Online writer Wayne Madsen http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/Datathefts.php has been keeping track of the recent upsurge in data thefts. He believes it's a covert program and not just some garden variety criminals.
After all, do you beleieve after this current budget assessment that there will be funding to monitor the beer-drinking, porn-watching, taco-eating, burger-festering couch potato population when the current government can't even guarantee evacuation busses during a hurricane?
Then again, that would be COOL!
I could track my daily progress via the camera via some Linux solution to forever confuse the police with innuendo and reality dramas about my mundane worker-bee life. That would definitely convince them there's something to investagate.
And think about it! If this goes through, all you have to do to get a job at the police force is have a profound fixation on watching other people. Takes care of all those voyeuristic folks who like to watch prOn all the time.
I for one welcome our new DoD computing overlords...I would expect that 'removable drives' would not be protected by stickers at all. Perhaps you should bury it in concrete and post sentries at all times to guard the files. Don't let vendors build anything, source it yourself...there's some fine mercenary computer builders out there..
Doctor: He's crashing! I don't know why...where is that scanner?
Nurse: I'm trying...the database is down...
Doctor: Again????
Nurse:..All is says it SQL database error...unable to connect to localhost....
Doctor: Please send an email quickly and have the sysadmin reboot the server....
A quick whois.sc check shows this site which seems to be the most part about Microsoft products is hosted using the Apache server, with FrontPage extensions enabled. Why not IIS? Isn't open source software "crap" Server Type:Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.10 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
not at all, all this does is disallow certain directories, not all. In the case of.htpasswd I agree, but that would be set for only certain directories that authenticated users needed to access, not for applications
user-agent: *
Disallow: email.htm
Disallow:/cgi-bin/
Disallow:/webmail/src/
Prevents Google or other robots from indexing these areas.
Or better yet,.htpasswd allows basic auth for sensitive areas under apache. Problem with the honeypot idea is it dissallows proper users from finding the correct URL to web-services.
As a musician who is independent from the record industry, we have come to regard the CD as little more than a business card nowadays. Why? Because the fact is, most retail CD's are overpriced, and most records nowadays are done with very little financial support. To go into a recording studio on average you pay around $500-$1200 per day in a good recording studio with qualified personel. Just as most of you wouldn't cheap out if you needed a good mechanic, same goes for recording. With that in mind, record companies have things rigged so well that they undermine the process by only backing artists that have the potential for big payout on the first record. In days past, companies "developed" artists by allowing them at least three records to begin to establish a career. Now, forget it. As well, the average record contract pays pennies to the artist while most of the retail price goes to the label and their infrastructure. Bottom line is, if you need a good computer, you pay for one. If you want the CD that you love, buy it too. Quit looking for the cheap ass way out, or blaming the companies, as they are always in it for the profit. Music that makes you happy is special, that's why we musicians give it away for the most part, expecting the fans will only come back to the next show or buy the next CD. Perhaps that is the lesson in all of this. Sure you can get it legitimately, but somehow in your mind if you aren't 100% with a CD, you feel you should rip it just to get what you want.
I used to have a one-button apple pro mouse...second hand crap it was, and it had a dead short in it which would crash the USB occasionally. So I got a genuine Microsoft mouse with the scroll wheel and a USB adaptor that maps it from PS2 and the thing works famously. Best thing MS ever made, lol
You might be surprised to know that the port blocking doesn't work if you use a standard modem. All high speed customers are forced into an agreement where they have to purchase a custom dlink router (with WIFI), which has special firmware and a whole suite of useless software for "anti-virus" protection. I tossed the router away and used my original d-link 300-i instead and discovered that if you are inside their network, your ports are all wide open, even with a dynamic account. I opted for the hosting package anyhow though for the sites I host here, but it's useful to make use of a dynamic account for development servers, and it all works, ssh, mail, the works.
Here's a snippet from Telus's License agreement for hosting, which I am a customer:
Use of information
You agree not to use any information on this site or linked to this site in any claims, proceedings, suits or actions against TELUS, its partners or suppliers.
They essentially reserve the right to shut you down arbitrarily if you publish any "unaccaptable" content.
At least under GNU/Linux you know when an app has dependencies that aren't met on install. Under windows the information is not so enlightening when you see a message that the computer must shut down due to an error.
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Online writer Wayne Madsen http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/Datathefts.php has been keeping track of the recent upsurge in data thefts. He believes it's a covert program and not just some garden variety criminals.
um...he did, didn't you know that?
After all, do you beleieve after this current budget assessment that there
will be funding to monitor the beer-drinking, porn-watching, taco-eating,
burger-festering couch potato population when the current government
can't even guarantee evacuation busses during a hurricane?
Then again, that would be COOL!
I could track my daily progress via the camera via some Linux solution
to forever confuse the police with innuendo and reality dramas about my
mundane worker-bee life. That would definitely convince them there's
something to investagate.
And think about it! If this goes through, all you have to do to get
a job at the police force is have a profound fixation on watching other
people. Takes care of all those voyeuristic folks who like to watch
prOn all the time.
I for one welcome our new DoD computing overlords...I would expect that 'removable drives' would not be protected by stickers at all. Perhaps you should bury it in concrete and post sentries at all times to guard the files. Don't let vendors build anything, source it yourself...there's some fine mercenary computer builders out there..
By that I mean structure your query as problems with webhost or "webhost" dissatisfaction etc
Just how much did the Mozilla Foundation contribute to the Bush/Cheney campaign compared to Microsoft?
/usr/local/bin/laden
http://www.epicrealm.com/ Nothing to see here...move along..
Doctor: He's crashing! I don't know why...where is that scanner? ..All is says it SQL database error...unable to connect to localhost....
Nurse: I'm trying...the database is down...
Doctor: Again????
Nurse:
Doctor: Please send an email quickly and have the sysadmin reboot the server....
A quick whois.sc check shows this site which seems to be the most part about Microsoft products is hosted using the Apache server, with FrontPage extensions enabled. Why not IIS? Isn't open source software "crap"
Server Type:Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.10 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
not at all, all this does is disallow certain directories, not all. In the case of .htpasswd I agree, but that would be set for only certain directories that authenticated users needed to access, not for applications
user-agent: * Disallow: email.htm Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /webmail/src/
Prevents Google or other robots from indexing these areas.
Or better yet, .htpasswd allows basic auth for sensitive areas under apache. Problem with the honeypot idea is it dissallows proper users from finding the correct URL to web-services.
As a musician who is independent from the record industry, we have come to regard the CD as little more than a business card nowadays. Why? Because the fact is, most retail CD's are overpriced, and most records nowadays are done with very little financial support. To go into a recording studio on average you pay around $500-$1200 per day in a good recording studio with qualified personel. Just as most of you wouldn't cheap out if you needed a good mechanic, same goes for recording. With that in mind, record companies have things rigged so well that they undermine the process by only backing artists that have the potential for big payout on the first record. In days past, companies "developed" artists by allowing them at least three records to begin to establish a career. Now, forget it. As well, the average record contract pays pennies to the artist while most of the retail price goes to the label and their infrastructure. Bottom line is, if you need a good computer, you pay for one. If you want the CD that you love, buy it too. Quit looking for the cheap ass way out, or blaming the companies, as they are always in it for the profit. Music that makes you happy is special, that's why we musicians give it away for the most part, expecting the fans will only come back to the next show or buy the next CD. Perhaps that is the lesson in all of this. Sure you can get it legitimately, but somehow in your mind if you aren't 100% with a CD, you feel you should rip it just to get what you want.
I used to have a one-button apple pro mouse...second hand crap it was, and it had a dead short in it which would crash the USB occasionally. So I got a genuine Microsoft mouse with the scroll wheel and a USB adaptor that maps it from PS2 and the thing works famously. Best thing MS ever made, lol
You might be surprised to know that the port blocking doesn't work if you use a standard modem. All high speed customers are forced into an agreement where they have to purchase a custom dlink router (with WIFI), which has special firmware and a whole suite of useless software for "anti-virus" protection. I tossed the router away and used my original d-link 300-i instead and discovered that if you are inside their network, your ports are all wide open, even with a dynamic account. I opted for the hosting package anyhow though for the sites I host here, but it's useful to make use of a dynamic account for development servers, and it all works, ssh, mail, the works.
Here's a snippet from Telus's License agreement for hosting, which I am a customer:
Use of information
You agree not to use any information on this site or linked to this site in any claims, proceedings, suits or actions against TELUS, its partners or suppliers.
They essentially reserve the right to shut you down arbitrarily if you publish any "unaccaptable" content.
At least under GNU/Linux you know when an app has dependencies that aren't met on install. Under windows the information is not so enlightening when you see a message that the computer must shut down due to an error.