Well, at least in the US, less than 100 years
ago, people were hung by the government for
striking for an 8 hour workday.
Don't turn back progress and make those lives
meaningless....
the "select" was only to select two player mode
as opposed to single player mode. And it gave you
both 30 lives. Normal operation was just... b a start:)
Has anyone stopped to think that client/server isn't the worst idea for something like this?
Think about conventional searches:
slocate: you create a centralized index of all the files on your machine, when you are looking for something, you need only to consult the index instead of iterating through every file.
dns: you need to find the ip address for a hostname. do you ask everyone you can connect to for help? umm.. no. primary server, then the secondary, and the request goes up the tree...
search engines (google/altavista/etc/etc/etc): they all are a centralized index of the location for files. Man, imagine that searching for stuff on the web was distributed this way, and everytime you wanted to find something you had to ask everyone you could reach if they knew anything about "spacemoose paradies."
it makes it easy and quick to do searches with a centralized index. then yes, you have to address redundancy, but hey, just throw up multiple servers, what's the big deal?
Leads Aid in Narrowing List Of Suspects in Web Attacks February 14, 2000
By DAVID P. HAMILTON and JIM CARLTON Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Computer sleuths and federal investigators continued to narrow their search for the culprits behind last week's hacker attacks against Yahoo! Inc. and other Web sites, obtaining evidence from several computers used in the attacks that points to at least two potential suspects.
While the investigation appears to be making progress, law-enforcement officials say they haven't yet come up with hard suspects. However, evidence obtained from analysis of network traffic, computer-security logs and monitoring of Internet-hacker channels known as Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, has let investigators focus on the activities of two known hackers. So far, the two have been identified only by their online pseudonyms.
See recent articles about hacker attacks on major Web sites.
Join the discussion: Has the recent wave of denial-of-service attacks done anything to change your view of e-commerce and online trading or the companies in those industries? Do attacks such as these on major Web sites change the way you view the Internet and computing in general?
The hacker raids, which overloaded major e-commerce sites with packets of meaningless data in so-called denial-of-service attacks, didn't threaten any data stored on those Internet servers. Many in the security community initially derided the attacks as unsophisticated, saying they could be conducted with tools widely available on the Internet.
Now, however, it appears that at least one of the attackers may have been far more skilled than the apparent copycats that followed, said David Brumley, a system-software developer in Stanford University's information-technology department who has taken an active role in the hunt for the perpetrators. The hacker, who is believed to be responsible for the attack on Yahoo -- the first of last week's large-scale assaults -- mounted a particularly complex operation using highly customized tools, Mr. Brumley said.
Mr. Brumley said this hacker's online pseudonym is known, but he wouldn't reveal it to avoid jeopardizing the investigation. He added that this hacker appears to have dropped out of regular IRC chats in the last few days. The hacker is thought to reside in the U.S., he said.
A second, apparently less-skilled hacker believed to live in Canada was being watched as a possible copycat, said Michael Lyle, chief technical officer of Internet-security firm Recourse Technologies Inc. (www.recourse.com). The hacker, known by the online pseudonym "mafiaboy," allegedly was recorded in an IRC chat soliciting orders to shut down the Cable News Network and E*Trade Group Inc. sites, Mr. Lyle said.
Stanford's Mr. Brumley confirmed that a hacker using the mafiaboy pseudonym was a focus of the investigation. However, he said, some in the hacker community don't believe the person behind the name was involved in the attacks. Indeed, mafiaboy is said to have later retracted the claims and a law-enforcement official said that authorities, while scrutinizing his actions, aren't sure he is responsible.
Mr. Lyle and other security experts at Recourse, of Palo Alto, Calif., said they have viewed snippets of dialogue and have verified more of it from other hackers, and plan to give the information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "We think there were several hackers who launched the attacks in copycat fashion," Mr. Lyle said.
Interest also has grown in a hacker identified as "Mixter." In a series of e-mail exchanges with The Wall Street Journal, online-news provider ZDNet and other media, Mixter has described himself as a 20-year-old German programmer living in the area of Hanover, Germany.
Mixter is credited with having authored the Tribe Flood Network software, or TFN, one of the interrelated-attack tools believed to have been used in the attacks. A similar software is "trinoo." A third, called stacheldraht-German for barbed wire-is based on TFN but uses trinoo features. Mixter is credited only with TFN.
In e-mail interviews, Mixter said -- in fluent English -- that he had no direct connection to the attacks and criticized the use of his software to paralyze online companies. He said TFN was written solely to demonstrate Internet-system weaknesses.
Mixter first appeared on the Internet hacker scene around July 1998, posting less-well-known software programs he had authored on security-related Web sites, according to Dave Dittrich, a University of Washington computer-security expert who has analyzed some of Mixter's software.
Mixter has voluminous postings at a site called Packet Storm, a division of Kroll-O'Gara Information Security Group in Palo Alto. Last month, a paper Mixter wrote on Internet security won a $10,000 prize in a Packet Storm competition. Mixter's most recent addition to the site is a lengthy treatise on how to deal with attacks such as last week's.
A law-enforcement official said the FBI is trying to talk to Mixter through German authorities, but that Mixter isn't a leading suspect at this point.
The FBI has run into problems retracing the source of the attacks because some sites used weren't keeping complete logs of computer traffic, according to a person involved in the case. "Some of the sites didn't capture all of the traffic" because their record-keeping software isn't set up to record that level of detail, a law-enforcement official said.
With help from computer experts at the affected Web sites, the FBI is still analyzing what information they have gleaned from those logs. In addition, according to someone involved in the case, dozens of agents from field offices -- including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Boston -- are conducting interviews with sources who monitor hacking activity.
"There hasn't been a huge number of people taking credit," said a law enforcement official, but the FBI is looking at them all.
The first major breaks in the case came late last week, when investigators learned that computers at several California universities, including Stanford, the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of California at Los Angeles, were involved in the attacks. Several university officials said their computers were infiltrated prior to the attacks and used to fire the barrage of data packets that temporarily knocked out several sites, including Yahoo, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., E*Trade and CNN, a unit of Time Warner Inc.
At UC Santa Barbara a network programmer noted "abnormalities" in the university's network traffic when he logged in Tuesday night. After further checks, the programmer discovered the following morning that one computer on the network had been broken into and used to attack the CNN Web site, according to Robert Sugar, the university's acting director of information technology.
Upon that discovery, the programmer alerted both CNN officials and the FBI, Mr. Sugar said. Campus officials said the hacker who broke into that computer left many traces, and said the FBI already has obtained reams of data as a result.
Mr. Sugar declined to describe the computer except to say it was an older desktop machine, a description consistent with a computer workstation. Security experts long have warned that older computers used for less-sensitive work at universities, where high-bandwidth Internet connections are common, are particularly vulnerable to such intrusions.
A hacker also apparently manipulated a Stanford network router -- a computer specially designed to direct Internet traffic -- as part of an attack that overloaded the Web site of eBay, San Jose, Calif. That kind of attack, known as a "smurf" attack after the first software tool designed specifically to conduct it, didn't entail an electronic break-in at Stanford's computers, Mr. Brumley said. Instead, the hacker subverted a router "broadcast" feature used to direct an entire cluster of computers to blast packets at eBay.
Meanwhile, other sleuths continued to probe the extent of the Internet's vulnerability to attacks. Network Associates Inc., a security company in Santa Clara, Calif., said a voluntary-screening program detected three cases of denial-of-service software installed on host servers: one in a university computer in Berlin, another at a university in Iowa and one in a nonuniversity computer in Long Beach, Calif. None of these detections necessarily indicate these computers were employed in last week's attacks, the company said.
As investigators continued their work, the computer industry struggled to reach common ground on security issues in order to present a united front at a White House meeting scheduled for tomorrow.
The dilemma for the computer industry, public-policy advocates say, is how to develop and agree upon standards that the government can support and protect without disrupting the open nature of the Internet. But given the different perspectives of government and industry, that won't be easy. Kim Alexander, head of the nonprofit California Voters Foundation, is one of the few people conversant in both the political and technological worlds. "It's like they speak two different languages," she says.
Many companies hit by last week's attacks continued to lie low. But some appear likely to take a more active stand against government intervention. AT&T Corp. dealt with attacks in the past week against some of its customers but remains opposed to government intervention to protect networks.
"It is important for the government [to take] a role in something that is illegal and affects commerce. Past that point, we clearly believe in self-regulation in this industry," said Rose Klimovich, AT&T's director of global intellectual-property-network services.
Some hackers, meanwhile, continued to toy with security experts over the weekend. Late Saturday or early Sunday morning, a hacker with the handle "Coolio" defaced the rsa.com Web site, which is owned by Internet-security firm RSA Data Security Inc., a unit of RSA Security Inc. of Bedford, Mass. The defaced site bore a picture of two men pictured on RSA's official Web site with the letter "L" branded on their foreheads, and carried the message: "The most trusted name in e-commerce has been owned" by Coolio.
Scott Schnell, a marketing vice president at RSA, said the company doesn't use the rsa.com site, which normally redirects Web surfers to RSA's main page at rsasecurity.com. He said the hacker hijacked the rsa.com Internet address and redirected it to the defaced page. Mr. Schnell said RSA was working with its Internet provider to resolve the situation.
David Cloud and Douglas A. Blackmon contributed to this story.
How the hell can this be classified as redundant? did someone else say they were number 366?
redundant adj.
Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous.
Needlessly repetitive; verbose.
Electronics. Of or involving redundancy in electronic equipment.
Of or involving redundancy in the transmission of messages.
[Latin redundans, redundant-, present participle of redundre, to overflow: re-, red-, re- + undare, to surge (from unda, wave); see wed in Indo-European Roots.]
While the web was not always a primarily graphical media, it is fast moving towards that (if it's not already there).
What's next? Sue the Museum of Modern Art! I can't view these great works of art just because I'm blind? Why not?!!? You should make them accessibly to everyone!
Sue Adobe! I can't properly use the marque tool if I can't see!
Sue every movie theatre! The movies are shown so that only those with sight can view them!!
Sue Sony, Virgin, and every other record label! I can't properly hear the artist's music if I am deaf!!@
Maybe I'm taking this too far... but I think it's the other way around.
It's so true! I'm glad I'm not alone... all this time, I thought something was wrong with me for going to certain risque sites. They didn't believe me when I told them my computer made me do it!
Slashdot Mirror
No one ever got fired for buying I.B.M.
You know what I'm talkin' 'bout.
ArsTechnica reviewed the Espresso PC, which appears to be the old name for this.
Well, at least in the US, less than 100 years ago, people were hung by the government for striking for an 8 hour workday. Don't turn back progress and make those lives meaningless....
the "select" was only to select two player mode as opposed to single player mode. And it gave you both 30 lives. Normal operation was just ... b a start :)
if this article WASN'T held until the lecture was over, so that people in the New York area could have actually attended.
but less is more!
This is very similar to what cooltext has been doing with text logos for a while.
Scott Pankin's Automatic Complaint Generator
Think about conventional searches:
it makes it easy and quick to do searches with a centralized index. then yes, you have to address redundancy, but hey, just throw up multiple servers, what's the big deal?
preach on brother quma! you are 100% correct.....
Normal, IL. It is just too funny to go through there and see the cop cars that say NORMAL POLICE riding around town.
preach on brother quma! you are 100% correct..
I think they invented symbolic links back in the win95 days of shortcuts...
I would like to, but I couldn't find an online version.
February 14, 2000
By DAVID P. HAMILTON and JIM CARLTON
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Computer sleuths and federal investigators continued to narrow their search for the culprits behind last week's hacker attacks against Yahoo! Inc. and other Web sites, obtaining evidence from several computers used in the attacks that points to at least two potential suspects.
While the investigation appears to be making progress, law-enforcement officials say they haven't yet come up with hard suspects. However, evidence obtained from analysis of network traffic, computer-security logs and monitoring of Internet-hacker channels known as Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, has let investigators focus on the activities of two known hackers. So far, the two have been identified only by their online pseudonyms.
See recent articles about hacker attacks on major Web sites.
Join the discussion: Has the recent wave of denial-of-service attacks done anything to change your view of e-commerce and online trading or the companies in those industries? Do attacks such as these on major Web sites change the way you view the Internet and computing in general?
The hacker raids, which overloaded major e-commerce sites with packets of meaningless data in so-called denial-of-service attacks, didn't threaten any data stored on those Internet servers. Many in the security community initially derided the attacks as unsophisticated, saying they could be conducted with tools widely available on the Internet.
Now, however, it appears that at least one of the attackers may have been far more skilled than the apparent copycats that followed, said David Brumley, a system-software developer in Stanford University's information-technology department who has taken an active role in the hunt for the perpetrators. The hacker, who is believed to be responsible for the attack on Yahoo -- the first of last week's large-scale assaults -- mounted a particularly complex operation using highly customized tools, Mr. Brumley said.
Mr. Brumley said this hacker's online pseudonym is known, but he wouldn't reveal it to avoid jeopardizing the investigation. He added that this hacker appears to have dropped out of regular IRC chats in the last few days. The hacker is thought to reside in the U.S., he said.
A second, apparently less-skilled hacker believed to live in Canada was being watched as a possible copycat, said Michael Lyle, chief technical officer of Internet-security firm Recourse Technologies Inc. (www.recourse.com). The hacker, known by the online pseudonym "mafiaboy," allegedly was recorded in an IRC chat soliciting orders to shut down the Cable News Network and E*Trade Group Inc. sites, Mr. Lyle said.
Stanford's Mr. Brumley confirmed that a hacker using the mafiaboy pseudonym was a focus of the investigation. However, he said, some in the hacker community don't believe the person behind the name was involved in the attacks. Indeed, mafiaboy is said to have later retracted the claims and a law-enforcement official said that authorities, while scrutinizing his actions, aren't sure he is responsible.
Mr. Lyle and other security experts at Recourse, of Palo Alto, Calif., said they have viewed snippets of dialogue and have verified more of it from other hackers, and plan to give the information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "We think there were several hackers who launched the attacks in copycat fashion," Mr. Lyle said.
Interest also has grown in a hacker identified as "Mixter." In a series of e-mail exchanges with The Wall Street Journal, online-news provider ZDNet and other media, Mixter has described himself as a 20-year-old German programmer living in the area of Hanover, Germany.
Mixter is credited with having authored the Tribe Flood Network software, or TFN, one of the interrelated-attack tools believed to have been used in the attacks. A similar software is "trinoo." A third, called stacheldraht-German for barbed wire-is based on TFN but uses trinoo features. Mixter is credited only with TFN.
In e-mail interviews, Mixter said -- in fluent English -- that he had no direct connection to the attacks and criticized the use of his software to paralyze online companies. He said TFN was written solely to demonstrate Internet-system weaknesses.
Mixter first appeared on the Internet hacker scene around July 1998, posting less-well-known software programs he had authored on security-related Web sites, according to Dave Dittrich, a University of Washington computer-security expert who has analyzed some of Mixter's software.
Mixter has voluminous postings at a site called Packet Storm, a division of Kroll-O'Gara Information Security Group in Palo Alto. Last month, a paper Mixter wrote on Internet security won a $10,000 prize in a Packet Storm competition. Mixter's most recent addition to the site is a lengthy treatise on how to deal with attacks such as last week's.
A law-enforcement official said the FBI is trying to talk to Mixter through German authorities, but that Mixter isn't a leading suspect at this point.
The FBI has run into problems retracing the source of the attacks because some sites used weren't keeping complete logs of computer traffic, according to a person involved in the case. "Some of the sites didn't capture all of the traffic" because their record-keeping software isn't set up to record that level of detail, a law-enforcement official said.
With help from computer experts at the affected Web sites, the FBI is still analyzing what information they have gleaned from those logs. In addition, according to someone involved in the case, dozens of agents from field offices -- including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Boston -- are conducting interviews with sources who monitor hacking activity.
"There hasn't been a huge number of people taking credit," said a law enforcement official, but the FBI is looking at them all.
The first major breaks in the case came late last week, when investigators learned that computers at several California universities, including Stanford, the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of California at Los Angeles, were involved in the attacks. Several university officials said their computers were infiltrated prior to the attacks and used to fire the barrage of data packets that temporarily knocked out several sites, including Yahoo, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., E*Trade and CNN, a unit of Time Warner Inc.
At UC Santa Barbara a network programmer noted "abnormalities" in the university's network traffic when he logged in Tuesday night. After further checks, the programmer discovered the following morning that one computer on the network had been broken into and used to attack the CNN Web site, according to Robert Sugar, the university's acting director of information technology.
Upon that discovery, the programmer alerted both CNN officials and the FBI, Mr. Sugar said. Campus officials said the hacker who broke into that computer left many traces, and said the FBI already has obtained reams of data as a result.
Mr. Sugar declined to describe the computer except to say it was an older desktop machine, a description consistent with a computer workstation. Security experts long have warned that older computers used for less-sensitive work at universities, where high-bandwidth Internet connections are common, are particularly vulnerable to such intrusions.
A hacker also apparently manipulated a Stanford network router -- a computer specially designed to direct Internet traffic -- as part of an attack that overloaded the Web site of eBay, San Jose, Calif. That kind of attack, known as a "smurf" attack after the first software tool designed specifically to conduct it, didn't entail an electronic break-in at Stanford's computers, Mr. Brumley said. Instead, the hacker subverted a router "broadcast" feature used to direct an entire cluster of computers to blast packets at eBay.
Meanwhile, other sleuths continued to probe the extent of the Internet's vulnerability to attacks. Network Associates Inc., a security company in Santa Clara, Calif., said a voluntary-screening program detected three cases of denial-of-service software installed on host servers: one in a university computer in Berlin, another at a university in Iowa and one in a nonuniversity computer in Long Beach, Calif. None of these detections necessarily indicate these computers were employed in last week's attacks, the company said.
As investigators continued their work, the computer industry struggled to reach common ground on security issues in order to present a united front at a White House meeting scheduled for tomorrow.
The dilemma for the computer industry, public-policy advocates say, is how to develop and agree upon standards that the government can support and protect without disrupting the open nature of the Internet. But given the different perspectives of government and industry, that won't be easy. Kim Alexander, head of the nonprofit California Voters Foundation, is one of the few people conversant in both the political and technological worlds. "It's like they speak two different languages," she says.
Many companies hit by last week's attacks continued to lie low. But some appear likely to take a more active stand against government intervention. AT&T Corp. dealt with attacks in the past week against some of its customers but remains opposed to government intervention to protect networks.
"It is important for the government [to take] a role in something that is illegal and affects commerce. Past that point, we clearly believe in self-regulation in this industry," said Rose Klimovich, AT&T's director of global intellectual-property-network services.
Some hackers, meanwhile, continued to toy with security experts over the weekend. Late Saturday or early Sunday morning, a hacker with the handle "Coolio" defaced the rsa.com Web site, which is owned by Internet-security firm RSA Data Security Inc., a unit of RSA Security Inc. of Bedford, Mass. The defaced site bore a picture of two men pictured on RSA's official Web site with the letter "L" branded on their foreheads, and carried the message: "The most trusted name in e-commerce has been owned" by Coolio.
Scott Schnell, a marketing vice president at RSA, said the company doesn't use the rsa.com site, which normally redirects Web surfers to RSA's main page at rsasecurity.com. He said the hacker hijacked the rsa.com Internet address and redirected it to the defaced page. Mr. Schnell said RSA was working with its Internet provider to resolve the situation.
David Cloud and Douglas A. Blackmon contributed to this story.
See above.
bitterness :)
redundant
adj.
[Latin redundans, redundant-, present participle of redundre, to overflow: re-, red-, re- + undare, to surge (from unda, wave); see wed in Indo-European Roots.]
Same for 5 port eth0 switch.
a 5 port eth switch.
Video
Audio
Input
Output
right? kinda cool..
But then again, I'm a sucker for acryonyms..
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=ludicrous_pa tents
but what would the logo be?
What's next? Sue the Museum of Modern Art! I can't view these great works of art just because I'm blind? Why not?!!? You should make them accessibly to everyone!
Sue Adobe! I can't properly use the marque tool if I can't see!
Sue every movie theatre! The movies are shown so that only those with sight can view them!!
Sue Sony, Virgin, and every other record label! I can't properly hear the artist's music if I am deaf!!@
Maybe I'm taking this too far... but I think it's the other way around.
Wasn't grep developed by Alfred Aho? He's also the A in awk, which was pretty useful in itself...
It's so true! I'm glad I'm not alone... all this time, I thought something was wrong with me for going to certain risque sites. They didn't believe me when I told them my computer made me do it!