Let us form a new international organization against terrorism. It could be associated to the UN, and be called global defense initiative against terrorism (GDI). I'd love to see some Orcas, esp. the Orca bombers from Tiberian Sun...
Slash didn't show my.sig on preview, so I retyped it. Come to think of it, I haven't seen a single funny.sig today. Shit. Just imagine you're drunk. Users.pl tells me I should be seeing the.sigs. More crap. Sorry.
There was a website, I think it disappeared. I have been thinking about a formal resurrection of The Legion. I've been out of webspace for a moment, though (since I dropped myself out of "college").
LOMH.org might still be available. cost?
I was thinking about a structural thing, with ranks for amount of acquired recruits.
In some cases, full disclosure of source code can indeed be sufficient (provided that you are sure all your binaries were compiled from these sources, using a benevolent compiler).
The ability to help them improve what you don't like and fork if they won't is not a necessary prerequisite to a security audit: you find out it is not secure enough, you don't use it if you can't fix it.
Unfortunately, many lusers have tried to make the world a better place by forwarding the "hot warning" they had just received to me (as well as to many other accounts in a CC: list, possibly including mailing lists where the hoax was OT [not "operating thetan";o) ]).
Though often claiming to have originated from within IBM etc. (typical lusers wouldn't know what/who McAfee was, anyway) they didn't even remotely appear to.
Lusers don't care. They'll believe everything. Just tell them. Preferably, tell them in a message apparently not directed to them originally.
It takes some educating (by you!) before they start doubting such things.
On a similar note, since the Judges of the court obviously do not understand what Open Source is and labeled "us" as "rogue software pirates", is there any legal action we can take against the court in a defamation of character suit? It's obvious they have just degraded us and our cause without a viable reason.
Unfortunately, you are either unable or unwilling to see the truth of the matter. America is not the only nation whose people are foolish enough to consume things at such a horrible pace. In fact, the only nations whose citizens are comprised mostly of frugal people are those nations who are labelled as second or third world nations. It's not only America's fault that this is the case, but every nation who allows this wanton waste to continue. This includes your government, Jacko.
It will continue until the power of the global corporations is limited and waste is made less appealing to their bottom line. It will continue until the people realize what they're doing. Finally, it will continue regardless of whether you get your wish and see the focus of your irrational bigotry destroyed. There is no "prosecution" in their nation regarding frugality. The only prosecution occuring is the irrational and immoral prosecution which you wish for them to be the target of.
Fortunately, Europe might just prove you wrong.
Here in Germany, at least, public attitudes are somewhat different. Granted though, much is still to be desired.
If you have compellingly good case, a trial lawyer will probably take your case, charging you nothing now, in
anticipation of a percentage of your winnings. If you can convince no trial lawyer to do that (and there are tons of trial
lawyers out there), then you'll have a hard time convincing a judge either. This in and of itself weeds out countless
frivolous lawsuits from the system.
Your lawyer might just as well find out that environmental regulations were recently thrown out due to commercial "necessity" / corp. lobbying / corrupt politicians / any other form of corporate influence on local politics.
Or that the company has got a special permission to violate them. Maybe the harm they do to you isn't recognized, or even impossible to prove. It may be your own fault for not keeping their fumes off your own ground.
Class action suits might not be possible (e.g., they're not allowed here in Germany).
Do you really think you can always defend any justified case?
Alright, yes, unemployment is falling in Europe. It might even get down to, what, 6%? In the US, people are panicking
because unemployment just surged up to 4.5%, after years of hovering around 3%. This is exactly what one would
expect in a socialist country, because elementary economics shows that high minimum wage forces unemployment.
Minimum wage? We don't have that, but most people won't work much for less than what they get from the public welfare system (social security) for being poor.
Unfortunately we cant get AOL in Europe:( I am waiting for EOL...
Really? You're lucky. I live in Europe, but I am still swamped with AOL CDs enough to use them as one-time glass mats (nossir, that's NOT the meaning of "one time pad").
The wheel is still a valuable idea. It is a technology used in many products marketed today. Yet I think it would not benefit society to still pay license fees to its inventor.
Yeah, I never understood why people were so opposed to gridlock.;-)
Here in Germany, a tax reform (very necessary) was blocked by gridlock, not because the opposition disagreed with it, in fact they agreed, but used it to leverage themselves into government. Now the gridlock is the other way around, but unlike the social democrats, our new opposition saw sense.
Average user?....you mean my girlfriend? She doesn't need to remember any stinking password because it's me who
check mails for her. Whenever the browser asks "Open at the current position/Save it" she will click the former
without hesitation....of course, that includes open files like 'BO.EXE', 'ILOVEYOU.TXT.VBS', '1337!.EXE', etc.
I'm also responsible for all the dead links and bad design of any websites she came across. Needless to say, I'm ordered
to 'fix' them.
When wiring an old house, RG-58 (aka Thin Ethernet, aka BNC, aka coax) still
is an option.
A year ago, I set up a network in an old stone mansion
built when network was what fishermen did;o). We thought about other
solutions and settled upon RG-58. Why?
Specifications
The building is owned and used by the Alte Rostocker Burschenschaft Obotritia
(a traditional, fencing students' fraternity). Up to 10 students live there,
who at the time of planning all used their own modems over the one available
POTS phone line for internet access - it was hard to get through. An ISDN
line was ordered and a 24/7 dial-on-demand masq Linux router was to be set up.
Additionally, there were goodies like network printing, network file
sharing (running around with diskettes can be annoying), and games (not so
important).
This did not require any serious bandwidth.
Cost was an issue. We wanted to do it all ourselves. We didnt want to need
up to 7 parallel cables. Some of the walls we needed to punch through are
more than 50 cm strong (nearly 2')!
Luckily, I got hold of some neat hardware hack: A patch cable system for
RG-58 that prevents users from being confronted with termination or
interrupted loop problems. Pull out the plug and the wall connector
reconnects the loop. I wouldn't recommend installing BNC without this feature
(I have seen such installations).
We used a former chimney for connection between storeys. Apart from that, the
cable just followed the outside wall around the house (inside, of course). It took roughly 100 m (~350') of cable, which was very little (and extremely cheap).
It all worked so well we impressed people into donating for an Okipage 12 i/n network printer.
The dial-in box was also used as a firewall (I know there are cleaner ways),
internal web server, dns proxy, mail repose, print server, samba server and
workstation, including a login option to use vmware (fullscreen, with win95)
instead of a window manager, until it died. I have not been there since.
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Let us form a new international organization against terrorism. It could be associated to the UN, and be called global defense initiative against terrorism (GDI). I'd love to see some Orcas, esp. the Orca bombers from Tiberian Sun...
Kiwaiti
The attacks are considered a declaration of war to all the free world, denying the very base of humanity.
We are all with you.
Kiwaiti
Oops - lomh.org exists.
There was a website, I think it disappeared. I have been thinking about a formal resurrection of The Legion. I've been out of webspace for a moment, though (since I dropped myself out of "college").
LOMH.org might still be available. cost?
I was thinking about a structural thing, with ranks for amount of acquired recruits.
Kiwaiti
won't retype it now (hope it's there)
The ability to help them improve what you don't like and fork if they won't is not a necessary prerequisite to a security audit: you find out it is not secure enough, you don't use it if you can't fix it.
Kiwaiti
Member of the Legion Of Microsoft Haters
What next?
Kiwaiti
Unfortunately, many lusers have tried to make the world a better place by forwarding the "hot warning" they had just received to me (as well as to many other accounts in a CC: list, possibly including mailing lists where the hoax was OT [not "operating thetan" ;o) ]).
Though often claiming to have originated from within IBM etc. (typical lusers wouldn't know what/who McAfee was, anyway) they didn't even remotely appear to.
Lusers don't care. They'll believe everything. Just tell them. Preferably, tell them in a message apparently not directed to them originally.
It takes some educating (by you!) before they start doubting such things.
Kiwaiti
might be reel kewl...
would they get the message?
Kiwaiti
Or will it all go to his "owner" again?
I hate to think theres still no one concerned about us machines, our desires, needs, and pursuit of happiness.
Kiwaiti
It will continue until the power of the global corporations is limited and waste is made less appealing to their bottom line. It will continue until the people realize what they're doing. Finally, it will continue regardless of whether you get your wish and see the focus of your irrational bigotry destroyed. There is no "prosecution" in their nation regarding frugality. The only prosecution occuring is the irrational and immoral prosecution which you wish for them to be the target of.
Fortunately, Europe might just prove you wrong.
Here in Germany, at least, public attitudes are somewhat different. Granted though, much is still to be desired.
Kiwaiti
$0.59/s would mean approx. $64,000/month 24/7. Id like to have the kind of connection that could buy! Kiwaiti
Your lawyer might just as well find out that environmental regulations were recently thrown out due to commercial "necessity" / corp. lobbying / corrupt politicians / any other form of corporate influence on local politics.
Or that the company has got a special permission to violate them. Maybe the harm they do to you isn't recognized, or even impossible to prove. It may be your own fault for not keeping their fumes off your own ground.
Class action suits might not be possible (e.g., they're not allowed here in Germany).
Do you really think you can always defend any justified case?
Kiwaiti
Kiwaiti
Minimum wage? We don't have that, but most people won't work much for less than what they get from the public welfare system (social security) for being poor.
Kiwaiti
Kiwaiti
Kiwaiti
Really? You're lucky. I live in Europe, but I am still swamped with AOL CDs enough to use them as one-time glass mats (nossir, that's NOT the meaning of "one time pad").
Kiwaiti
Kiwaiti
Kiwaiti
Here in Germany, a tax reform (very necessary) was blocked by gridlock, not because the opposition disagreed with it, in fact they agreed, but used it to leverage themselves into government. Now the gridlock is the other way around, but unlike the social democrats, our new opposition saw sense.
Kiwaiti
Kiwaiti
I'm also responsible for all the dead links and bad design of any websites she came across. Needless to say, I'm ordered to 'fix' them.
Have you thought of switching to a brunette?
Kiwaiti
A year ago, I set up a network in an old stone mansion built when network was what fishermen did ;o). We thought about other
solutions and settled upon RG-58. Why?
Specifications
The building is owned and used by the Alte Rostocker Burschenschaft Obotritia (a traditional, fencing students' fraternity). Up to 10 students live there, who at the time of planning all used their own modems over the one available POTS phone line for internet access - it was hard to get through. An ISDN line was ordered and a 24/7 dial-on-demand masq Linux router was to be set up.
Additionally, there were goodies like network printing, network file sharing (running around with diskettes can be annoying), and games (not so important).
This did not require any serious bandwidth.
Cost was an issue. We wanted to do it all ourselves. We didnt want to need up to 7 parallel cables. Some of the walls we needed to punch through are more than 50 cm strong (nearly 2')!
Luckily, I got hold of some neat hardware hack: A patch cable system for RG-58 that prevents users from being confronted with termination or interrupted loop problems. Pull out the plug and the wall connector reconnects the loop. I wouldn't recommend installing BNC without this feature (I have seen such installations).
We used a former chimney for connection between storeys. Apart from that, the cable just followed the outside wall around the house (inside, of course). It took roughly 100 m (~350') of cable, which was very little (and extremely cheap).
It all worked so well we impressed people into donating for an Okipage 12 i/n network printer.
The dial-in box was also used as a firewall (I know there are cleaner ways), internal web server, dns proxy, mail repose, print server, samba server and workstation, including a login option to use vmware (fullscreen, with win95) instead of a window manager, until it died. I have not been there since.
Kiwaiti
and if you absolutely insist on doing IP based auth, implement _ANY_ kind of challenge response too! It can be as simple as IRC style
server->client: "PING random_number"
client->server: "PONG random_number"
This will stop these basic blind spoofing attacks.
This has been done already. Actually, its part of the TCP protocol. Its called the ISN of the server SYN/ACK. :o)
KiwaitiNothing. To get publicity? Everything.
Kiwaiti