Accurate time is very useful in computer security work. For one, it's needed to accurately correlate log file entries from one computer to another in case of a breach, to identify means of access and creating an accurate picture of what happened and when.
When the average person violates probation, they go straight to prison. They dont get a trial or a hearing to prove their innocence, nor does the state give them more time to get it right, or get their affairs in order.
When the average person violates probation they are giving a probation violation hearing. The judge takes a look at the violation and can give prison time, but can also give community service, depending on the violation.
I was going to write about this, but you beat me to the punch. My gf got me into vitamin water a couple weeks ago. The different flavors have different vitamins in them, so there's quite a variety. I haven't seen the website yet (going to check it out now) but the humor on the bottles is pretty good as well. We pick them up at the local grocery story in the water section.
For those not in the loop, the Wall of Sheep at DefCon (a hackers convention) is a projection showing all the unencrypted logins (username and password) going over their network during the convention.
OpenSSH is the only thing openbsd really has going for it. It's not a largely used distro, as far a linux flavors go. it isn't inventive enough... not that that isn't obvious by their inability to invent a cash flow, even though they have one of the BIGGEST, BADDEST damn applications in the whole linux realm!
You, Sir, are the idiot here. You say openbsd is not a largely used "distro" as far as "linux flavors" go, and keep refering to openbsd as linux. BSD is NOT LINUX, and BSD is not refered to as a "distro."
You keep calling people retards, idiots and morons, but you, sir, need to look in the mirror. Pot, kettle, black. Mods, blast this troll into oblivion.
introducing Nokia brick phones where flip-phones are the norm
I believe the term is "candybar" phones. Bricks are from the early 90's. Oh, and while I'm getting all technical on the names, the summary more than likely refers to "clamshell" phones, where the flip portion opens on the top like a clamshell. A "flip" phone is a phone where the mouthpiece flips down, like the oldschool motorola's from the mid 90's.
Erm, Virgin Mobile is probably one of the smallest networks. It's certainly not one of the largest, and it uses T-Mobile's transmitters rather than having its own.
This is only true for the United Kingdom, where Virgin uses GSM.
In the United States, Virgin Mobile is CDMA. T-Mobile is GSM. They are incompatible technologies, and Virgin Mobile uses Sprint towers. In Canada they are also CDMA and use Bell towers. I'm not sure what they use in Australia.
They are also not a "network" per se, as they don't have any towers of their own. They piggyback off of other network's towers.
I once heard a story about someone who claimed that they were being listened to. This person says that he heard an odd "clicking" and other bizzare noises when he was talking on his home land line. When he complained to the phone company, the repairman said his phone was wired really weird. He claimed that it was wired through to the company he used to work for. This was in the mid-nineties. I don't really trust the word of this person, but I would like to know if this has any validity.
1) Is this story believable?
Somewhat. It would be possible to bribe someone in the phone company to set this up. Alternatively, someone with enough skill could hack into the local switch and set this up themselves, but in that case there would more than likely be no noises on the line. Kevin Poulsen had a setup similar to this. He hacked into his local switch, switched a radio stations phone lines to an office, and had the lines forwarded from there to the original office. He was able to cut off the incoming lines at the right time and be the magic caller to win cars, cash and other items.
2) Do you hear "clicks" if your phone line is being tapped?
If the phone company taps a line by order of the government, you will not hear any clicks or other noises, and you will have no way of knowing your phone is tapped. On the other hand, if it is an amateur tap, such as a tape recorder aligator clipped to the network interface on the outside of your house, you may hear some clicks.
3) Can any private organization arrange to have another wire leading from another phone?
This setup is possible to pull off, and if the company had a tape recorder attached to the line it could explain the clicking noises, such as when a voice activated recorder starts and stops recording. Sounds like a case of industrial espionage, maybe your friend was working for one of his ex-employers competiters? If that's not the case, I don't see why someone would go to all the trouble to set something like this up. Legit story? I don't know. Technically possible? Yes.
I'll chime in here along with everyone else. Dialup is definetly not safer. I've diagnosed and removed malware off numerous friends and family computers, and two of the worst I've seen were using dialup. One of them was a pentium 4 2ghz and it just CRAWLED like a pentium or something. It would take forever to boot, and once it did you couldn't even access the start menu. It would pop up but you couldn't choose anything off it, and if you clicked on the desktop, the start menu would still be on the screen after trying to close it. It was totally unusable, and I had to wipe the box and reinstall.
Tuvalu (.tv) sold the rights to their domain to verisign. It was not hijacked from them, it was their right and their decision to sell it. They received over $20 million dollars, which is roughly twice their annual gross domestic product. I fail to see how this constitutes being "hijacked."
.cx is run by a community owned non-profit on christmas island. They also run a non-profit isp on the island. How is this hijacking?
I volunteered for AntiChildPorn.Org for seven or eight years, and while I lived literally down the street from the founder, most of the volunteers live all over north america and europe. Most of the time it worked out very well. We've put together complete software packages and organized numerous other projects this way.
Recently the founder has passed away, and this is an issue because she was the one holding the org together. We're all scrambling to pick up the slack and getting things going again. (RIP Natasha)
Don't you love how slashdot provided a link to the anonymous coward's email right there in the headline? On this article it might not matter so much, but if it was a chinese citizen posting about a chinese rights article, it might matter. Way to go, slashdot.
1. Add your domain name to your profile on slashdot
2. Post useless crap to slashdot
3. Enjoy increased traffic and pagerank
4. Profit!
No need for ???? here. The domain that beatles-beatles has on his profile has a pagerank of 5. I imagine a fair amount of that is from his slashdot posts.
is to find a high ranking site, such as slashdot, and post links to the website you're trying to boost the pagerank of. Not that I would ever do that, of course.:-)
Glide looks like a well put together app, and I imagine it will become quite popular. But I for one would never use it. I prefer to keep my data locally, for privacy and security reasons.
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Accurate time is very useful in computer security work. For one, it's needed to accurately correlate log file entries from one computer to another in case of a breach, to identify means of access and creating an accurate picture of what happened and when.
When the average person violates probation, they go straight to prison. They dont get a trial or a hearing to prove their innocence, nor does the state give them more time to get it right, or get their affairs in order.
When the average person violates probation they are giving a probation violation hearing. The judge takes a look at the violation and can give prison time, but can also give community service, depending on the violation.
I was going to write about this, but you beat me to the punch. My gf got me into vitamin water a couple weeks ago. The different flavors have different vitamins in them, so there's quite a variety. I haven't seen the website yet (going to check it out now) but the humor on the bottles is pretty good as well. We pick them up at the local grocery story in the water section.
Granted it wasn't an Ask Slashdot, but this seems to have been discussed here already:
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/05/142
Here in Minneapolis we have Simon Delivers. http://www.simondelivers.com/
I see their trucks quite often, so no, home delivery of groceries isn't dead.
According to their page, under "Which moods are hot?" they list "high"
? high
http://ilps.science.uva.nl/MoodViews/Moodgrapher/
Notice the sudden spike in the "high" mood on 4/20? I thought that was interesting.
It was the NSA, not the CIA.
For those not in the loop, the Wall of Sheep at DefCon (a hackers convention) is a projection showing all the unencrypted logins (username and password) going over their network during the convention.
OpenSSH is the only thing openbsd really has going for it. It's not a largely used distro, as far a linux flavors go. it isn't inventive enough... not that that isn't obvious by their inability to invent a cash flow, even though they have one of the BIGGEST, BADDEST damn applications in the whole linux realm!
You, Sir, are the idiot here. You say openbsd is not a largely used "distro" as far as "linux flavors" go, and keep refering to openbsd as linux. BSD is NOT LINUX, and BSD is not refered to as a "distro."
You keep calling people retards, idiots and morons, but you, sir, need to look in the mirror. Pot, kettle, black. Mods, blast this troll into oblivion.
That's news to me!
introducing Nokia brick phones where flip-phones are the norm
I believe the term is "candybar" phones. Bricks are from the early 90's. Oh, and while I'm getting all technical on the names, the summary more than likely refers to "clamshell" phones, where the flip portion opens on the top like a clamshell. A "flip" phone is a phone where the mouthpiece flips down, like the oldschool motorola's from the mid 90's.
Erm, Virgin Mobile is probably one of the smallest networks. It's certainly not one of the largest, and it uses T-Mobile's transmitters rather than having its own.
This is only true for the United Kingdom, where Virgin uses GSM.
In the United States, Virgin Mobile is CDMA. T-Mobile is GSM. They are incompatible technologies, and Virgin Mobile uses Sprint towers. In Canada they are also CDMA and use Bell towers. I'm not sure what they use in Australia.
They are also not a "network" per se, as they don't have any towers of their own. They piggyback off of other network's towers.
Looks like the sharks with lasers on their heads are slowly taking over.
Boogloo.com is an independant search engine started by a friend of mine.
I once heard a story about someone who claimed that they were being listened to. This person says that he heard an odd "clicking" and other bizzare noises when he was talking on his home land line. When he complained to the phone company, the repairman said his phone was wired really weird. He claimed that it was wired through to the company he used to work for. This was in the mid-nineties. I don't really trust the word of this person, but I would like to know if this has any validity.
1) Is this story believable?
Somewhat. It would be possible to bribe someone in the phone company to set this up. Alternatively, someone with enough skill could hack into the local switch and set this up themselves, but in that case there would more than likely be no noises on the line. Kevin Poulsen had a setup similar to this. He hacked into his local switch, switched a radio stations phone lines to an office, and had the lines forwarded from there to the original office. He was able to cut off the incoming lines at the right time and be the magic caller to win cars, cash and other items.
2) Do you hear "clicks" if your phone line is being tapped?
If the phone company taps a line by order of the government, you will not hear any clicks or other noises, and you will have no way of knowing your phone is tapped. On the other hand, if it is an amateur tap, such as a tape recorder aligator clipped to the network interface on the outside of your house, you may hear some clicks.
3) Can any private organization arrange to have another wire leading from another phone?
This setup is possible to pull off, and if the company had a tape recorder attached to the line it could explain the clicking noises, such as when a voice activated recorder starts and stops recording. Sounds like a case of industrial espionage, maybe your friend was working for one of his ex-employers competiters? If that's not the case, I don't see why someone would go to all the trouble to set something like this up. Legit story? I don't know. Technically possible? Yes.
Maybe slashdot got slashdotted?
I'll chime in here along with everyone else. Dialup is definetly not safer. I've diagnosed and removed malware off numerous friends and family computers, and two of the worst I've seen were using dialup. One of them was a pentium 4 2ghz and it just CRAWLED like a pentium or something. It would take forever to boot, and once it did you couldn't even access the start menu. It would pop up but you couldn't choose anything off it, and if you clicked on the desktop, the start menu would still be on the screen after trying to close it. It was totally unusable, and I had to wipe the box and reinstall.
For an account of real hijacking, check out http://www.rootfest.net/squatters.html
Tuvalu (.tv) sold the rights to their domain to verisign. It was not hijacked from them, it was their right and their decision to sell it. They received over $20 million dollars, which is roughly twice their annual gross domestic product. I fail to see how this constitutes being "hijacked."
.cx is run by a community owned non-profit on christmas island. They also run a non-profit isp on the island. How is this hijacking?
I volunteered for AntiChildPorn.Org for seven or eight years, and while I lived literally down the street from the founder, most of the volunteers live all over north america and europe. Most of the time it worked out very well. We've put together complete software packages and organized numerous other projects this way.
Recently the founder has passed away, and this is an issue because she was the one holding the org together. We're all scrambling to pick up the slack and getting things going again. (RIP Natasha)
Don't you love how slashdot provided a link to the anonymous coward's email right there in the headline? On this article it might not matter so much, but if it was a chinese citizen posting about a chinese rights article, it might matter. Way to go, slashdot.
is a record year for security incidents. I don't forsee this chaning next year, either.
1. Add your domain name to your profile on slashdot
2. Post useless crap to slashdot
3. Enjoy increased traffic and pagerank
4. Profit!
No need for ???? here. The domain that beatles-beatles has on his profile has a pagerank of 5. I imagine a fair amount of that is from his slashdot posts.
If you don't have the google toolbar, you can check a pages pagerank here: http://www.only999.com/google_page_rank.php
is to find a high ranking site, such as slashdot, and post links to the website you're trying to boost the pagerank of. Not that I would ever do that, of course. :-)
If you're a unix user and can't use google's toolbar to check pagerank, you can check the pagerank of a url here: http://www.only999.com/google_page_rank.php
Glide looks like a well put together app, and I imagine it will become quite popular. But I for one would never use it. I prefer to keep my data locally, for privacy and security reasons.