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Obviously G4 didn't learn anything when they lost most of their fan base. G4 buying Tech TV was the worst thing to happen in ages.
Now they are going further away from the right thing. Getting rid of more shows, and adding lame ones.
It's still my hope that the old TechTV crew will start their own network, that would be awesome. G4 has ruined everything they ever made me believe in (TechTV that is).
>> It's really crazy, and insanly hard to get in to, but you would get stuff very early.
>um no.../server whatever.whereever/join #your."elite".channel
and you're in,
no trials, no monthly quotas, not really hard to get in
Yea, there were Monthly Quotas, weekly actually. Very strict standards, which still exsist as I came to found out. This isn't just some #moviez channel on some random network. Don't assume, know the facts.
Yes they did! I also had Distro access, it was pretty awesome.
Just checked up on them, and they appear to still be going. I remember back when they had to shut down their website, due to the fact it was too risky:-)
The motivation was the statistics. Seeing that I shared 10 gigs of movies in a day kinda made me feel important. I was almost op'd in one of the channels due to how much I was doing.
I just did a little search, and found out the site I used to do this for is still going. Very supprised at how they keep at it, when I was caught so easily.
Is reporting that they don't know if the worm actually patches it sucessfully. For all we know, it could be infecting the System. When searching, only 3 results came up.
I've been reading a lot of these comments, and many people are complaining that the major companies are going after the creaters of the tools, and not the users.
This is false.
Approximatly 2-3 years ago, my ISP shut off our internet service, because I was downloading movies, clearly copywrited by the MPAA.
I had the idea that the MPAA would go after the people distributing the movies on a larger scale, and not the people downloading them. I couldn't be more wrong.
Before you go and bash the compaines, saying they should go after the offenders, know that they infact are!
A Rice University computer scientist and two of his students have discovered a potentially serious security flaw in the desktop search tool for personal computers that was recently distributed by Google.
The glitch, which could permit an attacker to secretly search the contents of a personal computer via the Internet, is what computer scientists call a composition flaw - a security weakness that emerges when separate components interact. "When you put them together, out jumps a security flaw," said Dan Wallach, an assistant professor of computer science at Rice in Houston, who, with two graduate students, Seth Fogarty and Seth Nielson, discovered the flaw last month. "These are subtle problems, and it takes a lot of experience to ferret out this kind of flaw," Professor Wallach said.
Google introduced a test version of the desktop search tool on Oct. 14, and it can be downloaded at no cost. The program indexes material on a user's local hard disk and then blends Web search results with local user information like electronic mail, text documents and other files. The flaw would permit a search to reveal only small portions of the files.
The way the software tool is designed, a user's queries, but no locally stored information, is distributed via the Internet. But by reading user queries sent to its search service, Google is able to place its AdWords text advertisements next to the search results displayed in a user's browser window.
In a statement over the weekend, the company said that it had been notified of the flaw by the computer researchers in late November and had begun distributing a new version of the desktop search engine that repairs the potential security hole. Google's introduction of a desktop search tool has touched off a competition with its closest Web search service competitors, Microsoft and Yahoo.
Microsoft made a test version of its desktop search tool available last Monday as part of its MSN toolbar suite, and Yahoo has said that it will begin testing a similar search tool in January.
The Rice University researchers said that they had not yet examined Microsoft's desktop search program, but noted that the service did not appear to integrate Web and local search results in the same manner as the Google tool.
The researchers said that the Google security weakness lay in the way that Google Desktop was designed to intercept outgoing network connections from the user's computer.
The program looks for traffic that appears to be going to Google.com and then inserts results from a user's hard disk for a particular search. They found that it was possible to trick the Google desktop search program into inserting those results into other Web pages where an attacker could read them.
An attack would require a user to visit the attacker's Web site first, and any type of Web browser could make a user vulnerable. Google said there was no evidence that any such attacks had occurred.
The Rice group was able to create a Java program that makes network connections back to the computer from where it was downloaded and then make it appear as if it were asking for a search at Google.com. That was enough to fool the Google desktop software into providing the user's search information. The program was able to do anything with the results, including transmitting them back to the attacking site.
"This began as a student project to study how Google Desktop worked and to see if there were any security flaws," said Professor Wallach. "We started by wondering how Google did the local search integration. Once we figured out how it worked, it wasn't too much extra work to break it."
The researchers said that Google had responded quickly to their alert last month and had begun releasing a corrected version of the program on Dec. 10.
The Google desktop program includes an update feature that permits the company to automatically install new versions of the program on users' computers without user intervention or knowledge.
The Rice researchers said that it was possible for users to tell if their version of the Google program had been patched by examining the "about" page from the Google Desktop icon in the browser task bar. Version numbers above 121,004 indicate a newer edition of the program.
Excuse me, I didn't say gaim sucked, I just said I no longer use it, and stated the reasons why I didn't use it any longer.
And at the time I used gaim, it didn't have spellchecking, and it's plugins were very limited.
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Obviously G4 didn't learn anything when they lost most of their fan base. G4 buying Tech TV was the worst thing to happen in ages.
Now they are going further away from the right thing. Getting rid of more shows, and adding lame ones.
It's still my hope that the old TechTV crew will start their own network, that would be awesome. G4 has ruined everything they ever made me believe in (TechTV that is).
>> It's really crazy, and insanly hard to get in to, but you would get stuff very early.
/server whatever.whereever /join #your."elite".channel
and you're in,
no trials, no monthly quotas, not really hard to get in
>um no...
Yea, there were Monthly Quotas, weekly actually. Very strict standards, which still exsist as I came to found out. This isn't just some #moviez channel on some random network. Don't assume, know the facts.
"I used to be stupid and traded movies, then I got caught, and now i'm legit, and I post on /."
Thats a rephrase :-)
Yes they did! I also had Distro access, it was pretty awesome.
:-)
Just checked up on them, and they appear to still be going. I remember back when they had to shut down their website, due to the fact it was too risky
The MPAA sent an e-mail to abuse@adelphia.net (My ISP) with a lengthy letter, explaining what I did, where I did it, and what movies I had.
I will try and find it.
Yes, my address is 48 Archbald Lane, Albany NY, 29578.
Just kidding (obviously), been clean for 3 years!
I didn't watch 75% of the videos I downloaded
The motivation was the statistics. Seeing that I shared 10 gigs of movies in a day kinda made me feel important. I was almost op'd in one of the channels due to how much I was doing.
I just did a little search, and found out the site I used to do this for is still going. Very supprised at how they keep at it, when I was caught so easily.
Well... it was.
It wasn't some IRC channel with a bunch of guys that had 2 movies on it, it was one of these "Top Level" sites like that guy was talking about.
Anyone heard of TMD?
Yes I do, i'm only 16 now, was 13 when this happened.
Supprising, they punishment wasn't bad.
They shut off our internet, until they could get a letter to us, and we had to sign it, saying we wouldn't do it again.
Well... I used to be apart of one of the pyramids, before I got caught.
I used to have access to the Distro section of an elite IRC channel, known across the net.
They would give movies to those few, who would then take them to the regular channel.
It's really crazy, and insanly hard to get in to, but you would get stuff very early.
Also, easier to get caught, as I found out.
Canada said they would match what canadians donated plus 40 million.
;-)
But... it is Canadian money
MSN's index updates quicker.
Google wouldn't show as many results. I am a google junkie, but MSN previals in this aspect.
Is reporting that they don't know if the worm actually patches it sucessfully. For all we know, it could be infecting the System. When searching, only 3 results came up.
In the portion you quoted, there are 2 links. One to the explination on Symantec.com, and one to where I got the story from.
I have been proven wrong!
Quick! Someone e-mail michael and DEMAND he fix the typo.
You only use an if the next word starts with a vowel.
I set up the client on my machine, and checked out some of the profile settings.
Under storrage, it is only showing that I have less than a gig available! It is seeing my restore drive, and not my real one!
How can I get it to show my true drives settings?
It was funny the first time.
Now it's just stupid.
There is indeed a way to get updates. On source forge, you can subscribe to get updates when new packages are released.
If I recall correctly, the bug that is being exploited is just phpBB specific, and not pertaining to PHP itself.
There have, in recent days, been exploits found in PHP that phpBB uses, but I don't believe those have been exploited on a mass scale.
I've been reading a lot of these comments, and many people are complaining that the major companies are going after the creaters of the tools, and not the users.
This is false.
Approximatly 2-3 years ago, my ISP shut off our internet service, because I was downloading movies, clearly copywrited by the MPAA.
I had the idea that the MPAA would go after the people distributing the movies on a larger scale, and not the people downloading them. I couldn't be more wrong.
Before you go and bash the compaines, saying they should go after the offenders, know that they infact are!
That is by far the coolest thing ever.
A Rice University computer scientist and two of his students have discovered a potentially serious security flaw in the desktop search tool for personal computers that was recently distributed by Google. The glitch, which could permit an attacker to secretly search the contents of a personal computer via the Internet, is what computer scientists call a composition flaw - a security weakness that emerges when separate components interact. "When you put them together, out jumps a security flaw," said Dan Wallach, an assistant professor of computer science at Rice in Houston, who, with two graduate students, Seth Fogarty and Seth Nielson, discovered the flaw last month. "These are subtle problems, and it takes a lot of experience to ferret out this kind of flaw," Professor Wallach said. Google introduced a test version of the desktop search tool on Oct. 14, and it can be downloaded at no cost. The program indexes material on a user's local hard disk and then blends Web search results with local user information like electronic mail, text documents and other files. The flaw would permit a search to reveal only small portions of the files. The way the software tool is designed, a user's queries, but no locally stored information, is distributed via the Internet. But by reading user queries sent to its search service, Google is able to place its AdWords text advertisements next to the search results displayed in a user's browser window. In a statement over the weekend, the company said that it had been notified of the flaw by the computer researchers in late November and had begun distributing a new version of the desktop search engine that repairs the potential security hole. Google's introduction of a desktop search tool has touched off a competition with its closest Web search service competitors, Microsoft and Yahoo. Microsoft made a test version of its desktop search tool available last Monday as part of its MSN toolbar suite, and Yahoo has said that it will begin testing a similar search tool in January. The Rice University researchers said that they had not yet examined Microsoft's desktop search program, but noted that the service did not appear to integrate Web and local search results in the same manner as the Google tool. The researchers said that the Google security weakness lay in the way that Google Desktop was designed to intercept outgoing network connections from the user's computer. The program looks for traffic that appears to be going to Google.com and then inserts results from a user's hard disk for a particular search. They found that it was possible to trick the Google desktop search program into inserting those results into other Web pages where an attacker could read them. An attack would require a user to visit the attacker's Web site first, and any type of Web browser could make a user vulnerable. Google said there was no evidence that any such attacks had occurred. The Rice group was able to create a Java program that makes network connections back to the computer from where it was downloaded and then make it appear as if it were asking for a search at Google.com. That was enough to fool the Google desktop software into providing the user's search information. The program was able to do anything with the results, including transmitting them back to the attacking site. "This began as a student project to study how Google Desktop worked and to see if there were any security flaws," said Professor Wallach. "We started by wondering how Google did the local search integration. Once we figured out how it worked, it wasn't too much extra work to break it." The researchers said that Google had responded quickly to their alert last month and had begun releasing a corrected version of the program on Dec. 10. The Google desktop program includes an update feature that permits the company to automatically install new versions of the program on users' computers without user intervention or knowledge. The Rice researchers said that it was possible for users to tell if their version of the Google program had been patched by examining the "about" page from the Google Desktop icon in the browser task bar. Version numbers above 121,004 indicate a newer edition of the program.
Excuse me, I didn't say gaim sucked, I just said I no longer use it, and stated the reasons why I didn't use it any longer. And at the time I used gaim, it didn't have spellchecking, and it's plugins were very limited.