Even if this is not the case, the stuff (ions, etc.) that comes of the human body in the water will make it conductive. If you don't believe that then give it a shot.
Even so, you still have to be part of the path from 'hot' to 'ground' - I suppose it might happen if you were between the radio and the drain, though, but I'd still expect that the paths witin the radio itself would be preferred. I'll admit, I don't want to try it out, though. Not the best time to find out a theory is wrong.
will work, since you run junkbuster on your workstation, obscuring your headers before they leave the workstation. Get your fucking facts straight.
electrocution? I don't think so.
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A Beautiful Mind
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(one practical joke of Nash's involved filling a light fixture with
water, which could have electrocuted a hapless victim when he turned on the light)
Probably nonsense. If the 'victim' weren't actually touching the fixture in question, (i.e tuyrning on via a wall switch) there is no possibiliy of electrocution. If the victim were touching the fixter it would require all of the following to occur:
The victim would have to touch a "hot" potion of the fixture, or be connected to a hot portion of the fixture via moisture that had acquired enough contaminants to be conductive (pure water doesn't conduct electricity very well), and
The victim would also have to be touching 'ground' or neutral conducter, or connected to same via moisture that had acquired enough contaminants to be conductive
The media have created this illusion that you can be electrocuted by being anywhere in the same county with water and electricity. This just isn't the case. The electricty must somehow flow through you, and it doesn't do this unless you are a path between 'hot' and neutral or ground. The classic example of the radio falling into the bathtub is probably harmless unless you touch the faucet or the drain, for example.
I've never had any use for Bork since I heard that he wrote that he found civil rights legislation stopping restaurant owners from discriminating on racial grounds "repugnant", then later upheld Georgia (I think) law under which sex (in this case, gay) between consenting adults in their own home could be illegal and the police could come in and arrest them. For this dipshit, government interference is bad - unless it's interfering in something he's against, then it's OK. (Of course, I'm inconsistent in the opposite direction, but I think it's a much better argument that the government DOES have a place in restaurants and NOT in the bedroom.)
And the answer to this (User-Agent string analysis) is junkbuster or some other anonymizing proxy that strips out useragent info or sets it to a specific value.
near as I can tell, they just don't give a rat's ass what you run or how you run it as long as it won't actually get them into trouble. Linux, web/ftp/whatever servers - no sweat. Of course, trying to get a real tech on the line when your service is down varies between good and awful...
So, what are the methods they use, and how can I make it more difficult for them to tell if I have a machine running NAT?
Browsers send a header containing a User-Agent string which identifies the browser and sometimes the OS. For example, Netscape 4.76 on windows NT looks like this: "Mozilla/4.76 [en] (WinNT; U)"
This gets sent everytime you download a page (or image in a page). An ISP seeing lots of different User-Agent headers coming from a single IP might conclude that mutiple computers are using that IP, especially if the user-agent headers name multiple OSs.
Some browsers (Opera, I think, maybe Galeon) allow you configure the User-Agent string they send.
someone had the gull to sweet talk some poor schmuck at the help desk into giving him the login for our little openbsd firewall
Why does your help desk have this info in the first place? Our helpdesk has things like in "firecall" envelopes only - and these are under lock and key with a log to be filled in before it's unlocked - not bullet proof, but if rules are followed, we will know who handed it out and who it was handed to.
you know, the same ones who lobby against genetically-engineered foods with signs like "NO FRANKENFOODS!".
The biggest outrage is that the food makers want the right to not tell us that the food contains genetically modified material. What are they hiding? If they weren't doing anything wrong, they wouldn't have to lie about it.
In other word, they let the domain expire and some slimeball snapped it up, hoping to make a quick buck. The lesson kiddies: don't let your domain registrations expire!
That would be a first. Courtney Love does the math. Sorry, but RIAA getting paid is way different from artists getting paid. (or were you being sarcastic?)
If you use MS apps on Linux/Unix, you're still using MS apps. You're still voting for MS with dollars. You're still endorsing MS 'extended' protocols and closed file formats.
To me, it's a non-starter. Better to have native apps that can import the files - atleast until MS uses DMCA or UCITA or some other vile thing to make that impossible, too.
SGI has created the file alteration monitor and ported it to linux. (This shows up as '/etc/xinetd.d/sgi_fam' in RH7.2.) This allows apps to request a central daemon to monitor files and directories for modification, so that the apps can be notified when this happens. I've started playing with this and it looks cool. This helps provide real-time auditing of file activities on critical files - helps mollify the security types, which is important in a corporate setting.
I just switched to FVWM after reading this and I really like it. Getting alt-tab window switching (one of the few things I actually like about MS windows) to work is now trivial (unlike the fvwm that shipped w/ RH6.0 in spring 1999 - you could do it but it took messing around, now it's simple). I suspect I may stay with this (so far just testing it out). I've been a KDE junkie up until now. Only problem (this on RH 7.2) - many menu items for apps don't seem to work. Possibly refer to programs which aren't present. But that's not fvwm's fault, most likely.
Oh you're so right. (the rest of his post was massively sarcasm "agreement" with mine.)
I understand where you are coming from in attacking my post, but let me ask you: how many of the 19 hijackers were Canadian or British or ANY ethiicity other than Middle Eastern, most notably Egyptian and Saudi Arabian? While we shouldn't prejudge, that's not the same as saying we should put on blinders and not more carefully investigate members of specific groups. You may deride this a 'racial profiling' - I call it common snese.
Microsoft might be on their list for these reasons:
How about the biggest reasons:
They hire lots of foreign programmers, (see their support for H1B visas) making them pathetically easy to infitrate
they neither know nor care about security - never have, never will, couldn't fix it if they wanted to because their corporate culture is 'features, Features, FEATURES!'
Notes was the original scriptable mailclient, so don't laugh too hard.
Also, Notes, as a email system, is the most inconceivable piece of shit in so many other ways, it hardly bears telling. Just a few:
Their joke of an SMTP server crashes if a message has more than 32K of headers (which sometimes happens for stupid mailing list software). (Or at least it used to.)
Have you ever seen a Delivery Failure notification in Notes? SMTP Servers generally put a lot of information into these to explain why the message couldn't get through. The Notes piece-o-shit excuse for an MUA throws out most of it and hides the rest.
I have never seen Outlook but it's hard to imagine it could be any worse than Notes client - other than the security of course. Give me mutt or pine any day.
It's a testament to the brilliant aviation engineers of the fifties that two of the most kickass planes from that era are still at the top of their game.
Actually, I believe that one group of engineers was responsible for both the U2 and the SR71: the 'skunkworks' of Lockheed, run by Kelly Johnson. Also produced the P38 Lightning, one of the faster and definitely the coolest-looking (IMNSHO) WWII fighter.
aka the blackbird. Titanium body, sustained speed and altitude specs that still (so far as I know) can't be beat. Mothballed a few years ago... bet they'd come in handy for some surveillance jobs right about now.
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Even if this is not the case, the stuff (ions, etc.) that comes of the human body in the water will make it conductive. If you don't believe that then give it a shot.
Even so, you still have to be part of the path from 'hot' to 'ground' - I suppose it might happen if you were between the radio and the drain, though, but I'd still expect that the paths witin the radio itself would be preferred. I'll admit, I don't want to try it out, though. Not the best time to find out a theory is wrong.
will work, since you run junkbuster on your workstation, obscuring your headers before they leave the workstation. Get your fucking facts straight.
water, which could have electrocuted a hapless victim when he turned on the light)
Probably nonsense. If the 'victim' weren't actually touching the fixture in question, (i.e tuyrning on via a wall switch) there is no possibiliy of electrocution. If the victim were touching the fixter it would require all of the following to occur:
The media have created this illusion that you can be electrocuted by being anywhere in the same county with water and electricity. This just isn't the case. The electricty must somehow flow through you, and it doesn't do this unless you are a path between 'hot' and neutral or ground. The classic example of the radio falling into the bathtub is probably harmless unless you touch the faucet or the drain, for example.
I've never had any use for Bork since I heard that he wrote that he found civil rights legislation stopping restaurant owners from discriminating on racial grounds "repugnant", then later upheld Georgia (I think) law under which sex (in this case, gay) between consenting adults in their own home could be illegal and the police could come in and arrest them. For this dipshit, government interference is bad - unless it's interfering in something he's against, then it's OK. (Of course, I'm inconsistent in the opposite direction, but I think it's a much better argument that the government DOES have a place in restaurants and NOT in the bedroom.)
And the answer to this (User-Agent string analysis) is junkbuster or some other anonymizing proxy that strips out useragent info or sets it to a specific value.
near as I can tell, they just don't give a rat's ass what you run or how you run it as long as it won't actually get them into trouble. Linux, web/ftp/whatever servers - no sweat. Of course, trying to get a real tech on the line when your service is down varies between good and awful...
So, what are the methods they use, and how can I make it more difficult for them to tell if I have a machine running NAT?
Browsers send a header containing a User-Agent string which identifies the browser and sometimes the OS. For example, Netscape 4.76 on windows NT looks like this: "Mozilla/4.76 [en] (WinNT; U)"
This gets sent everytime you download a page (or image in a page). An ISP seeing lots of different User-Agent headers coming from a single IP might conclude that mutiple computers are using that IP, especially if the user-agent headers name multiple OSs.
Some browsers (Opera, I think, maybe Galeon) allow you configure the User-Agent string they send.
someone had the gull to sweet talk some poor schmuck at the help desk into giving him the login for our little openbsd firewall
Why does your help desk have this info in the first place? Our helpdesk has things like in "firecall" envelopes only - and these are under lock and key with a log to be filled in before it's unlocked - not bullet proof, but if rules are followed, we will know who handed it out and who it was handed to.
how many versions of windows were released before they managed to build one that didn't suck
;)
Is there some new totally different version of Windows (beyond XP) that I haven't heard about?
The day MS makes something that doesn't suck, it'll be a vacuum cleaner.
you know, the same ones who lobby against genetically-engineered foods with signs like "NO FRANKENFOODS!".
The biggest outrage is that the food makers want the right to not tell us that the food contains genetically modified material. What are they hiding? If they weren't doing anything wrong, they wouldn't have to lie about it.
What linux user is going to buy a book when there is a free version available online?
Congressman. They like to bend their pages over.
..after all they've been making TOYS for years!
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In other word, they let the domain expire and some slimeball snapped it up, hoping to make a quick buck. The lesson kiddies: don't let your domain registrations expire!
The article says 'sightings are rare' - don't think so, see here.
but these frequencies were given in exchange for the analog ones, so I don't see how they can do this without breaking thier agreement with the FCC.
Where in the article is there any mention of using analog TV spectrum? For the technoically challenged, 'analog modem' != 'analog TV signal'. DUH!!!
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That would be a first. Courtney Love does the math. Sorry, but RIAA getting paid is way different from artists getting paid. (or were you being sarcastic?)
If you use MS apps on Linux/Unix, you're still using MS apps. You're still voting for MS with dollars. You're still endorsing MS 'extended' protocols and closed file formats.
To me, it's a non-starter. Better to have native apps that can import the files - atleast until MS uses DMCA or UCITA or some other vile thing to make that impossible, too.
SGI has created the file alteration monitor and ported it to linux. (This shows up as '/etc/xinetd.d/sgi_fam' in RH7.2.) This allows apps to request a central daemon to monitor files and directories for modification, so that the apps can be notified when this happens. I've started playing with this and it looks cool. This helps provide real-time auditing of file activities on critical files - helps mollify the security types, which is important in a corporate setting.
I just switched to FVWM after reading this and I really like it. Getting alt-tab window switching (one of the few things I actually like about MS windows) to work is now trivial (unlike the fvwm that shipped w/ RH6.0 in spring 1999 - you could do it but it took messing around, now it's simple). I suspect I may stay with this (so far just testing it out). I've been a KDE junkie up until now. Only problem (this on RH 7.2) - many menu items for apps don't seem to work. Possibly refer to programs which aren't present. But that's not fvwm's fault, most likely.
# lynx -head -dump http://news.bbc.co.uk
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 00:31:05 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix)
# lynx -head -dump http://www.bbc.co.uk
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 00:31:25 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix)
Someone over there may be a big open source advocate.
Oh you're so right. (the rest of his post was massively sarcasm "agreement" with mine.)
I understand where you are coming from in attacking my post, but let me ask you: how many of the 19 hijackers were Canadian or British or ANY ethiicity other than Middle Eastern, most notably Egyptian and Saudi Arabian? While we shouldn't prejudge, that's not the same as saying we should put on blinders and not more carefully investigate members of specific groups. You may deride this a 'racial profiling' - I call it common snese.
How about the biggest reasons:
Also, Notes, as a email system, is the most inconceivable piece of shit in so many other ways, it hardly bears telling. Just a few:
- Their joke of an SMTP server crashes if a message has more than 32K of headers (which sometimes happens for stupid mailing list software). (Or at least it used to.)
- Have you ever seen a Delivery Failure notification in Notes? SMTP Servers generally put a lot of information into these to explain why the message couldn't get through. The Notes piece-o-shit excuse for an MUA throws out most of it and hides the rest.
I have never seen Outlook but it's hard to imagine it could be any worse than Notes client - other than the security of course. Give me mutt or pine any day.It's a testament to the brilliant aviation engineers of the fifties that two of the most kickass planes from that era are still at the top of their game.
Actually, I believe that one group of engineers was responsible for both the U2 and the SR71: the 'skunkworks' of Lockheed, run by Kelly Johnson. Also produced the P38 Lightning, one of the faster and definitely the coolest-looking (IMNSHO) WWII fighter.
aka the blackbird. Titanium body, sustained speed and altitude specs that still (so far as I know) can't be beat. Mothballed a few years ago ... bet they'd come in handy for some surveillance jobs right about now.