All of these articles that I have been reading lately discuss Code Red and Code Red II in the past tense. Its still out there folks and its still attacking systems. I just ran a scan of my log file for one of my systems and the following IPs attempted to attack the webserver (which is running Linux/Apache and doing just fine):
216.175.70.25 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:04:16:29 PST
61.129.37.165 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:10:47:55 PST
216.254.153.209 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:13:58:40 PST
62.110.109.5 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:14:01:40 PST
216.75.67.200 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:14:25:52 PST
216.210.235.68 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:14:32:04 PST
216.254.2.43 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:19:13:21 PST
195.128.198.2 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:20:40:38 PST
200.204.61.28 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:21:09:45 PST
ip244.54.136.216.in-addr.arpa which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:22:30:24 PST
209.88.144.24 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:22:52:19 PST
209.88.144.24 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:22:53:36 PST
216.72.50.157 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:22:54:32 PST
61.175.90.219 which attacked at 01/Sep/2001:01:18:38 PST
24.176.223.88 which attacked at 01/Sep/2001:01:25:49 PST
216.224.75.34 which attacked at 01/Sep/2001:01:49:07 PST
212.38.187.178 which attacked at 01/Sep/2001:02:45:22 PST
Now the number of attacks goes down on the weekenend and up during the week, which suggests that most of these addresses (if not all of them) are simply DHCP desktop boxes run by morons who are too stupid to download and install a patch that has been widely mentioned in the news. But the fact remains that this worm is out there and active on a ton of systems and should *not* be spoken of in the past tense.
If they intercept the images that a person downloads from a pay service - or the text articles or whathaveyou, does that mean they are illegally accessing that service?
I mean if I pay good money to access a porn^H^H^H^H^H pay news service and receive the benefit of that service, how can they legallly be allowed to (presumably) gain the same benefit from that service without paying for it?
I mean the Republicans paid a lot of good money for the last presidential election, otherwise whats Dubya doing in the whitehouse? Its not like he actually got the most votes or anything...
SCA Blacksmiths have been playing with the folded metal style of blade, commonly called Damascene steel for over a decade now, probably more.
This is just another case of a scientist claiming to have discovered something that has been common knowledge for a while. And then patenting it to try to make cash - so much for the scientist part I guess.
I have read in depth instructions on how to produce folded steel weapons - and I have met folks who have done so and seen the results - wavy pattern on the blade and all. This guy might have discovered a refinement on the technique but he sure didn't discover anything new that hadn't already been rediscovered previously.
If you are installing Win2k server on a box, you get IIS by default - and its enabled. You have to actually go and disable it. This is probably the biggest problem, in that every copy of Win2k server installed on any box is also a webserver. What do you want to design badly today?
I didn't get my daily feed of juicy documents from that Sircam newsgroup I somehow seem to have joined - maybe its because the Code Red worm has knocked out all of the poster's Exchange servers...
Good News, the only problem is...
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Adobe Backs Down
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now we don't get the opportunity to test the validity of the DMCA in the court system. Of course, I don't want to wish that on poor Dmitri. He has been abused enough by the FBI/Adobe in this matter.
This is probably why Adobe wanted the EFF to delay protesting though - they knew they were going to drop the charges and recommend he be released but had to go through the formality of meeting with the EFF to make sure they got the agreement of the other side first. Glad to see the protesters went out anyways - nothing shapes corporate opinion more than the potential of lost sales due to bad publicity.
The US tourist industry would suffer considerably if every visitor were subjected to summary arrest by the FBI on trumped up charges under a law that completely favours corporations. I would hardly call arresting a foreign visitor like this, no consequences. Think of where the guy is from, he might be frightened for his life right now, fearing the sorts of things that used to happen to prisoners in Lubyanka prison. Even today, Russian police are not the most gentle of folks.
I would say this has at least the potential to do some serious mental harm - I hope that if they do drop the charges he turns around and sues them for wrongful arrest.
I am so thankful I live up here in Canada, where so far we have avoided laws such as the DCMA - but then we are starting to emulate the worst aspects of the US (while ignoring the better ones completely of course) more and more each day, so I had better enjoy it while it lasts...
Ah, but with MSDN you have the right to legally use the software you receive for purposes of development only, plus I have a feeling that the FreeBSD subscription is going to be somewhat cheaper than an MSDN subscription.
Just thought I would let you know that this is a link to that horrendous fucking image of some complete looser's asshole, in case you don't want to see it - I know I sure never want to see it again.
The problem here is that you are making the assumption that the average user *can* distinguish between a regular hyperlink and a smart tag. I think you are being overly optimistic about the savvy of the average user - I am certain I will receive countless emails from users who clicked on a smart tag on my website and when it was broken, contacted me not microsoft.
The majority of users cannot tell you what browser they are using, don't know what an OS is, or what one they are using - and if asked probably get the two confused. They sure as hell won't recognize that there are more than one type of hyperlink on a document.
I will also assume that smart tags are turned on by default - the average user will not know how to turn them off, why they should, or what the "smart tags" button refers to. The fact that I can turn them off via a META tag is almost acceptable - I will be including this in *all* webpages I design for myself, and recommending it as mandatory to all my clients as well. However, I should not have to include a tag to turn them *off*, I should have to include a tag to turn them *on*.
The mere fact that Microsoft can, by virtue of their dictatorshi^H^H^H, er Monopol^H^H^H, I mean innovation foist this *feature* on the majority of web users regardless of what the content generators on a website want is or should be completely illegal. I look forward to the lawsuits I hope will arise - although since the US has such a pathetic Justice system at the moment ("The best judges money can buy") I don't expect anything will come from it. Microsoft has the money and they will no doubt win any court case they get involved in.
Sadly, since MS dominates the browser market, I cannot consider including code to ban IE from my website without eliminating 98% of my traffic.
I am all for freedom of speech, but since the bastard who posted this supposed reference to a screen shot has provided no relevant content to add to the discussion and has instead posted a link to some commercial site, I would like to suggest this be deleted from the slashdot messagebase - and perhaps the user who posted as well.
Words like "to", "that" and "the" are known as Stopwords in the search engine biz. They are not indexed because in and of themselves they contain no valuable content. They are only valuable as part of a search phrase where they lend some additional meaning to the content around them. No search engine will include these stopwords in its index. Google would not be able to survive on a mere 4000 machines, it would require 20,000 or so were it to index stopwords as well.
When you do a search for a phrase - indicating so however that search engine prefers the syntax,usually just by putting it in quotes - the search engine does look for placement usually, even if it ignores the stopwords. So the number of words between two indexed keywords should be considered when it is searching the index.
As for the way the interface works - it differs from search engine to search engine, but I would agree that it ought to support simple Booleans and probably phrasing in the manner of mathematical statements using brackets.
I looked on the mirror sites listing - it lists one mirror site and there is nothing appearing in the 4.3-Release directory. Was someone a bit premature in posting this to/.?
Is effectively what Monsanto is claiming. Because some idiot granted them the patent on genetically modified canola, they own the rights to a type of *life* in perpetuity? This seems ludicrous to me, obviously we must start campaigning to deny the legality of any patent that relates to living being or DNA.
For instance, life evolves naturally. If natural evolution were to produce the same result as genetic modification, would it invalidate the patent? How would we ever know? Or would the patent holder suddenly gain the ownership of an entire species?
I am very sad to see the courts make this ruling, particularly as a I am a proud Canadian.
There is an excellent CD production made at Simon Fraser University in BC, called The Prime Ministers of Canada. The website is a great example of the use of Flash and standard HTML, the CD was produced using Macromedia Director and uses some very innovative and complex Lingo programming (a friend of mine was the chief Lingo programmer on the project which why I know about it). It forms part of the Canadian Encyclopedia World Edition and can be purchased online at Chapters.ca or Indigo.ca
I would suggest you check out the site and decide what you think.
If you need to find more relevant documents on specific subjects, I recommend using topic-specific search engines. I maintain one for all subjects relating to Paganism and Wicca on my Omphalos website. True, the site submissions have to be manually approved and this can lead to backlogs of site submissions, but since I spider all of the websites I have included in the directory (totalling over 140,000 webpages so far) the relevancy of any search results is raised by the lack of clutter from unrelated websites.
Similarly, if you are searching for information on Space Exploration try Spaceref where I used to work. Again, the directory is manually generated, and the results are greatly improved overall.
Nothing guarantees improved relevancy (for general purposes nothing beats Google in this respect), but using specialty search sites helps immensely in many cases.
I too applied for that category more than a year ago, and despite the fact that I am both a PHP programmer, and worked for a Canadian Search Engine called Maplesquare as the resident "Cybrarian" in charge of maintaining the database of links and descriptions, I was summarily refused.
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All of these articles that I have been reading lately discuss Code Red and Code Red II in the past tense. Its still out there folks and its still attacking systems. I just ran a scan of my log file for one of my systems and the following IPs attempted to attack the webserver (which is running Linux/Apache and doing just fine):
216.175.70.25 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:04:16:29 PST
61.129.37.165 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:10:47:55 PST
216.254.153.209 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:13:58:40 PST
62.110.109.5 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:14:01:40 PST
216.75.67.200 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:14:25:52 PST
216.210.235.68 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:14:32:04 PST
216.254.2.43 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:19:13:21 PST
195.128.198.2 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:20:40:38 PST
200.204.61.28 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:21:09:45 PST
ip244.54.136.216.in-addr.arpa which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:22:30:24 PST
209.88.144.24 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:22:52:19 PST
209.88.144.24 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:22:53:36 PST
216.72.50.157 which attacked at 31/Aug/2001:22:54:32 PST
61.175.90.219 which attacked at 01/Sep/2001:01:18:38 PST
24.176.223.88 which attacked at 01/Sep/2001:01:25:49 PST
216.224.75.34 which attacked at 01/Sep/2001:01:49:07 PST
212.38.187.178 which attacked at 01/Sep/2001:02:45:22 PST
Now the number of attacks goes down on the weekenend and up during the week, which suggests that most of these addresses (if not all of them) are simply DHCP desktop boxes run by morons who are too stupid to download and install a patch that has been widely mentioned in the news. But the fact remains that this worm is out there and active on a ton of systems and should *not* be spoken of in the past tense.
Just my 0.45 Cents Canadian...
If they intercept the images that a person downloads from a pay service - or the text articles or whathaveyou, does that mean they are illegally accessing that service?
I mean if I pay good money to access a porn^H^H^H^H^H pay news service and receive the benefit of that service, how can they legallly be allowed to (presumably) gain the same benefit from that service without paying for it?
Why, that ought to be illegal...
Anyone who links to software which allows you to copy music files is breaking the law.
Anyone who wrote software that allows you to copy music in another country where its legal is also breaking the law
This discussion is probably illegal because it mentions copying music
Are you kidding, weren't you paying attention in the last election:
if($gore > $bush)
{
echo "Bush Wins\n";
} elseif($bush > $gore) {
echo "Bush Wins\n";
} else {
recount_until_bush_wins();
}
I mean the Republicans paid a lot of good money for the last presidential election, otherwise whats Dubya doing in the whitehouse? Its not like he actually got the most votes or anything...
SCA Blacksmiths have been playing with the folded metal style of blade, commonly called Damascene steel for over a decade now, probably more.
This is just another case of a scientist claiming to have discovered something that has been common knowledge for a while. And then patenting it to try to make cash - so much for the scientist part I guess.
I have read in depth instructions on how to produce folded steel weapons - and I have met folks who have done so and seen the results - wavy pattern on the blade and all. This guy might have discovered a refinement on the technique but he sure didn't discover anything new that hadn't already been rediscovered previously.
You could try these folks. By all reports they offer a very decent product and high quality services.
If you are installing Win2k server on a box, you get IIS by default - and its enabled. You have to actually go and disable it. This is probably the biggest problem, in that every copy of Win2k server installed on any box is also a webserver. What do you want to design badly today?
I didn't get my daily feed of juicy documents from that Sircam newsgroup I somehow seem to have joined - maybe its because the Code Red worm has knocked out all of the poster's Exchange servers...
now we don't get the opportunity to test the validity of the DMCA in the court system. Of course, I don't want to wish that on poor Dmitri. He has been abused enough by the FBI/Adobe in this matter.
This is probably why Adobe wanted the EFF to delay protesting though - they knew they were going to drop the charges and recommend he be released but had to go through the formality of meeting with the EFF to make sure they got the agreement of the other side first. Glad to see the protesters went out anyways - nothing shapes corporate opinion more than the potential of lost sales due to bad publicity.
The US tourist industry would suffer considerably if every visitor were subjected to summary arrest by the FBI on trumped up charges under a law that completely favours corporations. I would hardly call arresting a foreign visitor like this, no consequences. Think of where the guy is from, he might be frightened for his life right now, fearing the sorts of things that used to happen to prisoners in Lubyanka prison. Even today, Russian police are not the most gentle of folks.
I would say this has at least the potential to do some serious mental harm - I hope that if they do drop the charges he turns around and sues them for wrongful arrest.
I am so thankful I live up here in Canada, where so far we have avoided laws such as the DCMA - but then we are starting to emulate the worst aspects of the US (while ignoring the better ones completely of course) more and more each day, so I had better enjoy it while it lasts...
Ah, but with MSDN you have the right to legally use the software you receive for purposes of development only, plus I have a feeling that the FreeBSD subscription is going to be somewhat cheaper than an MSDN subscription.
Just had to point out that the island is named Devon not Devos as the article has it.
There is an article on the robot here on Spaceref.com.
Just thought I would let you know that this is a link to that horrendous fucking image of some complete looser's asshole, in case you don't want to see it - I know I sure never want to see it again.
The problem here is that you are making the assumption that the average user *can* distinguish between a regular hyperlink and a smart tag. I think you are being overly optimistic about the savvy of the average user - I am certain I will receive countless emails from users who clicked on a smart tag on my website and when it was broken, contacted me not microsoft.
The majority of users cannot tell you what browser they are using, don't know what an OS is, or what one they are using - and if asked probably get the two confused. They sure as hell won't recognize that there are more than one type of hyperlink on a document.
I will also assume that smart tags are turned on by default - the average user will not know how to turn them off, why they should, or what the "smart tags" button refers to. The fact that I can turn them off via a META tag is almost acceptable - I will be including this in *all* webpages I design for myself, and recommending it as mandatory to all my clients as well. However, I should not have to include a tag to turn them *off*, I should have to include a tag to turn them *on*.
The mere fact that Microsoft can, by virtue of their dictatorshi^H^H^H, er Monopol^H^H^H, I mean innovation foist this *feature* on the majority of web users regardless of what the content generators on a website want is or should be completely illegal. I look forward to the lawsuits I hope will arise - although since the US has such a pathetic Justice system at the moment ("The best judges money can buy") I don't expect anything will come from it. Microsoft has the money and they will no doubt win any court case they get involved in.
Sadly, since MS dominates the browser market, I cannot consider including code to ban IE from my website without eliminating 98% of my traffic.
I am all for freedom of speech, but since the bastard who posted this supposed reference to a screen shot has provided no relevant content to add to the discussion and has instead posted a link to some commercial site, I would like to suggest this be deleted from the slashdot messagebase - and perhaps the user who posted as well.
Words like "to", "that" and "the" are known as Stopwords in the search engine biz. They are not indexed because in and of themselves they contain no valuable content. They are only valuable as part of a search phrase where they lend some additional meaning to the content around them. No search engine will include these stopwords in its index. Google would not be able to survive on a mere 4000 machines, it would require 20,000 or so were it to index stopwords as well.
When you do a search for a phrase - indicating so however that search engine prefers the syntax,usually just by putting it in quotes - the search engine does look for placement usually, even if it ignores the stopwords. So the number of words between two indexed keywords should be considered when it is searching the index.
As for the way the interface works - it differs from search engine to search engine, but I would agree that it ought to support simple Booleans and probably phrasing in the manner of mathematical statements using brackets.
I submitted this story yesterday and was rejected.
2001-05-01 23:24:00 Another Major Security Hole in IIS (articles,microsoft) (rejected)
I looked on the mirror sites listing - it lists one mirror site and there is nothing appearing in the 4.3-Release directory. Was someone a bit premature in posting this to /.?
In case you haven't noticed, Mir fell already :)
Is effectively what Monsanto is claiming. Because some idiot granted them the patent on genetically modified canola, they own the rights to a type of *life* in perpetuity? This seems ludicrous to me, obviously we must start campaigning to deny the legality of any patent that relates to living being or DNA.
For instance, life evolves naturally. If natural evolution were to produce the same result as genetic modification, would it invalidate the patent? How would we ever know? Or would the patent holder suddenly gain the ownership of an entire species?
I am very sad to see the courts make this ruling, particularly as a I am a proud Canadian.
There is an excellent CD production made at Simon Fraser University in BC, called The Prime Ministers of Canada. The website is a great example of the use of Flash and standard HTML, the CD was produced using Macromedia Director and uses some very innovative and complex Lingo programming (a friend of mine was the chief Lingo programmer on the project which why I know about it). It forms part of the Canadian Encyclopedia World Edition and can be purchased online at Chapters.ca or Indigo.ca
I would suggest you check out the site and decide what you think.
If you need to find more relevant documents on specific subjects, I recommend using topic-specific search engines. I maintain one for all subjects relating to Paganism and Wicca on my Omphalos website. True, the site submissions have to be manually approved and this can lead to backlogs of site submissions, but since I spider all of the websites I have included in the directory (totalling over 140,000 webpages so far) the relevancy of any search results is raised by the lack of clutter from unrelated websites.
Similarly, if you are searching for information on Space Exploration try Spaceref where I used to work. Again, the directory is manually generated, and the results are greatly improved overall.
Nothing guarantees improved relevancy (for general purposes nothing beats Google in this respect), but using specialty search sites helps immensely in many cases.
I too applied for that category more than a year ago, and despite the fact that I am both a PHP programmer, and worked for a Canadian Search Engine called Maplesquare as the resident "Cybrarian" in charge of maintaining the database of links and descriptions, I was summarily refused.
No kidding. Sluggy is an awesome cartoon. I am highly addicted to it, and enjoy it far more than userfriendly to be honest.
Without colour it won't support Pron. No pron, and it will never be a success. After all, it has driven the internet to its current state... :)