You overlook the significance of the language barrier.
I work with a company that has a sister company in Korea. Their security practices are truly terrible, because they can't read the oodles of "best practices" stuff that's out there, can't follow Bugtraq to realize how hostile the networks are, etc.
I tell them they can't use the company name as the password on the firewall, and I get stared at like I have a second head. Terrifying.
I lucked out. A friend of mine worked for a bank in the area, and knew of a branch closure. Everything "not needed" was up for auction.
We got a couple very comfy chairs for five bucks each, and I got a full height equipment case (plexi front door, perforated rear, dual exhaust fans, roller wheels, etc) for $20. Canadian.
Of course, moving the damn thing was another issue. It weighs in at close to 300 pounds.
Sadly enough, I can still remember it, ten years later.
1:353/700.1, then 1:353/750, iirc.
I was "Solaris VII", first a point feed off my buddy Dean's BBS "Starfleet Command", then once it finally got wrangled through the BS interior BC FidoNET politics, I got my own nodenumber.
Ah, memories. Friends calling me voice, pestering me to put the BBS up ten minutes before 10 PM, so they could be the first online to do their tradewars turns.
You can expect to pay from $50 to over $500 for a phone, depending on the features you want.
This was not the experience of a friend of mine, who came back from teaching English in Japan for a year.
"Wait, you mean I have to PAY for this big, crappy phone?"
That was his exact quote. The phone he had from Japan (and for some reason couldn't get to work in Canada, I didn't pay much attention there) was half the size, ran longer on a charge, and had way more features than anything he could get here.
I find it interesting that a lot of the replies here deal with "how nerds can get back at the cyberbullies".
Very few, if any, are assuming that the nerds ARE the cyberbullies.
Bullying is about strength. In the real world, that can be physical or political/social. In the internet, that can be technical prowess. He who hacks better, bullies better.
Discarding mail is one thing, but blocking an IP address is quite another. What's the justification for this? To prevent the (supossed) spammer from profitting from the spam, by preventing anyone from connecting to it to (presumably) buy the product touted in the spam? Bandwidth costs.
When you can completely block a rogue IP/network/country/etc from accessing your network at all, you save that network cost.
You also cut out the processing time that filtering would have used up, in a more efficient way.
My gateway box is a lot quieter than it used to be - but I sure don't recommend the method it got quieter by.
Specifically, the power supply fan on it (a lowly Pentium 200) packed it in. I didn't notice for months, so it's evidently not a problem... but it is a lot quieter than with the fan running!:)
Now I just need to find a Pentium compatible "big block of aluminum" CPU cooler, and I can get rid of the CPU fan too.....
I've always thought the most active subduction zones would be best... but I can imagine people would freak at the thought of "dumping it in the sea". Of course, precision placement would be far from just dumping it.
At any rate, my defense is this- I wish to see the Gamecube stay as a pure gaming machine, and not turn into a hacked everything-box like the XBox or PS2. You still don't get it.
Nothing changes on your Gamecube, or Gamecubes in general, if somebody figures out how to run something else on them. Nothing. They still do everything they did before, just as well as they did before.
You are claiming a loss of some kind. Itemize that loss, prove to us exactly what you are losing, and you may just manage to not look like a raving nutjob.
You know, it is possible to have a network not connected to the Internet.
Now, if you want to allow the programmers to work from home, etc, then you do end up re-opening the system, but there's no driving business reason that it must be that way - especially since the result of a screwup can be this drastic!
I'm a closed beta tester for a game that shall remain anonymous. I was discussing the Valve situation with one of the devs in the test server, and he explained their strict "no source on net-accessible machines". Any access from the dev boxes out goes through application level proxies, such that no system ever talks direct to the outside world. It's always dev box to proxy, then proxy to the outside world.
Now, I can see a couple ways around that. If they can proxy through to the web, so can my keylogger/malware installer, for starters... but at least the intention is there.
Are they going to fit a cell phone into the can, too??
Basically, yes.
Somebody else in this thread pointed out a page by the company that does it, explaining the technology.
In a nutshell, opening the can triggers the GPS unit, which squirts the coordinates via SMS. Company receives the info, dispatches prize van. No worries about drinking the device, it's pretty big and the can is otherwise empty.
It's not kept upright by the same principle as a bicycle.
For the bike to stay upright, the wheels (actually, apparently just the front wheel) must be spinning. A segway will stay upright while stationary. Well, mostly stationary, as it needs to move itself to recenter the center of gravity above the wheels.
SL is a nice haven from the retards that troll the majority of online games.
Provided, of course, you are leftist anarchist.
I remember the welcome we WW2OL'ers got. And I am leftist... well, compared to most WW2OL'ers.
For the curious, read back a bit in the archives (same "embedded reporter") about the "War of Jessie". If you are in search of competition, stay far, far away from SL. You're just supposed to get along there, presumably while munching granola.;)
I don't think you can do it in "a couple seconds", unless the memory keeps drawing power.
IIRC, a standard data rate on an IDE drive is somewhere around 12 MB/s (don't shoot me if I'm wrong, it's just what I remember... and would seem to agree with ATA100 being 100 megabits/s, not megabytes). That means that a system with 256 MB of RAM is going to take ~20s to dump it all to the drive, unless it skips parts that aren't in use.
Now, that's ATA100, not ATA133... but that's only 33% faster... so 14 seconds instead of 20 for a 256 MB system. Still nowhere near "a couple seconds".
You could certainly background the dump to the drive, and make it look like a faster powerdown, but there's little you can do about the wakeup. That'll have to read it into memory in the foreground.
A low resolution movie screen... I sure wouldn't want to look at it from closer than 10m away, to keep it from looking pixelated.
In other words, yep - great for outdoors stuff, big screens/areas at a distance, but not for wallpaper, unless you really dig blocky patterned wallpaper.;)
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But dude, it's extreme!
You overlook the significance of the language barrier.
I work with a company that has a sister company in Korea. Their security practices are truly terrible, because they can't read the oodles of "best practices" stuff that's out there, can't follow Bugtraq to realize how hostile the networks are, etc.
I tell them they can't use the company name as the password on the firewall, and I get stared at like I have a second head. Terrifying.
I lucked out. A friend of mine worked for a bank in the area, and knew of a branch closure. Everything "not needed" was up for auction.
We got a couple very comfy chairs for five bucks each, and I got a full height equipment case (plexi front door, perforated rear, dual exhaust fans, roller wheels, etc) for $20. Canadian.
Of course, moving the damn thing was another issue. It weighs in at close to 300 pounds.
I would think it would be more likely that accounts that "burst" mail would get shunted to a second, still automated inspection process.
One that likely works on the "total per longer period" metric, sees it's 30 emails a day, and ignores it.
Sadly enough, I can still remember it, ten years later.
1:353/700.1, then 1:353/750, iirc.
I was "Solaris VII", first a point feed off my buddy Dean's BBS "Starfleet Command", then once it finally got wrangled through the BS interior BC FidoNET politics, I got my own nodenumber.
Ah, memories. Friends calling me voice, pestering me to put the BBS up ten minutes before 10 PM, so they could be the first online to do their tradewars turns.
You can expect to pay from $50 to over $500 for a phone, depending on the features you want.
This was not the experience of a friend of mine, who came back from teaching English in Japan for a year.
"Wait, you mean I have to PAY for this big, crappy phone?"
That was his exact quote. The phone he had from Japan (and for some reason couldn't get to work in Canada, I didn't pay much attention there) was half the size, ran longer on a charge, and had way more features than anything he could get here.
I find it interesting that a lot of the replies here deal with "how nerds can get back at the cyberbullies".
Very few, if any, are assuming that the nerds ARE the cyberbullies.
Bullying is about strength. In the real world, that can be physical or political/social. In the internet, that can be technical prowess. He who hacks better, bullies better.
I was on FD from close to it's launch until a couple months ago, when I got tired of the fifth-grade drama queens that seemed to be infesting it.
Full Disclosure turned into Full Drama, with he-said-she-said BS... I don't have the time for that, really.
Perhaps I should check back, it has been long enough for a shift in the nature again.
Discarding mail is one thing, but blocking an IP address is quite another. What's the justification for this? To prevent the (supossed) spammer from profitting from the spam, by preventing anyone from connecting to it to (presumably) buy the product touted in the spam?
Bandwidth costs.
When you can completely block a rogue IP/network/country/etc from accessing your network at all, you save that network cost.
You also cut out the processing time that filtering would have used up, in a more efficient way.
That just goes to show how ignorant they are.
Everyone knows that your penis length is based on an amalgam of your CPU clock speed, memory size, and disk space. Duh.
-Make coffee that is restricted under OSHA guidelines
Are you kidding? I much prefer OSHA-violating coffee.
Sweet, sweet, forbidden coffee. Who cares if it's made with heavy water.
It certainly costs a LOT less than they're claiming the zero-day piracy is costing them.
Therefore, they can't complain. Spending $100 to save $10000 is a good idea in any book.
My gateway box is a lot quieter than it used to be - but I sure don't recommend the method it got quieter by.
:)
Specifically, the power supply fan on it (a lowly Pentium 200) packed it in. I didn't notice for months, so it's evidently not a problem... but it is a lot quieter than with the fan running!
Now I just need to find a Pentium compatible "big block of aluminum" CPU cooler, and I can get rid of the CPU fan too.....
I've always thought the most active subduction zones would be best... but I can imagine people would freak at the thought of "dumping it in the sea". Of course, precision placement would be far from just dumping it.
Wait a minute - $6-10 was 50% of your electric bill?
That's crazy. Do you live in the dark all the time or something? No fridge, freezer, TV?
My power bill is on the order of $50/month CDN, and afaik BC Hydro has some of the cheaper rates going.
At any rate, my defense is this- I wish to see the Gamecube stay as a pure gaming machine, and not turn into a hacked everything-box like the XBox or PS2.
You still don't get it.
Nothing changes on your Gamecube, or Gamecubes in general, if somebody figures out how to run something else on them. Nothing. They still do everything they did before, just as well as they did before.
You are claiming a loss of some kind. Itemize that loss, prove to us exactly what you are losing, and you may just manage to not look like a raving nutjob.
You know, it is possible to have a network not connected to the Internet.
Now, if you want to allow the programmers to work from home, etc, then you do end up re-opening the system, but there's no driving business reason that it must be that way - especially since the result of a screwup can be this drastic!
I'm a closed beta tester for a game that shall remain anonymous. I was discussing the Valve situation with one of the devs in the test server, and he explained their strict "no source on net-accessible machines". Any access from the dev boxes out goes through application level proxies, such that no system ever talks direct to the outside world. It's always dev box to proxy, then proxy to the outside world.
Now, I can see a couple ways around that. If they can proxy through to the web, so can my keylogger/malware installer, for starters... but at least the intention is there.
Are they going to fit a cell phone into the can, too??
Basically, yes.
Somebody else in this thread pointed out a page by the company that does it, explaining the technology.
In a nutshell, opening the can triggers the GPS unit, which squirts the coordinates via SMS. Company receives the info, dispatches prize van. No worries about drinking the device, it's pretty big and the can is otherwise empty.
It's not kept upright by the same principle as a bicycle.
For the bike to stay upright, the wheels (actually, apparently just the front wheel) must be spinning. A segway will stay upright while stationary. Well, mostly stationary, as it needs to move itself to recenter the center of gravity above the wheels.
Yes. Every SCA event I go to with belly dancers and drummers. Both are usually incompetent, and won't stop. :/
SL is a nice haven from the retards that troll the majority of online games.
;)
Provided, of course, you are leftist anarchist.
I remember the welcome we WW2OL'ers got. And I am leftist... well, compared to most WW2OL'ers.
For the curious, read back a bit in the archives (same "embedded reporter") about the "War of Jessie". If you are in search of competition, stay far, far away from SL. You're just supposed to get along there, presumably while munching granola.
Do I really need to remind you about the "You're not like sand" drek?
Sadly, it's almost too believable.
I don't think you can do it in "a couple seconds", unless the memory keeps drawing power.
IIRC, a standard data rate on an IDE drive is somewhere around 12 MB/s (don't shoot me if I'm wrong, it's just what I remember... and would seem to agree with ATA100 being 100 megabits/s, not megabytes). That means that a system with 256 MB of RAM is going to take ~20s to dump it all to the drive, unless it skips parts that aren't in use.
Now, that's ATA100, not ATA133... but that's only 33% faster... so 14 seconds instead of 20 for a 256 MB system. Still nowhere near "a couple seconds".
You could certainly background the dump to the drive, and make it look like a faster powerdown, but there's little you can do about the wakeup. That'll have to read it into memory in the foreground.
A low resolution movie screen... I sure wouldn't want to look at it from closer than 10m away, to keep it from looking pixelated.
;)
In other words, yep - great for outdoors stuff, big screens/areas at a distance, but not for wallpaper, unless you really dig blocky patterned wallpaper.
The pixels are huge - 5mm x 5mm. It's only going to look decent from a distance.