I wouldnt be surprised, if this isnt an attempt to censor or take down wikileaks, but rather an attempt to discover, and possibly gain control of, the owner(s) of the website. You notice in the judge's order, part of it was to remove any privacy protection and to turn over all records, current and past, of all administrative, technical, and billing contact person(s) since the creation of wikileaks.
Want to bet, that the judge was pressured by someone (or some people) in the US govermnent who have accounts at said bank in question at wikileaks?:)
There's a caveat here - most, if not all, contracts have a clause in them which would state something like, "if any section of this contract is found unenforceable by a court of law, then the rest of the contract will remain in effect as if the section in question never existed."..
Essentially its there to make sure that if anything bites them in the ass, it doesnt void the entire contract.
I don't think this is something one should be worried about.. as the article implies. Granted, such a virus' functionality is possible, but the article seems geared more towards bringing awareness on the issue, rather than prophesying doomsday. There's solutions to this scenario that can be easily incorporated into applications - for example, applications can do internal monitoring of their address book.. if anything is programetically changed, or the address book differs (CRC32?) on startup from the last time the application was run, the system prompts the user with the changes made, and asks whether or not to keep those changes. Then there's address book encryption.. there's all sorts of methods that can be used to easily thwart such viruses.
In the long run, the only practical VOIP-specific virus I can think of that'd be difficult to deal with, would be phone spam, viruses who hijack your voip connection with their own built-in voip protocols, to dial through your PSTN to deliver spam, or trojans which allow a hacker to make phone calls at your expense. Any takers on this one?:)
Ugh. Why do people assume that it's the REMNANTS of a past evolution? Evolution is an ongoing process. Why do they find a dolphin with back fins and go "oh this is the leftover of a millions-year-old evolutionary process".. instead of "oh cool, this species appears to be re-evolving back to a land mammal"? Humans.. sheesh.:P
Anyone smell a Java being pulled out of Microsoft's hat again?:)
2006 - Microsoft and Zend partner to "improve" PHP on IIS
2007 - mPHP developed by Microsoft, Zend cries foul, denounces partnership
2008 - Visual Studio.NET 2008 includes mPHP with.NET support
*coughs*anotherdayanothernotch*coughs*
Seriously though, it'll be interesting to see what new language mysteriously pops up the following year or two after this..
Man, I was a little depressed when I heard the news yesterday.. sigh. I really looked up to that guy - I think alot of people did, whether they'd admit it or not..
How many people are out there like Steve? Perhaps there's a few with a heart like his (no pun intended).. but none have made the splash upon the world as he did. He went out into the wide world publicly trying to preserve wildlife and their environment through education in a way that Nature and Wild Kingdom and alot of others failed to do, with great success. The world has truely lost a great man. Alot of us will seriously miss him, and the world will definitely miss all his work.
Wow, they did it again - it's history all over again.. free software from RedHat suddenly switches to a fee-based product once it gains ground and popularity.. And us non the wiser:)
Hmm, Call me Particle Physics-inclined, but doesnt the nature of detectors require collision, or other interference between the detector and the target particle? If this is true, then coupled with the fact that Neutrinos are hard to detect in the first place, wouldn't that mean that the first detector is actually reducing the amount of particles we might detect on the second detector?
If Congress and the House of Republicans' actions on Wikipedia is any indication of their morals and goals, It's scary to think of other ways they might use information they mine via this spidering - I think (just my opinion based on what I've seen so far) that the government is using "terrorism" far too often to justify extreme intrusion upon our privacy and rights.. By the way, wasn't the internet originally ours? Now suddenly it belongs to the government.. how the hell did that happen? o_O
Hmm, I'm not sure why it took people so long to realize this - I mean, I figured that time doesnt really exist over a decade ago (I'm only 29) - it's just a means of measuring change. Basic common sense. HOWEVER - you CAN see into the past.. we do that every day looking at the stars.:)
For my next trick, I'll make my pet fish breathe air! Oh wait, that's already been done...
I'm not sure about the viability of NASA's expectation of finding stellar dust that's travelled from the outter edges of the galaxy and so on - there's already hundreds of years' worth of dust from grinding asteroids in our asteroid belt floating around here - and not to mention, the onslaught of comets that visit our system.
Maybe it's just me, but I think it's highly likely that we'll just find the same stuff as we'd find in our backyard or on the moon.. In fact, if anything has a chance of having dust from the outter edges of our galaxy, I think it'd be the moon, no? Larger diameter than their collector, and millions of pits from meteors, some of which may be from the edge of the universe;)
Just my 2 cents.
Patenting concepts is dangerous ground to tread upon. It may protect your invention, but it may also PREVENT anything else from being invented that uses your invention. Royalties to inventors of subsections of your invention can really add up, and prevent you from making anything freely available to people. This is especially true for software patents. Just look at what happened with the GIF algorythm. I agree that Copyrighting is good enough. There's only so many ways you can do something.
Oops posted as a reply to someone else's post instead of the original post..
Wanted to say, why is this slashdot material? Because Watcom has had this available for YEARS.. they even have wireless, battery-less pens.
I'm not sure you can calculate a number in your head without first memorizing it? Probably they are just calculating the actual calculation time, not the time it takes to read the number (since its not part of one's computational abilities, anyway)
Hmm very interesting. This could be very useful on embedded systems running linux, using hot-swap or hot-plug technology, and you want to have drivers compiled into the kernel at bootup for faster performance or better stability.
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I wouldnt be surprised, if this isnt an attempt to censor or take down wikileaks, but rather an attempt to discover, and possibly gain control of, the owner(s) of the website. You notice in the judge's order, part of it was to remove any privacy protection and to turn over all records, current and past, of all administrative, technical, and billing contact person(s) since the creation of wikileaks. Want to bet, that the judge was pressured by someone (or some people) in the US govermnent who have accounts at said bank in question at wikileaks? :)
There's a caveat here - most, if not all, contracts have a clause in them which would state something like, "if any section of this contract is found unenforceable by a court of law, then the rest of the contract will remain in effect as if the section in question never existed."..
Essentially its there to make sure that if anything bites them in the ass, it doesnt void the entire contract.
It should be noted, that the page lists both IE7 and IE6 percentages. IE's total market with a combined IE6/7 is 57%.
I don't think this is something one should be worried about.. as the article implies. Granted, such a virus' functionality is possible, but the article seems geared more towards bringing awareness on the issue, rather than prophesying doomsday. There's solutions to this scenario that can be easily incorporated into applications - for example, applications can do internal monitoring of their address book.. if anything is programetically changed, or the address book differs (CRC32?) on startup from the last time the application was run, the system prompts the user with the changes made, and asks whether or not to keep those changes. Then there's address book encryption.. there's all sorts of methods that can be used to easily thwart such viruses. In the long run, the only practical VOIP-specific virus I can think of that'd be difficult to deal with, would be phone spam, viruses who hijack your voip connection with their own built-in voip protocols, to dial through your PSTN to deliver spam, or trojans which allow a hacker to make phone calls at your expense. Any takers on this one? :)
Great. I knew I shouldn't have had my spleen removed!
Ugh. Why do people assume that it's the REMNANTS of a past evolution? Evolution is an ongoing process. Why do they find a dolphin with back fins and go "oh this is the leftover of a millions-year-old evolutionary process".. instead of "oh cool, this species appears to be re-evolving back to a land mammal"? Humans.. sheesh. :P
Anyone smell a Java being pulled out of Microsoft's hat again? :)
2006 - Microsoft and Zend partner to "improve" PHP on IIS
2007 - mPHP developed by Microsoft, Zend cries foul, denounces partnership
2008 - Visual Studio .NET 2008 includes mPHP with .NET support
*coughs*anotherdayanothernotch*coughs*
Seriously though, it'll be interesting to see what new language mysteriously pops up the following year or two after this..
redundant post. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/ 19/1717212
This news is a bit stale - the attack started several weeks ago, and most AV vendors detect the binary in question..
Man, I was a little depressed when I heard the news yesterday.. sigh. I really looked up to that guy - I think alot of people did, whether they'd admit it or not..
How many people are out there like Steve? Perhaps there's a few with a heart like his (no pun intended).. but none have made the splash upon the world as he did. He went out into the wide world publicly trying to preserve wildlife and their environment through education in a way that Nature and Wild Kingdom and alot of others failed to do, with great success. The world has truely lost a great man. Alot of us will seriously miss him, and the world will definitely miss all his work.
I hope his wife carries on Steve's work.
God bless, and RIP.
I guess you haven't yet seen http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/08/30/defcon2006_janus _project/ :)
I got the same thing - actually, I got the same thing in both FF and IE..
Wow, they did it again - it's history all over again.. free software from RedHat suddenly switches to a fee-based product once it gains ground and popularity.. And us non the wiser :)
Hmm, Call me Particle Physics-inclined, but doesnt the nature of detectors require collision, or other interference between the detector and the target particle? If this is true, then coupled with the fact that Neutrinos are hard to detect in the first place, wouldn't that mean that the first detector is actually reducing the amount of particles we might detect on the second detector?
If Congress and the House of Republicans' actions on Wikipedia is any indication of their morals and goals, It's scary to think of other ways they might use information they mine via this spidering - I think (just my opinion based on what I've seen so far) that the government is using "terrorism" far too often to justify extreme intrusion upon our privacy and rights.. By the way, wasn't the internet originally ours? Now suddenly it belongs to the government.. how the hell did that happen? o_O
Hmm, I'm not sure why it took people so long to realize this - I mean, I figured that time doesnt really exist over a decade ago (I'm only 29) - it's just a means of measuring change. Basic common sense. HOWEVER - you CAN see into the past.. we do that every day looking at the stars. :)
For my next trick, I'll make my pet fish breathe air! Oh wait, that's already been done...
I'm not sure about the viability of NASA's expectation of finding stellar dust that's travelled from the outter edges of the galaxy and so on - there's already hundreds of years' worth of dust from grinding asteroids in our asteroid belt floating around here - and not to mention, the onslaught of comets that visit our system. Maybe it's just me, but I think it's highly likely that we'll just find the same stuff as we'd find in our backyard or on the moon.. In fact, if anything has a chance of having dust from the outter edges of our galaxy, I think it'd be the moon, no? Larger diameter than their collector, and millions of pits from meteors, some of which may be from the edge of the universe ;)
Just my 2 cents.
Looks like we'll need bigger mousetraps.
Here's how.. http://www3.ccps.virginia.edu/career_prospects/Tre nds/securityclearance.html
Eventually, your freedom to visit the toilet must give way to "governance and control".
Patenting concepts is dangerous ground to tread upon. It may protect your invention, but it may also PREVENT anything else from being invented that uses your invention. Royalties to inventors of subsections of your invention can really add up, and prevent you from making anything freely available to people. This is especially true for software patents. Just look at what happened with the GIF algorythm. I agree that Copyrighting is good enough. There's only so many ways you can do something.
Oops posted as a reply to someone else's post instead of the original post.. Wanted to say, why is this slashdot material? Because Watcom has had this available for YEARS.. they even have wireless, battery-less pens.
Why is this slashdot material? Watcom has had this available for YEARS. They even have wireless battery-less pens.
I'm not sure you can calculate a number in your head without first memorizing it? Probably they are just calculating the actual calculation time, not the time it takes to read the number (since its not part of one's computational abilities, anyway)
Hmm very interesting. This could be very useful on embedded systems running linux, using hot-swap or hot-plug technology, and you want to have drivers compiled into the kernel at bootup for faster performance or better stability.