Well, I was dumb. I
figured that in order to "prove" that unsolicited email was unsolicited, I had to have some proof [google.com] of how the
spammer got my email address, and that I had a clear disclaimer
That's just nuts !! Imagine if the same rule applied to rapes and burglary.. The *victim* would have to prove that he didn't somehow ask for the thing to happen ?
Uhm, no, you are mistaken in your understanding of malloc. This is the standard for malloc:
malloc() allocates size bytes and returns a pointer to the allocated memory. The memory is not cleared.
I doubt this is the current Microsoft standard in Windows, since it opens up huge security holes in a multiuser OS..
Two of the oldest tricks to gain information you shouldn't havem on a Unix system, were to malloc(3) a fairly large chunk of memory and then read the data that was left by the last user/process.
The other trick was to fopen(3) a new file, do a large fseek(3) and fclose(3) the filehandle.
Then simply read the file to get the data that had been written on the disk blocks previously.
But of course those tricks haven't worked for over 10 years now in the Unix world.
I would be very surprised to learn that they do work on Windows.
Threatened how? Will the US be targeting ancient batteries with their smart bombs?
Well, given that the US bombed the same Red Cross storage warehouse, not once, but 3 times in Afghanistan, I don't think "smart" bombs change that much, it's the users who have to get "smart".
Not to mention the schools, hospitals and the famous wedding (no there was no gunfire from the ground as first claimed).
An ancien "battery" is just a piece of junk for the US when they can have oil as cheap as 23 dollars a barrel.
I have been thinking (and I certainly am going to) about building a system out of PC/Linux/Pinnacle DC10 compresor card.
But if I can get a working system for only 300 Euros That'l be cheaper..
My question to anyone who actually has a XBox : Does it make a lot of noise ? A friend lent me his PS2 for a week and it was the loudest piece of hardware in the appartment.. I.e. (IMNSHO) unusable as a movie player.
The workers in the World Trade Center who
stayed behind to help others escape, or who helped carry people down stairs even though it meant delaying their own
safety, are heroes.
I'd say that Astronauts fall into the same category. They willingly risk their lives for the advancement of science --
for the betterment of all mankind.
I completely fail to see what is so "special" about those astronuts. I bet that if NASA does a public call for volunteers for a new crew, "shortage" will be the last word to describe the amunt of applications they will receive.
And calling every one of them a "Hero" for beeing willing to take the change is just bullshit.
Even companies don't or shouldn't use OSS for it's price; dozens of researches have shown that the TCO (total cost of
ownership) for windows and e.g. linux don't differ that much. They should use, as should individuals, OSS because they
believe in the OSS philosophy and because the OSS style fits their own style of computer usage.
After the XP license extortion, companies should begin to realise that they have been had..
Companies paid tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in license fees to Microsoft and their gangs of henchmen (resellers) just to "extend" their software contracts.
The company where I work paid about 230,000 Euros for the contract "Extension". And what did the company get in return ? Some upgrade called "XP" ??
The tough question is, how is management going to justify this expensive payment if the company doesn't use this thing called XP ??
And surely we installed XP. And what did it cost us ?? About 6-8-man years in preparation, testing and roll-out. And what did we get that we didn't have already in NT4 ?? Nothing !!
Being in charge of your upgrade cycle is priceless..
Hmmm, priceless...
1 copy of Linux = 20$
external consulting and training = 30,000$
The feeling you get when the year report comes out that shows you saved the company hundreds of thousands in licensing fees.... Priceless..
You'll note that the best indicators at this point graph a curve. Not a spike. This would seem to indicate an exponential growth rather than a sudden attack by a host of infected hosts.
Yes, indeed, it looks like it was exponential.
Have a look at This and This Graph.
We were not infected so every logged packet is coming in from the Internet
I thought the whole reason worm writers release their creations in the weekend is so they have the best chance to spread before systadmins wake up and realise what is happening.
Actually, the worm "armed" it's attack before it "struck". It infected a large number of machines silently, without much noise, and at the given time, it opened up the fire hoses on the Net..
I haven't heard much mention about this anywhere, but if you graph the attacks (if you had properly configured Snort, for example) you can see the attack curve rise to it's maximum in just under 20 minutes.
Consumers define Quality.
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Why VHS Was Better
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· Score: 3, Insightful
For better or for worse, success of new products and technologies is determined by a broad range of factors that make up "the whole product", quality being only one, and possibly a minor one at that.
A very important point is that "quality" of a product is not defined by the producer but by the consommator.
This also means that what one consumer is ready to pay 100 euros for, another won't buy it for more than 80, and others not at all (latest edition of Italian-Spanish dictionary f.ex.)
What happened with Beta/VHS was that the VHS specs were made available to various constructors who competed between themselves to produce cheaper units.
Cheaper price was simply "higher quality" factor to consumers that beeing able to record on both sides of the casette. (and other features).
It is therefore just silly to say that "Quality" is a minor factor in a product's success. (Unless some monopoly company had f.ex. made deals to pre-install a VHS unit in all televisions manufactured)
The method as described on other comments, is just brilliant.. But there is one problem that nobody has mentioned..
How do you get the blanks ?
You see, with master-key systems the keys have other shapes than ordinary keys (often a mirror pattern if you look at the end of the key, so ordinary keys won't fit in master locks) Keys in master-key systems are often also a little longer than ordinary keys.
And Joe sixpack just can't walk into any hardware store and ask for the blanks.. The hardware store has limited numbers (if any at all) and has to get the paper-certificate that was delivered with the key-system, before they will cut you a new copy.
And, no, just bringing the master key to them and asking for a copy doesn't work (I already tried that;-)
Heh. I love it when people make snide political remarks that betray their utter ignorance of the subject at hand. Just
shut up for a minute and Google "Khidir Hamza," okay
Done, I read it, now what ???
I think you just don't get the whole issue. The real issue is not weather Saddam has weapons he isn't supposed to have, or not. Of course he has them.. He has to have them where he lives.. His neighbours aren't exactly Mother Theresa..
And of course there should be UN weapons inspectors enforcing the UN doctrine.. But that is not happening.. Mr W is intoxicated with all the power he has and is acting with similar disrespect for other nations opinions. The biggest difference is that Mr W has the microphone but Saddam hasn't. Saddam is a sadistic dictator and Mr W is a drug addict.
The picture is much bigger than the average couch potato gets from CNN. The Palestinian issue is linked (Saddam has aided families of suicide bombers after the Israelies have demolished their homes, thereby decreasing the terror factor of the Israelies actions).
Conquering a nation with the intent to install "your" governament is actually illegal according to international treaties. But Mr W has made no secret about that that is actually his main purpose of going to war with Iraq.
And of course, oil.. I guess you know the whole story..
I think the whole issuie should be dealt with by the UN, but just yesterday, Mr W was saying that Saddam "would not get more time" thereby indicating that he would go to war, and just shit on the UN.
It wasnt me, it was my brother/son/wife/cousin/neighbor/someone-using-my- WAP
RIAA doesn't care, as long as they can make an example out of you as someone who "possibly" downloaded copyrighted material and had his family financially ruined as a result.
Welcome to the new world where corporate America is in power !
Because evidence that appears on its face to be strong yet comes from a completely incredible (i.e., not credible) source
can usually dismissed without further examination. It's a time-saver.
Oh, you mean like when Mr W says "We know that mr Saddam has weapons of Mass destruction, we just can't tell you where they are since that could compromise our sources" ?
Didn't anybody read the link ?? (Now *that* was a stupid question !!!)
There is a small data partition on the CD and MS Windows will "autorun" a program on it. This program will present the user with the Bandlink license and the install the monitoring software on the user's PC. (Windows only).
Now take a look at the Slashdot story : your new music disc may be transmitting your listening
habits in real time to the respective record company.
It is illegal to distribute this particular type of contraband to the USA,
The law is a US of A law, and doesn't cover what people do in foreign countries. The law in question mentions "import" but that is clearly the buyer who is doing the "import". Before the software is *in* the USA, it is outside the legal space of the US of A.
If someone shipped drugs to Singapore via postal mail, then flew there, they'd get executed just like anyone else.
Do you feel that comparing software to drugs (who are illegal almost everywhere) is a balanced comparison ? Let's turn the coin 180, let's say the US of A had death penalty for trafficing in this type of software and the US of A vere pressing for the death penalty for Sklyarov. Do you still think peole would see it "your way" ?? (And there would be no reaction)
I feel like you're choosing not to see it my way because you don't like the implications in this one case.
I don't like the implications if this twisted way of seeing things becomes the accepted norm. And I think that international reaction to Salman Rushdie's case show that a lot of people don't like it either.
Do you seriously want to constantly have to worry about what country's laws you might be braking ??
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Well, I was dumb. I figured that in order to "prove" that unsolicited email was unsolicited, I had to have some proof [google.com] of how the spammer got my email address, and that I had a clear disclaimer
That's just nuts !! Imagine if the same rule applied to rapes and burglary .. The *victim* would have to prove that he didn't somehow ask for the thing to happen ?
And within a year you will have to use it to authenticate with your ISP's proxy server.. (And no direct connection to the internet).
The possibilities are endless for abuse ......
Uhm, no, you are mistaken in your understanding of malloc. This is the standard for malloc:
malloc() allocates size bytes and returns a pointer to the allocated memory. The memory is not cleared.
I doubt this is the current Microsoft standard in Windows, since it opens up huge security holes in a multiuser OS..
Two of the oldest tricks to gain information you shouldn't havem on a Unix system, were to malloc(3) a fairly large chunk of memory and then read the data that was left by the last user/process.
The other trick was to fopen(3) a new file, do a large fseek(3) and fclose(3) the filehandle. Then simply read the file to get the data that had been written on the disk blocks previously.
But of course those tricks haven't worked for over 10 years now in the Unix world.
I would be very surprised to learn that they do work on Windows.
Well, given that the US bombed the same Red Cross storage warehouse, not once, but 3 times in Afghanistan, I don't think "smart" bombs change that much, it's the users who have to get "smart".
Not to mention the schools, hospitals and the famous wedding (no there was no gunfire from the ground as first claimed).
An ancien "battery" is just a piece of junk for the US when they can have oil as cheap as 23 dollars a barrel.
The funny thing is that this joke will still be funny for years to come ..
Should have been "IT Center"
Why is this something you'd need a book for? It comes down to the basics.
One, never allow physical access to what you're trying to secure.
Two, _never_ allow physical access to what you're trying to secure.
And then, one day, you come to work and realise that you :
Three: Your IP center burned last night.
Four: Your IP center burned last night.
Five: Your backups were in the center.
Six: Your backups were in the center.
Should we nominate them as a group or each individual independently?
Philips is not even an American company, you moron.
It doesn't matter as long as the guy, who did this, is.
Every astronaut is a hero. It does not matter how many are willing to volunteer.
So then, what makes a hero ?? If it's no longer to do the right thing that others are afraid to because of possible consequences ?
Has American heroism realy reached this stage ?
I have been thinking (and I certainly am going to) about building a system out of PC/Linux/Pinnacle DC10 compresor card.
But if I can get a working system for only 300 Euros That'l be cheaper..
My question to anyone who actually has a XBox : Does it make a lot of noise ? A friend lent me his PS2 for a week and it was the loudest piece of hardware in the appartment .. I.e. (IMNSHO) unusable as a movie player.
I completely fail to see what is so "special" about those astronuts. I bet that if NASA does a public call for volunteers for a new crew, "shortage" will be the last word to describe the amunt of applications they will receive.
And calling every one of them a "Hero" for beeing willing to take the change is just bullshit.
Even companies don't or shouldn't use OSS for it's price; dozens of researches have shown that the TCO (total cost of ownership) for windows and e.g. linux don't differ that much. They should use, as should individuals, OSS because they believe in the OSS philosophy and because the OSS style fits their own style of computer usage.
After the XP license extortion, companies should begin to realise that they have been had..
Companies paid tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in license fees to Microsoft and their gangs of henchmen (resellers) just to "extend" their software contracts.
The company where I work paid about 230,000 Euros for the contract "Extension". And what did the company get in return ? Some upgrade called "XP" ??
The tough question is, how is management going to justify this expensive payment if the company doesn't use this thing called XP ??
And surely we installed XP. And what did it cost us ?? About 6-8-man years in preparation, testing and roll-out. And what did we get that we didn't have already in NT4 ?? Nothing !!
Being in charge of your upgrade cycle is priceless..
Hmmm, priceless...
1 copy of Linux = 20$ .... Priceless..
external consulting and training = 30,000$
The feeling you get when the year report comes out that shows you saved the company hundreds of thousands in licensing fees
Which electronic magazine (or Phrack ?) will be the first to publish "Build your own WiFi scrambler/silencer for under 20 bucks" article.
Yes, indeed, it looks like it was exponential.
Have a look at This and This Graph.
We were not infected so every logged packet is coming in from the Internet
I thought the whole reason worm writers release their creations in the weekend is so they have the best chance to spread before systadmins wake up and realise what is happening.
Actually, the worm "armed" it's attack before it "struck". It infected a large number of machines silently, without much noise, and at the given time, it opened up the fire hoses on the Net..
I haven't heard much mention about this anywhere, but if you graph the attacks (if you had properly configured Snort, for example) you can see the attack curve rise to it's maximum in just under 20 minutes.
For better or for worse, success of new products and technologies is determined by a broad range of factors that make up "the whole product", quality being only one, and possibly a minor one at that.
A very important point is that "quality" of a product is not defined by the producer but by the consommator.
This also means that what one consumer is ready to pay 100 euros for, another won't buy it for more than 80, and others not at all (latest edition of Italian-Spanish dictionary f.ex.)
What happened with Beta/VHS was that the VHS specs were made available to various constructors who competed between themselves to produce cheaper units.
Cheaper price was simply "higher quality" factor to consumers that beeing able to record on both sides of the casette. (and other features).
It is therefore just silly to say that "Quality" is a minor factor in a product's success. (Unless some monopoly company had f.ex. made deals to pre-install a VHS unit in all televisions manufactured)
The method as described on other comments, is just brilliant.. But there is one problem that nobody has mentioned..
How do you get the blanks ?
You see, with master-key systems the keys have other shapes than ordinary keys (often a mirror pattern if you look at the end of the key, so ordinary keys won't fit in master locks) Keys in master-key systems are often also a little longer than ordinary keys.
And Joe sixpack just can't walk into any hardware store and ask for the blanks.. The hardware store has limited numbers (if any at all) and has to get the paper-certificate that was delivered with the key-system, before they will cut you a new copy.
And, no, just bringing the master key to them and asking for a copy doesn't work (I already tried that ;-)
Done, I read it, now what ???
I think you just don't get the whole issue. The real issue is not weather Saddam has weapons he isn't supposed to have, or not. Of course he has them.. He has to have them where he lives.. His neighbours aren't exactly Mother Theresa..
And of course there should be UN weapons inspectors enforcing the UN doctrine.. But that is not happening.. Mr W is intoxicated with all the power he has and is acting with similar disrespect for other nations opinions. The biggest difference is that Mr W has the microphone but Saddam hasn't.
Saddam is a sadistic dictator and Mr W is a drug addict.
The picture is much bigger than the average couch potato gets from CNN. The Palestinian issue is linked (Saddam has aided families of suicide bombers after the Israelies have demolished their homes, thereby decreasing the terror factor of the Israelies actions).
Conquering a nation with the intent to install "your" governament is actually illegal according to international treaties. But Mr W has made no secret about that that is actually his main purpose of going to war with Iraq.
And of course, oil.. I guess you know the whole story..
I think the whole issuie should be dealt with by the UN, but just yesterday, Mr W was saying that Saddam "would not get more time" thereby indicating that he would go to war, and just shit on the UN.
It wasnt me, it was my brother/son/wife/cousin/neighbor/someone-using-my
RIAA doesn't care, as long as they can make an example out of you as someone who "possibly" downloaded copyrighted material and had his family financially ruined as a result.
Welcome to the new world where corporate America is in power !
Also offtopic
Wampires, stay out of 127.0.0.1:13
For lost-and-found, go to 127.0.0.1:39
Lost some stuff ? Go talk to the girl at 127.0.0.1:10080
Because evidence that appears on its face to be strong yet comes from a completely incredible (i.e., not credible) source can usually dismissed without further examination. It's a time-saver.
Oh, you mean like when Mr W says "We know that mr Saddam has weapons of Mass destruction, we just can't tell you where they are since that could compromise our sources" ?
It's time again for the golden words:
Here, go read The Myths of Internet Legal "Experts"
Didn't anybody read the link ?? (Now *that* was a stupid question !!!)
There is a small data partition on the CD and MS Windows will "autorun" a program on it. This program will present the user with the Bandlink license and the install the monitoring software on the user's PC. (Windows only).
Now take a look at the Slashdot story : your new music disc may be transmitting your listening habits in real time to the respective record company.
Bullshit !
It is illegal to distribute this particular type of contraband to the USA,
The law is a US of A law, and doesn't cover what people do in foreign countries. The law in question mentions "import" but that is clearly the buyer who is doing the "import". Before the software is *in* the USA, it is outside the legal space of the US of A.
If someone shipped drugs to Singapore via postal mail, then flew there, they'd get executed just like anyone else.
Do you feel that comparing software to drugs (who are illegal almost everywhere) is a balanced comparison ? Let's turn the coin 180, let's say the US of A had death penalty for trafficing in this type of software and the US of A vere pressing for the death penalty for Sklyarov. Do you still think peole would see it "your way" ?? (And there would be no reaction)
I feel like you're choosing not to see it my way because you don't like the implications in this one case.
I don't like the implications if this twisted way of seeing things becomes the accepted norm. And I think that international reaction to Salman Rushdie's case show that a lot of people don't like it either.
Do you seriously want to constantly have to worry about what country's laws you might be braking ??