The MPAA knows that there can't be any deviations from the protected cables at high quality, because all it takes is one guy to get an unprotected copy to put online and the whole world has it. So even one model out there that can play protected content on unprotected line totally screws their whole strategy.
PharmaMaster is an IM and forum handle. He's a major spammer, and probably responsible for at least some of that junk in my google mailbox's junk folder right now. He is apparently working with a cartel of spammers to try to crush anti-spam attempts. Interesting reading about their planning on the specialham.com spammer's forum was mirrored online somewhere yesterday, but got taken down for some reason.
They were pretty successful at it, they got it really slow before the rehosting at a University. They also made the forum cancel registrations and blanked a few gateway pages, which had to be a bit of a nuisance to the spammers. See it here.
The forum that organized (or at least helped in) the attack is located here, but I think it's still down. It was nailed by a deliberate vigilante DDoS from about a hundred or so Digg members yesterday/last night. They hacked a university to host it after the first host got nailed. Not sure what happened after that.
Someone used their tool to clean a list, then compared the clean list to a "pre-scrub" list, which means they didn't gain any email addresses, they just learned something about the emails they already had been sending spam to.
Don't quit Blue Security. My philosophy boils down to "millions for defense, not a penny for tribute" (Jefferson).
How well can current grain production be scaled up? I mean, if this is gonna be useful, and ethanol cars or ethanol additives to gas, is there enough dormant grain production to take that up? I know that the US has subsidies, so there is dormant production, but is it enough?
Yes, but that's less of an option, because it's a lot cheaper to make 2-4 of the exact same thing. We'll have dual-core 2.something Conroes for $300 in two months, with a 3.0GHz one around like $700. By end of Q1 2007, 80% of desktops sold by Intel will be multi-proc. So it's coming.
Come the end of 2007, every bleeding-edge gamer is going to be on a dual-core or quad-core system (if not an Apple or Alienware 2x4 machine), so I think that making games multi-thread aware has to be a major concern here. I mean, physics engines should aim to use as many threads as possible, because soon CPUs will out number GPUs, so that's where some physics processing should be targetted.
Did you read it? It's the 20 MB file copying thing about OS 9 troll reworded to bitch about the fact that Macs don't get viruses. that's what makes it so funny. I mean, someone took the original troll and made it pro-Mac and funny. that's why I'm laughing.
In short, this is the tip of the iceberg. We're probably going to see this a lot more, with companies doing unethical things and not getting put on spyware/adware/malware list. Like the $sys$rootkit, for example, or Google's 33 year cookie. The problem with having watchers (anti-malware industry) that are private companies is, of course, "who watches the Watchers?"
They can't drop the F-bomb everytime they say "frak" (that's the new series spelling), they get censored somehow. Personally, I think NBC wants the option to reshow on other networks before 10pm, which is why there's sex (though no nudity) and violence, but minimal "normal" swearing.
As I understand the phone tapping situation, they listen in if you drop X amount of "flagged" words, like "terror" or "bomb" or "kill Bush" or whatever. Assuming the plan is the same with VOIP, if a trojan/rootkit/zombie/whatever starts flooding the pipes with packet streams with those words in different synthesized voices, it'd get picked up. And if they did it right, only the government would know, because they could aim the packet stream anywhere, including computers without VOIP, so most of the packets would bounce off some hardware firewall after getting picked up.
VOIP works via packets with data describing the voice traffic, right? Suppose someone made a program to say "watchlist-words" constantly, and send them everywhere. How hard would it be for a terrorist to DDOS the FBI/NSA? I mean, if you randomize it, you can change pitch, volume, etc, as well as words. I have no idea how to do that exactly, but it doesn't seem infeasible.
The rest of the world will do what Battlestar Galactice does: Made up swear words. BSG can't drop the F-bomb much for administrative/ratings reasons, so they use the word "Frak". I could see a lot of new swear words popping up if this happens.
If I change the homepage on my legal copy of Windows, and then they change it back to theirs, I'll be very pissed. Regardless of why they change it back. If they only change it on virus-infected computers, I won't be pissed, as long as they change it back to the person's choice, not theirs
If a security update deliberately changes an irrelevant preference that I personally changed to something that makes them more money, I'll sue them. For something. Or just press.
Why is that a troll? He's 100% correct. That ODF is certified gives people more of an impetus to support it. This will mean that OpenOffice/KOffice have a feature that MS Office doesn't, potentially fueling adoption.
It's not that I'm interested in it, I just feel like, being a college kid, most college kids or late high school kids would want to jump on the big ones, if only for the name.
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The MPAA knows that there can't be any deviations from the protected cables at high quality, because all it takes is one guy to get an unprotected copy to put online and the whole world has it. So even one model out there that can play protected content on unprotected line totally screws their whole strategy.
He's talking about the Diggers, I think. The diggers mostly f5ed the site, and used a few graphics based vampire scripts. No hacking involved.
PharmaMaster is an IM and forum handle. He's a major spammer, and probably responsible for at least some of that junk in my google mailbox's junk folder right now. He is apparently working with a cartel of spammers to try to crush anti-spam attempts. Interesting reading about their planning on the specialham.com spammer's forum was mirrored online somewhere yesterday, but got taken down for some reason.
They were pretty successful at it, they got it really slow before the rehosting at a University. They also made the forum cancel registrations and blanked a few gateway pages, which had to be a bit of a nuisance to the spammers. See it here.
The forum that organized (or at least helped in) the attack is located here, but I think it's still down. It was nailed by a deliberate vigilante DDoS from about a hundred or so Digg members yesterday/last night. They hacked a university to host it after the first host got nailed. Not sure what happened after that.
Someone used their tool to clean a list, then compared the clean list to a "pre-scrub" list, which means they didn't gain any email addresses, they just learned something about the emails they already had been sending spam to.
Don't quit Blue Security. My philosophy boils down to "millions for defense, not a penny for tribute" (Jefferson).
How well can current grain production be scaled up? I mean, if this is gonna be useful, and ethanol cars or ethanol additives to gas, is there enough dormant grain production to take that up? I know that the US has subsidies, so there is dormant production, but is it enough?
Yes, but that's less of an option, because it's a lot cheaper to make 2-4 of the exact same thing. We'll have dual-core 2.something Conroes for $300 in two months, with a 3.0GHz one around like $700. By end of Q1 2007, 80% of desktops sold by Intel will be multi-proc. So it's coming.
Come the end of 2007, every bleeding-edge gamer is going to be on a dual-core or quad-core system (if not an Apple or Alienware 2x4 machine), so I think that making games multi-thread aware has to be a major concern here. I mean, physics engines should aim to use as many threads as possible, because soon CPUs will out number GPUs, so that's where some physics processing should be targetted.
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Problem solved.
Did you read it? It's the 20 MB file copying thing about OS 9 troll reworded to bitch about the fact that Macs don't get viruses. that's what makes it so funny. I mean, someone took the original troll and made it pro-Mac and funny. that's why I'm laughing.
OMG, I just cried.
That is the funniest thing I've seen in days, possibly weeks. I tip my hat to you, sir.
yes, because you use your only missile to fire a warning shot...
Then what?
Well we saw one or two spammers take down that big blog site today, as well as bluesecurity. I mean, all you need is a few botnets, right?
In short, this is the tip of the iceberg. We're probably going to see this a lot more, with companies doing unethical things and not getting put on spyware/adware/malware list. Like the $sys$rootkit, for example, or Google's 33 year cookie. The problem with having watchers (anti-malware industry) that are private companies is, of course, "who watches the Watchers?"
Yeah, I'd hate to see that speeding ticket. It'd cost twice as much as the rocket car.
A stopped clock is still right twice a day.
They can't drop the F-bomb everytime they say "frak" (that's the new series spelling), they get censored somehow. Personally, I think NBC wants the option to reshow on other networks before 10pm, which is why there's sex (though no nudity) and violence, but minimal "normal" swearing.
As I understand the phone tapping situation, they listen in if you drop X amount of "flagged" words, like "terror" or "bomb" or "kill Bush" or whatever. Assuming the plan is the same with VOIP, if a trojan/rootkit/zombie/whatever starts flooding the pipes with packet streams with those words in different synthesized voices, it'd get picked up. And if they did it right, only the government would know, because they could aim the packet stream anywhere, including computers without VOIP, so most of the packets would bounce off some hardware firewall after getting picked up.
VOIP works via packets with data describing the voice traffic, right? Suppose someone made a program to say "watchlist-words" constantly, and send them everywhere. How hard would it be for a terrorist to DDOS the FBI/NSA? I mean, if you randomize it, you can change pitch, volume, etc, as well as words. I have no idea how to do that exactly, but it doesn't seem infeasible.
The rest of the world will do what Battlestar Galactice does: Made up swear words. BSG can't drop the F-bomb much for administrative/ratings reasons, so they use the word "Frak". I could see a lot of new swear words popping up if this happens.
If I change the homepage on my legal copy of Windows, and then they change it back to theirs, I'll be very pissed. Regardless of why they change it back. If they only change it on virus-infected computers, I won't be pissed, as long as they change it back to the person's choice, not theirs
If a security update deliberately changes an irrelevant preference that I personally changed to something that makes them more money, I'll sue them. For something. Or just press.
Why is that a troll? He's 100% correct. That ODF is certified gives people more of an impetus to support it. This will mean that OpenOffice/KOffice have a feature that MS Office doesn't, potentially fueling adoption.
It's not that I'm interested in it, I just feel like, being a college kid, most college kids or late high school kids would want to jump on the big ones, if only for the name.