I think the real problem is that all the kids that watched star wars when they were little grew up to be cynical assholes. Yes, every movie sucks, except the ones you watched when you were a kid, I get it.
If you look at it with fresh eyes, the original three had a weaker plot line, worse acting, worse special effects, and significantly worse choreography. C3PO and R2D2 were still there, as the robotic comic relief (to sell toys), and they were still annoying as hell. Maybe it's cool that Lucas originally did so much with such a small budget, and you somehow expect quality to scale linearly as budget increases, but it didn't turn out that way, and saying a movie is better because it is older and had a smaller budget is a pretty weak argument.
Keep in mind that every star wars movie was a kids movie. Kids were the target audience. If you were a kid when you watch one of the movies, you probably liked it, if you were not a kid, it was probably boring and predictable.
Why do they need to share it with agencies? Try to make a search query over SSL, no major search engine supports it. That means numerous parties in between you and the search engines are easily able to track your searches. The only search engine I know of that will let you do an ssl search is scroogle.
The crazy thing is that you can surf google via SSL all you want, but the moment you try to make send a query, it will downgrade your connection to HTTP.
No, phish kits are pretty simple, and can be bought pretty cheaply. This isn't really about "hacking" anyone, it's more about knowing the most common places that phish kits keep their passwords.txt or whatever. AutoWhaler is like nikto for phishing websites:-)
Seriously though, I doubt it will get much use beyond academic, since I doubt there are many hackers out there that want to share their findings with whoever it is that runs that site.
Would be nice wouldn't it? Unfortunately the only way I have seen multiple monitor setups working is each workspace just gets much bigger, and shares all the monitors. For example, I start playing a movie in workspace 3, then drag the movie to the top of my workspace to where my tv is, then full screen. Then, when I flip to workspace 2 to check my email, my movie gets flipped away from also, until I move back to workspace 3 again. Not the way I would have expected it to work, but I have just been getting used to it.
jeff321: Blah, try naming a single person who got in legal hot water by releasing code.
johannes: The name of the game is PoC or GTFO. Don't be another one of those useless researchers who talks about how they can own everything, but if they release code, somehow that will help the bad guys. Those researchers often don't know what they are talking about , and even if they do, 10 years later and people still aren't protected. Dump it to full disclosure, release it on your website, or hold it for shmoocon or something. Do it however you want, but you should release it. If it really is as awesome as you say it is, it will make the world a better and safer place, if not, it may inspire someone else to go the next step.
Exactly. I'm pretty sure the ubuntu build engineers know a bit more about optimizing their builds than most gentoo users. The ubuntu security team also reevaluates security trade-offs for every release, and adjusts which security flags they compile with accordingly. Not sure if other distros have caught up, but for a while ubuntu was the only distro that gave users a hardened and optimized build environment by default.
Reversed on what now? I followed he policies and ideals throughout the campaign, and while I do not agree with all of them, he has been doing pretty much exactly what he said he would be doing. For example, he was never an advocate of gay marriage, and has always said that we should be increasing troop levels in Afghanistan. But still, I hear over and over again about how he is breaking his promises.
Thank you. It takes maybe 3 seconds of glancing at that article to see how much sensationalist bullshit the headline is. I spoke with Obama personally about privacy, net neutrality, and telecom immunity last August. He may not know the field as deep as people like us do, but he really does understand the core issues. Just look at how straightforward he was with Hu Jintao last week, telling him directly that China should stop filtering their Internet, and announcing in his live speech that free expression of dissidence is a critical part of a successful nation.
I really don't agree with many of the things he has done while in office, but I do think he is doing exactly what he said he would be doing from the day he started running.
They aren't "dissing" political opponents, they are correcting lies. The whole "obama vs fox" drama is a complete fabrication of fox news designed to drum up ratings, so stop acting like they are some sort of victim in all this.
A couple weeks ago, Glenn Beck said that if net neutrality passes (as if it wasn't the status quo), then it will allow the government to censor conservative websites. It's all a complete farce, how can you possibly listen to a self purported news source that is so throughly bought and paid for by corporate lobbyists?
Meh, most superhero powers derive from some sort of telekinesis, and bank on the idea that some day, people are going to evolve fancy telekinesis neurons that are able to interact with remote particles.
Bullshit? Of course! But never impossible.
There have been reports of telekineses since the dawn of man, and while I don't have those particular powers, and I doubt anyone I know has those powers, you show a distinct lack of imagination by saying that it's impossible. Telekinetic neurons are no less realistic than tractor beams or warp speed, so quit pretending that your make believe fantasy world is any more "realistic" than anyone else's.
Also, in heroes in particular, overuse of powers does exhaust the person, so they aren't drawing from some zero point energy vortex etc.
The strange thing is that I watched all the nasa people doing their talk show rounds saying that there is no planet X and it's not going to crash into earth, but the 2012 movie had nothing to do with that.
*spoiler etc (not sure if you really care)*
In the 2012 movie, a massive surge in solar flare activity causes some sort of neutrino spike in the core of the earth. This heats up the core to the point where the crust starts melting. The crust gets thinner and thinner which increases seismic activity, and eventually, California sinks, Yellowstone erupts, the poles flip, and all the continents rearrange themselves in the course of a 48 hour catastrophic event. Not quite scientifically sound, but far more realistic than some planet X scenario.
You know that scene in action movies where people run out of a building as it's exploding, and at the last second they jump in the air as the shockwave of the explosion pushes them out of the way just in time? Imagine that continuously for an hour and a half. There is a part where they are flying an airplane trying to escape LA, and a subway train flies out of the broken ground right at them. If you think of the movie as a comedy, it's much more enjoyable, and just about as epic as snakes on a plane.
The way I mostly see it used is "0day" is a feature of a an exploit in which the vendor has either not been informed of the bug, or is refusing to patch because they believe they have properly covered up the bugs existence, or that the bug is not dangerous, so not a priority.
It's referring to 0day in the past tense. *confirmed* the first 0day
Also 139/445 blockage really doesn't matter. Workstation attacks are generally part of the "spread" portion of attack in the whole penetrate -> (log -> spread)* -> goal -> exit model of attack
If anyone wants to watch these exploits being written live, you can follow spendergrsec on twitter. http://twitter.com/spendergrsec
The rate at which spender has been cranking out kernel exploits is insane. Also it's someone who uses twitter for something for more than informing us what he's eating or when he's pooping, so that's always a plus.
Installed 8.10 last night. So far I have found that my macbook won't suspend, and brightness controls are completely broken. Also all attempts to install full disk crypto ended up with botched grub installs that failed to boot. The frustrating thing is that this all worked out of the box 2 years ago, so I really don't know what the problem is.
I also find it very annoying that they switched the middle and right click on the touchpad, and in 9.04 they disabled update notifications in the tray (huge security risk imo).
I disagree, I think this planet has more than enough nutrients to support a pile at least 50 feet thick of humans covering the earth.
We already are doing a pretty good job covering the earth, and we haven't really even started mining underground, volcanic, or seabed areas that we know are packed with huge amounts of nutrients. The reason is simply because it isn't worth it yet. Skyscraper farming can even yield huge amounts of food, with very little transportation overhead, but we don't need it yet. When we do need those things, they will be built.
The world's hunger problem is not an overpopulation problem, it's an economic imbalance problem. When certain people are under represented in a capitalist society, shit gets bad, and resources are mis-allocated. That's where democracy is supposed to step in. Even with a guy like Obama, the voter turnout was still 56.8%. The people who didn't vote could start their own party, and would have won by a landslide. When stuff really needs to change, it will change.
What we need now is MORE people in the US. We have vast stretches of land that are going completely to waste. I think that the more minds we have in the country working on ways to progress the sciences, the better off we are going to be.
I was getting a recorded message from a spoofed cid at 000-000-0000 and would always kill the call as I saw it come in. Turns out it was the my gas company trying to resolve some billing issues.
A note to all "legit" businesses out there, blocked numbers and especially spoofed cids are super sketchy, don't do it.
We were having some problems with this on the wimax hacking google group.
About a month ago I set all posting options to members only (read is still public, the group is listed in the directory, and there is no moderation). I then set it so people need to request an invite to join. The signup page says "Sorry, about the inconvenience, but spam was starting to ramp up, so now users have to request membership manually. Anyone who is human is welcome, and encouraged to join."
There has been zero spam since the change.
It would be nice if there was an option to just let people solve a captcha to join the group, but until then this solution is working fine.
Sometimes mplayer will have sound, and totem will not, and other times, the opposite is true. Since the switch to pulseaudio, I have never seen a time when they both worked. Just a half hour ago there was no sound in miro. The volume slider in miro was turned up, the system volume was turned up, and my speaker volume was turned up. When I right clicked on my sound icon, went to preferences, and flipped to the "applications" tab, I found yet another volume slider labeled "miro" that was turned all the way down.
A few months ago I bought new speakers and a new sound card because my sound stopped working. The new hardware still didn't work, and a few days later, I found some random profile or device or something that was muted, but to even see that menu I had to change the default device in some gui I had never seed before, and then change it back. Starting about a month ago, whenever I play a youtube video, sound will not work for anything but flash (even after I close firefox) until I killall npviewer.bin
For some reason, when "surround" is muted on my laptop, my headphones don't work, but everything else does like normal, and if PCM gets muted, I will only get sound back if I turn the volume all the way down for a second, then turn it back up. Also, my USB headphones and USB speakers have never worked in linux.
The new surprises with every upgrade is also pretty fun. It used to be that I could just do a killall "pulseaudio" then/etc/init.d/alsasound restart, and everything would be back to the old way of working, but recently it just breaks everything even worse, requiring a reboot to fix. I'm hoping that a clean wipe of everything, and installation of ubuntu 9.10 may magically fix some of these random idiosyncrasies, but I'm not holding my breath for it.
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I think the real problem is that all the kids that watched star wars when they were little grew up to be cynical assholes. Yes, every movie sucks, except the ones you watched when you were a kid, I get it.
If you look at it with fresh eyes, the original three had a weaker plot line, worse acting, worse special effects, and significantly worse choreography. C3PO and R2D2 were still there, as the robotic comic relief (to sell toys), and they were still annoying as hell. Maybe it's cool that Lucas originally did so much with such a small budget, and you somehow expect quality to scale linearly as budget increases, but it didn't turn out that way, and saying a movie is better because it is older and had a smaller budget is a pretty weak argument.
Keep in mind that every star wars movie was a kids movie. Kids were the target audience. If you were a kid when you watch one of the movies, you probably liked it, if you were not a kid, it was probably boring and predictable.
So after the hobbit, Tolkien should not have been allowed to write the lord of the rings books?
Wouldn't this be something like Yeti@Home?
Why do they need to share it with agencies? Try to make a search query over SSL, no major search engine supports it. That means numerous parties in between you and the search engines are easily able to track your searches. The only search engine I know of that will let you do an ssl search is scroogle.
The crazy thing is that you can surf google via SSL all you want, but the moment you try to make send a query, it will downgrade your connection to HTTP.
No, phish kits are pretty simple, and can be bought pretty cheaply. This isn't really about "hacking" anyone, it's more about knowing the most common places that phish kits keep their passwords.txt or whatever. AutoWhaler is like nikto for phishing websites :-)
Seriously though, I doubt it will get much use beyond academic, since I doubt there are many hackers out there that want to share their findings with whoever it is that runs that site.
Would be nice wouldn't it? Unfortunately the only way I have seen multiple monitor setups working is each workspace just gets much bigger, and shares all the monitors. For example, I start playing a movie in workspace 3, then drag the movie to the top of my workspace to where my tv is, then full screen. Then, when I flip to workspace 2 to check my email, my movie gets flipped away from also, until I move back to workspace 3 again. Not the way I would have expected it to work, but I have just been getting used to it.
jeff321:
Blah, try naming a single person who got in legal hot water by releasing code.
johannes:
The name of the game is PoC or GTFO. Don't be another one of those useless researchers who talks about how they can own everything, but if they release code, somehow that will help the bad guys. Those researchers often don't know what they are talking about , and even if they do, 10 years later and people still aren't protected. Dump it to full disclosure, release it on your website, or hold it for shmoocon or something. Do it however you want, but you should release it. If it really is as awesome as you say it is, it will make the world a better and safer place, if not, it may inspire someone else to go the next step.
It still confuses me why their "psytrance radio" keeps pulling in Britney Spears.
Exactly. I'm pretty sure the ubuntu build engineers know a bit more about optimizing their builds than most gentoo users. The ubuntu security team also reevaluates security trade-offs for every release, and adjusts which security flags they compile with accordingly. Not sure if other distros have caught up, but for a while ubuntu was the only distro that gave users a hardened and optimized build environment by default.
Reversed on what now? I followed he policies and ideals throughout the campaign, and while I do not agree with all of them, he has been doing pretty much exactly what he said he would be doing. For example, he was never an advocate of gay marriage, and has always said that we should be increasing troop levels in Afghanistan. But still, I hear over and over again about how he is breaking his promises.
Thank you. It takes maybe 3 seconds of glancing at that article to see how much sensationalist bullshit the headline is. I spoke with Obama personally about privacy, net neutrality, and telecom immunity last August. He may not know the field as deep as people like us do, but he really does understand the core issues. Just look at how straightforward he was with Hu Jintao last week, telling him directly that China should stop filtering their Internet, and announcing in his live speech that free expression of dissidence is a critical part of a successful nation.
I really don't agree with many of the things he has done while in office, but I do think he is doing exactly what he said he would be doing from the day he started running.
They aren't "dissing" political opponents, they are correcting lies. The whole "obama vs fox" drama is a complete fabrication of fox news designed to drum up ratings, so stop acting like they are some sort of victim in all this.
A couple weeks ago, Glenn Beck said that if net neutrality passes (as if it wasn't the status quo), then it will allow the government to censor conservative websites. It's all a complete farce, how can you possibly listen to a self purported news source that is so throughly bought and paid for by corporate lobbyists?
Meh, most superhero powers derive from some sort of telekinesis, and bank on the idea that some day, people are going to evolve fancy telekinesis neurons that are able to interact with remote particles.
Bullshit? Of course! But never impossible.
There have been reports of telekineses since the dawn of man, and while I don't have those particular powers, and I doubt anyone I know has those powers, you show a distinct lack of imagination by saying that it's impossible. Telekinetic neurons are no less realistic than tractor beams or warp speed, so quit pretending that your make believe fantasy world is any more "realistic" than anyone else's.
Also, in heroes in particular, overuse of powers does exhaust the person, so they aren't drawing from some zero point energy vortex etc.
The strange thing is that I watched all the nasa people doing their talk show rounds saying that there is no planet X and it's not going to crash into earth, but the 2012 movie had nothing to do with that.
*spoiler etc (not sure if you really care)*
In the 2012 movie, a massive surge in solar flare activity causes some sort of neutrino spike in the core of the earth. This heats up the core to the point where the crust starts melting. The crust gets thinner and thinner which increases seismic activity, and eventually, California sinks, Yellowstone erupts, the poles flip, and all the continents rearrange themselves in the course of a 48 hour catastrophic event. Not quite scientifically sound, but far more realistic than some planet X scenario.
You know that scene in action movies where people run out of a building as it's exploding, and at the last second they jump in the air as the shockwave of the explosion pushes them out of the way just in time? Imagine that continuously for an hour and a half. There is a part where they are flying an airplane trying to escape LA, and a subway train flies out of the broken ground right at them. If you think of the movie as a comedy, it's much more enjoyable, and just about as epic as snakes on a plane.
The way I mostly see it used is "0day" is a feature of a an exploit in which the vendor has either not been informed of the bug, or is refusing to patch because they believe they have properly covered up the bugs existence, or that the bug is not dangerous, so not a priority.
It's referring to 0day in the past tense. *confirmed* the first 0day
Also 139/445 blockage really doesn't matter. Workstation attacks are generally part of the "spread" portion of attack in the whole penetrate -> (log -> spread)* -> goal -> exit model of attack
wait, "red" translates to "power network"?
If anyone wants to watch these exploits being written live, you can follow spendergrsec on twitter.
http://twitter.com/spendergrsec
The rate at which spender has been cranking out kernel exploits is insane. Also it's someone who uses twitter for something for more than informing us what he's eating or when he's pooping, so that's always a plus.
Installed 8.10 last night. So far I have found that my macbook won't suspend, and brightness controls are completely broken. Also all attempts to install full disk crypto ended up with botched grub installs that failed to boot. The frustrating thing is that this all worked out of the box 2 years ago, so I really don't know what the problem is.
I also find it very annoying that they switched the middle and right click on the touchpad, and in 9.04 they disabled update notifications in the tray (huge security risk imo).
10 generations? By that time we'll all have metal wings and laser eyes. I'm curious if the study takes genetic engineering into account at all.
I disagree, I think this planet has more than enough nutrients to support a pile at least 50 feet thick of humans covering the earth.
We already are doing a pretty good job covering the earth, and we haven't really even started mining underground, volcanic, or seabed areas that we know are packed with huge amounts of nutrients. The reason is simply because it isn't worth it yet. Skyscraper farming can even yield huge amounts of food, with very little transportation overhead, but we don't need it yet. When we do need those things, they will be built.
The world's hunger problem is not an overpopulation problem, it's an economic imbalance problem. When certain people are under represented in a capitalist society, shit gets bad, and resources are mis-allocated. That's where democracy is supposed to step in. Even with a guy like Obama, the voter turnout was still 56.8%. The people who didn't vote could start their own party, and would have won by a landslide. When stuff really needs to change, it will change.
What we need now is MORE people in the US. We have vast stretches of land that are going completely to waste. I think that the more minds we have in the country working on ways to progress the sciences, the better off we are going to be.
I was getting a recorded message from a spoofed cid at 000-000-0000 and would always kill the call as I saw it come in. Turns out it was the my gas company trying to resolve some billing issues.
A note to all "legit" businesses out there, blocked numbers and especially spoofed cids are super sketchy, don't do it.
We were having some problems with this on the wimax hacking google group.
About a month ago I set all posting options to members only (read is still public, the group is listed in the directory, and there is no moderation). I then set it so people need to request an invite to join. The signup page says "Sorry, about the inconvenience, but spam was starting to ramp up, so now users have to request membership manually. Anyone who is human is welcome, and encouraged to join."
There has been zero spam since the change.
It would be nice if there was an option to just let people solve a captcha to join the group, but until then this solution is working fine.
Stuff is different and that pisses me off!
Sometimes mplayer will have sound, and totem will not, and other times, the opposite is true. Since the switch to pulseaudio, I have never seen a time when they both worked. Just a half hour ago there was no sound in miro. The volume slider in miro was turned up, the system volume was turned up, and my speaker volume was turned up. When I right clicked on my sound icon, went to preferences, and flipped to the "applications" tab, I found yet another volume slider labeled "miro" that was turned all the way down.
A few months ago I bought new speakers and a new sound card because my sound stopped working. The new hardware still didn't work, and a few days later, I found some random profile or device or something that was muted, but to even see that menu I had to change the default device in some gui I had never seed before, and then change it back. Starting about a month ago, whenever I play a youtube video, sound will not work for anything but flash (even after I close firefox) until I killall npviewer.bin
For some reason, when "surround" is muted on my laptop, my headphones don't work, but everything else does like normal, and if PCM gets muted, I will only get sound back if I turn the volume all the way down for a second, then turn it back up. Also, my USB headphones and USB speakers have never worked in linux.
The new surprises with every upgrade is also pretty fun. It used to be that I could just do a killall "pulseaudio" then /etc/init.d/alsasound restart, and everything would be back to the old way of working, but recently it just breaks everything even worse, requiring a reboot to fix. I'm hoping that a clean wipe of everything, and installation of ubuntu 9.10 may magically fix some of these random idiosyncrasies, but I'm not holding my breath for it.