Blocking pings makes it slightly harder for crackers to find your machine when they are scanning huge subnets at a time... They won't want to waste their time running a port scan on a machine that they're not sure is up.
I was recently running a network security scan at my place of work, pinging machines to see if they were up before scanning them and was unaware that icmp traffic was dropped by default, so when the results turned up about 3 vulnerabilities on a network saturated with Microsoft products, I was a little skeptical.
So pretty much Microsoft has done the same thing as with every other Windows release... Spiffed up the god awful HTML that the damn computer has to render for system tasks, and added new icons.
How freaking stupid can you get? That's like a little kid saying "WELL HE DID IT TOO", after getting in trouble for something. I bet the judge's reply to the suit is gonna be "WELL IF GNUTELLA JUMPED OFF A BRIDGE, WOULD YOU JUMP TOO?"
This carnivore thing really bothers me. It's so an invasion of privacy, even if an actual person isn't reading it.
Here is what pisses me off/discomforts me about this thing:
#1 The FBI is arrogant and cocky enough to think that they have "created" the ultimate AI. It's so ridiculous... If (that is if, I'm just guessing here) their program works on picking out e-mails that have "key words" the results would be totally fucked up. Here's a little test you can try. Do a search on some search engine for a string of random "hostile" words that you would think a terrorist would use in their e-mail. I'm willing to bet you'll come up with just news articles, and some history documentary web pages. The FBI thinks their magical program will "sniff" these out. They'll end up coming up with reports kids are sending to each other to cheat in some classes... maybe school teachers should get their hands on this program. Additionally, If I were a terrorist and didn't encrypt my top secret bomb plans, I'd deserve to be arrested by the FBI.
#2 I've said it <a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/07/16 /1848232&cid=105">before</a> and I'll say it again, the FBI is getting lazy when it comes to programs like this. Why don't they do some fucking work, and stop hiring programming firms to write programs like this for them.
#3 If anyone BUT the FBI did this it would be (more of) a(n) outrage. And worst of all the FBI doesn't even try to put a pretty face on it. They blatantly go out and say "yes we are monitoring all of your e-mail now"... like Echelon wasn't enough.
#4 How do we know it stops at e-mail? They could me monitoring everything we do online. What right have they to do that? How do I know some snoopy janitor at the FBI head office who has a few minutes of computer know how, won't get onto one of these heavily guarded computers and start picking through my online documents, banking web pages, and start using my porn accounts.
Is there anyway to get around this bull shit spyware? If I get a T1 line installed in my house, will the phone company have to put the sniffer on that too?
This is a bit off topic, but is it just me, or do our law enforcement officials seem to be getting a lot lazier lately?
Every five seconds they are coming out with "easier" ways to find criminals and put them in jail. What happened to the old days with Columbo, where they actually did some investigating to solve a crime?
The way I see it now is that the FBI just sits back and lets some snoopy program they wrote bring the criminals to them, which in my view is a tad bit unfair to us the tax payers. They write some program that not only does all the work for them, but even violates our privacy.
Here is what I propose... as the FBI comes out with more and more restrictions and snooping programs, we take away more and more funding from them, since they won't need it to operate, since they have computers doing all the work. That way anytime somebody says "I don't like [insert name here]" they can just get a warrant, which will be approved in 30 seconds with some new eWarrant.gov web page since that would be "easier", and then just send a few agents to the house and arrest them.
On a seperate note, doesn't anyone realize it's all about measures and counter-measures? We will always find a way to bypass their bull shit spying. But on the other hand they will always find a way to get past whatever we put up.
There are so many ways to look at the world. Just in these comments alone I've seen people say that the world is turning to shit, that the world is better now, that nothing matters at all, etc, etc.
I think the problem as of now is that we all analyze everything so damned much, that it looses all it's meaning, and that is why we don't care. We analyze being good, being bad, and everything in between until the lines are so blurred that we can't determine what is what.
Did our ancestors ever analyze the shit out of their world/culture? I'm guessing the world and society is more diverse today than it was 100, 200, and 300+ years ago. That means there are more beliefs and more people thinking up these beliefs. Maybe our ancestors all thought alike, so it was easier for them to believe in one thing. It's always easier to conform.
Now that there are so many different 'cultures' or ways of thinking, there is no one way to think, so I guess no one can really get secure with their views, cause none of their friends share them.
Of course this is all rambling out my mind, and I'm still (not legally tho;( ) a kid, so my mind is still jelly. I guess the last idea stuck in it, before it turns to stone, will be the one I believe in the rest of my life.
As a little birthday gift to myself, I picked up a fairly high-end handheld digital shortwave radio like a week ago. Its an amazing little device, when you think about it.. In your hands you hold a box capable of opening a window into the communications of every technologically advanced culture on the planet, runs on three AA batteries, and will run forever if you take care of it. Not a bad deal for $219.00:)</i>
Now you've got me interested. Where can I buy one of these things and what's the model name?
Phew, this happens the day after my DSL finally gets hooked up. My advice: Get DSL and your modem now, so you won't suffer with a WinDSL modem when they come out. It's hard enough with an external dsl modem that plugs into a NIC card.
On an unrelated side note: BellAtlantic Infospeed isn't as horrible as most people tell it to be. The only problem I've had so far is finding their damn dns server (151.198.0.39, 151.198.0.38), but I finally did it and now it's smooth sailing in linux.
I think we are all overlooking the most obvious solution to all of this...
Imprison all minors!
It may seem a little rash at first, but hear me out on this one. There are lots of reasons for it: - We are loud and abnoxious - We listen to the devil's music! - We are evil and do drugs all the time! - We drink alcohol and smoke with reckless abandon for our health - We have sex with everybody and anything (animals, trees, stuffed animals)... all before we are married! It's not like we couldn't adapt to it... we're already forced to go to schools that are a few bars short of a prison. And civil liberies? Pshh... the way legislation is going now, by the time we get them (graduation) we'll won't know what the big deal was about.
This simple solution could solve all of our problems!
It gets me so psyched whenever I hear about advances in Microshit loosing it's domination of the desktop market. I hate Microsoft with a passion, because I feel like I'm a slave of them. With linux it's more like Linus Torvalds is like my Harriet Tubman and Linus is like my underground railroad.
I just downloaded the new version, and as a matter of fact am using it to post this message, but the Messenger component of Netscape still has a nasty bug in the mail filters (that I have reported many-a-time), that crashes Netscape immediately. The bug being that you cannot set a filter to move mail older than X number of days into another folder. It's been a couple months since the release of 4.7, and I'm sure I reported the bug before it was released, and still in this version it's not fixed. Shouldn't they at least put a tiny bit of effort into fixing the maybe 2 or 3 lines of code that are causing this error? I don't get it... they release it with new features, that no one gives a damn about, but don't fix the problems that are in current versions. </rant>
Well none the less, I still prefer Netscape over IE anyday.
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Is there any possible way to block out all connections from doubleclick.net in Windows? I know in linux you can do it, but my family primarily uses windows, and I would like to protect them from the prying eyes of the pervasive eyes of the people at doubleclick.
IMHO I think that the AOL Instant Messenger interface is probably the most intuitive and easy to use. If anyone ever does make anything like this, it should use an interface similar to AIM, just without the advertisements =]
What's the difference between the two? Some of you may recall a few months ago, there was a huge media explosion about racial profiling in the New Jersey state police. Some people had complained about the state police pulling over more minorities than other people, and then some other info came out, and bam, lots of media attention. Things went on and the commissioner (or whoever is the head honcho) of the state police was forced to resign because of the whole thing.
How is this any different than teachers profiling students? It is the same as racism and it is wrong.
police : minorities:: teachers : anyone different
It pisses me off how kids in school aren't really treated as human, more like slaves that need to be supressed if they think differently. They don't have rights, or anything that all American's are supposed to have. That too is wrong.
I can only hope that someone in congress or whereever, has enough balls and doesn't care about criticism enough, to stand up for the rights of all of the young American's that are too being "pulled over" in a sense for being a "minority"... It's just plain old bull shit.
One day, a long long time from now, computers may be able to think for themselves, and they'll do tasks for us, and basically be our slaves, and I bet it's going to be the whole 'black rights' (pardon the non-p.c.) thing all over again. There are going to be two sides, supporters of computers' own individual liberties, and people who believe they are property... There will probably be a war among the people of Earth and everyone will die from some biowarfare toxin released into the atmosphere, and the computers will inherit the Earth. Most likely, they'll treat it better than we do;)
4.Put a line in the contract that says that a customer who uses his account to spam owes you $10000 (adjust the currency symbol as needed). If a customer spams, bill them. If they don't pay, hand it off to a collection agency.
What about cases of mistaken identity? I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to be paying 100000 whatever dollars because of someone else pretending to be me.
Slashdot Mirror
Blocking pings makes it slightly harder for crackers to find your machine when they are scanning huge subnets at a time... They won't want to waste their time running a port scan on a machine that they're not sure is up.
I was recently running a network security scan at my place of work, pinging machines to see if they were up before scanning them and was unaware that icmp traffic was dropped by default, so when the results turned up about 3 vulnerabilities on a network saturated with Microsoft products, I was a little skeptical.
It's scary when someone can reference a (Slashdot) post, that was made nearly two years ago, and you remember it like it was yesterday.
I don't know if this will even help much, but http://a1.g.akamaitech.net/6/6/6/6/www.kernel.org/
So pretty much Microsoft has done the same thing as with every other Windows release... Spiffed up the god awful HTML that the damn computer has to render for system tasks, and added new icons.
Yay let's all upgrade!
How freaking stupid can you get? That's like a little kid saying "WELL HE DID IT TOO", after getting in trouble for something. I bet the judge's reply to the suit is gonna be "WELL IF GNUTELLA JUMPED OFF A BRIDGE, WOULD YOU JUMP TOO?"
At first glance after reading the story initially, I thought to myself "10.5 light years? That's nothing at warp 9!"
I'm sad =[
This carnivore thing really bothers me. It's so an invasion of privacy, even if an actual person isn't reading it.
6 /1848232&cid=105">before</a> and I'll say it again, the FBI is getting lazy when it comes to programs like this. Why don't they do some fucking work, and stop hiring programming firms to write programs like this for them.
Here is what pisses me off/discomforts me about this thing:
#1 The FBI is arrogant and cocky enough to think that they have "created" the ultimate AI. It's so ridiculous... If (that is if, I'm just guessing here) their program works on picking out e-mails that have "key words" the results would be totally fucked up. Here's a little test you can try. Do a search on some search engine for a string of random "hostile" words that you would think a terrorist would use in their e-mail. I'm willing to bet you'll come up with just news articles, and some history documentary web pages. The FBI thinks their magical program will "sniff" these out. They'll end up coming up with reports kids are sending to each other to cheat in some classes... maybe school teachers should get their hands on this program.
Additionally, If I were a terrorist and didn't encrypt my top secret bomb plans, I'd deserve to be arrested by the FBI.
#2 I've said it <a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/07/1
#3 If anyone BUT the FBI did this it would be (more of) a(n) outrage. And worst of all the FBI doesn't even try to put a pretty face on it. They blatantly go out and say "yes we are monitoring all of your e-mail now"... like Echelon wasn't enough.
#4 How do we know it stops at e-mail? They could me monitoring everything we do online. What right have they to do that? How do I know some snoopy janitor at the FBI head office who has a few minutes of computer know how, won't get onto one of these heavily guarded computers and start picking through my online documents, banking web pages, and start using my porn accounts.
Is there anyway to get around this bull shit spyware? If I get a T1 line installed in my house, will the phone company have to put the sniffer on that too?
This is a bit off topic, but is it just me, or do our law enforcement officials seem to be getting a lot lazier lately?
Every five seconds they are coming out with "easier" ways to find criminals and put them in jail. What happened to the old days with Columbo, where they actually did some investigating to solve a crime?
The way I see it now is that the FBI just sits back and lets some snoopy program they wrote bring the criminals to them, which in my view is a tad bit unfair to us the tax payers. They write some program that not only does all the work for them, but even violates our privacy.
Here is what I propose... as the FBI comes out with more and more restrictions and snooping programs, we take away more and more funding from them, since they won't need it to operate, since they have computers doing all the work. That way anytime somebody says "I don't like [insert name here]" they can just get a warrant, which will be approved in 30 seconds with some new eWarrant.gov web page since that would be "easier", and then just send a few agents to the house and arrest them.
On a seperate note, doesn't anyone realize it's all about measures and counter-measures? We will always find a way to bypass their bull shit spying. But on the other hand they will always find a way to get past whatever we put up.
There are so many ways to look at the world. Just in these comments alone I've seen people say that the world is turning to shit, that the world is better now, that nothing matters at all, etc, etc.
;( ) a kid, so my mind is still jelly. I guess the last idea stuck in it, before it turns to stone, will be the one I believe in the rest of my life.
I think the problem as of now is that we all analyze everything so damned much, that it looses all it's meaning, and that is why we don't care. We analyze being good, being bad, and everything in between until the lines are so blurred that we can't determine what is what.
Did our ancestors ever analyze the shit out of their world/culture? I'm guessing the world and society is more diverse today than it was 100, 200, and 300+ years ago. That means there are more beliefs and more people thinking up these beliefs. Maybe our ancestors all thought alike, so it was easier for them to believe in one thing. It's always easier to conform.
Now that there are so many different 'cultures' or ways of thinking, there is no one way to think, so I guess no one can really get secure with their views, cause none of their friends share them.
Of course this is all rambling out my mind, and I'm still (not legally tho
Now unleash the moderato... err hounds.
For a second there I thought it said
"Federal Trade Commision Wants More Online Piracy"
We're not that lucky =(
As a little birthday gift to myself, I picked up a fairly high-end handheld digital shortwave radio like a week ago. Its an amazing little device, when you think about it.. In your hands you hold a box capable of opening a window into the communications of every technologically advanced culture on the planet, runs on three AA batteries, and will run forever if you take care of it. Not a bad deal for $219.00 :)</i>
Now you've got me interested. Where can I buy one of these things and what's the model name?
Phew, this happens the day after my DSL finally gets hooked up. My advice: Get DSL and your modem now, so you won't suffer with a WinDSL modem when they come out. It's hard enough with an external dsl modem that plugs into a NIC card.
On an unrelated side note: BellAtlantic Infospeed isn't as horrible as most people tell it to be. The only problem I've had so far is finding their damn dns server (151.198.0.39, 151.198.0.38), but I finally did it and now it's smooth sailing in linux.
I think we are all overlooking the most obvious solution to all of this...
Imprison all minors!
It may seem a little rash at first, but hear me out on this one. There are lots of reasons for it:
- We are loud and abnoxious
- We listen to the devil's music!
- We are evil and do drugs all the time!
- We drink alcohol and smoke with reckless abandon for our health
- We have sex with everybody and anything (animals, trees, stuffed animals)... all before we are married!
It's not like we couldn't adapt to it... we're already forced to go to schools that are a few bars short of a prison. And civil liberies? Pshh... the way legislation is going now, by the time we get them (graduation) we'll won't know what the big deal was about.
This simple solution could solve all of our problems!
It gets me so psyched whenever I hear about advances in Microshit loosing it's domination of the desktop market. I hate Microsoft with a passion, because I feel like I'm a slave of them. With linux it's more like Linus Torvalds is like my Harriet Tubman and Linus is like my underground railroad.
I just downloaded the new version, and as a matter of fact am using it to post this message, but the Messenger component of Netscape still has a nasty bug in the mail filters (that I have reported many-a-time), that crashes Netscape immediately. The bug being that you cannot set a filter to move mail older than X number of days into another folder. It's been a couple months since the release of 4.7, and I'm sure I reported the bug before it was released, and still in this version it's not fixed. Shouldn't they at least put a tiny bit of effort into fixing the maybe 2 or 3 lines of code that are causing this error? I don't get it... they release it with new features, that no one gives a damn about, but don't fix the problems that are in current versions.
</rant>
Well none the less, I still prefer Netscape over IE anyday.
here</<nobr>a >'s my mirror... and i finally found a use for my sig comment ;)
Is there any possible way to block out all connections from doubleclick.net in Windows? I know in linux you can do it, but my family primarily uses windows, and I would like to protect them from the prying eyes of the pervasive eyes of the people at doubleclick.
Microsoft.com could smell like sh*t =]
And I have, of course, no comment on what the sheer number of submissions must mean about our readers. *grin*
It means that they read Playboy for the articles!
IMHO I think that the AOL Instant Messenger interface is probably the most intuitive and easy to use. If anyone ever does make anything like this, it should use an interface similar to AIM, just without the advertisements =]
Racial Profiling & Geek Profiling
:: teachers : anyone different
What's the difference between the two? Some of you may recall a few months ago, there was a huge media explosion about racial profiling in the New Jersey state police. Some people had complained about the state police pulling over more minorities than other people, and then some other info came out, and bam, lots of media attention. Things went on and the commissioner (or whoever is the head honcho) of the state police was forced to resign because of the whole thing.
How is this any different than teachers profiling students? It is the same as racism and it is wrong.
police : minorities
It pisses me off how kids in school aren't really treated as human, more like slaves that need to be supressed if they think differently. They don't have rights, or anything that all American's are supposed to have. That too is wrong.
I can only hope that someone in congress or whereever, has enough balls and doesn't care about criticism enough, to stand up for the rights of all of the young American's that are too being "pulled over" in a sense for being a "minority"... It's just plain old bull shit.
One day, a long long time from now, computers may be able to think for themselves, and they'll do tasks for us, and basically be our slaves, and I bet it's going to be the whole 'black rights' (pardon the non-p.c.) thing all over again. There are going to be two sides, supporters of computers' own individual liberties, and people who believe they are property... There will probably be a war among the people of Earth and everyone will die from some biowarfare toxin released into the atmosphere, and the computers will inherit the Earth. Most likely, they'll treat it better than we do ;)
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He did it in alphabetical order ;)
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4.Put a line in the contract that says that a customer who uses his account to spam owes you $10000 (adjust the currency symbol as needed). If a customer spams, bill them. If they don't pay, hand it off to a collection agency.
What about cases of mistaken identity? I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to be paying 100000 whatever dollars because of someone else pretending to be me.
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ISP: But our hardware doesn't support wire tapping!
FBI: THAT'S IT, YOU'RE GOING TO JAIL!
I think that might severely infract on some civil rights. If someone can't do something optional, I don't think they can be arrested.