The only piece of punctuation that AOL users know how to use are exclamation marks. That post clearly contained a comma and thus must have been someone impersonating an AOL user.
"Mr Joe Cracker sends ANY sort of traffic to 9.8.7.6."
You assume that IP addresses are the only way packets are routed.
So Joe Random Cracker on the same router/switch at the ISP as you sends a packet destined for your NAT/router's ethernet address but the IP headers say it is destined for your computer's internal address?
Packet gets sent to router, router looks at the IP headers to see where to send it next and sees it's destined for your internal computer ("Hey! I know that guy!") and sends it to you.
Assuming, of course, that my understanding of ethernet and ip are correct.
What about the network settings? What about all the other configuration?
Most users wouldn't know an IP address if it was printed on the side of their computer with a permenant marker with 'IP ADDRESS:' written above it.
Even so, do you really think anyone would want to have to enter their configuration information: A) For each game (assuming you find a suitable way to save stuff). B) Everytime they run a game.
What happens if the game doesn't support my sound card? video card? ?
What happens in a year when I try to run this game but it wont run because all my hardware was released after the game was?
How do I save games? You're just opening yourself up to lawsuits if you allow the game to touch the HD (it may destroy some piece of important data or another).
Why go back to the old days of DOS gaming where every game had to support every sound card, etc if we don't have to?
But, as the parent said, it will never find a site _unless_ there is a link to it.
Google does not just make up URLs and domains and try brute-forcing them, it follows links on already known-of pages. Therefore we can assume that somewhere, someone has linked to these cameras. Linking to your webcam on the internet kind of implies that it is open to the public, does it not?
"but is not available to most mortals or even decent hackers."
My dad used to work for a company owned by IBM. Some of the guys in charge of computer security around there had a floppy which they could use to recover(?)/reset disk passwords. Guess that makes them immortal?:D
A) This can be disabled if you really don't want it (see php.ini). B) I've found several scripts/sets of scripts that use this variable over $_POST, so having this available for backward compatibility is GOOD.
I had someone bring me a computer for repair the other day (Windows 2000) with 64 MB RAM in it. It actually ran fairly well and there were no complaints from the owner when I asked him if it seemed insanely slow.
I actually sat and used it, and although switching between apps could take a few seconds, it was typically quite happy and responsive and really wasn't swapping that much.
Well, according to Microsoft's own website: Requirement: Windows 2000 / Windows XP CPU: 133MHz / 300 MHz RAM: 64 MB / 128 MB Free Hard-Drive Space: 650 MB / 1.5 GB Display: VGA Compatiable / 800x600 VGA Compatible
Either way, I find XP does not even run acceptably on my 1.7 GHZ Athlon with 256 MB RAM (I have high standards, okay?), where-as Windows 2000 is snappy and responsive. I imagine XP on a 300 MHz with 128 MB RAM would be a living hell. (BTW, when I tried XP it was with all the themes turned off, too.)
I run Windows 2000 on my 433 MHZ Laptop (192MB RAM) and it has a fairly good response times. Clicking the start bar causes it to come up in under a second, minimizing & restoring big programs (Firefox with +30 tabs, Limewire) takes a second or two, but is still fairly fast.
When I tried XP on the same laptop I found it was just plain slow. It was constantly swapping even to do small things like load up the context menu on the desktop or bring up the start menu and to minimize / restore a huge program could take upwards of 10 seconds.
"Sure it ain't the only litmus test, but it sure tells the employer something that you went to college, and dropped out because you couldn't finish up a general requirements course."
Okay, what exactly does it tell them?
All passing a Spanish tells them is that you were able to memorize a core set of rules, the many exceptions you find in any languages and a base set of words.
Whoop-dee-freaking-do. You can get a rat to memorize combinations. What does this tell you about either candidate? Nothing.
Okay, maybe I'm just bitter because I'm moderately dyslexic and all through school I've had troubles because 98% of the work in school relies on memorization, not application or usage, just memorization, but my point still stands.
Most ISPs have reverse dns set up already for all their IPs, eg in my case mapping 10.123.123.123 to static10-123-123-123.reverse.myisp.ca, and the A record for that host is the IP 10.123.123.123. Could the virus/spam server/etc not tell the remote mail server it is "static10-123-123-123.reverse.myisp.ca" then?
The remote mail server would find that the host points to 10.123.123.123, which reverses back to... the given hostname!
"Because of you anti spam whacko zealots who dont know how to delete an email message.. people's civil liberties are going down the tube and the govt. is hunting down people who are just trying to make a living.. freaking DEAL WITH THE GODDAMN INCONVENIENCE.
People dont mind rapists and murderes getting away.. but they want to skin alive anyone who causes them 1 second of delay. And yes an individual email only takes up one second of your time. I understand you get lots of spam from different sources.. but how can you punish someone who's doing what a lot of others are doing.. The punishments that the spammers receive is assymetrical revenge considering that the particular individual actually only cause one or two seconds of inconvenience per victim."
Let's assume you're correct in saying it only takes 2 seconds per message, although I think it takes a bit more.
If we assume 1 million copies of the message are sent out and reach someone's inbox, that's 2000000 seconds, or about 555.5 hours, collectively taken by that spammer.
If we assume that all these people were making a mere $8 an hour, that's now $4444.00 that spammer has cost.
That's not very realistic, though. Let's assume that 5 million messages found their way into some inboxes, and all the people were paid $25/hour and it took them 5 seconds to delete.
5000000*5/60/60*25 == $173611.12
Now, with about 100 messages a day finding their way into the average inbox (wild guess), that's $17,361,112.00 it has cost.
Still think it's a minor inconvenience?
"I understand you get lots of spam from different sources.. but how can you punish someone who's doing what a lot of others are doing.."
So because Hitler killed a shit-load of jews (yes I know, some law about the longer a usenet thread continues, the more likely a comparison to Hitler & Nazis is...) and was never punished for it (he killed himself before anyone else got to him), we should let other people attempt to kill off a race without punishing them as long as they kill themselves once they're done?
A better analogy would be if you bought a house with a driveway and the realtor charged you an extra $20 000 and gave you an SUV with the house and it came equipped with seat belts made from marshmellows and a fuse wired from the seatbelts to the gas tank so if the seat belts broke the gas tank exploded.
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*points to comma*
The only piece of punctuation that AOL users know how to use are exclamation marks. That post clearly contained a comma and thus must have been someone impersonating an AOL user.
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Rule number two about 'sercurity': Get rid of Linux and install BSD.
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In FF:
Tools->Options
Privacy
Saved Passwords
View Saved Passwords
Much quicker than visiting every site that allows a password login to see if there is a password saved for it.
ND
"That means that nobody has a snowball's chance in HELL of getting onto my machine when I'm not around."
Unless they're one of the many people who happen to know how to reset your CMOS settings...
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"Mr Joe Cracker sends ANY sort of traffic to 9.8.7.6."
You assume that IP addresses are the only way packets are routed.
So Joe Random Cracker on the same router/switch at the ISP as you sends a packet destined for your NAT/router's ethernet address but the IP headers say it is destined for your computer's internal address?
Packet gets sent to router, router looks at the IP headers to see where to send it next and sees it's destined for your internal computer ("Hey! I know that guy!") and sends it to you.
Assuming, of course, that my understanding of ethernet and ip are correct.
ND
Also, (sorry for replying to myself):
What about the network settings? What about all the other configuration?
Most users wouldn't know an IP address if it was printed on the side of their computer with a permenant marker with 'IP ADDRESS:' written above it.
Even so, do you really think anyone would want to have to enter their configuration information:
A) For each game (assuming you find a suitable way to save stuff).
B) Everytime they run a game.
ND
Bad, bad idea.
What happens if the game doesn't support my sound card? video card? ?
What happens in a year when I try to run this game but it wont run because all my hardware was released after the game was?
How do I save games? You're just opening yourself up to lawsuits if you allow the game to touch the HD (it may destroy some piece of important data or another).
Why go back to the old days of DOS gaming where every game had to support every sound card, etc if we don't have to?
ND
Bah.
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda
Is much more fun. Writes out random data to the whole hard-drive sequentially (rather than just writing null to the first partition).
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Not quite.
Instead it gets owned and they think it's broken and:
A) Return it to wherever they bought it from for a replacement.
B) Buy a new computer.
Hint: Your typical computer user is stupid.
ND
Panning way right shows me some text on a wall...
"Intelligent Transport
Systems
An Australian Research Council Facility"
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Yes it does crawl it.
But, as the parent said, it will never find a site _unless_ there is a link to it.
Google does not just make up URLs and domains and try brute-forcing them, it follows links on already known-of pages. Therefore we can assume that somewhere, someone has linked to these cameras. Linking to your webcam on the internet kind of implies that it is open to the public, does it not?
ND
I remember sitting playing around with some of the cameras near the beginning of last year.
I'm suprised someone just finally noticed this now >_>
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"but is not available to most mortals or even decent hackers."
:D
My dad used to work for a company owned by IBM. Some of the guys in charge of computer security around there had a floppy which they could use to recover(?)/reset disk passwords. Guess that makes them immortal?
ND
I hear a large hammer can help disable the DRM real fast...
Don't Panic
(Been a while since I've read HHGTTG. My rendering is probably way off.)
Comparison (NY Times picture & yearbook picture side-by-side)
Just look and compare parts of the face. Look at the chin, the way the cheecks go when they smile, the nose, etc.
If you ask me they look pretty damn similar, and the fact that they are "J.J. Ellsworth" and "Jeri Ellsworth" make this seem all the more likely.
Of course that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
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My apache 2 supports SSL...
"Apache 1 is still better for hosting all sites"
A) No.
B) All generalizations are false.
"$HTTP_POST_VARS, anyone?"
A) This can be disabled if you really don't want it (see php.ini).
B) I've found several scripts/sets of scripts that use this variable over $_POST, so having this available for backward compatibility is GOOD.
I had someone bring me a computer for repair the other day (Windows 2000) with 64 MB RAM in it. It actually ran fairly well and there were no complaints from the owner when I asked him if it seemed insanely slow.
I actually sat and used it, and although switching between apps could take a few seconds, it was typically quite happy and responsive and really wasn't swapping that much.
ND
Well, according to Microsoft's own website:
Requirement: Windows 2000 / Windows XP
CPU: 133MHz / 300 MHz
RAM: 64 MB / 128 MB
Free Hard-Drive Space: 650 MB / 1.5 GB
Display: VGA Compatiable / 800x600 VGA Compatible
Either way, I find XP does not even run acceptably on my 1.7 GHZ Athlon with 256 MB RAM (I have high standards, okay?), where-as Windows 2000 is snappy and responsive. I imagine XP on a 300 MHz with 128 MB RAM would be a living hell. (BTW, when I tried XP it was with all the themes turned off, too.)
I run Windows 2000 on my 433 MHZ Laptop (192MB RAM) and it has a fairly good response times. Clicking the start bar causes it to come up in under a second, minimizing & restoring big programs (Firefox with +30 tabs, Limewire) takes a second or two, but is still fairly fast.
When I tried XP on the same laptop I found it was just plain slow. It was constantly swapping even to do small things like load up the context menu on the desktop or bring up the start menu and to minimize / restore a huge program could take upwards of 10 seconds.
ND
"Sure it ain't the only litmus test, but it sure tells the employer something that you went to college, and dropped out because you couldn't finish up a general requirements course."
Okay, what exactly does it tell them?
All passing a Spanish tells them is that you were able to memorize a core set of rules, the many exceptions you find in any languages and a base set of words.
Whoop-dee-freaking-do. You can get a rat to memorize combinations. What does this tell you about either candidate? Nothing.
Okay, maybe I'm just bitter because I'm moderately dyslexic and all through school I've had troubles because 98% of the work in school relies on memorization, not application or usage, just memorization, but my point still stands.
ND
Most ISPs have reverse dns set up already for all their IPs, eg in my case mapping 10.123.123.123 to static10-123-123-123.reverse.myisp.ca, and the A record for that host is the IP 10.123.123.123. Could the virus/spam server/etc not tell the remote mail server it is "static10-123-123-123.reverse.myisp.ca" then?
The remote mail server would find that the host points to 10.123.123.123, which reverses back to... the given hostname!
ND
Yeah, I did not include that, nor the costs of transferring & storing the message, either.
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"Because of you anti spam whacko zealots who dont know how to delete an email message .. people's civil liberties are going down the tube and the govt. is hunting down people who are just trying to make a living .. freaking DEAL WITH THE GODDAMN INCONVENIENCE.
.. but they want to skin alive anyone who causes them 1 second of delay. And yes an individual email only takes up one second of your time. I understand you get lots of spam from different sources .. but how can you punish someone who's doing what a lot of others are doing .. The punishments that the spammers receive is assymetrical revenge considering that the particular individual actually only cause one or two seconds of inconvenience per victim."
.. but how can you punish someone who's doing what a lot of others are doing .."
People dont mind rapists and murderes getting away
Let's assume you're correct in saying it only takes 2 seconds per message, although I think it takes a bit more.
If we assume 1 million copies of the message are sent out and reach someone's inbox, that's 2000000 seconds, or about 555.5 hours, collectively taken by that spammer.
If we assume that all these people were making a mere $8 an hour, that's now $4444.00 that spammer has cost.
That's not very realistic, though. Let's assume that 5 million messages found their way into some inboxes, and all the people were paid $25/hour and it took them 5 seconds to delete.
5000000*5/60/60*25 == $173611.12
Now, with about 100 messages a day finding their way into the average inbox (wild guess), that's $17,361,112.00 it has cost.
Still think it's a minor inconvenience?
"I understand you get lots of spam from different sources
So because Hitler killed a shit-load of jews (yes I know, some law about the longer a usenet thread continues, the more likely a comparison to Hitler & Nazis is...) and was never punished for it (he killed himself before anyone else got to him), we should let other people attempt to kill off a race without punishing them as long as they kill themselves once they're done?
Come on, that's just weak.
ND
A better analogy would be if you bought a house with a driveway and the realtor charged you an extra $20 000 and gave you an SUV with the house and it came equipped with seat belts made from marshmellows and a fuse wired from the seatbelts to the gas tank so if the seat belts broke the gas tank exploded.
ND