If the government wont get off their lazy asses to do the simple things the people want, then what makes you think that they would do something like actually change the government? Anyways, since when did they care what the people thought? My guess is most of them only care about their large pay checks and the special treatment they receive being a member of the government.
You compiled GPG on your own right? How do you know that the person who compiled it didn't code in a back door?
Also, you remembered to compile GPG by hand, right? Didn't you know there is a back door built into all the compilers, that will add a back door into GPG for 'them'!
This is another example of the government preventing darwinism. If there were only laws to protect others from your stupidity, not yourself, imagine what the US, Canada, and many other countries would be like? Most of the stupid people would have killed themselves off already. *imagines being able to go into a store without getting a twitching\maiming feeling*
"OTOH, Google (and others) can easily use that profiled data to generate revenue by targeting ads on pages they generate. Said third parties have no such mean."
You're saying a third party could not generate revenue just by dropping a targetted ad at the end of all e-mail messages that pass through it?
Listen, Governments aren't supposed to be some kind of vigilante police. They're providers, and if I pay the property tax--regardless of whether one or more of my properties stores radioactive waste--I should be allowed.
Maybe it's just me, but I use PHP for more than just website scripting. I use it to script quite a few other non-website tasks, since it makes it a lot easier.
How about you register a TLD rather than a domain under it (bear with me here), basically inverting the tree.
So Sony could register www.sony. Nobody else could register anything starting with www.sony. If Sony wanted to do business in Chile, they could set up a subdomain, cl, so you could get the Chile site as www.sony.cl. Could probably get rid of the www too, otherwise you'd start having alternate versions of that, and ending up with the same problem we have now.
Well, for certain people it may be the best thing to recommend first? One of the people I know that uses this was near suicidal and completely out of wack (I'll leave it at that.).
I think Microsoft advertising how Windows is better than Linux\Unix on Slashdot is dumb.
To a *nix\BSD zealot (which there are many of on Slashdot), that's like standing there eating a fine danish chocolate, given out free, along with a free beer, and having someone come up to you and offer you a half of one of those cheap easter egg chocolates for $49.99, telling you it is better because they say so.
(I am neither a *nix\BSD or Windows zealot, this was not meant to claim that one OS is better than the other. Please don't start a flamewar.)
Well, where my dad used to work, a datacenter, security was tight.
To get in the front door, you needed a swipe card. There were two armed security guards right inside and a few elevators to upper floors, like a lobby. To get into the hallways that led to the datacenter, you had to swipe your card again (only employees needed in the dc had access, security guards didn't). Once you swiped your card, you had to open the door with your bare hand. If you attempted to cover your hand with a cloth or something, it would not open. Once inside, you had to walk past a security booth. There was a small (about 3' (about 9/10ths of a meter) sq) bit of bulletproof glass. The only other openings were a couple of small holes, just big enough for the guards to fit their shotguns through. After you had arrived here, swiped your card (and the guards verified that you are actually who is on the card, and are supposed to be there at that time), they would let you in. Once inside the dc, IIRC, the walls were 4' (about 1.2 meters) thick reinforced concrete. There were security cameras EVERYWHERE, and pressure sensors in the floor, so it could be tracked how many people were in there, and where you were. Once inside, the dc could be locked down by swiping your card, and entering a code. During a lockdown, it was only openable from the inside, the guards outside could not unlock it.
I have to tell you, it was DAMN cool. If I had to pick a place to be during an invasion by another country, that would be it. I wish I could have seen it, but obviously with that tight of security, there was no way I was let in. Everything I know was heard from some of the employees.
As for the physical security of my computers? A flatblade screwdriver and 2 minutes could get you to them (if your not afraid of a couple of small dogs). Pry the window open, pop the screen out, crawl in, and down the flight of stairs into the basement. I've broken in this way before when I had forgotten my keys.
"and curse yourself for not doing proper backups?"
Eh? Backups? Screw backups. I never backup, and my server has a 5-10 year old hard-drive. I like to live dangerously/stupidly!
Anyways, I wouldn't curse myself. I'd pop in my knoppix cd, tar & gzip all my important files, and ftp them to my server, reformat & reinstall.
If you've never tried knoppix, it's a great linux livecd distro, http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html or http://www.knoppix.net/.
Sometimes I take it to school, fire up ethereal, and sit and watch what everyone is doing in between playing games. It's definitly fun, especially catching teachers on porn sites.
So next time you're on a public computer, remember, big brother is watching you:)
"It effectively slowed the speed of downloads by about half."
<bragging> Well, doesn't bother me. Downloading at 600 kb/s still gets me my pr0n fast:) </bragging>
Anyway. Sounds like the people at your ISP are real assholes. I've called my ISP with a similar problem before, and they said they could not help me (of course the hell-desk geek couldn't, but apparently letting customers talk to the sys admins is against their policy or something), but at least they didn't try and pin it on me. My firewall is configured to only let traffic from my windows box through if it's on specific ports which I use for games.
I really laugh at them, when I call and tell them I have no connection, somethings wrong with my modem or something, and they say, "Ok, go Start->Settings->Control Panel". Then when I tell them I don't run windows, I'm running linux, and connected to my gateway box through SSH, most go silent.
My other favourite is when I call them and they tell me, "Sir, I don't think you have your cable connected right, I can't ping you." First, I have no connection, of course you can't ping me you dumbass. Second, even if I did have a connection, of course you can't ping me, it's called a 'firewall' (more silence, usually).
I guess that's what I get for calling a helpdesk that thinks having an MCSE means you know how to use a computer.
Anyway, I'm pretty bored around here, so sorry for wasting everyone's time with my rambling. I'll go now...
I usually set people up with the free version of ZoneAlarm. It stops most of these worms. Several people I know don't have this patch yet, but ZoneAlarm stopped the worm.
Also, my gaming machine (my only one running windows) was fine because it was behind a linux firewall/router:)
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If the government wont get off their lazy asses to do the simple things the people want, then what makes you think that they would do something like actually change the government? Anyways, since when did they care what the people thought? My guess is most of them only care about their large pay checks and the special treatment they receive being a member of the government.
That's only my opinion, of course.
You compiled GPG on your own right? How do you know that the person who compiled it didn't code in a back door?
Also, you remembered to compile GPG by hand, right? Didn't you know there is a back door built into all the compilers, that will add a back door into GPG for 'them'!
</uber-paranoia>
This is another example of the government preventing darwinism. If there were only laws to protect others from your stupidity, not yourself, imagine what the US, Canada, and many other countries would be like? Most of the stupid people would have killed themselves off already. *imagines being able to go into a store without getting a twitching\maiming feeling*
"OTOH, Google (and others) can easily use that profiled data to generate revenue by targeting ads on pages they generate. Said third parties have no such mean."
You're saying a third party could not generate revenue just by dropping a targetted ad at the end of all e-mail messages that pass through it?
Yes, I know the analogy doesn't fit perfectly, but it gets my point across.
Listen, Governments aren't supposed to be some kind of vigilante police. They're providers, and if I pay the property tax--regardless of whether one or more of my properties stores radioactive waste--I should be allowed.
Google Cache :)
Also, anyone notice the e-mail mangling?
{moc.etile-ecrof} {ta} {pihc}
ND
Yeah, but do most PHP developers code stuff like this at work? Maybe a forum or a backend system, definatly not an AI.
ND
Maybe it's just me, but I use PHP for more than just website scripting. I use it to script quite a few other non-website tasks, since it makes it a lot easier.
ND
I like how the image gallery controls are conviently located over the image. (Firefox/0.8)
ND
"(except when Outlook occasionally insists on openeing IE)."
Why are you running Outlook in the first place? Are you nuts?
How about you register a TLD rather than a domain under it (bear with me here), basically inverting the tree.
So Sony could register www.sony. Nobody else could register anything starting with www.sony. If Sony wanted to do business in Chile, they could set up a subdomain, cl, so you could get the Chile site as www.sony.cl. Could probably get rid of the www too, otherwise you'd start having alternate versions of that, and ending up with the same problem we have now.
Anyways, that's my idea.
New era? What are you talking about?
When you walk down the street with a big "Adidas" or "GAP" logo on the front of your shirt, you don't think that's wearing a commercial in public?
ND
"All in all, while some home users (mainly gamers) will want equipment with these kinds of performance specs,"
If I had that kind of system, I DEFINITLY would not be running longhorn on it, it would probably seem just as fast as a 433 PII running XP.
I'd dual boot Linux for real work and compiling stuff, and 2000 for gaming.
I must be lucky. My logs don't show any attempts to exploit this hole. Not like my linux box cares if they try.
"first case of an infected server that I can remember since code red hit our website."
I'm hoping it was a management decision to use IIS for your website?
Well, for certain people it may be the best thing to recommend first? One of the people I know that uses this was near suicidal and completely out of wack (I'll leave it at that.).
I'm no doctor, though.
What, the ones on eWeek, or the ones on Slashdot?
I think Microsoft advertising how Windows is better than Linux\Unix on Slashdot is dumb.
To a *nix\BSD zealot (which there are many of on Slashdot), that's like standing there eating a fine danish chocolate, given out free, along with a free beer, and having someone come up to you and offer you a half of one of those cheap easter egg chocolates for $49.99, telling you it is better because they say so.
(I am neither a *nix\BSD or Windows zealot, this was not meant to claim that one OS is better than the other. Please don't start a flamewar.)
Well, where my dad used to work, a datacenter, security was tight.
To get in the front door, you needed a swipe card. There were two armed security guards right inside and a few elevators to upper floors, like a lobby. To get into the hallways that led to the datacenter, you had to swipe your card again (only employees needed in the dc had access, security guards didn't). Once you swiped your card, you had to open the door with your bare hand. If you attempted to cover your hand with a cloth or something, it would not open. Once inside, you had to walk past a security booth. There was a small (about 3' (about 9/10ths of a meter) sq) bit of bulletproof glass. The only other openings were a couple of small holes, just big enough for the guards to fit their shotguns through. After you had arrived here, swiped your card (and the guards verified that you are actually who is on the card, and are supposed to be there at that time), they would let you in. Once inside the dc, IIRC, the walls were 4' (about 1.2 meters) thick reinforced concrete. There were security cameras EVERYWHERE, and pressure sensors in the floor, so it could be tracked how many people were in there, and where you were. Once inside, the dc could be locked down by swiping your card, and entering a code. During a lockdown, it was only openable from the inside, the guards outside could not unlock it.
I have to tell you, it was DAMN cool. If I had to pick a place to be during an invasion by another country, that would be it. I wish I could have seen it, but obviously with that tight of security, there was no way I was let in. Everything I know was heard from some of the employees.
As for the physical security of my computers? A flatblade screwdriver and 2 minutes could get you to them (if your not afraid of a couple of small dogs). Pry the window open, pop the screen out, crawl in, and down the flight of stairs into the basement. I've broken in this way before when I had forgotten my keys.
Anyways, I'm done now.
"Effexor is what finally did it for me,"
I know several people who that works very well for. It is generally the first thing the doctor I do a bit of contracting work for recommends.
"and curse yourself for not doing proper backups?"
:)
Eh? Backups? Screw backups. I never backup, and my server has a 5-10 year old hard-drive. I like to live dangerously/stupidly!
Anyways, I wouldn't curse myself. I'd pop in my knoppix cd, tar & gzip all my important files, and ftp them to my server, reformat & reinstall.
If you've never tried knoppix, it's a great linux livecd distro, http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html or http://www.knoppix.net/.
Sometimes I take it to school, fire up ethereal, and sit and watch what everyone is doing in between playing games. It's definitly fun, especially catching teachers on porn sites.
So next time you're on a public computer, remember, big brother is watching you
Ok, I'm done now.
"It effectively slowed the speed of downloads by about half."
:)
<bragging>
Well, doesn't bother me. Downloading at 600 kb/s still gets me my pr0n fast
</bragging>
Anyway. Sounds like the people at your ISP are real assholes. I've called my ISP with a similar problem before, and they said they could not help me (of course the hell-desk geek couldn't, but apparently letting customers talk to the sys admins is against their policy or something), but at least they didn't try and pin it on me. My firewall is configured to only let traffic from my windows box through if it's on specific ports which I use for games.
I really laugh at them, when I call and tell them I have no connection, somethings wrong with my modem or something, and they say, "Ok, go Start->Settings->Control Panel". Then when I tell them I don't run windows, I'm running linux, and connected to my gateway box through SSH, most go silent.
My other favourite is when I call them and they tell me, "Sir, I don't think you have your cable connected right, I can't ping you." First, I have no connection, of course you can't ping me you dumbass. Second, even if I did have a connection, of course you can't ping me, it's called a 'firewall' (more silence, usually).
I guess that's what I get for calling a helpdesk that thinks having an MCSE means you know how to use a computer.
Anyway, I'm pretty bored around here, so sorry for wasting everyone's time with my rambling. I'll go now...
That always annoyed the hell out of me.
"That action can not be performed. Please contact your system administrator."
I always felt like and idiot talking to myself...
Why weren't you running a firewall?
:)
I usually set people up with the free version of ZoneAlarm. It stops most of these worms. Several people I know don't have this patch yet, but ZoneAlarm stopped the worm.
Also, my gaming machine (my only one running windows) was fine because it was behind a linux firewall/router
I guess I didn't remember it correctly. I thought I saw it on the Discovery channel.
Anyway, thanks for that link. Interesting.