"the Sunday Herald understands that a hacker.. succeeded in.. placing a Trojan virus on one of the Best Western Hotel machines used for reservations. The next time a member of staff logged in, her username and password were collected and stored"
more likely someone got local access to plant the torjan, one of the night staff hired at minimum wage, for instance, a high turnover in staff, people hired off the street, with no security clearance.
The 'security' system at a tourist hostel I was familiar with, kept customer records on a database in a locked room, except you could map into the machine from reception and get full access to the database, the passwords being kept in the clear, the same password was used to create swipecards for the electronic door system. I wrote it up, but there was no-one in management who would could read, I guess it's still the same..
"The SCO Group 's US$5 billion threat against Linux is effectively finished. On Friday, Aug. 10, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled that SCO doesn't actually own the copyrights that it was using to threaten -- and in some cases, sue -- Linux users"
"It's Groklaw that has published every scrap of legal and technical information available on the cases -- every brief, deposition and ruling, along with press releases, technical documentation and historical information"
"All that has made it easy for reporters, analysts and deep-thinkers keeping an eye on the lawsuits. We just filtered out the partisan crowd noise -- no mistake, this is a pro-Linux crowd -- and dug into that virtual mountain of legal documents. Everything was there, posted, transcribed, organized and searchable"
"Did Groklaw really have an impact on those court cases? Naaah. The impact was on the rest of us. That collection of documents gave SCO's suits a transparency that's impossible to come by with most IT industry litigation"
"does anyone seriously think that all the brilliant legal and technical analyses come from a mid-twenties paralegal?"
Lots of people contribute, not just Pamela Jones and unless you can provide evidence to the contrary your opinions are worthless. By the same CmdrTaco doesn't exist but is a vast army of corporate drones..
"You mean, I've seen nothing other than the information I've cited that contraindicates a lone culprit. It's easy to point out another's logical flaws if you ignore half of their point, I guess"
I'm sorry, but what information have I cited here, I asked the other poster to provide evidence that a) Irvins was the anthrax culprit and b) he did not act alone.
I'm sorry again, but could you help me out here, how does the fact that Ivins couldn't have posted the letters, progress to, there was more than one cuplrit and Ivins was in conspiracy with them. I mean by the same logic, why not the rest of the US population, not present at the letter posting, being also in cahoots.
What was his motivation, why did he include anti-Israeli statements in the letters? What effects would such statements have on Americas willingness to prosecute the 'War on Terrorism'?
09-11-01, THIS IS NEXT, TAKE PENACILIN NOW, DEATH TO AMERICA, DEATH TO ISRAEL, ALLAH IS GREAT, 09-11-01, YOU CAN NOT STOP US., WE HAVE THIS ANTHRAX., YOU DIE NOW., ARE YOU AFRAID?, DEATH TO AMERICA. , DEATH TO ISRAEL. ALLAH IS GREAT.
"Well, first they take a DNA sample of the saliva used to seal the envelope with the anthrax"
What alleged bio-terrorist, would lick his own anthrax envelopes shut, especially considering he ws a highly trained microbiologist and vaccinologist, go back to your 'John and Jane' books...
What 'evidence' is ther that Irvins was involved, traces of that particular strain was found near by, well they would find it, as he initially helped with the analysis of the anthrax-tainted envelopes. They only turned on Irvins, when the other 'suspect' (Steven Hatfill) refused to roll over..
"I've seen nothing to indicate that Ivins acted alone"
That's because you seen nothing at all, and how by any rules of logic, can you infer the absence of any 'evidence' that he actied alone, as being evidence that he didn't act alone.
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"Well usually you don't run ATI DirectX drivers, video capture card drivers and about all possible media codecs on embedded system......as is case with Axon. And AFAIK Axon has no rom, only standard flash bios and XPe running from hard disk"
Then why does it say here that Windows XP Embedded powers Olympics and what technical reasons are there for not running ATI DirectX drivers on embedded systems. Are there references in the litrature, to avoiding drivers on embedded systems? And what's the difference between XPe running on a harddrive and 'real' embedded XP not running on a hardrive..:)
"Google makes it easy to opt out of the doubleclick tracking cookie"
Or you could put doubleclick.net & google-analytics.com in your hosts file and point the entries to 127.0.0.1 The advertisers still don't get it, intrusive adverts like on television don't work on the Internet
Not a problem as I don't ever see adverts, as I use Firefox, nscript and customised userContent.css and userChrome.css files. At least while I still have legal control of my computer.
It overheated (blame the stingy slant-eyed chinks)
It was Chinise sabatage
It was a CGI BSOD..
It was a bad hardware drivers
It was not properly cooled..
It was probably hardware failure..
It was the fault of the DL2 media units..
It was too much computing resources to handle
"They were Axon mediaservers running WinXP Embedded"
How do you manage to make an embedded OS go BSOD. I though that one of the advantages of an embedded system was more reliability, what gives.. ? Or did they just stick parts if it on a ROM and run the rest from a RAMDRIVE.. tell me it ain't soo..:o
"the number and power of the computing resources involved was probably pushing the limit"
You mean just to project a video onto the roof. I've got an old 500MB, PC that can play DVDs without problem. It runs on Yoper, you should try it, runs encrypted DVDs straight out of the box, no config issues.
It happened in the middle of the Olympics opening ceremony. It happened on the worlds self professed most advanced Operating System, in the know universe. To achieve five nines kind of reliability, I would recommend only using embedded hardware in such a configuration. Most certanly not XP, never mind the rest..
If so, how did the DL3 provoke a BSOD in WindowsXP? Please provide the exact error msg from the screen.
"I believe most of the projections were handled by HighEnd Systems DL2s and DL3s.. It looks like someone wasn't paying attention"
Do you have any hard facts to support this disengeniously modded up specious speculation, regardless, it still doesn't negate the fact that there was a BSOD in the middle of the opening ceremony.
Slashdot Mirror
"the Sunday Herald understands that a hacker .. succeeded in .. placing a Trojan virus on one of the Best Western Hotel machines used for reservations. The next time a member of staff logged in, her username and password were collected and stored"
..
more likely someone got local access to plant the torjan, one of the night staff hired at minimum wage, for instance, a high turnover in staff, people hired off the street, with no security clearance.
The 'security' system at a tourist hostel I was familiar with, kept customer records on a database in a locked room, except you could map into the machine from reception and get full access to the database, the passwords being kept in the clear, the same password was used to create swipecards for the electronic door system. I wrote it up, but there was no-one in management who would could read, I guess it's still the same
"It's like Ford reselling support for Toyota cars"
..
and Toyota putting 'Toyota recommends Ford Focus' on every car Toyota sells
This has to be the dumbest idea in the history of business .. insert car analogy here ...
Get it here founder of Groklw
"The SCO Group 's US$5 billion threat against Linux is effectively finished. On Friday, Aug. 10, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled that SCO doesn't actually own the copyrights that it was using to threaten -- and in some cases, sue -- Linux users"
"It's Groklaw that has published every scrap of legal and technical information available on the cases -- every brief, deposition and ruling, along with press releases, technical documentation and historical information"
"All that has made it easy for reporters, analysts and deep-thinkers keeping an eye on the lawsuits. We just filtered out the partisan crowd noise -- no mistake, this is a pro-Linux crowd -- and dug into that virtual mountain of legal documents. Everything was there, posted, transcribed, organized and searchable"
"Did Groklaw really have an impact on those court cases? Naaah. The impact was on the rest of us. That collection of documents gave SCO's suits a transparency that's impossible to come by with most IT industry litigation"
"For that, we all owe Groklaw thanks"
"does anyone seriously think that all the brilliant legal and technical analyses come from a mid-twenties paralegal?"
..
Lots of people contribute, not just Pamela Jones and unless you can provide evidence to the contrary your opinions are worthless. By the same CmdrTaco doesn't exist but is a vast army of corporate drones
"there *is* compelling evidence that suggests that others were involved"
..
Then, for the third time, produce the 'evidence'
"Because nobody here knows anything about the actual hardware or setup or anything else. Anything *you* say will also be speculation"
What exactly did I say that speculated on the causes of the BSOD?
"You mean, I've seen nothing other than the information I've cited that contraindicates a lone culprit. It's easy to point out another's logical flaws if you ignore half of their point, I guess"
I'm sorry, but what information have I cited here, I asked the other poster to provide evidence that a) Irvins was the anthrax culprit and b) he did not act alone.
I'm sorry again, but could you help me out here, how does the fact that Ivins couldn't have posted the letters, progress to, there was more than one cuplrit and Ivins was in conspiracy with them. I mean by the same logic, why not the rest of the US population, not present at the letter posting, being also in cahoots.
What was his motivation, why did he include anti-Israeli statements in the letters? What effects would such statements have on Americas willingness to prosecute the 'War on Terrorism'?
09-11-01, THIS IS NEXT, TAKE PENACILIN NOW, DEATH TO AMERICA, DEATH TO ISRAEL, ALLAH IS GREAT, 09-11-01, YOU CAN NOT STOP US., WE HAVE THIS ANTHRAX., YOU DIE NOW., ARE YOU AFRAID?, DEATH TO AMERICA. , DEATH TO ISRAEL. ALLAH IS GREAT.
Of the recipients of the letters, how many of them were opposed to the Patriot act and/or the invasion of Iraq?
"Well, first they take a DNA sample of the saliva used to seal the envelope with the anthrax"
...
What alleged bio-terrorist, would lick his own anthrax envelopes shut, especially considering he ws a highly trained microbiologist and vaccinologist, go back to your 'John and Jane' books
"Bruce Ivins could not have done it alone"
..
What 'evidence' is ther that Irvins was involved, traces of that particular strain was found near by, well they would find it, as he initially helped with the analysis of the anthrax-tainted envelopes. They only turned on Irvins, when the other 'suspect' (Steven Hatfill) refused to roll over
"I've seen nothing to indicate that Ivins acted alone"
That's because you seen nothing at all, and how by any rules of logic, can you infer the absence of any 'evidence' that he actied alone, as being evidence that he didn't act alone.
Bruce Edwards Ivins (the Anthrax suspect) aka Jimmy Flathead aka
jimmyflathead@yahoo.com
From: jimmyflathead@yahoo.com (jimmyflathead)
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"Well usually you don't run ATI DirectX drivers, video capture card drivers and about all possible media codecs on embedded system... ...as is case with Axon. And AFAIK Axon has no rom, only standard flash bios and XPe running from hard disk"
.. :)
Then why does it say here that Windows XP Embedded powers Olympics and what technical reasons are there for not running ATI DirectX drivers on embedded systems. Are there references in the litrature, to avoiding drivers on embedded systems? And what's the difference between XPe running on a harddrive and 'real' embedded XP not running on a hardrive
"Google makes it easy to opt out of the doubleclick tracking cookie"
Or you could put doubleclick.net & google-analytics.com in your hosts file and point the entries to 127.0.0.1 The advertisers still don't get it, intrusive adverts like on television don't work on the Internet
Not a problem as I don't ever see adverts, as I use Firefox, nscript and customised userContent.css and userChrome.css files. At least while I still have legal control of my computer.
It overheated (blame the stingy slant-eyed chinks) It was Chinise sabatage It was a CGI BSOD ..
It was a bad hardware drivers
It was not properly cooled ..
It was probably hardware failure ..
It was the fault of the DL2 media units ..
It was too much computing resources to handle
"They were Axon mediaservers running WinXP Embedded"
.. ? Or did they just stick parts if it on a ROM and run the rest from a RAMDRIVE .. tell me it ain't soo .. :o
How do you manage to make an embedded OS go BSOD. I though that one of the advantages of an embedded system was more reliability, what gives
"the number and power of the computing resources involved was probably pushing the limit"
You mean just to project a video onto the roof. I've got an old 500MB, PC that can play DVDs without problem. It runs on Yoper, you should try it, runs encrypted DVDs straight out of the box, no config issues.
It happened in the middle of the Olympics opening ceremony. It happened on the worlds self professed most advanced Operating System, in the know universe. To achieve five nines kind of reliability, I would recommend only using embedded hardware in such a configuration. Most certanly not XP, never mind the rest ..
"I wouldn't be surprised if China had an axe to grind against m$ and faking an embarrassing incident such as this would serve as a slap to m$"
.. ;)
.. funking DOH !!!
No, it's a plot by the US to sabatge the Chinese economy, but selling them Windows
and yea, they would fuck up their own Olympics just to embarrass Microsoft
do you get paid to type that BullShit~1 ®
subject: "DL3 media server failure"
.. It looks like someone wasn't paying attention"
If so, how did the DL3 provoke a BSOD in WindowsXP? Please provide the exact error msg from the screen.
"I believe most of the projections were handled by HighEnd Systems DL2s and DL3s
Do you have any hard facts to support this disengeniously modded up specious speculation, regardless, it still doesn't negate the fact that there was a BSOD in the middle of the opening ceremony.