It would interesting to see them try to spike prices at a time like this, then get eaten alive by their competition.
Right now, corporations are able to make significantly more money than they need to operate, and the excess cash is going to the executives.
The trick now is to try to get the executives to lower their own wages so we have a more balanced economy. There are a number of ways to do this, but I think cutting off their tax shelters is a pretty good start.
I think investors know that companies who reduce executive compensation are more likely to succeed than companies who try to just pass it off on the consumer.
What's your point? Super duper grand parent is suggesting to use the IR for a remote control for mythtv. Seems to me that a receiver "for use with a remote control" would do the trick nicely.
If you haven't been following web security (or reading the changelog) these guys are extremely cutting edge when it comes to blocking various XSS based exploitation techniques.
Clickjacking, cross domain keyloggers, and javascript connect-back proxies, etc are all out there now. Even if you have a given site whitelisted, noscript will still filter out known attack methods. It will even detect heap spray attempts etc if someone is trying to break out of a browser plugin.
How about the cheap ass IT directors that refused to run on modern hardware/software? I'm pretty sure that running windows NT/2000 and refusing to patch violates all sorts of HIPPA.
Ever since I got my iphone (last August), I have been relying heavily on it to map out efficient routes, and figure out where new places are.
Now, every time I am in a new supermarket, and looking for bread or something, I immediately pull out my iphone, only to sadly realize that the bread isle at safeway isn't on google maps yet:-(
They crafted a totally reliable exploit for the jbig2 vuln without needing javascript. Javascript gives you the option to use things like heap spray, which can be really useful for exploitation, but not necessary.
Also notice that immunity also has exploits for things like foxit reader, so switching your favorite pdf reader every week isn't going to save you either.
The main problem here is that parsing pdf is hard. Even the ones that created the format can't do it right. My suggestion would be to use a web based solution to view pdfs until adobe creates a lighter, more secure version of reader that contains nothing but the necessary plug-ins.
The solution for world of warcraft is a simple one. It's the same solution that would get ride of bots, and everything else you hardcore dice rollers consider "cheating".
All they need to do is create realms where that stuff is allowed. When you start, you already get the option to chose if you are more into PvE, PvP, and if you are into the whole roll playing thing or not.
On one end of the spectrum, you have the gamers that just want to pay more to get more content, or those that get off AI development, and on the other end you have the guys that get off on pretending that they are a night elf chick etc.
People play the game for different reasons, and ignoring a huge set of potential customers is absurd, especially when they already have such a diverse realm system in place.
The idea of a ROOTKIT is that once you get root access, you want to be able to keep it for later, even if the hole that got you root in the first place gets patched.
For example, the kids are going in a spree with this new udev vuln that came out recently. They are upgrading all their user shells that they got from mass web exploitation to root shells, and dropping rootkits to make sure that they still have access next month when the boxes are sure to be patched.
With root it is much easier to do things like sniff outgoing and incoming ssh passwords, and mitm other boxes in a colo, so you can take the whole local network.
Most hacker groups I have seen are set up in such a way where no one needs to trust anyone else. Status is based on what you contribute to the group, so if someone doesn't contribute much, they no longer get access to the work of the collective.
For someone to "infiltrate" a group, all they need to do is contribute to the work being done, and I highly doubt IRC logs will be very admissible as evidence.
My point is, if someone is going to get to the level where they can put anyone of any importance in jail, they are first going to need to contribute a significant amount to the underground community, which would probably cause more problems than it would solve.
I totally agree. If ISPs would set egress limits on syn packets and email traffic, that would seriously reduce the value of these botnets as well. Even just filtering out obviously forged syn packets would improve things greatly.
Of course these features would have a slight cost, and no benefit to the ISP directly, so I am sure it is never going to happen.
Any suggestions for good internet radio with no vocals? I've been listening to my pandora and last.fm streams for years, and banning every piece of vocal techno music that has come along, and it still hasn't learned the correlation.
If you were borrowing my car, you had better believe that I would put a camera in it.
This situation is similar to when someone at my university realised that the unix team has access to unencrypted emails stored on the school email server, which caused a huge uproar in the student media. It's not like they were indexing the data and selling queries to data miners.
Anyone who thinks it's a good idea for admins to completely disable logging really does not understand how all this computer stuff works.
The rocket it question here is "modeled" after a Saturn V rocket. Even bottle rockets are rockets. I think the word "model" in this context does not refer to the size, but more to the appearance.
Of course there is no such thing as "clean coal". The word "clean" is an ideal word. It's like having a "clean" house, or a "clean" kid.
I don't understand why people have such a hard time grasping that the word "clean" is being used as a relativistic term for burning fuel more efficiently than we used to. Of course politicians endorse "clean coal", as well as "safe cars", and "secure ports". They are working towards ideal goals, and while admittedly those goals can never be reached, why does everyone jump on their case for trying?
Maybe because without innovation, any art form dies?
People who start thinking innovation is pointless are entering what is called the "old man" stage of their life. What they fail to realise is that it is hard to motivate a group of artists to do the same shit they did last year, and artists almost always are the ones driving any successful project. Of course you need to get your fundamentals right, but without innovation, there is no progress. Even if innovation flops, it still progresses the art.
While we're at it, why not ask why physicists work on pointless theories that won't pan out in the end, or ask why mathematicians design models that no one will ever use? The reason is because every once in a while, something catches fire and changes the way we think about things, and the only way to know if that will happen is to publish.
WTF do you expect? I voted for Obama (as most did) to unite the country, not go full speed ahead on every democratic agenda that has been introduced in the past 15 years. If I wanted that I would have voted for Kucinich, but I came to the conclusion that doing that would rip the country apart more.
Of course conservatives think he is too liberal, and liberals think he is too conservative. That's how a good president should be.
I have no problem with people critical of specific policies of his, but saying that there is no difference is just bullshit. We had a guy in charge who DIDN'T BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION. Someone who thought "transparency" was treason. Someone who started massive wars because of personal grudges. Someone who cut money from every major social program, dumped it into the military, and passed it out to friends in the form of no bid contracts.
I use the basic plan. They say they cap it at around 100k (bytes) but I regularly get download speeds over a megabyte per second.
I actually have a comcast buisness connection at home, and just carry around the wimax home router with me for places that don't have decent internet. The USB stick doesn't work in Linux anyway.
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I think GP said "markup" not "marker" or "mark on".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_language
Markup is a significant requirement for textbooks, as it is required for things like proper image placement, equations, bulleted/numbered lists etc.
It would interesting to see them try to spike prices at a time like this, then get eaten alive by their competition.
Right now, corporations are able to make significantly more money than they need to operate, and the excess cash is going to the executives.
The trick now is to try to get the executives to lower their own wages so we have a more balanced economy. There are a number of ways to do this, but I think cutting off their tax shelters is a pretty good start.
I think investors know that companies who reduce executive compensation are more likely to succeed than companies who try to just pass it off on the consumer.
interesting video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqFxK3GMEkA
What's your point? Super duper grand parent is suggesting to use the IR for a remote control for mythtv. Seems to me that a receiver "for use with a remote control" would do the trick nicely.
http://noscript.net/changelog
Minutes after the suggestion, and it is already in the new version that was just pushed out.
somebody mod this up please
If you haven't been following web security (or reading the changelog) these guys are extremely cutting edge when it comes to blocking various XSS based exploitation techniques.
Clickjacking, cross domain keyloggers, and javascript connect-back proxies, etc are all out there now. Even if you have a given site whitelisted, noscript will still filter out known attack methods. It will even detect heap spray attempts etc if someone is trying to break out of a browser plugin.
The last medical device I worked on ran xp embedded.
How about the cheap ass IT directors that refused to run on modern hardware/software? I'm pretty sure that running windows NT/2000 and refusing to patch violates all sorts of HIPPA.
Ever since I got my iphone (last August), I have been relying heavily on it to map out efficient routes, and figure out where new places are.
Now, every time I am in a new supermarket, and looking for bread or something, I immediately pull out my iphone, only to sadly realize that the bread isle at safeway isn't on google maps yet :-(
I have seriously do this about twice a month.
Check out the stuff Immunity is selling.
http://www.immunityinc.com/ceu-index.shtml
They crafted a totally reliable exploit for the jbig2 vuln without needing javascript. Javascript gives you the option to use things like heap spray, which can be really useful for exploitation, but not necessary.
Also notice that immunity also has exploits for things like foxit reader, so switching your favorite pdf reader every week isn't going to save you either.
The main problem here is that parsing pdf is hard. Even the ones that created the format can't do it right. My suggestion would be to use a web based solution to view pdfs until adobe creates a lighter, more secure version of reader that contains nothing but the necessary plug-ins.
The solution for world of warcraft is a simple one. It's the same solution that would get ride of bots, and everything else you hardcore dice rollers consider "cheating".
All they need to do is create realms where that stuff is allowed. When you start, you already get the option to chose if you are more into PvE, PvP, and if you are into the whole roll playing thing or not.
On one end of the spectrum, you have the gamers that just want to pay more to get more content, or those that get off AI development, and on the other end you have the guys that get off on pretending that they are a night elf chick etc.
People play the game for different reasons, and ignoring a huge set of potential customers is absurd, especially when they already have such a diverse realm system in place.
Um, wrong?
The idea of a ROOTKIT is that once you get root access, you want to be able to keep it for later, even if the hole that got you root in the first place gets patched.
For example, the kids are going in a spree with this new udev vuln that came out recently. They are upgrading all their user shells that they got from mass web exploitation to root shells, and dropping rootkits to make sure that they still have access next month when the boxes are sure to be patched.
With root it is much easier to do things like sniff outgoing and incoming ssh passwords, and mitm other boxes in a colo, so you can take the whole local network.
Most hacker groups I have seen are set up in such a way where no one needs to trust anyone else. Status is based on what you contribute to the group, so if someone doesn't contribute much, they no longer get access to the work of the collective.
For someone to "infiltrate" a group, all they need to do is contribute to the work being done, and I highly doubt IRC logs will be very admissible as evidence.
My point is, if someone is going to get to the level where they can put anyone of any importance in jail, they are first going to need to contribute a significant amount to the underground community, which would probably cause more problems than it would solve.
I totally agree. If ISPs would set egress limits on syn packets and email traffic, that would seriously reduce the value of these botnets as well. Even just filtering out obviously forged syn packets would improve things greatly.
Of course these features would have a slight cost, and no benefit to the ISP directly, so I am sure it is never going to happen.
Any suggestions for good internet radio with no vocals? I've been listening to my pandora and last.fm streams for years, and banning every piece of vocal techno music that has come along, and it still hasn't learned the correlation.
"Before you can post on this webpage, which of the following messages is spam?"
If you were borrowing my car, you had better believe that I would put a camera in it.
This situation is similar to when someone at my university realised that the unix team has access to unencrypted emails stored on the school email server, which caused a huge uproar in the student media. It's not like they were indexing the data and selling queries to data miners.
Anyone who thinks it's a good idea for admins to completely disable logging really does not understand how all this computer stuff works.
When it is an original design I suppose.
The rocket it question here is "modeled" after a Saturn V rocket. Even bottle rockets are rockets. I think the word "model" in this context does not refer to the size, but more to the appearance.
Of course there is no such thing as "clean coal". The word "clean" is an ideal word. It's like having a "clean" house, or a "clean" kid.
I don't understand why people have such a hard time grasping that the word "clean" is being used as a relativistic term for burning fuel more efficiently than we used to. Of course politicians endorse "clean coal", as well as "safe cars", and "secure ports". They are working towards ideal goals, and while admittedly those goals can never be reached, why does everyone jump on their case for trying?
Maybe because without innovation, any art form dies?
People who start thinking innovation is pointless are entering what is called the "old man" stage of their life. What they fail to realise is that it is hard to motivate a group of artists to do the same shit they did last year, and artists almost always are the ones driving any successful project. Of course you need to get your fundamentals right, but without innovation, there is no progress. Even if innovation flops, it still progresses the art.
While we're at it, why not ask why physicists work on pointless theories that won't pan out in the end, or ask why mathematicians design models that no one will ever use? The reason is because every once in a while, something catches fire and changes the way we think about things, and the only way to know if that will happen is to publish.
WTF do you expect? I voted for Obama (as most did) to unite the country, not go full speed ahead on every democratic agenda that has been introduced in the past 15 years. If I wanted that I would have voted for Kucinich, but I came to the conclusion that doing that would rip the country apart more.
Of course conservatives think he is too liberal, and liberals think he is too conservative. That's how a good president should be.
I have no problem with people critical of specific policies of his, but saying that there is no difference is just bullshit. We had a guy in charge who DIDN'T BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION. Someone who thought "transparency" was treason. Someone who started massive wars because of personal grudges. Someone who cut money from every major social program, dumped it into the military, and passed it out to friends in the form of no bid contracts.
By the way, the hak5 episode that came out today features a really nice video tutorial on setting up an openfire server.
hak5.org
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/segsuck2.jpg
Rumor has it that openfire server with spark is pretty fancy.
http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/index.jsp
It's the same service being talked about in this article. Clear has a deployment here in portland.
http://www.clear.com/shop/home_services.php
I use the basic plan. They say they cap it at around 100k (bytes) but I regularly get download speeds over a megabyte per second.
I actually have a comcast buisness connection at home, and just carry around the wimax home router with me for places that don't have decent internet. The USB stick doesn't work in Linux anyway.