The same happens to me. I have a rule that filters mail to myname@, so then only my.name@ hits my inbox. Conveniently 99% of spam gets sent to myname@ so gets filtered out along with alternate me's misaddressed email.
You can search on domain, as long as you can demonstrate some sort of ownership of the domain (receive email at a certain address, add a file or meta tag to root website, add a TXT record to DNS)
Excellent explanation. To answer the question you only sort of asked, it's not the shortest way. No matter which of the 6 possible orders you start with, the best you can get is a list 9 elements long. Optimal would be 8 elements (the initial 3 you decide to start with, then 1 more from each of the other 5) but no matter which order you start with it wants to repeat that initial order on the 3rd addition.
For example 123 should be followed by 231 resulting in 1231. Follow that with 312 for 12312. Next should be 123, but you started with that, so next-best-thing would be 213 for 1231213. Then 132 followed by 321 to get 123121321, one of the 9 element solutions.
My favourite was a company who emailed "me" to say they received the replacement for their broken part, but it was the wrong one. I replied back saying something like "No, I'm pretty sure we sent the right one". She replied back with a picture showing the broken part, and "my" replacement part, which was the same shape but probably 3x larger. I replied back "Looks OK to me". She didn't take kindly to that.
Then I googled the company and discovered they make assistive devices for disabled people, so then it wasn't my favourite anymore.
I added decent RIPScrip support to my Flash telnet client, but awhile ago I ported to javascript/canvas/websocket and never really made as much progress with the RIPScrip stuff. I really should go back and try to finish that off a bit better...
It's a little frustrating because none of the BGI drawing methods are open source, and so getting pixel perfect accuracy is difficult, which can cause serious issues (ie a misplaced pixel followed by a flood fill can escape what should have been the bounding area and flood the screen)
What I realized after I posted was that it is the cube root of N (and N=1,000,000 in their example of finding primes between 1 and 1,000,000), not the cube root of the original space required (which was given as 10,000 but is actually 100,000 sheets of paper).
I'm guessing a lot of the people who wished they had shorted don't have any stock to sell, so "just sell the stocks" isn't an option and short selling makes more sense.
With 2FA disabled, a "you signed in from a new IP" verification email gets sent, and you go WTF no I didn't and get suspicious (hopefully you do anyway).
With 2FA enabled, that email gets disabled, so the user is none the wiser that something funny is going on.
I was wondering the same thing...maybe they meant SP2 instead of R2 the second time, but then that still doesn't explain why they'd list Windows Server 2008 followed by Windows Server 2008 SP2...it's a pretty safe bet that if SP2 can't upgrade then neither can the non-SP2 version.
Don't be silly, of course MS won't require you to have a dual socket server just to run Windows Server 2016. They're only going to make you pay as if you have one!
Hard to tell. My interpretation is that prices have dropped somewhere between 31 and 13 cents per year over the last three years. So one of the three years saw a 31 cent drop, another of the three years saw a 13 cent drop, and another of the three years saw a drop somewhere in between.
It's a bit unusual that the extortion was paid and the attack continued-- it doesn't perfectly match the typical model of typical DDoS-for-ransom attacks.
Did the attack continue, or did the paid-off attacker stop only to be replaced by a new attacker who also wanted to get paid?
Am I having an English fail, or are they having a Math fail?
Mr. Smith's salary has increased by 350% over the past 20 years. If his original salary was $22,000 per year, what is his current salary?
First change 350% to a decimal: 350% = 3.5
Next, multiply the original salary by the decimal number: (22000) x (3.5) = 77000
After 20 years Mr. Smith's salary has increased from $22,000 to $77,000 per year.
Didn't his salary increase by $77,000, from $22,000 to $99,000?
To simplify it, if his salary had increased by 100% would that mean he was now making $22,000 (their logic) or $44,000 (my logic)?
Usurper was ported to Win32 (a few times), a bunch of bugs have been fixed, maintenance has been optimized, etc.
https://github.com/rickparrish... has the updated source
With W2008 and newer, there are zero activation cracks that don't get patched, so people who pirate are pretty much stuck with W2003 if they want security updates.
Not sure about 2008, but 2008 R2 can be rearmed indefinitely. Not quite as good as an activation crack since it requires rebooting to safe mode to run a script to reset the rearm count every couple months, but that's no big deal if someone really wants to avoid paying for something.
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The same happens to me. I have a rule that filters mail to myname@, so then only my.name@ hits my inbox. Conveniently 99% of spam gets sent to myname@ so gets filtered out along with alternate me's misaddressed email.
You can search on domain, as long as you can demonstrate some sort of ownership of the domain (receive email at a certain address, add a file or meta tag to root website, add a TXT record to DNS)
Excellent explanation. To answer the question you only sort of asked, it's not the shortest way. No matter which of the 6 possible orders you start with, the best you can get is a list 9 elements long. Optimal would be 8 elements (the initial 3 you decide to start with, then 1 more from each of the other 5) but no matter which order you start with it wants to repeat that initial order on the 3rd addition.
For example 123 should be followed by 231 resulting in 1231. Follow that with 312 for 12312. Next should be 123, but you started with that, so next-best-thing would be 213 for 1231213. Then 132 followed by 321 to get 123121321, one of the 9 element solutions.
My favourite was a company who emailed "me" to say they received the replacement for their broken part, but it was the wrong one. I replied back saying something like "No, I'm pretty sure we sent the right one". She replied back with a picture showing the broken part, and "my" replacement part, which was the same shape but probably 3x larger. I replied back "Looks OK to me". She didn't take kindly to that.
Then I googled the company and discovered they make assistive devices for disabled people, so then it wasn't my favourite anymore.
Paragraphs 3 and 4 under the "Solid bulk cargoes" subheading explain why.
I added decent RIPScrip support to my Flash telnet client, but awhile ago I ported to javascript/canvas/websocket and never really made as much progress with the RIPScrip stuff. I really should go back and try to finish that off a bit better...
It's a little frustrating because none of the BGI drawing methods are open source, and so getting pixel perfect accuracy is difficult, which can cause serious issues (ie a misplaced pixel followed by a flood fill can escape what should have been the bounding area and flood the screen)
What I realized after I posted was that it is the cube root of N (and N=1,000,000 in their example of finding primes between 1 and 1,000,000), not the cube root of the original space required (which was given as 10,000 but is actually 100,000 sheets of paper).
Yeah 2 seconds after I posted my second message I found myself wishing for an edit feature...
Good catch. Although cube root of 100,000 is still not 100, so double fail on their part.
Since when is the cube root of 10,000 equal to 100? That's a much more interesting discovery!
I'm guessing a lot of the people who wished they had shorted don't have any stock to sell, so "just sell the stocks" isn't an option and short selling makes more sense.
Somebody was worse than TD and their 8 character maximum?
Assuming your 6 characters were alpha+numeric+symbols, then at least that's better than ING/Tangerine and their exactly-6-numbers PINs.
What do the emails look like? Is there any "speech" from the user, or do they just plug in an email address and amazon does all the "speaking"?
With 2FA disabled, a "you signed in from a new IP" verification email gets sent, and you go WTF no I didn't and get suspicious (hopefully you do anyway). With 2FA enabled, that email gets disabled, so the user is none the wiser that something funny is going on.
I was wondering the same thing...maybe they meant SP2 instead of R2 the second time, but then that still doesn't explain why they'd list Windows Server 2008 followed by Windows Server 2008 SP2...it's a pretty safe bet that if SP2 can't upgrade then neither can the non-SP2 version.
Don't be silly, of course MS won't require you to have a dual socket server just to run Windows Server 2016. They're only going to make you pay as if you have one!
Another option would be to add a TXT record with the challenge-response to the DNS. Control of the DNS literally means controlling the domain.
That's a planned feature, sadly it was considered low priority for the beta launch. Hopefully it'll be implemented in the next few months though.
Isn't one theory that the moon is made up of debris from a massive Earth impact? If so, and if the moon is cheese, I guess maybe xevioso is correct!
Hard to tell. My interpretation is that prices have dropped somewhere between 31 and 13 cents per year over the last three years. So one of the three years saw a 31 cent drop, another of the three years saw a 13 cent drop, and another of the three years saw a drop somewhere in between.
It's a bit unusual that the extortion was paid and the attack continued-- it doesn't perfectly match the typical model of typical DDoS-for-ransom attacks.
Did the attack continue, or did the paid-off attacker stop only to be replaced by a new attacker who also wanted to get paid?
Mr. Smith's salary has increased by 350% over the past 20 years. If his original salary was $22,000 per year, what is his current salary?
First change 350% to a decimal: 350% = 3.5
Next, multiply the original salary by the decimal number: (22000) x (3.5) = 77000
After 20 years Mr. Smith's salary has increased from $22,000 to $77,000 per year.
Didn't his salary increase by $77,000, from $22,000 to $99,000?
To simplify it, if his salary had increased by 100% would that mean he was now making $22,000 (their logic) or $44,000 (my logic)?
Usurper was ported to Win32 (a few times), a bunch of bugs have been fixed, maintenance has been optimized, etc. https://github.com/rickparrish... has the updated source
With W2008 and newer, there are zero activation cracks that don't get patched, so people who pirate are pretty much stuck with W2003 if they want security updates.
Not sure about 2008, but 2008 R2 can be rearmed indefinitely. Not quite as good as an activation crack since it requires rebooting to safe mode to run a script to reset the rearm count every couple months, but that's no big deal if someone really wants to avoid paying for something.
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For once Slashdot editors/submitters aren't to blame...the linked bulletin makes reference to it being out-of-band as well.