The tri-state tollway (80-90 going from Illinois to Ohio) started to do this a few months ago. I think the fines are close to $100. AFAIK, it's not a completely automated process. I believe the ticket collector pushes a button, or marks your ticket somehow, and then you get a ticket mailed to you a couple days later. So mebbe if you hit on whoever's in the booth you won't get a ticket. I also heard that the cutoff speed was 80mph, which is slower than I drive....
It's standard fare for boxes to be thrown into and off of the trucks. It's nothing new, you just have to try to package your stuff as well as you can, try to insure it, and hope for the best. That's what the airlines do, too. Just in case you think I'm lying, think about the last time you flew anywhere, and that person with the huge bag that tried to take it on the plane and were told they had to check it. By the time you board the plane all the prechecked bags have already been stowed, so guess what that banging around under the plane is after you get to your seat? Yup, that's all the bags that are checked at the gate. The ramp guys HATE having to go back in after they're already done. And the heavier it is, the more it gets thrown.
I don't have much experience with FedEX, but every large company has a few bad employees. UPS severely damaged an insured router I shipped from my office to my home, but they did update the internet viewable routing information that the shipment was damaged, so that was easily dealt with. They also like to use the huge hub that is one hour from my apt, rather than use the local office/warehouse that's ten minutes down the road. This doesn't matter much until I ship myself an overnight package, they try to deliver twice on the same day, and on the third delivery attempt (only two days), they take it back to the main hub. For some unknown reason they require delivery signatures on all overnight packages (though not on all others). Then I have either 5 or 7 days to go there and pick it up, or they ship it back to the sender (me at the office). It's an incredible PITA to drive an hour to get a package when you could have picked it up 10 minutes away.
Here is the release from rootcore, and here is their exploit. Since the post is low on technical details, here goes. It's pretty simple. Messages are specified by a number. This program guesses the number.
Re:Switches? VLANs? do you have a clue?
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As long as you're gonna nitpick, the rest of us might as well nitpick, too. VLAN's are not secure 100% of the time. If you can flood, crack, etc the switch and make it reboot, you can then use your closetful of hacking tools to gain access to any port. VLAN information is saved and read from memory, but not the ROM. If it was ROM, then it could be read as part of the bios as it boots, but instead it is read as a configuration file after (while) the machine is coming up. So if you can write a tool to make use of that split microsecond after the switch is up and before the VLAN's are set, you can have access to whatever you want.
Social aspects definitely make a difference, but only in extreme cases. For example, Salt Lake City has a massive stigma associated with it. People think that the city is all Mormons who are not allowed to drink liquor or even any caffeinated substance, and they don't want to live there. Most people probably wouldn't want to go to Alaska either. Sure, it's supposed to be beautiful for those two months out of the year when it's summer, but it can get really cold at night for the other ten months. Other areas that are supposedly mostly 'hicks', have a similar stigma. Big cities such as Chicago or New York are bad for people who don't like the smell(pollution)/noise, etc.
Not to give them any ideas, but who are they going to sue next? From their standpoint, I would think the obvious step would be suing the major Usenet providors that all the small ones get their feeds from. Then they can just abolish alt.binaries.*. Yeah, that would be a good idea. If they got rid of a.b.*, that would make the internet faster, cuz of all the newsservers constantly talking to each other, pushing these huge files all over the place, and all the people downloading them... The repurcussions stack up...
Anyway, the problem with this, is that if any single one of these lawsuits wins, and the judges don't narrow down the reason to a tiny specific instance, it's going to open up lawsuits aimed at any content providor that provides a substantial amount of immoral or illegal data. Such as abolishing FTP access to any server that does not use port 21, cuz 'only' the warez servers change it to something else. The internet was designed on the concept of providing content, whatever content that may be is immaterial. These lawsuits are ridiculous, and if any of them win, it would create a precedent that could seriously impair the whole of the internet for years to come. Baaaaaad, baaaaad lawyer. No cookie.
I agree. This dolt obviously doesn't have any first hand experience with caffeine. Probably a Mormon - they outlaw it, as they do all mood-altering drugs (at least that's my concept of what they do).
From first hand experience I can tell you that caffeine is addictive. I was addicted for almost one entire school year, back in High School. I started out drinking a two liter of Coke every day in the first couple periods. Then I switched to caffeine pills. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I went through the cheap 100mg tablets (equivalent to one cup of coffee), and started on the 200mg tablets (nodoze I think?) Then I started taking a couple at a time. Pretty soon I was up to around 2000mg a day, which besides the strain on my body, started to put a strain on my no-income budget, too. Amazingly, I still slept fairly decently, because my body had adjusted for the mass influx of caffeine, and required it to function normally, instead of using it to perk me up.
After finals one day I decided to quit cold turkey, and luckily my mental strength was strong enough to take it. I didn't ingest any major form of caffeine for a couple months (pop, coffee, chocolate, etc), and now I'm back with most of the population drinking a can or two a day.
So, yes, I stopped cold turkey, but some people can do that with any form of drug addiction. That doesn't mean that I wasn't addicted, that just means that I am one of the lucky people who was able to control my cravings after I decided that I didn't want to do it anymore.
I'm really looking forward to when this finally comes about. Damn them for putting March 1, 2001 in there tho. We all know it's not gonna happen then, it just can't happen BEFORE then. It'll probly be 6 months after that at least. This keeps popping up in conservations with friends, and all my non-tech savvy friends are really concerned about security, until I remind them of how much credit card fraud there is already. The new system would inherently have to be more secure than that, otherwise it wouldn't get passed.
The DivX codec & widespread use of it is actually fairly new. I heard about it about a month ago, and went on IRC to try to find one to see what it was all about. There were only about 8 people trading them in the divx channels. It's becoming much more prevalent, and in about two months, you'll be able to find 'em just about anywhere. I get mine off gnutella now, altho it takes a week or so per movie cuz nobody seems to leave their computer up continuosly on gnutella.
The DivX codec is actually extremely good. But it is only as good as the person who ripped the DVD. Many of the movies getting traded out there are about 450,000,000 bytes. If you want to see what it can really do, get one of the ones that is 700,000,000. There's a big difference. There's also sound problems, if the person encoding it wasn't careful to sync up the audio. A lot of times, DVD sound is a few microseconds off, and some people just don't care to fix it.
What does this mean about commercial bulk email companies that create their own ISP? I remember a big controversy over one guy (in New York??) who got kicked off every single major ISP in his area, so he was going to create his own ISP. The entire purpose of this ISP being to offer accounts to spammers. Why shouldn't this ISP be liable for it's email, since is specifically sets out to send spam? Even if this guy had no clients, and he was the sole client of his ISP, shouldn't it still be liable? I can't remember the name of this ISP. Someone wanna help me out?
Exactly. It was posted one minute before. Altho it almost definitely hadn't shown up yet on this person's page, it was already posted. Therefore it's redundant. Lots of people surf/. at +1 or +2. They have no use for multiple links to the same thing, and for that matter, how many of the rest of us need multiple links to the same page? I didn't think so.
I don't think so. The article goes on to talk about overclocking the bus to take advantage of the EMI shield, but the person who did the conversion didn't have fast enough hardware to allow it. But the obvious point was to make the RAM faster than SDRAM is sposed to go, which would mean making it ACT (not be == to) like RDRAM.
Yeah, yeah. I just went back & read. They started a month ago. Pretty good for a startup I spose. They were smart enuff to set their max downloads at a low enough speed that it didn't saturate their connection at all. The lucky 30 are probly getting really fast downloads.
It's a really small site. 30 users max on their FTP, and it's full (duh:) You'd think if they really wanted to do something big like host ISO's, they would have at least one mirror server. It's probly gonna be days before their hits go down and the downloads speed up to make it worth it to download from them.
Actually, Mafiaboy is not supposed to have been working alone. The general media has been getting it completely wrong. According to the article in the Wall Street Journal that I read about way back & posted earlier this month (look for Zen), there are supposedly two, count 'em TWO people involved in the DoS attacks. One extremely bright individual, who took down Yahoo for an incredibly long time, and one not so bright cracker who decided that it was kewl to do copycat crimes, and got himself caught. This second individual is Mafiaboy, not to be confused with the genius that took down Yahoo! Mafiaboy apparently left his fingerprints all over the place, and the original culprit did not. But for some reason, the media is not making the distinction between the two, and while I have not read a report that claims that he is directly responsible for the Yahoo! attack, I have read many articles that say that he was involved in the attacks that took down yahoo, etc, etc... Leading everyone to believe that he was the 'real' cracker. Food for thought.
CmdrTaco said HE was posting the first article he thought non/. worthy, not the first article ever posted that wasn't/. worthy. If you recall, there are a lot more people than just him now.
Actually, I feel a discussion of the stock market is extremely/. worthy, as long as it doesn't overtake/. A lot of nerd's have a lot of $$, which they invest somewhere. That makes the stock market worth it to talk about.
I'll take 12, cuz most people will see the first post, and realize that the IANAL stuff is pretty stupid. You should take all these posts with a grain of salt anyway.
Yeah, probly. I've been using my TNT in Linux since I got it when they were brand new. I know they're supported, however poorly that may be right now. Xfree86 says they're supported by both the generic & the nv drivers in 3.3.6 and 4.0. I think I remember getting Quake2 to run in it a year ago, but then again I could be on crack again. I know I never messed with Q3 in Linux.
I know people complain about the nVidia drivers for Linux constantly, but the fact remains that they do exist, and they do work. Anyone have any insight on why Linuxgames neglected to even mention that they exist and run under Linux?
Sure it does. My roomie has one. Why in God's name would somebody make an mp3/cd/dvd player, that won't play regular audio cd's? It's basically a default feature. Every DVD player that I know of plays audio cd's. That's why DVD changers exist, they all have that feature.
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The tri-state tollway (80-90 going from Illinois to Ohio) started to do this a few months ago. I think the fines are close to $100. AFAIK, it's not a completely automated process. I believe the ticket collector pushes a button, or marks your ticket somehow, and then you get a ticket mailed to you a couple days later. So mebbe if you hit on whoever's in the booth you won't get a ticket. I also heard that the cutoff speed was 80mph, which is slower than I drive....
It's standard fare for boxes to be thrown into and off of the trucks. It's nothing new, you just have to try to package your stuff as well as you can, try to insure it, and hope for the best. That's what the airlines do, too. Just in case you think I'm lying, think about the last time you flew anywhere, and that person with the huge bag that tried to take it on the plane and were told they had to check it. By the time you board the plane all the prechecked bags have already been stowed, so guess what that banging around under the plane is after you get to your seat? Yup, that's all the bags that are checked at the gate. The ramp guys HATE having to go back in after they're already done. And the heavier it is, the more it gets thrown.
I don't have much experience with FedEX, but every large company has a few bad employees. UPS severely damaged an insured router I shipped from my office to my home, but they did update the internet viewable routing information that the shipment was damaged, so that was easily dealt with. They also like to use the huge hub that is one hour from my apt, rather than use the local office/warehouse that's ten minutes down the road. This doesn't matter much until I ship myself an overnight package, they try to deliver twice on the same day, and on the third delivery attempt (only two days), they take it back to the main hub. For some unknown reason they require delivery signatures on all overnight packages (though not on all others). Then I have either 5 or 7 days to go there and pick it up, or they ship it back to the sender (me at the office). It's an incredible PITA to drive an hour to get a package when you could have picked it up 10 minutes away.
Sorry about that. For those of you who can't type it in themselves, here... amd.com
I think they canned their website. I can't get to amd.com as of right now. Too bad, I liked their processors.
Here is the release from rootcore, and here is their exploit. Since the post is low on technical details, here goes. It's pretty simple. Messages are specified by a number. This program guesses the number.
As long as you're gonna nitpick, the rest of us might as well nitpick, too. VLAN's are not secure 100% of the time. If you can flood, crack, etc the switch and make it reboot, you can then use your closetful of hacking tools to gain access to any port. VLAN information is saved and read from memory, but not the ROM. If it was ROM, then it could be read as part of the bios as it boots, but instead it is read as a configuration file after (while) the machine is coming up. So if you can write a tool to make use of that split microsecond after the switch is up and before the VLAN's are set, you can have access to whatever you want.
Social aspects definitely make a difference, but only in extreme cases. For example, Salt Lake City has a massive stigma associated with it. People think that the city is all Mormons who are not allowed to drink liquor or even any caffeinated substance, and they don't want to live there. Most people probably wouldn't want to go to Alaska either. Sure, it's supposed to be beautiful for those two months out of the year when it's summer, but it can get really cold at night for the other ten months. Other areas that are supposedly mostly 'hicks', have a similar stigma. Big cities such as Chicago or New York are bad for people who don't like the smell(pollution)/noise, etc.
Not to give them any ideas, but who are they going to sue next? From their standpoint, I would think the obvious step would be suing the major Usenet providors that all the small ones get their feeds from. Then they can just abolish alt.binaries.*. Yeah, that would be a good idea. If they got rid of a.b.*, that would make the internet faster, cuz of all the newsservers constantly talking to each other, pushing these huge files all over the place, and all the people downloading them... The repurcussions stack up...
Anyway, the problem with this, is that if any single one of these lawsuits wins, and the judges don't narrow down the reason to a tiny specific instance, it's going to open up lawsuits aimed at any content providor that provides a substantial amount of immoral or illegal data. Such as abolishing FTP access to any server that does not use port 21, cuz 'only' the warez servers change it to something else. The internet was designed on the concept of providing content, whatever content that may be is immaterial. These lawsuits are ridiculous, and if any of them win, it would create a precedent that could seriously impair the whole of the internet for years to come. Baaaaaad, baaaaad lawyer. No cookie.
I agree. This dolt obviously doesn't have any first hand experience with caffeine. Probably a Mormon - they outlaw it, as they do all mood-altering drugs (at least that's my concept of what they do).
From first hand experience I can tell you that caffeine is addictive. I was addicted for almost one entire school year, back in High School. I started out drinking a two liter of Coke every day in the first couple periods. Then I switched to caffeine pills. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I went through the cheap 100mg tablets (equivalent to one cup of coffee), and started on the 200mg tablets (nodoze I think?) Then I started taking a couple at a time. Pretty soon I was up to around 2000mg a day, which besides the strain on my body, started to put a strain on my no-income budget, too. Amazingly, I still slept fairly decently, because my body had adjusted for the mass influx of caffeine, and required it to function normally, instead of using it to perk me up.
After finals one day I decided to quit cold turkey, and luckily my mental strength was strong enough to take it. I didn't ingest any major form of caffeine for a couple months (pop, coffee, chocolate, etc), and now I'm back with most of the population drinking a can or two a day.
So, yes, I stopped cold turkey, but some people can do that with any form of drug addiction. That doesn't mean that I wasn't addicted, that just means that I am one of the lucky people who was able to control my cravings after I decided that I didn't want to do it anymore.
I'm really looking forward to when this finally comes about. Damn them for putting March 1, 2001 in there tho. We all know it's not gonna happen then, it just can't happen BEFORE then. It'll probly be 6 months after that at least. This keeps popping up in conservations with friends, and all my non-tech savvy friends are really concerned about security, until I remind them of how much credit card fraud there is already. The new system would inherently have to be more secure than that, otherwise it wouldn't get passed.
Heh. Looks like Katz's annoying ' == ? script got applied to Timothy by mistake. I'm gonna get my Squadron of Psycho Midgets to go fix it now.
The DivX codec & widespread use of it is actually fairly new. I heard about it about a month ago, and went on IRC to try to find one to see what it was all about. There were only about 8 people trading them in the divx channels. It's becoming much more prevalent, and in about two months, you'll be able to find 'em just about anywhere. I get mine off gnutella now, altho it takes a week or so per movie cuz nobody seems to leave their computer up continuosly on gnutella.
The DivX codec is actually extremely good. But it is only as good as the person who ripped the DVD. Many of the movies getting traded out there are about 450,000,000 bytes. If you want to see what it can really do, get one of the ones that is 700,000,000. There's a big difference. There's also sound problems, if the person encoding it wasn't careful to sync up the audio. A lot of times, DVD sound is a few microseconds off, and some people just don't care to fix it.
But expensive for such old games. Granted, they have nostalgia value, but that's it.
What does this mean about commercial bulk email companies that create their own ISP? I remember a big controversy over one guy (in New York??) who got kicked off every single major ISP in his area, so he was going to create his own ISP. The entire purpose of this ISP being to offer accounts to spammers. Why shouldn't this ISP be liable for it's email, since is specifically sets out to send spam? Even if this guy had no clients, and he was the sole client of his ISP, shouldn't it still be liable? I can't remember the name of this ISP. Someone wanna help me out?
Exactly. It was posted one minute before. Altho it almost definitely hadn't shown up yet on this person's page, it was already posted. Therefore it's redundant. Lots of people surf /. at +1 or +2. They have no use for multiple links to the same thing, and for that matter, how many of the rest of us need multiple links to the same page? I didn't think so.
I don't think so. The article goes on to talk about overclocking the bus to take advantage of the EMI shield, but the person who did the conversion didn't have fast enough hardware to allow it. But the obvious point was to make the RAM faster than SDRAM is sposed to go, which would mean making it ACT (not be == to) like RDRAM.
Yeah, yeah. I just went back & read. They started a month ago. Pretty good for a startup I spose. They were smart enuff to set their max downloads at a low enough speed that it didn't saturate their connection at all. The lucky 30 are probly getting really fast downloads.
It's a really small site. 30 users max on their FTP, and it's full (duh :) You'd think if they really wanted to do something big like host ISO's, they would have at least one mirror server. It's probly gonna be days before their hits go down and the downloads speed up to make it worth it to download from them.
Actually, Mafiaboy is not supposed to have been working alone. The general media has been getting it completely wrong. According to the article in the Wall Street Journal that I read about way back & posted earlier this month (look for Zen), there are supposedly two, count 'em TWO people involved in the DoS attacks. One extremely bright individual, who took down Yahoo for an incredibly long time, and one not so bright cracker who decided that it was kewl to do copycat crimes, and got himself caught. This second individual is Mafiaboy, not to be confused with the genius that took down Yahoo! Mafiaboy apparently left his fingerprints all over the place, and the original culprit did not. But for some reason, the media is not making the distinction between the two, and while I have not read a report that claims that he is directly responsible for the Yahoo! attack, I have read many articles that say that he was involved in the attacks that took down yahoo, etc, etc... Leading everyone to believe that he was the 'real' cracker. Food for thought.
CmdrTaco said HE was posting the first article he thought non /. worthy, not the first article ever posted that wasn't /. worthy. If you recall, there are a lot more people than just him now.
/. worthy, as long as it doesn't overtake /. A lot of nerd's have a lot of $$, which they invest somewhere. That makes the stock market worth it to talk about.
Actually, I feel a discussion of the stock market is extremely
I'll take 12, cuz most people will see the first post, and realize that the IANAL stuff is pretty stupid. You should take all these posts with a grain of salt anyway.
Yeah, probly. I've been using my TNT in Linux since I got it when they were brand new. I know they're supported, however poorly that may be right now. Xfree86 says they're supported by both the generic & the nv drivers in 3.3.6 and 4.0. I think I remember getting Quake2 to run in it a year ago, but then again I could be on crack again. I know I never messed with Q3 in Linux.
I know people complain about the nVidia drivers for Linux constantly, but the fact remains that they do exist, and they do work. Anyone have any insight on why Linuxgames neglected to even mention that they exist and run under Linux?
Sure it does. My roomie has one. Why in God's name would somebody make an mp3/cd/dvd player, that won't play regular audio cd's? It's basically a default feature. Every DVD player that I know of plays audio cd's. That's why DVD changers exist, they all have that feature.