The "veracity" of the target list is verified manually. Per the Lycos site:
If you receive SPAM email containing a URL you can report the URL (Note: it is not the e-mail address that you report, it's the URL in the e-mail).
When we have received several reports concerning the same URL we will check it manually and add the address to the anti-SPAM register. Then you can target it by using the screensaver.
If there are "innocents which have been compromised as spam-proxies," this won't make a difference: the Lycos strategy only targets web servers for spamvertised sites.
My opinion is slightly biased though, as I'm an advocate of DDoSing the sources too. If granny's computer is rooted, then she loses the priveledge of internet access until she cleans up. I almost think it might help for her to be/.ed off the face of the earth, as if enough people are sending garbage at her, then it might take longer than four minutes for her to be 0wned again once she's clean. Also, "the internet doesn't work" would be a great incentive for her to get help, and it'd be kind of obvious.
They're supposed to be there, but if they're not, it doesn't make a difference how they're organized. Would you rather search every key in the registry (mine's about 10MB), or search the contents of every file on the disk to find your hidden settings?
As far as malicious apps go, that's why I have AdAware and HijackThis, along with StartupList. I think it's ridiculous that there are something like 50 different places that you can inject a program on Windows startup (run StartupList/complete to list them), but again, it doesn't matter how it's organized, it would be equally as ridiculous - but harder to manage - if it were spread across 50 different files instead of just 45 keys and 5 files.
Do you consider NAV to be malicious? =) And dear god no, I'd never remove it by hand. Why would you do such a thing? If it comes down to it, I'd reinstall over the current incarnation and uninstall the new one, or kill the folder, remove all the startup entries and hope it still boots. I've never had a problem just uninstalling AVs if the system was stable, and if it wasn't I usually had bigger problems that could only be solved by FORMAT and the like.
AV software is inherently tricky, since it usually hooks several APIs and specifically would NOT want to let itself be removed. I'm glad it is that way, otherwise the next virus to come along could just trash the INI file and force a reboot, and then my computer would be wide open to anything else coming down the pike. That'd be pretty darn useful AV, eh?
What do you have to search for? Keys related to any program will generally be stored in one of two places:
HKLM\Software\(publisher)\(program name) or HKCU\Software\(publisher)\(program name)
So my personal high scores for Hamsterball are stored in
HKCU\Software\Raptisoft\Hamsterball
Sometimes there are settings in both, one set is for LOCAL MACHINE (global) settings, the other is for CURRENT USER (custom) settings. If you have to search somewhere else to find your settings, the programmer screwed it up to start with, and having a flat file instead of the registry isn't going to fix that.
Docstrings I can't help you with once something's in the registry, but if you have a.REG file that you want to document, put comments in by starting a line with ; and you can grep them back out when you need 'em.
The expediency of the ornithopter model as it approaches efficiency will outperform fixed wing aircraft, and will be seen as the natural evolution in flight technology.
You don't think Quake is "capable of producing quality machinima"? I remember there was a movie editor of some sort for the original Quake, that was the most amazing machinima to date! It might not be the greatest thing out there today, but it's freely available and open-source.
One department just switched from an AIX-based telnet client to a full GUI for one of our processing systems. Until the switch, everyone who processed jobs on the AIX box had a step in the routine to log in as root and run a command to transfer/combine some files locally, and then a root FTP login to get the files to the local system. I was horified that any production environment would allow such a thing!
Luckily I transfered out of that department pretty quickly, but for the 5 years I've been here (and for at least 4 before that), every user on that box had root.
A unix-like OS like Linux is somewhat safer than Windows, as one user account compromised doesn't trash the stuff that user doesn't have read/write permissions on (such as root or other users). So it's possible to contain on Linux, but on Windows... people usually run as Administrator.
That is absolute misinformation. How are the two any different?
I run as root and as Administrator because i'm too lazy to set up actual, proper permissions and accounts. That doesn't mean that I couldn't, just that I don't.
Both OSes support limiting access to crucial files. Both can keep you from screwing up other people's files / settings / etc. It's possible to contain on Windows too, if you care to.
Legitimate pages are the heart of this argument, that's what the OP was talking about. This is a slippery slope lawsuit, if Google cannot link to a page without first verifying that such a page does not violate any copyrights, it's "Basically the End Of All Search Engines as we know".
If they view it, verify it, link to it, and then the site operator changes the site, are they still liable? For my sake, as a web developer, I certainly hope not...
Beyond identifying copyrights before linking, can Google even tell who owns copyrights to an image?
AFAIK they don't check any kind of watermarking, but even if they did, 99.9% of images on the net don't have such protections / identifiers built into them. How can Google tell that ABC owns the picture versus XYZ? As far as content goes, is there a way to tell if Perfect 10 owns these images at all?
In any case, what is your definition of illegal? Elcomsoft distributes programs that are questionably legal for Americans, but where the site/company is located it is perfectly legal to "hack" passwords. Google links to them too, should that be legal? How about sites critical of China's government? They are illegal in China, should Google not link to them for everyone else also?
Also, please don't equate evil with illegal or illegitimate, they are not the same. What's evil to you might be fine to me, and almost certainly vice-versa.
Godammit Phisbut! The issue here IS about linking to a page! This person is suing Google because they link to other pages that contain his copyrighted work.
From TFA:
Google displays the images from rogue Web sites operated in foreign countries, according to Perfect 10's lawsuit. The search engine also provides links to password hacking sites that provide ways to gain illegal access to Perfect 10's Web site, the suit alleges.
Google displays images that are not on his page, and they provide links to pages that help to defaud him.
I also used to think Java was inherently slow until I actually studied the matter
If you've studied the matter, you will realize that Java has built-in "features" that will make it inherently slower than C/C++. Any optimization / recompilation you do with Java can be done with C code also. The only difference is that with your C code, you don't have to do bounds checking (and a few other items I don't recall) that Java REQUIRES in its spec.
The recompilation done in Java is no different than profiling in C or any other language, the only advantage Java has at this point is that it's automatic. Profile-guided optimization is available in recent versions of MSVC, that's essentially the same thing, and it will compile to executable code directly and won't need to be interpreted before execution
Just because "Microsoft/Windows already does the same thing" doesn't make it any less craptacular. And what in the name of CowboyNeal are you thinking using that as a selling point on/.?!
People bitched like crazy when XP did the same thing, people just don't like the concept of it.
Bitching about X is nothing like not buying X, however. Everyone and their brother bought HL2 and tried to activate it in the past week, thus causing massive slowdowns and server problems. Yes, everyone is bitching, but they're still registering it. Or at least trying to.
This sort of explains it, they're apparently just "trenching" at random. They've done a million more feet of digging than they needed to:
He said in the past few months, crews have trenched about 5.5 million feet of earth in Hillsborough County and laid about 4.5 million feet of fiber-optic cable
I would have throught that they would lay a couple strands of cable for every trench, such that feet trenched < feet laid.
... we have something called Miss Utility in the MD/VA/DC/DE area. Each member utility is notified and marks their pipes/wires/whatnot, and then you're not at fault if you bust something that wasn't marked.
Generally, some fella with a metal detector comes strolling through, putting a bunch of fluorescent orange paint stripes on the ground to indicate the general direction/location of underground wires.
We've only ever had cable/power/tv lines marked on our property, and nothing's been damaged during two septic tank repairs, one new well and two additions. I guess PVC would be a little harder, but this is absolutely ridiculous!
I wonder how many Verizon lines have been disrupted as a result of these guys?
Found this and this if you want some more info. Deep medical geekness on the first one, the NIH.GOV link is a little better for us laypeople. Sounds like Mr. Volkerding has a much more serious version than these talk about.
Dammit man, this is/., not a doctor! Get your ass to the ER NOW! Anything that has a treatment of IV Antibiotics is inherently a bad-ass motherfucker, don't wait for it to kill you before you decide to get treatment.
Maya PLE has watermarking/legalese/etc. as part of the deal, but Photoshop and MSVC are both full, working, un-crippled, un-restricted versions. One has to be a student to purchase them, but there are (or at least were) no rules beyond that. I remember checking MSVC very carefully (I wanted to publish the killer app/game that I was going to create with it and make millions), there was no restriction on commercial publication of anything I wrote.
There is no law that says I have to upgrade, so for the one-in-a-million case where I don't need/want any of the new features and my job doesn't require them, and tech support doesn't matter, they lose out by giving me the original student discount. Yes, they are suckers if they don't limit use as per MayaPLE, but that doesn't make my use of their generous license terms illegal.
Of course, the OP could just nip the whole thing in the bud by getting The Gimp, and not even giving Adobe et al the 20% they ask for the educational versions.
Photoshop costs ~$600USD, Lightwave ~$1600, and Maya at least $2200 (up to $7000 for Unlimited). $4400 dollars' worth of "long term investment" when he can barely afford to pay himself? Yeah, riiggghhttt.
I can get all 3 of them for $524 USD plus S/H.
Photoshop 8 CS : $275 USD
Lightwave 8 3D: $249 USD
Maya Personal Learning Edition : $ZERO (free as in beer)
Note that these are all essentially student discounts: "normal" people will have to pay quite a bit more. I got Photoshop (4.0) plus MSVC (5.0) and a couple of others as a student (5+ years ago), and paid something like 20% of "normal" cost for them. I still use both of these in their original versions, I haven't even felt the need to upgrade yet.
Also, as mentioned elsewhere, you can pick them up from someone on Ebay for considerably less, although the legitimacy of those copies could be questionable.
Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography is another excellent resource for all you crypto-geeks out there. It goes from the basics (including the substitution cipher presented in the article) through basic crypto (ENIGMA, DES) all the way up through state-of-the-art (don't think AES was in my 1st ed., but I believe it's in there now). He talks about everything from the theoretical to the practical, hash collisions to rubber-hose cryptography.
It comes with source too! You know you love source....
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And the grandparent poster gradiuated from college, that should say something about what a degree does for you.
If there are "innocents which have been compromised as spam-proxies," this won't make a difference: the Lycos strategy only targets web servers for spamvertised sites.
My opinion is slightly biased though, as I'm an advocate of DDoSing the sources too. If granny's computer is rooted, then she loses the priveledge of internet access until she cleans up. I almost think it might help for her to be
They're supposed to be there, but if they're not, it doesn't make a difference how they're organized. Would you rather search every key in the registry (mine's about 10MB), or search the contents of every file on the disk to find your hidden settings?
/complete to list them), but again, it doesn't matter how it's organized, it would be equally as ridiculous - but harder to manage - if it were spread across 50 different files instead of just 45 keys and 5 files.
As far as malicious apps go, that's why I have AdAware and HijackThis, along with StartupList. I think it's ridiculous that there are something like 50 different places that you can inject a program on Windows startup (run StartupList
Do you consider NAV to be malicious? =) And dear god no, I'd never remove it by hand. Why would you do such a thing? If it comes down to it, I'd reinstall over the current incarnation and uninstall the new one, or kill the folder, remove all the startup entries and hope it still boots. I've never had a problem just uninstalling AVs if the system was stable, and if it wasn't I usually had bigger problems that could only be solved by FORMAT and the like.
AV software is inherently tricky, since it usually hooks several APIs and specifically would NOT want to let itself be removed. I'm glad it is that way, otherwise the next virus to come along could just trash the INI file and force a reboot, and then my computer would be wide open to anything else coming down the pike. That'd be pretty darn useful AV, eh?
What do you have to search for? Keys related to any program will generally be stored in one of two places:
.REG file that you want to document, put comments in by starting a line with ; and you can grep them back out when you need 'em.
HKLM\Software\(publisher)\(program name)
or
HKCU\Software\(publisher)\(program name)
So my personal high scores for Hamsterball are stored in
HKCU\Software\Raptisoft\Hamsterball
Sometimes there are settings in both, one set is for LOCAL MACHINE (global) settings, the other is for CURRENT USER (custom) settings. If you have to search somewhere else to find your settings, the programmer screwed it up to start with, and having a flat file instead of the registry isn't going to fix that.
Docstrings I can't help you with once something's in the registry, but if you have a
From TFA:
Am I missing something, or did you just make that up?
Please correct me if these are wrong or feel free to use 1024s in place of the 1000s, it won't make a difference.
8b = 1B
* 1000 ^ 3 = 1GB
* 1000 = 1TB
* 1000 = 1PB
100Gbps / 8bpB = 12.5GBps
12.5GBps * 60s/m = 750GBpm
750GBpm * 60m/h = 45TBph
45 TBph * 24h/d = 1.08PBpd
So it's about 6 days for 6PB of data, or about 18 hours if it's Pb instead.
You don't think Quake is "capable of producing quality machinima"? I remember there was a movie editor of some sort for the original Quake, that was the most amazing machinima to date! It might not be the greatest thing out there today, but it's freely available and open-source.
Sadly, it hasn't changed.
One department just switched from an AIX-based telnet client to a full GUI for one of our processing systems. Until the switch, everyone who processed jobs on the AIX box had a step in the routine to log in as root and run a command to transfer/combine some files locally, and then a root FTP login to get the files to the local system. I was horified that any production environment would allow such a thing!
Luckily I transfered out of that department pretty quickly, but for the 5 years I've been here (and for at least 4 before that), every user on that box had root.
I run as root and as Administrator because i'm too lazy to set up actual, proper permissions and accounts. That doesn't mean that I couldn't, just that I don't.
Both OSes support limiting access to crucial files. Both can keep you from screwing up other people's files / settings / etc. It's possible to contain on Windows too, if you care to.
Legitimate pages are the heart of this argument, that's what the OP was talking about. This is a slippery slope lawsuit, if Google cannot link to a page without first verifying that such a page does not violate any copyrights, it's "Basically the End Of All Search Engines as we know".
If they view it, verify it, link to it, and then the site operator changes the site, are they still liable? For my sake, as a web developer, I certainly hope not...
Beyond identifying copyrights before linking, can Google even tell who owns copyrights to an image?
AFAIK they don't check any kind of watermarking, but even if they did, 99.9% of images on the net don't have such protections / identifiers built into them. How can Google tell that ABC owns the picture versus XYZ? As far as content goes, is there a way to tell if Perfect 10 owns these images at all?
In any case, what is your definition of illegal? Elcomsoft distributes programs that are questionably legal for Americans, but where the site/company is located it is perfectly legal to "hack" passwords. Google links to them too, should that be legal? How about sites critical of China's government? They are illegal in China, should Google not link to them for everyone else also?
Also, please don't equate evil with illegal or illegitimate, they are not the same. What's evil to you might be fine to me, and almost certainly vice-versa.
From TFA: Google displays images that are not on his page, and they provide links to pages that help to defaud him.
The recompilation done in Java is no different than profiling in C or any other language, the only advantage Java has at this point is that it's automatic. Profile-guided optimization is available in recent versions of MSVC, that's essentially the same thing, and it will compile to executable code directly and won't need to be interpreted before execution
So all those XBox games are not software? What about MSDN?
Just because "Microsoft/Windows already does the same thing" doesn't make it any less craptacular. And what in the name of CowboyNeal are you thinking using that as a selling point on /.?!
People bitched like crazy when XP did the same thing, people just don't like the concept of it.
Bitching about X is nothing like not buying X, however. Everyone and their brother bought HL2 and tried to activate it in the past week, thus causing massive slowdowns and server problems. Yes, everyone is bitching, but they're still registering it. Or at least trying to.
You were expecting maybe Heidi? (probably NSFW)
... we have something called Miss Utility in the MD/VA/DC/DE area. Each member utility is notified and marks their pipes/wires/whatnot, and then you're not at fault if you bust something that wasn't marked.
Generally, some fella with a metal detector comes strolling through, putting a bunch of fluorescent orange paint stripes on the ground to indicate the general direction/location of underground wires.
We've only ever had cable/power/tv lines marked on our property, and nothing's been damaged during two septic tank repairs, one new well and two additions. I guess PVC would be a little harder, but this is absolutely ridiculous!
I wonder how many Verizon lines have been disrupted as a result of these guys?
WebMD was no help, that's rather surprising!
/., not a doctor! Get your ass to the ER NOW! Anything that has a treatment of IV Antibiotics is inherently a bad-ass motherfucker, don't wait for it to kill you before you decide to get treatment.
Found this and this if you want some more info. Deep medical geekness on the first one, the NIH.GOV link is a little better for us laypeople. Sounds like Mr. Volkerding has a much more serious version than these talk about.
Dammit man, this is
I stand corrected: H.R. 2391.RS Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Compyright? Consern? Editors, please fucking EDIT these stories!!!
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The Senate will never pass a bill labelled HR2391, that would be a House of Representatives bill.
It wouldn't hurt to notify your Senators and Representatives anyway. Click the link, pick your state or zip and go to their e-mail forms.
Maya PLE has watermarking/legalese/etc. as part of the deal, but Photoshop and MSVC are both full, working, un-crippled, un-restricted versions. One has to be a student to purchase them, but there are (or at least were) no rules beyond that. I remember checking MSVC very carefully (I wanted to publish the killer app/game that I was going to create with it and make millions), there was no restriction on commercial publication of anything I wrote.
There is no law that says I have to upgrade, so for the one-in-a-million case where I don't need/want any of the new features and my job doesn't require them, and tech support doesn't matter, they lose out by giving me the original student discount. Yes, they are suckers if they don't limit use as per MayaPLE, but that doesn't make my use of their generous license terms illegal.
Of course, the OP could just nip the whole thing in the bud by getting The Gimp, and not even giving Adobe et al the 20% they ask for the educational versions.
Photoshop 8 CS : $275 USD
Lightwave 8 3D: $249 USD
Maya Personal Learning Edition : $ZERO (free as in beer)
Note that these are all essentially student discounts: "normal" people will have to pay quite a bit more. I got Photoshop (4.0) plus MSVC (5.0) and a couple of others as a student (5+ years ago), and paid something like 20% of "normal" cost for them. I still use both of these in their original versions, I haven't even felt the need to upgrade yet.
Also, as mentioned elsewhere, you can pick them up from someone on Ebay for considerably less, although the legitimacy of those copies could be questionable.
Precisely. Wiki to the rescue.
Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography is another excellent resource for all you crypto-geeks out there. It goes from the basics (including the substitution cipher presented in the article) through basic crypto (ENIGMA, DES) all the way up through state-of-the-art (don't think AES was in my 1st ed., but I believe it's in there now). He talks about everything from the theoretical to the practical, hash collisions to rubber-hose cryptography.
It comes with source too! You know you love source....