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A 14 yo prankster with enough skillz can direct an existing botnet to conduct the attack... They're all controlled by an IRC-like protocol, and if they're encrypted, that's what a man-in-the-middle attack based on IP spoof is for. Botnets don't have security strong enough to withstand that.
An UPS that can receive packets... No. No, no, no. It's dead easy to construct a circuit with an absolutely reliable breaker, one that shuts it off as soon as the temp goes above some threshold. If there wasn't one in the UPS, then the engineer who designed it should be shot on sight!
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Yeah, but there are problems with FreeNet :
1/ It's slow 2/ No one uses it 3/ No one uses it because it's so slow 4/ It's so slow because no one uses it 5/ It's not preinstalled on all computers 6/ Its installation is as much jumping through hoops as a first use of Windows Vista
So yeah, backups on FreeNet is a good idea, but hosting the main site? Not if they want to be acessed sometimes.
I'd rather d/l the full archive off The Pirate Bay or Mininova, though. A lifetime of reading about "why all the systems should all be completely transparent to any one in the general public".
Security begins by looking at the application, get requirements and translate thm to code. The only network I/O a browser has to do is "send request, get reply". That problem is solved. Then, "render". Okay, parse the response and translate to screen. Solved. What security problems again?
If I gathered this right, then Google can parse the content behind the links they serve, to the point of ientifying the drive-bys? Okay, so why not block them at that point? And why not throw enough CPU power to parse the results before they're returned, so as to protect the users? Yeah, tag this "whatcouldpossiblygowrong".
What, then, about a browser that can identify a drive-by, by pre-parsing the content behind the links it shows. Heuristics would do that Real Well, too; I can think of a zillion methods to do Just That off the top of my head. "If it ends up writing to disk, don't." How hard is THAT? "Yes but it uses vulnerabilities..." Yes, and? Run the browser in a VM, then, and meta-parse if it ever tries to write to a part of the disk that it should not access. "That would be slow..." Well, seeing how many people use Azureus, a program's performance does not affect adoption. (Not that a browser in Java would be a good idea, unless you've got an FPGA wired to run Java bytecode natively. "Java sucks because Java is slow. Java is not for the desktop, because it is too slow. The desktop needs zero latency, never wait. Java can't be fast enough unless you've got an FPGA wired to run Java bytecode natively." (Repeat until you got it through your head. Azureus is painful to use even with a Raptor HD and a Q6600@3GHz and DDR3@1333MHz, and there exists nothing faster as of now. No, not the dual quad-core Xeon systems, they're stuck with DDR2@667MHz.)
I can't even begin to understand how it is possible that browsers suck that much at security. All the problems they have are long-solved, or can all be solved in under five seconds by thinking about them. Let's fix the whole lot of them right now, mkay?
-What does a browser do? -"Send request, get reply, render."
So how is it possible that the *browser* can register system-wide extensions? THAT does not parse in MY brain. Speaking of IE, just a thought : IE could render URLs in a definable way in the address bar. Now who could have ever been stupid enough to think that was a good idea? "IE : the browser with phishing support".
And if Firefox is not more secure, then how? Why? Did Netscape suck that much? (Yes, I know : "yes".) Just re-write the whole thing from scratch then, it's not as if it was hard. "Send request, get reply, render."
What do you mean? Of couse AutoPlay and autorun are separate features! One is an annoying screen that tells me "I've noticed that you inserted a CD with no autorun, let me nag you about what to do" (maybe let me use it as I would?) and the other is a Goatse-like security black hole that would not be worse if it had been inserted just to execute arbitrary code without notice.
Flamebait? Okay, tell me how I can inject trojan or viruses into my Mac only by attaching devices to it? There's no Goatse-like opening "as soon as something is inserted, check for an autorun script and run it".
Sites like Yhoo and the NYT have gazillions of money to keep afloat "until ad-based revenue finally makes it profitable". Which it is, only because advertisers pay much more than what the ad space is worth, as demonstrated in the study referenced in TFA. This study just shows that the people who buy ads are wasting their money unless they're doing pr0n.
Dark matter is simply the mass of the error margin
"Our theories predict that there is some quantity of matter in that galaxy, but we only measured a fraction of it. Either we're wrong in the estimate of mass, or in the theory that predicts the behaviour of galaxies."
This is called Common Sense. Discrepancy == incomplete theory or wrong calculations.
Those checklists we apply to spam could be extended to "Generic Form for Internet Abuse" to say why it can't be addressed...
A *human* to proofread all the domai rtegistration at a certal authority : will not work. Off the top of my head :
1. Too expensive 2. Feel-good measure 3. The human will be replaced by a script in no time 4. Why should we trust you and your servers? 5. Microsoft will not put up with it... add more to taste.
1. Everywhere that trademark is protected 2. See 1 3. There should be an ICANN website where you veto typosquatters - that is, the squatter sites would be removed from the TLD as soon as they get enough votes.
Those sites are a real pain. Ayone here has the skillz to deface some of them so that they host child porn on their front pages? THAT would wake up the people who DECIDE what's legal...
(yeah, yeah, hacking bad. What about whe those sites figure out it's so much more profitable to push malware? It's dangerous to many more people, even though the overwhelming majority of them are too stupid to notice or care.)
AK-47s are the toughest piece of machinery ever made, that counts over two parts. There's that funny demo experiment with guns : You take a set of 100 soldiers, place them in a square of 10x10, and have them trample mud where th guns are. After 10 minutes of walking in place, they go elsewhere, you take the gun from the mud and shoot. AK-47s and FN FALs are about the only ones that can still shoot straight after that. Now go try with that plastic M-16 toy...
But I hijack the thread just to post some Obvious Common Sense : There are no parallel universes. Only this one.
If you mean "existing" in the meaning of "it exists, I can measure it, see it, touch it, at least determine its effects under conditions", then, no, there only exists ONE universe. You're in it. Deal with it.
What's this "wormhole" thing anyway? A concept based on misunderstanding an incomplete theory, like String Crackpot Hypothesis "couldn't understand that bounded waves act in a way that's not like matter at all, so we'll call the minimum amount of oscillation 'a quantum' and treat it just as if it was a particle, so as to obfuscate all of physics for the next few generations".
The MacBook pro costs so much more than what it's worth, it's ridiculous.
Just as far removed from reality as a phone that YOU subsidize $200, precisely to get locked-in!
Or, as far removed from reality as the price of SMS. They cost zero to the carrier. ZERO. If the only money in SMS was from the crappy ringtones, logos, "dating" services, the telcos would still be insanely profitable.
Th plan I'd buy is "one card at 5 euro every year for unlimited phone and SMS service." That pays the independant local small companies that maintain the networks. It's very possible to design antennas that need strictly no maintenance whatsoever for one thousand years anyway... and certainly cost no more than $8/yrs * number_of_customers.
If only is was possible to connect to their networks with hacked devices that pay what's the communication's worth, that is, in the Free Market, its COST, that is : ZERO. Oh if only. Just to teach them.
Is phreaking possible with GSMs? I know for a fact that "unlockers" would be very, very happy to "unlock" phoes so that they cost nothing to use. Tlcos can't do shit against all those Pakistanis and turks everywhere with their little cyberpunk shops where they hack phones and file numbers off stolen PDAs... How much would you pay them to hack your phone so that calling and texting costs nothing? The first week any of them figures that out, phoning and texting will become free for so many, that those telcos extortionists will be forced to change their prices to reflect MORE OF REALITY. Thank you.
Yeah, right. An Ee PC in a store? They're only on eBay and more expensive than MacBook Pros, for what's in them. Wake me up when they REALLY cost $200 and they're REALLY available.
You know what? They're a fucking vaporware, a PR move for Asus, NO store anywhere in the world will ever sell a computer that's lighter, more silent, and has better battery life than ALL those $2,000 overpriced turds just beside them.
3500000 Eee PCs in 2008? Why, there are THAT many bloggers who'll get one for "review"?
Still, the law is what the law is. People wishing to smoke marijuana despite it being illegal don't openly flaunt it, walking down the street with a joint in their mouth. Yet, that's exactly what sites like Pirate Bay were doing with their web sites. I smoke joints in the street all the time, flaunting my contempt for each and every law that is not a direct corollary of "Do Not Harm Others".
More like "Annoyance #2 : there is no way in Hell to make my webcam work." "Annoyance #45 : there is no way in Hell to make my CPU temperature sensors work." "Annoyance #72 : there is no way in Hell to make my CPU's automatic speed reducing work." "Annoyance #85 : Some morons thought that it might be a good idea to run drivers in user-space, making the devices unusable. Like Hard Drivesz in NTFS, with their 1 MB/s throughput - there is no DMA on USB if the FS driver is in user-space. Right? Right? Right? Then, search for something named SalvageNTFS, and go make a KERNEL driver NOW."
I haven't RTFA. Don't need to, it's just evident where the non-activated iPhones are! They were all sold on eBay, and the rest are gathering dust because I could not buy one. $600 = 400 euro, now go see on eBay how much they really cost on the OPEN market.
The only provider of iPhones, the only desirable smartphone, are selling it at a delirious price point, and then, the people who buy them for selling, to fulfill the *demand* don't want to lose money on them, thus, they sell the iPhones for much much more, making them unaffordable.
Simple enough. If Apple want to see activated iPhones, they just have to sell them at a right price. But that will not happen. Steve Jobs prefers to serve "niche needs" that are everyone's needs, and let everyone buy the cheap crap rip-offs.
Without that "high margin or death" mentality, Apple would be bigger than Matsushita now.
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A 14 yo prankster with enough skillz can direct an existing botnet to conduct the attack... They're all controlled by an IRC-like protocol, and if they're encrypted, that's what a man-in-the-middle attack based on IP spoof is for. Botnets don't have security strong enough to withstand that.
An UPS that can receive packets ... No. No, no, no. It's dead easy to construct a circuit with an absolutely reliable breaker, one that shuts it off as soon as the temp goes above some threshold. If there wasn't one in the UPS, then the engineer who designed it should be shot on sight!
Yeah, but there are problems with FreeNet :
1/ It's slow
2/ No one uses it
3/ No one uses it because it's so slow
4/ It's so slow because no one uses it
5/ It's not preinstalled on all computers
6/ Its installation is as much jumping through hoops as a first use of Windows Vista
So yeah, backups on FreeNet is a good idea, but hosting the main site? Not if they want to be acessed sometimes.
I'd rather d/l the full archive off The Pirate Bay or Mininova, though. A lifetime of reading about "why all the systems should all be completely transparent to any one in the general public".
Security begins by looking at the application, get requirements and translate thm to code. The only network I/O a browser has to do is "send request, get reply". That problem is solved. Then, "render". Okay, parse the response and translate to screen. Solved. What security problems again?
If I gathered this right, then Google can parse the content behind the links they serve, to the point of ientifying the drive-bys? Okay, so why not block them at that point? And why not throw enough CPU power to parse the results before they're returned, so as to protect the users? Yeah, tag this "whatcouldpossiblygowrong".
What, then, about a browser that can identify a drive-by, by pre-parsing the content behind the links it shows. Heuristics would do that Real Well, too; I can think of a zillion methods to do Just That off the top of my head. "If it ends up writing to disk, don't." How hard is THAT?
"Yes but it uses vulnerabilities..." Yes, and? Run the browser in a VM, then, and meta-parse if it ever tries to write to a part of the disk that it should not access.
"That would be slow..." Well, seeing how many people use Azureus, a program's performance does not affect adoption. (Not that a browser in Java would be a good idea, unless you've got an FPGA wired to run Java bytecode natively. "Java sucks because Java is slow. Java is not for the desktop, because it is too slow. The desktop needs zero latency, never wait. Java can't be fast enough unless you've got an FPGA wired to run Java bytecode natively." (Repeat until you got it through your head. Azureus is painful to use even with a Raptor HD and a Q6600@3GHz and DDR3@1333MHz, and there exists nothing faster as of now. No, not the dual quad-core Xeon systems, they're stuck with DDR2@667MHz.)
I can't even begin to understand how it is possible that browsers suck that much at security. All the problems they have are long-solved, or can all be solved in under five seconds by thinking about them. Let's fix the whole lot of them right now, mkay?
-What does a browser do?
-"Send request, get reply, render."
So how is it possible that the *browser* can register system-wide extensions? THAT does not parse in MY brain. Speaking of IE, just a thought : IE could render URLs in a definable way in the address bar. Now who could have ever been stupid enough to think that was a good idea? "IE : the browser with phishing support".
And if Firefox is not more secure, then how? Why? Did Netscape suck that much? (Yes, I know : "yes".) Just re-write the whole thing from scratch then, it's not as if it was hard. "Send request, get reply, render."
What do you mean? Of couse AutoPlay and autorun are separate features! One is an annoying screen that tells me "I've noticed that you inserted a CD with no autorun, let me nag you about what to do" (maybe let me use it as I would?) and the other is a Goatse-like security black hole that would not be worse if it had been inserted just to execute arbitrary code without notice.
Flamebait? Okay, tell me how I can inject trojan or viruses into my Mac only by attaching devices to it? There's no Goatse-like opening "as soon as something is inserted, check for an autorun script and run it".
Buy Intel, install OSX. Flamebait, really.
I'm only ever using either a Maintosh or Hackintosh.
Lol. Keep with the time, here's a tech dating back to the 40s and NOW on sale for real people too: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/20/0429200
Yay! Now at least it's a certain fact set in stone that Nikon will not implement that in less than 20 years anyway). I'm SO going to buy a D70...
Sites like Yhoo and the NYT have gazillions of money to keep afloat "until ad-based revenue finally makes it profitable". Which it is, only because advertisers pay much more than what the ad space is worth, as demonstrated in the study referenced in TFA. This study just shows that the people who buy ads are wasting their money unless they're doing pr0n.
Yes. Seems the US of A is one of those countries where an uniform is a license to steal.
Dark matter is simply the mass of the error margin
"Our theories predict that there is some quantity of matter in that galaxy, but we only measured a fraction of it. Either we're wrong in the estimate of mass, or in the theory that predicts the behaviour of galaxies."
This is called Common Sense. Discrepancy == incomplete theory or wrong calculations.
Those checklists we apply to spam could be extended to "Generic Form for Internet Abuse" to say why it can't be addressed...
... add more to taste.
A *human* to proofread all the domai rtegistration at a certal authority : will not work. Off the top of my head :
1. Too expensive
2. Feel-good measure
3. The human will be replaced by a script in no time
4. Why should we trust you and your servers?
5. Microsoft will not put up with it
Captcha.
Yeah, I know, they don't work (well-enough anymore).
You got a better idea?
1. Everywhere that trademark is protected
2. See 1
3. There should be an ICANN website where you veto typosquatters - that is, the squatter sites would be removed from the TLD as soon as they get enough votes.
Those sites are a real pain. Ayone here has the skillz to deface some of them so that they host child porn on their front pages? THAT would wake up the people who DECIDE what's legal...
(yeah, yeah, hacking bad. What about whe those sites figure out it's so much more profitable to push malware? It's dangerous to many more people, even though the overwhelming majority of them are too stupid to notice or care.)
You don't use adblock?
Moron.
Ad hominem? Yes. But, only morons *don't* use adblock.
AK-47s are the toughest piece of machinery ever made, that counts over two parts.
There's that funny demo experiment with guns :
You take a set of 100 soldiers, place them in a square of 10x10, and have them trample mud where th guns are. After 10 minutes of walking in place, they go elsewhere, you take the gun from the mud and shoot. AK-47s and FN FALs are about the only ones that can still shoot straight after that.
Now go try with that plastic M-16 toy...
Yeah, that "snot-green" colour. He meant "contrast", not "color".
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YOU STUPID MORON! CAN'T YOU FUCKING PARSE WHAT PEOPLE MEAN?
(Troll, Flamebait)
Thank you. I didn't RTFA either.
But I hijack the thread just to post some Obvious Common Sense :
There are no parallel universes. Only this one.
If you mean "existing" in the meaning of "it exists, I can measure it, see it, touch it, at least determine its effects under conditions", then, no, there only exists ONE universe. You're in it. Deal with it.
What's this "wormhole" thing anyway? A concept based on misunderstanding an incomplete theory, like String Crackpot Hypothesis "couldn't understand that bounded waves act in a way that's not like matter at all, so we'll call the minimum amount of oscillation 'a quantum' and treat it just as if it was a particle, so as to obfuscate all of physics for the next few generations".
Wormhole. Gonna read the article ayway.
The MacBook pro costs so much more than what it's worth, it's ridiculous.
Just as far removed from reality as a phone that YOU subsidize $200, precisely to get locked-in!
Or, as far removed from reality as the price of SMS. They cost zero to the carrier. ZERO. If the only money in SMS was from the crappy ringtones, logos, "dating" services, the telcos would still be insanely profitable.
Th plan I'd buy is "one card at 5 euro every year for unlimited phone and SMS service." That pays the independant local small companies that maintain the networks. It's very possible to design antennas that need strictly no maintenance whatsoever for one thousand years anyway... and certainly cost no more than $8/yrs * number_of_customers.
If only is was possible to connect to their networks with hacked devices that pay what's the communication's worth, that is, in the Free Market, its COST, that is : ZERO. Oh if only. Just to teach them.
Is phreaking possible with GSMs? I know for a fact that "unlockers" would be very, very happy to "unlock" phoes so that they cost nothing to use. Tlcos can't do shit against all those Pakistanis and turks everywhere with their little cyberpunk shops where they hack phones and file numbers off stolen PDAs... How much would you pay them to hack your phone so that calling and texting costs nothing? The first week any of them figures that out, phoning and texting will become free for so many, that those telcos extortionists will be forced to change their prices to reflect MORE OF REALITY. Thank you.
Yeah, right. An Ee PC in a store? They're only on eBay and more expensive than MacBook Pros, for what's in them. Wake me up when they REALLY cost $200 and they're REALLY available.
You know what? They're a fucking vaporware, a PR move for Asus, NO store anywhere in the world will ever sell a computer that's lighter, more silent, and has better battery life than ALL those $2,000 overpriced turds just beside them.
3500000 Eee PCs in 2008? Why, there are THAT many bloggers who'll get one for "review"?
I want one so bad it hurts.
More like "Annoyance #2 : there is no way in Hell to make my webcam work."
"Annoyance #45 : there is no way in Hell to make my CPU temperature sensors work."
"Annoyance #72 : there is no way in Hell to make my CPU's automatic speed reducing work."
"Annoyance #85 : Some morons thought that it might be a good idea to run drivers in user-space, making the devices unusable. Like Hard Drivesz in NTFS, with their 1 MB/s throughput - there is no DMA on USB if the FS driver is in user-space. Right? Right? Right? Then, search for something named SalvageNTFS, and go make a KERNEL driver NOW."
frost piss thread, must hijack.
I haven't RTFA. Don't need to, it's just evident where the non-activated iPhones are! They were all sold on eBay, and the rest are gathering dust because I could not buy one. $600 = 400 euro, now go see on eBay how much they really cost on the OPEN market.
The only provider of iPhones, the only desirable smartphone, are selling it at a delirious price point, and then, the people who buy them for selling, to fulfill the *demand* don't want to lose money on them, thus, they sell the iPhones for much much more, making them unaffordable.
Simple enough. If Apple want to see activated iPhones, they just have to sell them at a right price. But that will not happen. Steve Jobs prefers to serve "niche needs" that are everyone's needs, and let everyone buy the cheap crap rip-offs.
Without that "high margin or death" mentality, Apple would be bigger than Matsushita now.