I support my local mom & pop PC stores and my local computer/electronic recyclers (for those old parts). Look in the yellow pages, I found some even out here in the desert.
When supporting the EFF in words, how about with funding? There is theSummit 2005, on Thursday July 28, 2005 in Las Vegas...
At the end of Black Hat and the beginning of DEFCON this year is theSummit 2005 - bringing together DEFCON & Black Hat speakers from past/present, as well as well known names in the computer security world. We all come together in a small, private venue for the evening summit to meet and discuss the important topics and socialize.
Note that there will be no more than 200 tickets sold (including featured guests), and all proceeds go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation [http://www.eff.org/ with the sponsor covering event overhead.
theSummit is our gathering of BlackHat / DefCon speakers and big thinkers in the Information Security realm. Anyone interested in supporting the EFF, are highly encouraged to attend; meet with fellow Information security professionals, and talk with big thinkers from the Information security world in a more private and informal setting. Too many times people want to ask questions, or have ideas that cannot make it to the big thinkers. This is either because of time conflicts or they are nervous to come up and talk. This event plans to pull out the stops, and allow the free form of conversation to flow.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation [http://www.eff.org/ is a nonprofit group of passionate people -- lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries -- working to protect our digital rights.
Where: Ice House Lounge, 650 S. Main Street, Las Vegas, Nevada When: Thursday July 28, 2005, 9:00PM - 12:00AM Tickets: $30 (pre-sale) $40 (at the door, if available) All Ages welcomed!
Hey AOL, you already have Netscape mail - how about fixing it up with tweaking the crappy interface, adding spam blocking, etc? Nothing has been done with Netscape Mail since you purchased them - unless you count using the Netscape mail client to access Netscape mail.
This battle regarding purchasing second hand CDs was fought a few years back - and we won. It is very legal to purchase used CDs, and is how my collection has grown to over 500 disks.
I mis-typed - thanks for clarifying the situation.
I personally grew tired quickly of everyone & their brother posting spammy "I have free Gmail accounts for anyone who wants one".... Bah!
By the way, have you seen this article:
Before you go running around for an account - Gmail, Safe or Conspiracy?
http://www.templetons.com/brad/gmail.html
I am looking at VoIP for my home telco connection - get the IP box, place it in my DMZ, and connect the RJ11 to the telco block in the house I am renting, making all the RJ11 jacks in the house hot.
Some of my research included posting to some Live Journal communities I am a member of; which brought some interesting replies. The best thread is: http://www.livejournal.com/community/techsupp ort/4 74598.html
Also Slashdot had a few VoIP articles in the first week of January: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01 /02/173220 3 http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/30 /21 16219 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/04 /181622 8
Going to CES this year (thanks to my employer) was a blessing, talking with a few VoIP providers. After the rumblings I received in the Live Journal post, my experience at the Vonage booth was not impressive. Considering they are the most expensive VoIP out there, and had one of the largest booths, their ignoring me and snotty attitudes did not impress me at all. Also, Vonage and CallVantage do not like the open source community and make there devices locked. So that if you buy one and don't like their service you are left with a useless brick. So, I am leaning away from them Vonage and looking at BroadVoice.
From a lovely conversation with the BroadVoice [www.broadvoice.com] sales folk at CES, they have a Unlimited World plan for $20 a month - includes quite a few European countries as well as some in South America and the Far East. Nothing like that with Vonage! I have yet to research them on broadbandreports.com yet though...
NuFone www.nufone.net comes highly recommended from several people in my local Linux User's Group
Others I have heard good things or heard about: Nuvio NexGenesis Telemedia Golinx.net Lingo.com Packet8.com Voi cePulse connect.voicepulse.com
www.voip-info.org is the place to go for all things voip and has a good index of voip providers.
And some personal insight, from a recent event: Last week at CES here in Las Vegas the G4TechTV folks had a booth, where on Saturday & Sunday they were giving away free stuff - everything that had TechTV on it. T-shirts, bags, hats, pens, paperweights, you name it. When I showed up for the giveaways on Saturday, it was a gaggle f%ck - the G4 folks running the both had no idea how they were going to run the giveaways, it was a mass gaggle until one of the gals finally yelled for the crowd to line up. While waiting for the start, everyone in line was bitching the same complaints we read here in this Slashdot thread & that no one bothers to watch. The line starts, and the same gal starts ordering people around - only two items, come on pick what you want & move on, hold on it is getting too confusing/too many people at once, yadda yadda yadda. It was a total gaggle f%ck! I go through & plan on grabbing two White XL TechTV t-shirts; and thought I'll go through again to grab a hat & a lanyard. Nothing was said you could not go through the line twice, right? So I go through & grab the two shirts, and then join the end of the line again to complete the plan. When I get up closer to the booth, the same ordering people around gal starts yelling at me, asking what I was doing in line again & we were only allowed through once, etc. No matter of reasoning and pointing out to her what she did or did not say would make it work. She was the last word, and hell bend that she/they did not care about the TechTV fans.
So I had a fellow conference attendee grab me the lanyard, they wanted the hat.
I know I was borderline on not watching back in November before moving out here to Sin City; with the attitude & the amount of 'Vitamin B' of the G4 staff I interacted with at CES it is a definite. They do not care about creating & airing quality programming, or how they treat their customers. There are ways to keep your integrity, be a good businessperson, and make a profit - but these folks only think they have an understanding on making a profit.
There are a few organizations & companies that would love for you to forward on your spam; and Spamcop [http://www.spamcop.net/] would love to help you LART the headers & spam web hosts.
You can tell where the spam comes from; or at least identify the web sites they are spamvertizing. Yes, it is sometimes a BPITA - hence why I use spamcop to help auto LART the headers/email for me. I know with squirrel mail any spam you can auto forward to your spamcop account to be LARTed.
Normally I LART anything that gets past the spam filters, thinking that anything that does get caught is by the big spamhouses. I also report my spam to the Feds for action: "FTC" uce@ftc.gov, "US Postal Inspectors service" fraud@uspis.gov
These folks ask for spam, to either tweak their anti-spam tools or for internal investigation: "junk_brightmail.com" junk@brightmail.com, "SendUsSpam" spam@sendusspam.com, "Spamarchive" submit@spamarchive.org, "Spamrecycle" spamrecycle@chooseyourmail.com,
Specific countries have anti-spam efforts: "Spam from China" spam@ccert.edu.cn, "Spam from Korea" spamcop@kisa.or.kr,
As already mentioned - any spam offering grey market (aka cheap) software? "BSA" software@bsa.org, "SBA" piracy@spa.org
Any 419 scams? "419@nigeriapolice.org" 419@nigeriapolice.org, "Central Bank of Nigeria" info@cenbank.org, "thoselads_scamorama.com" thoselads@scamorama.com, "Treasury Nigeraian scam reporting" 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov
Any stock or securities spam? "cyberfraud@nasaa.org" cyberfraud@nasaa.org, "nasd Penny stock fraud submittal" ombuds@nasd.com, "Securities fraud SEC" enforcement@sec.gov
Any food or drug spam? "FDA_Complaint" webcomplaints@ora.fda.gov, "FDA_Complaint2" webmail@oc.fda.gov
FYI: there are some anti spam groups I am a member of, where a little bit of research dug up these agencies. It is easy enough to set up an auto forward on your spam folder to report & LART the spammer scum.;)
I have presented at security conferences, knowing full well some of the knobs that get a slot to present. Some suit trying to look good & get another bullet on their resume or performance feedback. Makes me sick to know more about the topic than the presenter. Hell, last year some putz was supposed to be presenting about spam & the issues involved; I just about took his presentation over he sucked that bad.
Attending 'hacker' cons have pissed me off in the past, because many of the supposed topics are thinly veiled presentations on some new software, script kiddie exploit, or some other BS, wasting my time. No real content, or the presenter has not prepared for the presentation, or just outright can not present. Defcon has been bad on this in the past, and it happened a few times at Notacon this year as well.
Just looking at the speaker schedule will only give an overview, but not the true story to how good the content is, what the presenters are like, or if the range of speakers reinforces the notion that hacking is still open to everyone. My presentation proposals were denied at previous Con's. In many ways it depends on who is running the show & who they are friends with.
Speaking of schedules, can we get a time line based schedule for HOPE?
They scare me, and I even work work for them! But yet I am going, hell I am on the wireless panel....
It should not stop you from going, otherwise they have won!;)
Wireless and WiFi: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Dragorn, IrishMASMS, Mike Lynn, Porkchop
A panel to discuss wireless networking: the basics of 802.11 and current products, along with stories of wardriving and a look at network security. Find out why you should care about your network's security even if you don't think anyone else would take an interest in your traffic. Questions and comments from the audience will be solicited.
Friday 1300 Area "A"
mention/. to me and you will have the pleasure of purchasing me a drink!
first retail computer store devoted exclusively to Linux-based products
Sure, in Toronto... but there are plenty of other places in other locations that have already done the same thing. Nice to see Toronto finally catching up. Hell, even in Omaha we already have one!
Slashdot Mirror
As an ex-seller on eBay, I can say that eBay sucks.
As an ex-user of PayPal, I can say that PayPal sucks.
I support my local mom & pop PC stores and my local computer/electronic recyclers (for those old parts). Look in the yellow pages, I found some even out here in the desert.
When supporting the EFF in words, how about with funding? There is theSummit 2005, on Thursday July 28, 2005 in Las Vegas...
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At the end of Black Hat and the beginning of DEFCON this year is theSummit 2005 - bringing together DEFCON & Black Hat speakers from past/present, as well as well known names in the computer security world. We all come together in a small, private venue for the evening summit to meet and discuss the important topics and socialize.
Note that there will be no more than 200 tickets sold (including featured guests), and all proceeds go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation [http://www.eff.org/ with the sponsor covering event overhead.
theSummit is our gathering of BlackHat / DefCon speakers and big thinkers in the Information Security realm. Anyone interested in supporting the EFF, are highly encouraged to attend; meet with fellow Information security professionals, and talk with big thinkers from the Information security world in a more private and informal setting. Too many times people want to ask questions, or have ideas that cannot make it to the big thinkers. This is either because of time conflicts or they are nervous to come up and talk. This event plans to pull out the stops, and allow the free form of conversation to flow.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation [http://www.eff.org/ is a nonprofit group of passionate people -- lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries -- working to protect our digital rights.
Where: Ice House Lounge, 650 S. Main Street, Las Vegas, Nevada
When: Thursday July 28, 2005, 9:00PM - 12:00AM
Tickets: $30 (pre-sale) $40 (at the door, if available) All Ages welcomed!
For more information, and to purchase tickets for the event:
http://www.dc702summit.org/home/
Event is sponsored by the Hackajar Foundation, and by the members of DEFCON 702.
We all hope to see you there!
(as posted in the Livejournal DEFCON community [http://www.livejournal.com/community/defcon_defc
I love babies - smothered in BBQ sauce!
How does guzzlefish compare with mediachest - http://www.mediachest.com/?
Hey AOL, you already have Netscape mail - how about fixing it up with tweaking the crappy interface, adding spam blocking, etc? Nothing has been done with Netscape Mail since you purchased them - unless you count using the Netscape mail client to access Netscape mail.
come on AOL, don't be a Newb!
You know, some of us who are presenting [http://www.notacon.org/speakers.html#irishmasms] are willing to do so without the shameless plugs... ;)
God dam PHiZ, can you whore yourself out any more? ;)
This battle regarding purchasing second hand CDs was fought a few years back - and we won. It is very legal to purchase used CDs, and is how my collection has grown to over 500 disks. I mis-typed - thanks for clarifying the situation.
If you are OK with breaking the law, you might just download whatever you want from the Newsgroups and skip the whole rigmarole.
or, purchase the CDs you want on the cheap from a used CD store.
I personally grew tired quickly of everyone & their brother posting spammy "I have free Gmail accounts for anyone who wants one".... Bah! By the way, have you seen this article: Before you go running around for an account - Gmail, Safe or Conspiracy? http://www.templetons.com/brad/gmail.html
I am looking at VoIP for my home telco connection - get the IP box, place it in my DMZ, and connect the RJ11 to the telco block in the house I am renting, making all the RJ11 jacks in the house hot.
p ort/4 74598.html
1 /02/173220 30 /21 162194 /181622 8
i cePulse connect.voicepulse.com
;)
Some of my research included posting to some Live Journal communities I am a member of; which brought some interesting replies. The best thread is:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/techsup
Also Slashdot had a few VoIP articles in the first week of January:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/0
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/3
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/0
Going to CES this year (thanks to my employer) was a blessing, talking with a few VoIP providers. After the rumblings I received in the Live Journal post, my experience at the Vonage booth was not impressive. Considering they are the most expensive VoIP out there, and had one of the largest booths, their ignoring me and snotty attitudes did not impress me at all. Also, Vonage and CallVantage do not like the open source community and make there devices locked. So that if you buy one and don't like their service you are left with a useless brick. So, I am leaning away from them Vonage and looking at BroadVoice.
From a lovely conversation with the BroadVoice [www.broadvoice.com] sales folk at CES, they have a Unlimited World plan for $20 a month - includes quite a few European countries as well as some in South America and the Far East. Nothing like that with Vonage! I have yet to research them on broadbandreports.com yet though...
NuFone www.nufone.net comes highly recommended from several people in my local Linux User's Group
Others I have heard good things or heard about:
Nuvio
NexGenesis Telemedia
Golinx.net
Lingo.com
Packet8.com
Vo
www.voip-info.org is the place to go for all things voip and has a good index of voip providers.
YMMV - IANAL
HTH!
Do not fret, her boyfriend took care of her needs last night! (or was that his needs?)
;)
Unless they live in 'Arkansas', then it is her & her Dad's needs!
Agreed with all the above.
And some personal insight, from a recent event:
Last week at CES here in Las Vegas the G4TechTV folks had a booth, where on Saturday & Sunday they were giving away free stuff - everything that had TechTV on it. T-shirts, bags, hats, pens, paperweights, you name it.
When I showed up for the giveaways on Saturday, it was a gaggle f%ck - the G4 folks running the both had no idea how they were going to run the giveaways, it was a mass gaggle until one of the gals finally yelled for the crowd to line up. While waiting for the start, everyone in line was bitching the same complaints we read here in this Slashdot thread & that no one bothers to watch.
The line starts, and the same gal starts ordering people around - only two items, come on pick what you want & move on, hold on it is getting too confusing/too many people at once, yadda yadda yadda. It was a total gaggle f%ck!
I go through & plan on grabbing two White XL TechTV t-shirts; and thought I'll go through again to grab a hat & a lanyard. Nothing was said you could not go through the line twice, right? So I go through & grab the two shirts, and then join the end of the line again to complete the plan. When I get up closer to the booth, the same ordering people around gal starts yelling at me, asking what I was doing in line again & we were only allowed through once, etc. No matter of reasoning and pointing out to her what she did or did not say would make it work. She was the last word, and hell bend that she/they did not care about the TechTV fans.
So I had a fellow conference attendee grab me the lanyard, they wanted the hat.
I know I was borderline on not watching back in November before moving out here to Sin City; with the attitude & the amount of 'Vitamin B' of the G4 staff I interacted with at CES it is a definite. They do not care about creating & airing quality programming, or how they treat their customers. There are ways to keep your integrity, be a good businessperson, and make a profit - but these folks only think they have an understanding on making a profit.
Ssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! The first rule of lj comm=kaizersoze125 is to not talk about lj comm=kaizersoze125! ;)
There are a few organizations & companies that would love for you to forward on your spam; and Spamcop [http://www.spamcop.net/] would love to help you LART the headers & spam web hosts.
;)
You can tell where the spam comes from; or at least identify the web sites they are spamvertizing. Yes, it is sometimes a BPITA - hence why I use spamcop to help auto LART the headers/email for me. I know with squirrel mail any spam you can auto forward to your spamcop account to be LARTed.
Normally I LART anything that gets past the spam filters, thinking that anything that does get caught is by the big spamhouses. I also report my spam to the Feds for action:
"FTC" uce@ftc.gov,
"US Postal Inspectors service" fraud@uspis.gov
These folks ask for spam, to either tweak their anti-spam tools or for internal investigation:
"junk_brightmail.com" junk@brightmail.com,
"SendUsSpam" spam@sendusspam.com,
"Spamarchive" submit@spamarchive.org,
"Spamrecycle" spamrecycle@chooseyourmail.com,
Specific countries have anti-spam efforts:
"Spam from China" spam@ccert.edu.cn,
"Spam from Korea" spamcop@kisa.or.kr,
As already mentioned - any spam offering grey market (aka cheap) software?
"BSA" software@bsa.org,
"SBA" piracy@spa.org
Any 419 scams?
"419@nigeriapolice.org" 419@nigeriapolice.org,
"Central Bank of Nigeria" info@cenbank.org,
"thoselads_scamorama.com" thoselads@scamorama.com,
"Treasury Nigeraian scam reporting" 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov
Child pr0n?
"FBI" iitf.tampa@fbi.gov,
"FBI_Child_porn" complaints.detroit@fbi.gov
Any stock or securities spam?
"cyberfraud@nasaa.org" cyberfraud@nasaa.org,
"nasd Penny stock fraud submittal" ombuds@nasd.com,
"Securities fraud SEC" enforcement@sec.gov
Any food or drug spam?
"FDA_Complaint" webcomplaints@ora.fda.gov,
"FDA_Complaint2" webmail@oc.fda.gov
FYI: there are some anti spam groups I am a member of, where a little bit of research dug up these agencies. It is easy enough to set up an auto forward on your spam folder to report & LART the spammer scum.
HTH!
The other 52% will learn so over the next 4 years.
If they have not learned already, most likely they never will. How sad.
Have you talked with other IT users groupd( linux, etc) or the meetup.com gatherings?
p ://www.ambushsite.com/upcominglp.php
a spy _cal endar.html
What about other LAN perty folks within driving distance? omaha?
http://www.micsfragfest.com/ (I play with these guys every chance I get, and have hjosted my own server on occasion.)
http://www.nerdclub.net/lan_parties_db.php
htt
Or how about:
http://www.lanpartycoalition.com/members.
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/game/lanpart
A little GTFG will get you far.... and let me know when your next one is, I will try to get some gamers from Omahell to join me for your gig.
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGI) = National Imaging and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
/. post about this? ;)
One of the goverment funding bills last year changed the name from NIMA to NGA. Did you not see the
Excuse me, but when was the last time you went to Defcon?
It must have been afew years, because the last two years it cost $75, and this year it is supposed to go up to $80.
Or do you know a secret that you are not sharing with the rest of us to save $20? =)
I have presented at security conferences, knowing full well some of the knobs that get a slot to present. Some suit trying to look good & get another bullet on their resume or performance feedback. Makes me sick to know more about the topic than the presenter. Hell, last year some putz was supposed to be presenting about spam & the issues involved; I just about took his presentation over he sucked that bad.
Attending 'hacker' cons have pissed me off in the past, because many of the supposed topics are thinly veiled presentations on some new software, script kiddie exploit, or some other BS, wasting my time. No real content, or the presenter has not prepared for the presentation, or just outright can not present. Defcon has been bad on this in the past, and it happened a few times at Notacon this year as well.
Just looking at the speaker schedule will only give an overview, but not the true story to how good the content is, what the presenters are like, or if the range of speakers reinforces the notion that hacking is still open to everyone. My presentation proposals were denied at previous Con's. In many ways it depends on who is running the show & who they are friends with.
Speaking of schedules, can we get a time line based schedule for HOPE?
They scare me, and I even work work for them! But yet I am going, hell I am on the wireless panel.... It should not stop you from going, otherwise they have won! ;)
mention
first retail computer store devoted exclusively to Linux-based products
Sure, in Toronto... but there are plenty of other places in other locations that have already done the same thing. Nice to see Toronto finally catching up. Hell, even in Omaha we already have one!
http://www.reboottheuser.com/