But what do you consider fat? If you can push your hands in a straight line down your front from chest to pelvis without them bulging and without you sucking it up, your not fat.
That said, I've got a beer gut on me that could crush a small child so I'm not sure I am the best one to answer the question.
.87 deaths per billion passenger-miles for airplane vs 11.7 for automobile. Still more than an order of magnitude greater, and people normally cover far more miles by car than by air in their lives. Just off hand, I wonder how many pilot's die in car accidents... seems to me that maybe the automobile is there to prune away the dead wood, like modern dueling...
Email is not ruled by the same laws governing the USPS. Assuming the statistics are correct (81%? I've never lost a single email) I would assume that the laws are EXACTLY the same as the USPS (or the AusPOST for that matter).;)
Maybe they submitted source code patches as well? I wouldn't be surprised if the patch was something that could win the Underhanded C competition. Having an exploit is great but, as you said, somebody could find said vulnerability on their own time. Having your own back door though...
I don't know if this is a "better" answer, but I haven't liked the one's given yet: Initial DHCP request goes to ARP broadcast (which should NEVER make it past the AP/Authenticator depending on setup - much less into another subnet), a response is returned containing an IP address. Most units hold the IP address in temporary information and do another ARP request to see if anyone has that address in use (again to ARP broadcast). If it is in use then they try again, if not the unit assigns itself the IP address and joins the network. It then tries to find the ARP address of the DNS servers (look at it in wireshark or tcpdump - "who has x.x.x.x tell y.y.y.y"), the Gateway and whatever else your standard unit would be looking for (Domain Controller for a PC, Samba shares if you have auto-search enabled etc.).
My guess is that either there is no DHCP and the iPhones just try like crazy, or some other misconfiguration of the network is causing these. Couple this with potential interference from all the other iPhone devices in the area, which could (and probably does) cause dropped packets, and one has a veritable storm of ARP requests which could easily take out subnets. 8 wireless cards is enough to DoS a high end wireless access point (Yellow Laptop anyone) so it doesn't stretch the imagination to think that some iPhone's could do it.
Having done my stint working with children having 5 siblings but, thankfully, none of my own, I would suggest that children fear the dark all on their own. I never scared my younger siblings at all, never played tricks on them, but from birth they were all afraid to be alone at night. Either my parents or myself were required to wander in every now and then (based on a document published by some doctor somewhere) to let them know that we hadn't gone.
If that is not an innate fear then I'm not sure what could be. The majority of our fears are learned? Yes I would agree with that.
I'm also thinking that fear is a damned good survival mechanism and can't for the life of me think why we would want to get rid of it (except for, maybe, geeks talking to girls - which seems to be less and less of a problem as far as I can see).
It does not. If we read through the article we do find, however, that the author suggests FreeNAS for a NAS, ORCryptoBox for hardware encryption. IMHO neither solution leads to the extension into a full blown server that the OpenBSD option gives.
(also included in that category would be nukes and selected ICBM technologies). AND GRANDMA'S SECRET RECIPE FOR CHERRY TARTS!
The comparison does nothing to advance your suggestion that the "free market" is not a good idea in the case of software vulnerabilities. To further this "cherry-picking" though, software exploit's can be as dangerous as a nuke or an ICBM. What happens if we see a Resident Evil type scenario and a killer virus gets out (no not talking AI here) because some sociopath used an exploit he bought off this site to enter the biological weapons facility. Same scenario but with the hoover dam... someone finds a way in with the exploit and opens all the gates.
True, these are extreme situations, and probably are unlikely (not to mention that sort of stuff shouldn't be attached to the Internet!). Personally, I would favour this site as it gives the "evil" corporations a chance to buy these exploits and patch their software, hopefully before the exploit becomes weaponised in a worm or becomes wide spread. I don't see the evil side of this working out too well.
Reverse Engineering - Legal Actually most EULA's prohibit this, thus making it illegal, and I believe copyright law's have a similar result. This is a fine line to walk (and IANAL) but I believe it would still be illegal. Something like fuzzing on the other hand is probably not, except that you then generally have to reverse engineer the application to get some good, solid, working shellcode in there.
Despite everything else, it's getting harder to find jobs, especially with all the outsourcing to (stereo-type) India. I wear casual clothes to work, something comfortable (which, incidentally, includes suit pants), but the only reason I'm on the wage I am on and not something higher is because if I didn't cut the wanted rate, I wouldn't have gotten the work. Even if the demand is up, there's almost always someone willing to undercut you a few grand to get the job you're trying for.
I'm not big on cryptography, and I know it would take a while, but what are those computations in terms of CPU ticks? (Dare I say it) Can we beowulf and get them faster? What about the VAtech cluster? Could it do anything with it in time? There are so many variables in this, to tell me its a few billion years is a bit vague, so could I please have some clarification.
1. Windows has more than one way of installing apps. You have a multitude of installation styles as well as a multitude of files..msi?.exe?.bat? Or maybe an application server? Pushing installations across your domain via group policy (ok that's enterprise but the point still applies). DLL's that change every second upgrade?
2. To guarantee that your program will work across all versions of windows requires a great expenditure of time (speaking of which, I want Leisure Suit Larry on XP, can anyone link me?). The same applies to Linux, the./configure && make && make install clean process certainly is a little more hands on than an MSI, although, come to think of it "You are about to install a program" [Install] "Have you read and accepted the license agreement?" [Accept] "This is where we're going to install, are you happy with the default?" [Yes] "Ok, we're going to install now, you happy to go ahead?" [Yes] "Great we've finished installing. Click ok to confirm you noticed and haven't died" [Ok]... so really, apart from a pretty GUI, the windows installation process is quite possibly MORE difficult than a Linux one (barring a command line... look at synaptic for an example).
And one last note: There is no miriad of package managers, THERE IS ONLY THE PORTS SYSTEM AND IT SHALL BE YOUR GOD... *ahem* Yes, I'm a FreeBSD user.
My iPod has no identification markings... if I lose it, I write it off as a loss. It's an expensive habit, but I'm more paranoid than most. The only pictures I have on it are inside a knoppix encrypted disk. This is breakable with enough time (it's only AES-128) but I am comfortable that anyone stealing my iPod either doesn't have the knowledge/power to do this, or is already onto me for whatever I've done and I'm screwed anyway... so all you can see on my iPod at this point is an encrypted image file, and all my music. My music has all my info pushed into it and I have to expend a significant effort to strip this information out (not really a problem for me, because I consider it a good use of time for the sake of that extra level of security), whereas something transparently doing it for me makes it a LOT easier to acheive this level of privacy. Something like jhymn is quite useful, but its one step more than will potentially be needed by the end-user.
I don't advocate piracy of any kind, namely because anyone pirating my software is preventing me from getting paid that little bit extra (and it *is* only a little bit), but its not just piracy that is causing the DRM removal trend.
Just one question... define a "wrong person". To me that's rapists, child molestors, dolly parton and my prime minister... to someone with a lot more sanity than myself, I'm sure dolly isn't in that list...
What about http://freshmeat.net/? Easier to track projects there IMHO... it's where I get some of my greatest tools. Sourceforge is good as well, just trying to spread the love
When you buy a car, you can fill it up with gas pretty-much anywhere. You can do this with a printer too... it's just that the quality of the ink cartridge would be substantially reduced (ignoring any rental printers you have here). I'm pleased to see that the thread has progressed so well (also kudo's to parent for being the first user with a uid > 1000000 and a smart comment).
relative to the hazards of... erm... ink(?!?) You've never tried to drink ink or feed it to someone else have you...
refer to a car battery (adding the requirement for the purposes of the analogy that the batteries be non-rechargeable and/or the alternators be removed) See my first response. You can get a bucket load of ink cartridges from a heap of places (even in backwater australia) but at a degraded quality. I guess we're not going to change the business model at all (hell, if I was in printers I'd want to stick with it too... cartridges are disposable, printers are (well they're disposable but) a little more long-term.
I print about 20 pages a minute for the full 8 hours I'm at work and the 12 hours between the hours of 6pm and 6am. This would be because I require that the customer receives paperwork for some things....
I for one am sure about it. I print a substantial amount and would rather pay the full price of a printer and have a reasonable ink price.
Of course, not to blow a trumpet, but Xerox provide some sweet rental deals so my opinion in this is quite moot, though my point is not.
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That said, I've got a beer gut on me that could crush a small child so I'm not sure I am the best one to answer the question.
No the drunk was definitely Yoda: "I'm not as think as you drunk I might be"
.87 deaths per billion passenger-miles for airplane vs 11.7 for automobile. Still more than an order of magnitude greater, and people normally cover far more miles by car than by air in their lives. Just off hand, I wonder how many pilot's die in car accidents... seems to me that maybe the automobile is there to prune away the dead wood, like modern dueling...Maybe they submitted source code patches as well? I wouldn't be surprised if the patch was something that could win the Underhanded C competition. Having an exploit is great but, as you said, somebody could find said vulnerability on their own time. Having your own back door though...
I don't know if this is a "better" answer, but I haven't liked the one's given yet: Initial DHCP request goes to ARP broadcast (which should NEVER make it past the AP/Authenticator depending on setup - much less into another subnet), a response is returned containing an IP address. Most units hold the IP address in temporary information and do another ARP request to see if anyone has that address in use (again to ARP broadcast). If it is in use then they try again, if not the unit assigns itself the IP address and joins the network. It then tries to find the ARP address of the DNS servers (look at it in wireshark or tcpdump - "who has x.x.x.x tell y.y.y.y"), the Gateway and whatever else your standard unit would be looking for (Domain Controller for a PC, Samba shares if you have auto-search enabled etc.).
My guess is that either there is no DHCP and the iPhones just try like crazy, or some other misconfiguration of the network is causing these. Couple this with potential interference from all the other iPhone devices in the area, which could (and probably does) cause dropped packets, and one has a veritable storm of ARP requests which could easily take out subnets. 8 wireless cards is enough to DoS a high end wireless access point (Yellow Laptop anyone) so it doesn't stretch the imagination to think that some iPhone's could do it.
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Having done my stint working with children having 5 siblings but, thankfully, none of my own, I would suggest that children fear the dark all on their own. I never scared my younger siblings at all, never played tricks on them, but from birth they were all afraid to be alone at night. Either my parents or myself were required to wander in every now and then (based on a document published by some doctor somewhere) to let them know that we hadn't gone.
If that is not an innate fear then I'm not sure what could be. The majority of our fears are learned? Yes I would agree with that.
I'm also thinking that fear is a damned good survival mechanism and can't for the life of me think why we would want to get rid of it (except for, maybe, geeks talking to girls - which seems to be less and less of a problem as far as I can see).
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It does not. If we read through the article we do find, however, that the author suggests FreeNAS for a NAS, OR CryptoBox for hardware encryption. IMHO neither solution leads to the extension into a full blown server that the OpenBSD option gives.
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One step in the long process. Kudo's and gratitude for putting this up, it will certainly make my process easier.
I wonder, are there any full HOWTO's on this? 802.1x and IPSec both come to mind. The protection is useless if the server is powered on of course.
They put the information in a movie so that we wouldn't believe it was true! Just like the Matrix...
True, these are extreme situations, and probably are unlikely (not to mention that sort of stuff shouldn't be attached to the Internet!). Personally, I would favour this site as it gives the "evil" corporations a chance to buy these exploits and patch their software, hopefully before the exploit becomes weaponised in a worm or becomes wide spread. I don't see the evil side of this working out too well.
Had to learn it somewhere, I'm a programmer, not some creative hippy.
Thanks for pointing it out though, I've been wondering where I picked it up.
Despite everything else, it's getting harder to find jobs, especially with all the outsourcing to (stereo-type) India. I wear casual clothes to work, something comfortable (which, incidentally, includes suit pants), but the only reason I'm on the wage I am on and not something higher is because if I didn't cut the wanted rate, I wouldn't have gotten the work. Even if the demand is up, there's almost always someone willing to undercut you a few grand to get the job you're trying for.
Nah, I usually grin at my aunts and uncles at funerals and say "You're next".
Stops them suggesting marriage anytime soon.
Nah it's ok, there's no one here except those guys out the^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdamn kids next door.
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Worse: EVERY site is slashdotted :(
I'm not big on cryptography, and I know it would take a while, but what are those computations in terms of CPU ticks? (Dare I say it) Can we beowulf and get them faster? What about the VAtech cluster? Could it do anything with it in time? There are so many variables in this, to tell me its a few billion years is a bit vague, so could I please have some clarification.
Thanks.
Everyone else has bitten so I will too:
.msi? .exe? .bat? Or maybe an application server? Pushing installations across your domain via group policy (ok that's enterprise but the point still applies). DLL's that change every second upgrade?
./configure && make && make install clean process certainly is a little more hands on than an MSI, although, come to think of it "You are about to install a program" [Install] "Have you read and accepted the license agreement?" [Accept] "This is where we're going to install, are you happy with the default?" [Yes] "Ok, we're going to install now, you happy to go ahead?" [Yes] "Great we've finished installing. Click ok to confirm you noticed and haven't died" [Ok]... so really, apart from a pretty GUI, the windows installation process is quite possibly MORE difficult than a Linux one (barring a command line... look at synaptic for an example).
1. Windows has more than one way of installing apps. You have a multitude of installation styles as well as a multitude of files.
2. To guarantee that your program will work across all versions of windows requires a great expenditure of time (speaking of which, I want Leisure Suit Larry on XP, can anyone link me?). The same applies to Linux, the
And one last note: There is no miriad of package managers, THERE IS ONLY THE PORTS SYSTEM AND IT SHALL BE YOUR GOD... *ahem* Yes, I'm a FreeBSD user.
Ok, here's my take on it:
My iPod has no identification markings... if I lose it, I write it off as a loss. It's an expensive habit, but I'm more paranoid than most. The only pictures I have on it are inside a knoppix encrypted disk. This is breakable with enough time (it's only AES-128) but I am comfortable that anyone stealing my iPod either doesn't have the knowledge/power to do this, or is already onto me for whatever I've done and I'm screwed anyway... so all you can see on my iPod at this point is an encrypted image file, and all my music. My music has all my info pushed into it and I have to expend a significant effort to strip this information out (not really a problem for me, because I consider it a good use of time for the sake of that extra level of security), whereas something transparently doing it for me makes it a LOT easier to acheive this level of privacy. Something like jhymn is quite useful, but its one step more than will potentially be needed by the end-user.
I don't advocate piracy of any kind, namely because anyone pirating my software is preventing me from getting paid that little bit extra (and it *is* only a little bit), but its not just piracy that is causing the DRM removal trend.
Agreed.
Just one question... define a "wrong person". To me that's rapists, child molestors, dolly parton and my prime minister... to someone with a lot more sanity than myself, I'm sure dolly isn't in that list...
You keep saying that when your younger brother turns up in a brand new BMW while your still driving around the Nissan Pintara...
What about http://freshmeat.net/? Easier to track projects there IMHO... it's where I get some of my greatest tools. Sourceforge is good as well, just trying to spread the love
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I print about 20 pages a minute for the full 8 hours I'm at work and the 12 hours between the hours of 6pm and 6am. This would be because I require that the customer receives paperwork for some things....
I for one am sure about it. I print a substantial amount and would rather pay the full price of a printer and have a reasonable ink price.
Of course, not to blow a trumpet, but Xerox provide some sweet rental deals so my opinion in this is quite moot, though my point is not.