If you managed to rig a webcam to it, you could stream your daily life via an Apache on it. Get one of thise tiny cameras that is almost invisible and somehow connect it wirelessly to the PDA. Then mount the camera on a shirt button, put the PDA in your pocket, and stream the world.
Personally, I'm waiting for an output device that doesn't rely on eyes. Direct imaging into the brain would eliminate all problems that anybody has with screen sizes or image quality.
Just what we need, people cracking into wireless PDAs. I can see it now, a guy sitting in a meeting with his PDA in his pocket, and it gets rooted and the attacker plays an X-rated MP3.
If I had a PDA, I would want something like BeOS on it. Linux is nice and all, but it is heavily command-line driven. Unless you cake X on top of it (which would require a hell of a lot of resources and X hacking), you're just stuck with a command line. I would much prefer a GUI like BeOS which is lighter weight, faster, and better suited for such a purpose. A touchscreen+scribbly writing+keyboard would make a nice BeOS PDA.
I can see how you might imagine this to help 'free software', but consider it from the business world's point of view. You then firmly place yourself in a category seperate from them, and they have no use working with you. As it is, there are companies which contribute to and use GPL'd and BSD'd stuff. Whether you like it or not, they contribute back into the community just by acknowledging it's existence and not branding you as official enemies who they must crush.
If you impliment such a license clause, then you become a a sworn opponent of the corporate world. Then what will you do when the companies start making more proprietary add-ons to Internet protocols and formats, such as HTTP, HTML, Samba,... Sure, they do it already, but I'd imagine the scale of it would double if you cut them out of your will.
How 'free' do you want your software to be? What you propose is not free, so maybe you should start calilng it "For Personal/Non-Profit Use Software" and get it over with.
I hate to be the pessimist here, but I think it is quite obvious that mostly anything, if not everything, can be sniffed. It is especially easy to sniff wireless communications. Just look at older cellular and portable phones. They are cake to sniff. You expect some semi-cheap mouse and keyboard you buy from Logitech to employ the latest in anti-sniff technology?
This worm looks good at first, but the problem is that a worm is a worm. I don't want any worm-style program doing anything to my machines, whether good or bad. As an administrator, I want to know every damn single thing that is done to the machine on the level that this worm operates at. This worm may look friendly, but the next one might not. Secure yourself to avoid all worms, not just bad ones.
Sigh. The rumor mill has been working overtime on us recently, and because
Sega (and every other technology company for that matter) doesn't comment on
rumors, the rumors have gotten worse and not better. Everyone wants to seem
like they're the first one "in the know" about the videogame industry and
about Sega specifically, even at the expense of being wrong if necessary.
Dear 7334 kIdZ: we are not giving up on the Dreamcast. We are going to make
a whole bunch of Dreamcast games this year. We are not going to stop
selling the Dreamcast for the foreseeable future. We are thinking up a
bunch of new hardware designs around the SH-4 and PVR2 chipset. We have a
prototype set-top box that looks pretty cool.
My specific advice: unless you've heard it directly from us -- meaning from
www.sega.com -- take it with a small salt shaker.
Why is it whenever Slashdot has a Dreamcast-related story, the poster chooses a very poor title for the story? This story title should be appended with a ?. People who skim headlines will be very misinformed by this story, since neither Microsoft nor Sega have confirmed this at this time.
Anyway, if it is Dreamcast news you are looking for, this is the wrong place. You should most likely be reading IGN's Dreamcast section. It has new Shenmue II trailers, listings of new games, and much more.
I saw this behavior in the entire last week. I was trying to send e-mail to somebody on @Home, and it took about 4 days of retries before it finally went through. At the same time I called this person and asked if they were receiving any mail at all, and they were. So what the hell?
This story is great and all, but it is a bit misinforming. First off, the title should be Sega of America Ships Broadband. The Broadband adapter has been available for months in Japan. Secondly, before you slap a quick title on like that, you need to consider that development is done in Japan, and just because something isn't out in the States yet does not mean it isn't for sale anywhere.
All that aside, go get your NIC here, grab yourself a copy of Quake III: Arena and POD Speedzone. You'll be on your way to blowing up some ass and speeding down the tracks at broadband speeds. Now that is how network play on consoles was supposed to be.
I started attending Creighton University this year, which is a Jesuit University. I must say I fully agree with you. I came from public schools, and the difference is amazing. They will make you work, but it is damn worth it. The amount of community outreach education exercised here is amazing to me, coming from the background I am. I also am not of any religion, and still fit in. The Jesuits are not all about religion, they are about education.
Oh another note, I think Jon Katz has beaten this post so far into the ground that the sign itself is underground. It is time to move on. If you must, start a new site called www.highschoolgeeks.com or something.
Funny. I went to that ZeroKnowledge Freedom site you mentioned, and it prompted me to accept a cookie. If they were true to their goal, they'd work to avoid cookies. I understand cookies are not the giant security problem everybody makes of them, but they do sit around and give evidence that you used an anonymous service.
You are assuming that the alteration of timestamps occurs on the hacked system itself. Timestamps on routers, firewalls, etc can't be modified unless they are also cracked. Unless they have evidence to tie him to these devices being cracked. Because timestamps on the hacked system themselves can be modified, I think they should be considered useless in any investigation, as should system logs. If they aren't, you could get into a dark area of crackers framing people by writing fake logs.
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SlashNET can and has held more clients than we received during this outage. During past forums, we've gotten more than we got this weekend.
That would be true, if I ran BeOS. However, I don't run BeOS.
Go here, check the boxes labeled "timothy" and "michael", then click on the button labeled "savehome". Then you will be saved.
If you managed to rig a webcam to it, you could stream your daily life via an Apache on it. Get one of thise tiny cameras that is almost invisible and somehow connect it wirelessly to the PDA. Then mount the camera on a shirt button, put the PDA in your pocket, and stream the world.
It melts in your mouth, not in your pants. M&Ms said so.
Personally, I'm waiting for an output device that doesn't rely on eyes. Direct imaging into the brain would eliminate all problems that anybody has with screen sizes or image quality.
Just what we need, people cracking into wireless PDAs. I can see it now, a guy sitting in a meeting with his PDA in his pocket, and it gets rooted and the attacker plays an X-rated MP3.
If I had a PDA, I would want something like BeOS on it. Linux is nice and all, but it is heavily command-line driven. Unless you cake X on top of it (which would require a hell of a lot of resources and X hacking), you're just stuck with a command line. I would much prefer a GUI like BeOS which is lighter weight, faster, and better suited for such a purpose. A touchscreen+scribbly writing+keyboard would make a nice BeOS PDA.
I can see how you might imagine this to help 'free software', but consider it from the business world's point of view. You then firmly place yourself in a category seperate from them, and they have no use working with you. As it is, there are companies which contribute to and use GPL'd and BSD'd stuff. Whether you like it or not, they contribute back into the community just by acknowledging it's existence and not branding you as official enemies who they must crush. ... Sure, they do it already, but I'd imagine the scale of it would double if you cut them out of your will.
If you impliment such a license clause, then you become a a sworn opponent of the corporate world. Then what will you do when the companies start making more proprietary add-ons to Internet protocols and formats, such as HTTP, HTML, Samba,
How 'free' do you want your software to be? What you propose is not free, so maybe you should start calilng it "For Personal/Non-Profit Use Software" and get it over with.
If the smaller Zipdrives have Click of Death, what would you call it when these die? Thud of Death, Thunk of death, Clunk of Death... ?
I hate to be the pessimist here, but I think it is quite obvious that mostly anything, if not everything, can be sniffed. It is especially easy to sniff wireless communications. Just look at older cellular and portable phones. They are cake to sniff. You expect some semi-cheap mouse and keyboard you buy from Logitech to employ the latest in anti-sniff technology?
This worm looks good at first, but the problem is that a worm is a worm. I don't want any worm-style program doing anything to my machines, whether good or bad. As an administrator, I want to know every damn single thing that is done to the machine on the level that this worm operates at. This worm may look friendly, but the next one might not. Secure yourself to avoid all worms, not just bad ones.
Dear 7334 kIdZ: we are not giving up on the Dreamcast. We are going to make a whole bunch of Dreamcast games this year. We are not going to stop selling the Dreamcast for the foreseeable future. We are thinking up a bunch of new hardware designs around the SH-4 and PVR2 chipset. We have a prototype set-top box that looks pretty cool.
My specific advice: unless you've heard it directly from us -- meaning from www.sega.com -- take it with a small salt shaker.
John Byrd
Sega of America Dreamcast
^^ As seen on port-dreamcast@netbsd.org ^^
FreeBSD actually does care about SMP. Look at the current undergoings in FreeBSD-CURRENT. They are redoing all the SMP stuff.
Anyway, if it is Dreamcast news you are looking for, this is the wrong place. You should most likely be reading IGN's Dreamcast section. It has new Shenmue II trailers, listings of new games, and much more.
I saw this behavior in the entire last week. I was trying to send e-mail to somebody on @Home, and it took about 4 days of retries before it finally went through. At the same time I called this person and asked if they were receiving any mail at all, and they were. So what the hell?
Go read this page about MAPS DUL. It will most likely explain your problem to you.
...or one of the people who have no dialup access (in which case you're semi-screwed anyway since older games don't support the NIC).
All that aside, go get your NIC here, grab yourself a copy of Quake III: Arena and POD Speedzone. You'll be on your way to blowing up some ass and speeding down the tracks at broadband speeds. Now that is how network play on consoles was supposed to be.
Oh another note, I think Jon Katz has beaten this post so far into the ground that the sign itself is underground. It is time to move on. If you must, start a new site called www.highschoolgeeks.com or something.
Can you imagine if ESPN, Fox, or NBC covered this with the stnadard over-excited commentator? That would be funny.
You might also note that as of today, Sega Enterprises, Ltd. is now just known as Sega, Ltd.
Funny. I went to that ZeroKnowledge Freedom site you mentioned, and it prompted me to accept a cookie. If they were true to their goal, they'd work to avoid cookies. I understand cookies are not the giant security problem everybody makes of them, but they do sit around and give evidence that you used an anonymous service.
You are assuming that the alteration of timestamps occurs on the hacked system itself. Timestamps on routers, firewalls, etc can't be modified unless they are also cracked. Unless they have evidence to tie him to these devices being cracked. Because timestamps on the hacked system themselves can be modified, I think they should be considered useless in any investigation, as should system logs. If they aren't, you could get into a dark area of crackers framing people by writing fake logs.
Not to mention they get the number of everybody who calls them. This is perfect if you want to do telemarketting!