err.. 1980s called? Analogic phone networks are history in most places today.
In order to hack the digital circuit switched phone networks used today, you'd need little more than a whistle and a tape recorder. Digital networks use physically separated medium for call control and signalling, and you won't get access to that medium without crowbar and selected location to crack at. And those locations are usually monitored 24/7.
There wouldn't be one available when you actually needed it.
It would be much more interesting to see something covering large sections of city in dual router configuration. Think backbone network with 5,8GHz routers within 200-300m range from each other, only relaying traffic having 2-3 2,4GHz ~100 meter range routers working as access points on different channels pointed at different directions creating cells using directional antennas.
This would allow actual wireless roaming on larger scale, outside range, you could fallback to gsm/edge/etc.
But that kind of system becomes so expensive that you'd need some serious funding to actually implement it.
> Maybe an IPv6 based P2P or something of the sorts might help provide some sort of momentum.
Shh. Don't tell anyone, that NNTP(usenet) is ipv6 compatible, and has free servers(ipv6 only) which don't require monthly fees. And bittorrent doesn't have any issues with ipv6 either.
English is well understood in russia, atleast among computer literate people, and dollars are as valid currency there as rubie. Claiming that only reason www-page using english and dollars as currency and located outside uk/usa just to ease piracy is bad excuse. Russia has over 30 official languages, so maybe english(although its not one of official ones) is used just for compatibility reasons? Perhaps dollars are used just to ease the price comparison against iTunes et al?
If some 5-year old child actually gets the open heart surgery saving her life, which she couldn't otherwise afford, paying some sum in tax from my salary doesn't kill me. I still earn enough to pay my rent, food and internet. Think "free" medicare as a involuntary health insurance for entire nation by entire nation.
For claritys sake, I'm talking about a healthcare system like in Sweden or Finland. You are "insured" by the government, and guranteed to get best medical care available no matter if you're the richest man living or some poor father of 10, unemployed and living on social welfare.
It's free as in "something that your government pays for you".
The obvious answer would be to stop using email altogether. Security-wise it's braindead system that should've been redesigned and rewritten 20 years ago.
Why haven't they registered here, and aquired real developer license then? If it really is killer application, I'm sure all users wouldn't mind donating few $/ for good cause(say, to pay the neccessary license fee for developers to get their code signed).
If microsoft refuses XBMC as a suitable software, just slap them with monopoly lawsuit.
I hope they haven't totally crippled possibility of separating the two GIGe ports intended for intranet. One for lan, other for dmz, and this would make a killing router/firewall/vpn-concentrator. The CPU should be fast enough to handle hundreds of vpn connections, if the promised performance holds true.
I know you can get 1gig gaming router from dlink for less than $100, but that thing doesn't: * have dmz * work as vpn server * run linux
If sony would make the platform open enough, this thing would be WRT54G on steroids.
Processors can function with other than 0 and 1, think vector processors. If multithreaded vector processing sounds strange, maybe you're more familiar with the fuzzy logic buzzword. Yes, I'm oversimplifying things, but I don't have readymade solution here, I'm just trying to explain concept.
"there are less glyphs to recognise" - You got my point, it's far more accurate to recognize 10 different symbols than it is to recognize 34, or more when we have accents. If we have language that's based on 10 symbols only, we could represent those with numbers from 0 to 9. And most teenagers today are used to input information with 0 to 9 already, think SMS.
Personally, I'm still waiting for accurate speech control.
Punch cards aren't really easy for human to read, unless you have only handful of parts.
For the original problem, I think the issue between computer recognizing handwriting is that shapes in everyones handwriting alter so much. I can't get my pda to recognize my handwriting even after training for several weeks, I just gave up and scribble notes as pictures instead.
Main issue to remember is that computers process in numbers, not letters, to completely solve this issue, we'd need a language that's completely based on numbers. Standardizing handwriting in numbers shouldn't be impossible task, but plain numbers don't tell people anything, we'd need symbolical dictionary to survive, something like:
0 no 1 yes 2 life 3 maybe 4 meaning
Once you memorize it, you can easily build concepts like 42 and 02 but there's problem for humans that we often need to express more than 10 things, or 100 if all 10 basic elements could be combined together.
We'd soon face the problem that exists with asian languages; you'd have symbolic meanings for 52 5322 and 34 3042. Unless you fully comprehend which can be combined with which, or you don't understand why certain terms combine together, or you simply don't have any clue what certain symbol means, you'll end up writing&speaking total gibberish to everyone else.
And as the size of the dictionary grows, long strings of numbers become hard to read, since the symbols don't vary that much and you'd end up having maybe up to 7 or 8 number long strings which together form sentences.
Sure, you could learn such system, but it would take years to master. You'd have to start learning in numbers at childhood in order to become totally fluent with such system.
Re-using legacy hardware is double-edged sword, both in developement and production. It shouldn't be done at the cost of reducing compatibility with cutting edge hardware. It gives bad appearance to an operating system when you spend few thousand on new hardware and then it turns out the thing won't boot at all because your latest kernel doesn't have support for the sata controller. Problems with reusing hardware become obvious when you have +5year old raid controller and suddenly it dies taking down your database server. It might be hard to find new(old) replacing part, unless you have spare in shelf.
Netcraft statistics lie. I run several ssl www-servers with linux+apache configuration, and yet they show as windows 2003 on netcraft surveys because eNom reports them that way. The true amount of IIS-based ssl servers is much smaller.
Domain hijacking isn't the greatest threat posed by DNS system, it's the system itself.
Attacker could use DNS to relay virus payload to host, thus entirely bypassing NIDS systems. Any command that resolves hostname could be used to exploit this concept. It's not commonly used because the limited length of hostnames would require several queries to transfer larger payloads. But with some time and effort, attacker could hide the transfer almost completely.
There was an article about this on phrack? around 199x so it's not new idea.
Parent was bit trollish, but he has a point though.. Asia is currently worlds fastest growing economical area, and knowing how to speak japanese, mandarin or hindi might be rather useful.
Blah.. to accomplish true leak-free system, use two mail accounts, public spam account (use gmail), where user requests access to your real mail address, and the true account which you could host elsewhere, but it only allows mail if the sender address is listed on whitelist manually generated from the requests.
Most spam will be caught in google filter, other stuff you can just label away. You should still see all valid mail access requests even if some spam gets through.
If you get spam to the primary mail, it gets automatically deleted, because the sender or recipient is unknown.
This works, unless you receive mail from gazillion random people every day.
[At the Airport Security Walk-through] Airport Security Checker: What is this? Snake: A garbage disposal. Airport Security Checker: A garbage disposal? Snake: Portable. Airport Security Checker: You'll have to turn it on. Snake: It's got a timer. [turns the switches of the bomb on] Snake: Grounds up your garbage, while you're out.
>Everyones using USB disks for backups now rather than tapes.
It's viable option for home users, but saying everyone uses it today is bullshit.
Using hard drives for backup is just stupid. No backup target is perfect, hard drives fail, tapes fail and dvd media fails, of those, most likely to fail is hard drive. If you add RAID, there is a chance that your RAID controller fries, and eats your data with it. RAID is not backup. It's for performance/redundancy only.
But hey, I have software RAID, my controller cant fry? Maybe there's a yet to be discovered bug in software or virus infection kicks in. Buh bye data.
With dvds/tapes, you atleast have some chance that some version of the backups is still intact. You could swap hard drives, to keep offline disk snapshots, but what if you accidentally drop the drive off the shelf, or the drive gets static surge from someone walking by wearing wollshirt? Tapes aren't perfect either, strong magnet might cripple data, and the tape might snap, but those are still more durable than hard drives. Hard drives are still simply too fragile to be used as primary backup method.
I don't want to completely dismiss removable drives as backup option, but for cheap solution you're better off going through the hundreds of gigs and burning the actually valuable stuff on dvds for backup from time to time even if you keep the stuff on external HD.
I remember seeing a note about this on star-force homepage. They offered $10,000 reward and all-expenses paid round-trip to moscow to their headquarters, if you could replicate situation where starforce actually did some damage to optical drives. The competition is over by now, apparently no one tried to prove it right, link here.
Imagine what 5 year copyright/patent expiry cycle for commercial products would mean. People would have to constantly create something new and interesting, instead trying to milk the 30 year old cow. It would cut some profit, but if the innovation took off, the technological advancements would be worth it. Too bad, no-one seems to understand this.
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err.. 1980s called? Analogic phone networks are history in most places today. In order to hack the digital circuit switched phone networks used today, you'd need little more than a whistle and a tape recorder. Digital networks use physically separated medium for call control and signalling, and you won't get access to that medium without crowbar and selected location to crack at. And those locations are usually monitored 24/7.
There wouldn't be one available when you actually needed it.
It would be much more interesting to see something covering large sections of city in dual router configuration. Think backbone network with 5,8GHz routers within 200-300m range from each other, only relaying traffic having 2-3 2,4GHz ~100 meter range routers working as access points on different channels pointed at different directions creating cells using directional antennas.
This would allow actual wireless roaming on larger scale, outside range, you could fallback to gsm/edge/etc.
But that kind of system becomes so expensive that you'd need some serious funding to actually implement it.
Try with better keywords?
It's first result if you use "ipv6 news server".
> Maybe an IPv6 based P2P or something of the sorts might help provide some sort of momentum.
Shh. Don't tell anyone, that NNTP(usenet) is ipv6 compatible, and has free servers(ipv6 only) which don't require monthly fees.
And bittorrent doesn't have any issues with ipv6 either.
English is well understood in russia, atleast among computer literate people, and dollars are as valid currency there as rubie. Claiming that only reason www-page using english and dollars as currency and located outside uk/usa just to ease piracy is bad excuse.
Russia has over 30 official languages, so maybe english(although its not one of official ones) is used just for compatibility reasons?
Perhaps dollars are used just to ease the price comparison against iTunes et al?
Didn't we see one of these backrooms in takedown?
They went to see some fat guy who traced the calls for feds from there.
If some 5-year old child actually gets the open heart surgery saving her life, which she couldn't otherwise afford, paying some sum in tax from my salary doesn't kill me. I still earn enough to pay my rent, food and internet.
Think "free" medicare as a involuntary health insurance for entire nation by entire nation.
For claritys sake, I'm talking about a healthcare system like in Sweden or Finland.
You are "insured" by the government, and guranteed to get best medical care available no matter if you're the richest man living or some poor father of 10, unemployed and living on social welfare.
It's free as in "something that your government pays for you".
Free healthcare, free education and social security net in case of unemployment..
Rather good way to spend taxes, if you ask me.
Fair use and backwards compatibility. It is illegal only if you sell the original files or the burned backup cd, and keep the ripped mp3's.
The obvious answer would be to stop using email altogether.
Security-wise it's braindead system that should've been redesigned and rewritten 20 years ago.
> XBMC is absolutely the killer app of Xbox
Why haven't they registered here, and aquired real developer license then?
If it really is killer application, I'm sure all users wouldn't mind donating few $/ for good cause(say, to pay the neccessary license fee for developers to get their code signed).
If microsoft refuses XBMC as a suitable software, just slap them with monopoly lawsuit.
I hope they haven't totally crippled possibility of separating the two GIGe ports intended for intranet.
One for lan, other for dmz, and this would make a killing router/firewall/vpn-concentrator.
The CPU should be fast enough to handle hundreds of vpn connections, if the promised performance holds true.
I know you can get 1gig gaming router from dlink for less than $100, but that thing doesn't:
* have dmz
* work as vpn server
* run linux
If sony would make the platform open enough, this thing would be WRT54G on steroids.
Processors can function with other than 0 and 1, think vector processors.
If multithreaded vector processing sounds strange, maybe you're more familiar with the fuzzy logic buzzword.
Yes, I'm oversimplifying things, but I don't have readymade solution here, I'm just trying to explain concept.
"there are less glyphs to recognise" - You got my point, it's far more accurate to recognize 10 different symbols than it is to recognize 34, or more when we have accents. If we have language that's based on 10 symbols only, we could represent those with numbers from 0 to 9. And most teenagers today are used to input information with 0 to 9 already, think SMS.
Personally, I'm still waiting for accurate speech control.
Punch cards aren't really easy for human to read, unless you have only handful of parts.
For the original problem, I think the issue between computer recognizing handwriting is that shapes in everyones handwriting alter so much. I can't get my pda to recognize my handwriting even after training for several weeks, I just gave up and scribble notes as pictures instead.
Main issue to remember is that computers process in numbers, not letters, to completely solve this issue, we'd need a language that's completely based on numbers.
Standardizing handwriting in numbers shouldn't be impossible task,
but plain numbers don't tell people anything, we'd need symbolical dictionary to survive, something like:
0 no
1 yes
2 life
3 maybe
4 meaning
Once you memorize it, you can easily build concepts like 42 and 02 but there's problem for humans that we often need to express more than 10 things, or 100 if all 10 basic elements could be combined together.
We'd soon face the problem that exists with asian languages; you'd have symbolic meanings for 52 5322 and 34 3042. Unless you fully comprehend which can be combined with which, or you don't understand why certain terms combine together, or you simply don't have any clue what certain symbol means, you'll end up writing&speaking total gibberish to everyone else.
And as the size of the dictionary grows, long strings of numbers become hard to read, since the symbols don't vary that much and you'd end up having maybe up to 7 or 8 number long strings which together form sentences.
Sure, you could learn such system, but it would take years to master. You'd have to start learning in numbers at childhood in order to become totally fluent with such system.
Re-using legacy hardware is double-edged sword, both in developement and production.
It shouldn't be done at the cost of reducing compatibility with cutting edge hardware.
It gives bad appearance to an operating system when you spend few thousand on new hardware and then it turns out the thing won't boot at all because your latest kernel doesn't have support for the sata controller.
Problems with reusing hardware become obvious when you have +5year old raid controller and suddenly it dies taking down your database server. It might be hard to find new(old) replacing part, unless you have spare in shelf.
a-ha!
1. bunch of ponies
2. ??
3. HURD
I see it now.
Netcraft statistics lie.
I run several ssl www-servers with linux+apache configuration, and yet they show as windows 2003 on netcraft surveys because eNom reports them that way.
The true amount of IIS-based ssl servers is much smaller.
is the genuine check on genuine product..
Your copy of windows is genuine and activated.. but lets check it anyway. again. again and again.
Seesh.
Domain hijacking isn't the greatest threat posed by DNS system, it's the system itself.
Attacker could use DNS to relay virus payload to host, thus entirely bypassing NIDS systems.
Any command that resolves hostname could be used to exploit this concept.
It's not commonly used because the limited length of hostnames would require several
queries to transfer larger payloads.
But with some time and effort, attacker could hide the transfer almost completely.
There was an article about this on phrack? around 199x so it's not new idea.
Parent was bit trollish, but he has a point though..
Asia is currently worlds fastest growing economical area, and knowing how to speak japanese, mandarin or hindi might be rather useful.
Blah.. to accomplish true leak-free system, use two mail accounts, public spam account (use gmail), where user requests access to your real mail address, and the true account which you could host elsewhere, but it only allows mail if the sender address is listed on whitelist manually generated from the requests.
Most spam will be caught in google filter, other stuff you can just label away. You should still see all valid mail access requests even if some spam gets through.
If you get spam to the primary mail, it gets automatically deleted, because the sender or recipient is unknown.
This works, unless you receive mail from gazillion random people every day.
[At the Airport Security Walk-through]
Airport Security Checker: What is this?
Snake: A garbage disposal.
Airport Security Checker: A garbage disposal?
Snake: Portable.
Airport Security Checker: You'll have to turn it on.
Snake: It's got a timer.
[turns the switches of the bomb on]
Snake: Grounds up your garbage, while you're out.
>Everyones using USB disks for backups now rather than tapes.
It's viable option for home users, but saying everyone uses it today is bullshit.
Using hard drives for backup is just stupid.
No backup target is perfect, hard drives fail, tapes fail and dvd media fails, of those, most likely to fail is hard drive.
If you add RAID, there is a chance that your RAID controller fries, and eats your data with it.
RAID is not backup. It's for performance/redundancy only.
But hey, I have software RAID, my controller cant fry?
Maybe there's a yet to be discovered bug in software or virus infection kicks in.
Buh bye data.
With dvds/tapes, you atleast have some chance that some version of the backups is still intact.
You could swap hard drives, to keep offline disk snapshots, but what if you accidentally drop the drive off the shelf, or the drive gets static surge from someone walking by wearing wollshirt? Tapes aren't perfect either, strong magnet might cripple data, and the tape might snap, but those are still more durable than hard drives. Hard drives are still simply too fragile to be used as primary backup method.
I don't want to completely dismiss removable drives as backup option, but for cheap solution you're better off going through the hundreds of gigs and burning the actually valuable stuff on dvds for backup from time to time even if you keep the stuff on external HD.
I remember seeing a note about this on star-force homepage.
They offered $10,000 reward and all-expenses paid round-trip to moscow to their headquarters, if you could replicate situation where starforce actually did some damage to optical drives.
The competition is over by now, apparently no one tried to prove it right, link here.
Imagine what 5 year copyright/patent expiry cycle for commercial products would mean.
People would have to constantly create something new and interesting, instead trying to milk the 30 year old cow.
It would cut some profit, but if the innovation took off, the technological advancements would be worth it.
Too bad, no-one seems to understand this.