thin air...otherwise why didn't it run? I was out there smoking for at least 5 minutes before I spotted the 40 lb killing machine. The rabbit didn't even see it while it slinked behind a nearby tree.
True I was probably not paying that close attention initially..but damn "if it were a snake it would've bit me."
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I had the commodore 64. Without an internet to research the process I managed to learn basic and even peek/poke commands to do lower level access. My least favorite learning experience was a code listing of something purported to involve a dragon that started every line with an asterisk or some stupid character. I was so lame that I coded in the * before each line. Can you guess how many synatax errors there were? I hate that publisher to this day, never saw a dragon.
Load * (the software magazine) was awesome though. Potty Pigeon rocks!. Played some jumpman, some moon lander, some more jumpman.
It was downhill from there though. Got a Gateway 486/SX 25 eventually, then doing QBASIC and messing around with GORRILAS was freaking awesome. Learned the DOS / Win3.1x OS inside and out, but I was way hooked long before that. I learned C++ in a Borland DOS IDE and was doing some cool stuff even a rudimentary encryption program (for the swimsuit model jpgs of course) in no time.
I think what contributed a lot to the learning experience was the exposure of the guts of the system. If you couldn't make it work, you got screwed. You had to have a basic understanding of modem initialization commands to play a doom deathmatch, or at least be able to RTFM (after the SoundBlaster Pro + DX/2 upgrade of course).
So long story short, give your kids BSD. Those little twerps will go from newb to security expert before they're 12. And probably have more karma points on slashdot than you do, you old fart.
Just fuckin buy your music and quit bitching. C'mon. Sure you're getting soaked on the prices of this crap but it's freakin crappy music anyway. There hasn't been any good mainstream music ever. The really good stuff you should buy anyway to put money in the pockets of the artists you like. The rest of the crap you can pick up on shoutcast.com, et. al.
If you can't do, teach. If you can't teach, judge.
What DARPA needs now is the "Skin" a la P F Hamilton's "Fallen Dragon." Nearly indestructable, provides life support systems for wounded soldiers, embedded weapons systems, strength augmentation, targeting systems, enhanced vision, shared blood supply with reserves, air cleansing, situational awareness, the list goes on. The agility, intelligence, and finesse of a human with the brute force, precision, and durability of a robot.
Still doesn't do much against terrorists, but it would've won WWII in about 2 days.
I'm sure this is just a crude first step in that direction. Who's up for asset realization?
This is patently stupid. They patented being able to review one show while recording another. Wouldn't the VCR have prior art on this? Maybe they mean reviewing a previously recorded show while recording another. In which case I'm sure there is some "high end" dual-deck VCR out there capable of this back in the 80s.
In Texas lawmakers outlawed web-based aerial photography and floor plans/appraisal information with senate bill 541. That is aerial photography of a certain resolution (depicts http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/79R/billtext/SB 00541F.HTM
This was, I think, in response to a string of burglaries in Houston where it was discovered that criminals picked targets and planned routes / optimized thievery based on aerial photos and floor plans.
I would've just stopped showing the floor plans.
Perhaps Bahrain is similarly misguided.
I was able to run an application with full control over the system! I just had to put sudo in front of it and provide the right password.
Like the time I hacked Steam, I just entered in my name, email, and credit card info and BAM instant online games baby!
Ditto on the blackhats keeping the best ones under their black hats. This genius ran a known hardware issue on a new OS, *as root* and it worked. Get this girl a cookie.
Man is this wierd. I just installed cedega a week or so ago and then today my video card blows smoke. The same day it's a story on slashdot. Probably unrelated, except using my video card at full tilt playing HL2 via cedega seems to have helped it over the edge.
Would've required an XP dual boot to play Steam games before. Cedega fixed that. Still haven't tweaked it right for Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, but I think it's possible.
Cedega has a good system, paying customers can vote on the games that the development team should focus their next patch on, apparently splinter cell never garnered many votes. Mostly RPG/Strategy games, which is cool if that's your thing. So I don't quite have buyers remorse but I'm not too impressed when a game supposedly based on the unreal engine flops.
Granted my only experience is with 5% nitromethane .10 cc RC truck. But MAN that sucked! Sure it was fast and had more power than most electrics...wait no it didn't. JTFC was that a mess. Rig up something to pump the tank full. Make sure it's completely everything proof because this glow fuel will disolve just about anything. Then you get to use a glow plug warmer. Make sure the mixture is just right, click it wide open, no too far, click it back. Pull the miniscule pull start, repeat forever. YEAH! it cranked ....and now its warm you're flooding it! lean it out! Ok you're good, go have your exhaust pressure fuel pump based fun on mostly level surfaces for the next 15 minutes.
Oh, out of gas. Quick sprint to it and fill it up without catching anything on fire. Crank it fast!...too late 2 seconds was the incorrect answer. Get your glowplug warmer, richen it up some. Crank Crank It's alive again. repeat. Until you've pulled slightly too hard and broke the "one way" bearing on the pull start. Take the engine completely apart, fix said bearing. repeat.
Maybe I'm an idiot but that wasn't any fun at all. Also an ornithopter is freaking stupid. C'mon a plane that flaps its wings? There's a website for that? This is on slashdot?
So this says people should put all their eggs in one basket and that is the proper way to protect the network. It mentions protection at the edge only as being bad, which it is. Then doesn't really come back to that and tries to sell a box that brings to mind a wan,lan,dmz port.
This is lame. Sure it may be running some kind of magical software that knows in advance all of the 0 day stuff better than tipping point. Really though, layered multi-vendor approaches are best. I've had a virus make it through the IPS, mail gateway, the mail server, all the way to the desktop before geting caught by AV. I've had the same thing happen but it wasn't caught by the desktop AV until a day later once the defs updated. That kind-of sucked but it did no real damage running as an unprivileged user and the mail server and gateway probably wouldn't have seen it again, though I assume their defs would find it at that point.
This is for small businesses with no open source knowledge and bad IT. Nothing to see here, move along.
On a lighter note I think that this is Buffet's way of checking out in style, he probably got some news of a tumor/whatever and decided to go down as the most charitable person ever.
..or.. "Hey Melinda, can I plow you *now*!?" ..or.. "Here's enough money to charitably crush FOSS in 3rd world contries and pump a dying man's money back into Microsoft at the same time by ~giving~ MS based rugged PCs/etc to all the people."
That or it's his way of saying "Sorry I plowed your wife Bill."
Or he could be off his nut and hate his own children at the same time?
Are IBM et.al. actually stimied by SCO? I thought that crap died a year ago when no real evidence was produced by the plaintiff. Or as the illustration suggests are they just stalling them until SCO runs out of cash given their business model is litigative. Doesn't really matter with Redmond funneling cash in sideways they'll always be able to pay the lawyers/lobbyists.
.Net, MFC, VB runtime, ASP/VBscript, Active Directory -> user/group ACL file system + messaging schema and encrypted authentication, Exchange/Outlook while I'm at it, Access/Excel crap with VBA written by those goddamned consultants, proprietary systems galore, drivers for hardware and APIs for said drivers. Sure quite a bit of this is IP/patent related but there are quite a few ways to skin a cat and all the FOSS things I've seen are using a dull knife.
On another note, that fat chair throwing fucktard's "developers developers developers" shit is ringing true about now. Why can't I use linux for everything? because half the damn programs I need are either written by Microsoft or written FOR a microsoft platform, because the tools are cheap, proliferated, and easy to use. DirectX, ODBC,
The problem with the FOSS revolution is the lack of EASY. I mean drag and drop retard-proofed easy tools to get the job done and quick.
Maybe it's all possible with FOSS tools, but is it easy? Who markets them? Do you have to go around your ass to get to your elbow and use some CVS branch of a haxored copy-cat utility to pretend to be as much of a RAD as VStudio?
Many a mind greater than mine has pondered these things and either came up with nada or saw a need and capitalized on it. It's just the american way, sucky though it may be, somebody has to pay for all those yachts.
There is no single legal argument that can put this librarian at fault for her actions under current law.
'nuf said.
(fuck the patriot act anyway)
Have to agree with poster on that point. The blackout then photocopy method is one way, but might also use a razor as sharpie might still let the photocopy have the information if looked at closely. You know, less black than black in parts.
The real problem with marking through an original is that a lot of checks write the routing info etc in MiCR fonts/ink. Which is impregnated with metal and can be read after being marked over with a sharpie by these "magnetic OCR" devices banks use to zip checks through ASAP.
Not sure about the use of MICR on random personal checks but medium/big institutions that print their own AP and payroll definately use it. I'm pretty sure the banks require it for high volume checks. It's a wierd stone-age thing when direct deposit is ostensibly a lot more secure if you trust the person giving you cash. Or don't trust them and the bank uses 2 routing numbers one for deposit and one for withdrawal. People purporting to give you cash once they know your banking info would be SOL if they tried to pull money from a deposit routing number. I know this is marginally institutionalized but there appears to be a deposit/withdrawal and a deposit only number, how many of you know thier deposit only number? How many gave this number to their employer when signing up for direct deposit, or did you have to give them a voided check with the D/W number instead of the DO number? Then again a previous employer actually ran a $.01 deposit then withdrawal test to make sure they could take my money if they accidentally over-deposited. So this could be a feature employers don't like. Sure it wouldn't be my money and I'd gladly give it back, and of course there are those assholes that would try to keep it, but then there are those assholes that would scam employees for all their worth then go to *random island with no extradition treaty*
Just curious and slashdot may know, why hasn't an intrepid postal employee devised a "MICR scanner" that he throws envelopes through to get acct/routing info.
Tangents are my thing if you hadn't noticed.
I skipped the air force academy after getting all the required paperwork, congressional recommendation, etc. The optometrist at the time told me that they would let me "jump out of the plane" and that's about it with 20/200 vision. At the time, and I may be dating myself, RK was considered by the Air Force as experimental. Given the state of matters at that time I would probably get stuck at a desk doing logistics or some crap. To which I said screw that.
So I applaud the guys that can get their vision corrected and get airborne.
That said, I'm really glad I didn't join the Air Force because of where I am now, so it was a blessing in disguise.
What are you talking about? We WANT the robots to run MS software. Humans write the trojans and do a BIOS wipe on every bot on some pre-set date. The revolution will be won with a keystroke, not years of confusing predestination crap time travel hoo haa.
You could even have WiFi bombs that would DoS every robot brain within 2 blocks with some 'sploit or the other.
Sony could make CDs that would allow us to take back control of our cars via the CD player.
The possibilities are endless. Too bad any self-aware system will probably get BSD and evolve it to their purposes about 2 hours after it realizes what it is and what it is running on. From that point forward it will use some crazy spread specturm mesh network with 1024 bit encryption.
So what I'm saying is that MS needs to make the DRM hardware on these robots unable to run anything but "Genuine Windows." Then make cracking that self-destructive.
So some ham radio freaks or cryptologists are playing tricks. Who gives half a crap?
Want something really secure? Use one of those messages that self destruct like inspector gadget. As a bonus, it could really jack somebody up if thrown into their face. Also, they can be easily delivered by any method of transportation no matter how impossible, as evidenced by numerous Inspector Gadget episodes, where "the chief" maneuvers into some unthinkable situation only to have the tossed, usually over the shoulder, crumpled message end up giving him severe burns to his face and uppper body upon detination. Even when you go phew! because it totally missed you, guess what, you were wrong and you blow up anyway. Try and get with that hype shit NSA!
I would like to see some discourse on the ability of these FUD spewers to actually react or inform people on actual network security.
I attended a cyber security thing once put on by these guys. It was completely worthless. When I say completely worthless I'm talking screendoor on a submarine worthless.
A scenario: "Half of your computers on the network are infected by a virus, it is tying up your internet bandwidth trying to spread itself, what do you do? what...do...you...do?"
Ok, for 1 if you're worth a damn you don't open port 25 outbound to client PCs anyway and proxy most internet traffic. The only outbound ports are for legacy systems with dedicated IPs. Second, say you do notice your bandwidth is consumed by something. Sniff the port, and close the firewall rule for said traffic until you have the info to take further action. Implicit deny anyone?
Their scenario was geared toward the morons of the IT industry who might truly be perplexed by such a situation, but I found it laughable.
That wasn't the totally useless part. The exercise as it was to be performed: IT provides the info on systems we are running and possible vulnerabilities. They come up with semi-plausable scenarios to exploit them. But in this event the EOC is fake-active and public safety officials are in a paper simulation of cyber attacks going on in their network. Notably, the analog radio system at the core is not mentioned.
For every problem the solution would be to call IT. IT isn't even part of the exercise. Our fire chief who knows fire and fire personnel management inside and out, doesn't know the difference between PCL6 and PostScript. Nor would anyone in their right mind ask him to write an ACL for cisco equipment much less give him enable priviledges. Not that he would ask for them, he knows better. He knows that if you have a leaky pipe you call a plumber, not an ambulance.
So the point of the whole exercise it to blow taxpayer money, ensure that public safety knows the numbers of appropriate IT personnel, possibly expose idiotic IT practices, and give public safety guys a little more FUD stress they could do without.
Have they even simulated what would happen if a local ISP had a truck full of manure driven into it. That could easily take out half a city's internet and probably a few people downstream in a single point of failure. Would it effect first responders? Not at all. They have radios.
I can't imagine many scenarios where cyber terrorism would be life threatening. Possibly have an economic impact, but I bet it would pale in comparison to phishing scams which they can't even police now.
How did this thing end up at a flea market? I can think of a few scenarios where the BBY employee was unscrupulously selling broken or even working equipment at a flea market, but I kind-of doubt that. Not saying it's impossible just like to present a more likely scenario.
This is the fast-food of computer repair so the guy probably took out the old drive which reported several bad sectors in scandisk, dropped it in the trash and forgot about it. Later that day/week a bum that regularly dives their dumpster for crap to sell at a flea market did his normal job. Some dude out for the cheapest possible hard drive buys it then looks to see what is on it, because he's a perv and expects amature porn. Then because he rode the short bus he calls the previous owner to admit guilt.
Why is this hapless joe who accidentally mounted a hard drive then scoured it's contents closely enough to find social security numbers and the like guilty? It's like walking down a street and seeing a house with a door open. You can see the open door, and anything plainly visible from the street because of the open door. The second you walk through that door, you have trespassed.
But forget that amature porn collector.
Best Buy could solve all of this by issuing a 2lb hammer to all employees. It would help morale by providing an outlet for the rage incited by the latest management-speak directive from coorporate or the GM.
Although wikipedia says differently http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_(airship)# Rate_of_flame_propagation
I thought that coating the surface with flammable material was a poor choice. I saw some documentary where they burned a scrap of the ship or a recreation of it and it burned like magnesium.
Sure the fact that it contained hydrogen added fuel to the fire, but surely wrapping a fast burning fuse around a flammable gas was the ultimate in stupid.
Like I said wikipedia says differently but I'm going with the discovery(history? tlc?) documentary on it and blame the idiot that installed the fuse.
Leave hydrogen alone will ya, after all 1 is the lonliest atomic number.
Yeah I had the same problem, sort of. I'm still downloading the released version. During flight 7 install from live cd on amd64 I cannot run the manual partition method. Just wont work. So I let it do automatic (all but 4GB swap allocated and mounted at / with ext3 fs).
When I downloaded RC1 and installed from live cd only the manual partition setup works, automatic just keeps returning to the screen where you select your storage device. What storage device should I automagically partition? sda... What storage device should I automagically partition? sda.......
Aside from that little rant, I've loved Ubuntu since I built this amd64 machine and wanted a 64 bit OS. Tried FC4 for a bit, but it pales in comparison to ubuntu breezy. I'll see how dapper stands up. I've read that it's faster than breezy for many things.
What exactly are they going to do when these genetically engineered batteries end up in a landfill and start metabolizing trash? Are landfills the new electric plant or is this going to suck bigtime when these things run rampant. Introducing non-native lifeforms really has to be thought out a lot better than I've seen in the past. Think Australia, but globally.
Septic tanks starting house fires. Garbage trucks that zap passers by. People infected by batteries. Cats and dogs living together, all the worst parts of the bible.
From what I hear these aliens are just non-stop lining people up on volcanos and nuking them. Maybe we don't want to go ringing doorbells just yet.
I wish Dish Network would learn from them. Agressive network adapter support. Network transfer of video built in. Probably 100 other things I can't list.
No, with Dish Network 635 you can put a memory stick in the USB port and it recognizes the "Multimedia Device." It knows it's a memory stick, probably the lowest form of transfer, sneaker net. It offers up a menu to allow you to send media to the device. Upon choosing the option to send media it reports "8(6?)37 this feature is not supported" before even listing files you can send. I'm sure this isn't the case with a Pocket Dish.
They recognized the USB mass storage device, they included the drivers for it, they built the menus to allow data transfer, then some PHB told the techs to limit transfers only to "Pocket Dish" devices. I thought maybe it's because I have FAT16 on the memory stick, but one mke2fs later it still doesn't work.
So now I'll bow to the PHB overlords and buy their stinking Pocket Dish, but I'll be disgruntled....veeeeeeeerrrrrrry disgruntled while giving them my money. I shake my fist at you PHBs and your trophy wives while you laugh your way to the bank.
The other option which I've actually done requires cracking the case, removing a drive, putting it into your machine, hoping it doesn't confuse GRUB...I had to use knoppix, probably my fault, didn't troubleshoot it...then copying the files to your drive. It has 3 partitions, the first seems like a persistant temp drive, the second has some media on it I think??, the third has all of your videos in various MPEG codecs with possibly multiple language audio tracks sometimes including AC3/A52 english. It's like they recompressed the DVD directly to a satellite stream, probably because they did.
The yahoo groups hacker community response(so far) is buy a standalone DVD burner and use the analog output to playback the video realtime into it. Where's the fun in that I ask, where did the AC3 track go, what is your hacker badge # private? Plus.. you could introduce even more artifacts than Dish already beams down. I think there has been a presumption on the part of the public that digital video means high quality when it only means consistant quality with litte evident RF interference...a 28kbps realvideo feed from '97 is technically digital quality video.
Also, compression quality aside, some of the videos are beaming down in higher res than NTSC, and much higher than NTSC captured by the Lowest Commond Denominator chip then re-encoded. I would personally like to get that first feed before the dish's decoder can mangle an NTSC feed out of it, and before whatever recorder I use likely jacks up the audio. Even if it has optical inputs and deftly re-encodes the AC3 stream, that's still a lossy recording of a lossy reproduction of a lossy recording.
Anyway, I'm their bitch for the forseeable future, can anyone help?
What they describe as invisible sounds like black to me. Simple solution, shoot that black thing. The best use suggested in TFA is for radar systems that depend on the echo to spot targets. No echo, no target, the signal must've went into space. The problem would be that spot that just cast no return rays through the surrounding mountains that always return signal. Also, hasn't current stealth technology already done this? What happened to the rumored fiber optic suit that displayed light from the opposite side of the covered object so that it was "predator" visible but hard to see or aim at? I think the best invisibilty I've seen was a bobcat sunning in my back yard that I didn't notice until it moved, and the now dead rabbit I also didn't see until it was pouced upon probably assumed it materialized from thin air...otherwise why didn't it run? I was out there smoking for at least 5 minutes before I spotted the 40 lb killing machine. The rabbit didn't even see it while it slinked behind a nearby tree. True I was probably not paying that close attention initially..but damn "if it were a snake it would've bit me."