You say "might be worthy", personally I don't think ANY speech is worthy of censorship. Speech I disapprove of is the speech that most needs protecting.
Look what free speech did for Michael "Kramer" Richards. Neonazis shoot themselves in the feet all the time; abhorrent as their words are, they are their own worst enemies.
<sarcasm> Ban Kenneth Starr's speech! Forty million dollars to investigate a blow job? WTF? That's the kind of speech that should be banned!
You can switch them out, you know. I have two CD cases in my car's glove box, but both are filled with music. If someone calls and asks for computer help, I just trade music CDs with whatever utilities (or in come cases an OS, Mandriva) I need.
A screwdriver, nutdriver, tweezers and pliars are handy, too.
I was going to add a spare hard drive to a friend's Dell, install Linux on it, make it dual boot, and disable networking in its Windows side. But the damned case is riveted! WTF kind of cheap piece of shit is that???
This sounds like the European study I read about New Scientist that showed that marijuana smokers died in more fatal road accidents than nonsmokers.
They barely mentioned that almost all the marijuana smokers who died were on motorcycles, that most European bikers smoke weed, while a small percentage of the auto drivers smoked pot.
So... wrecking a bike is more dangerous than wrecking a car means that marijuana causes fatal accidents.
It's good to know that the US isn't the only country with politics based "science".
I'm not sure what's more depressing - the idiots in power, or the fuckwits who voted them in.
Well, when a corporation can give ten million dollars to the Republican and ten million dollars to the Democrat, it doesn't really matter who you vote for, does it? Either way, the corporation wins and you lose.
That's why I split my vote between the Greens and the Libertarians - "Well, I voted against the asshole!"
CNN.com is reporting on a study which found that those 'who play violent video games show increased activity in areas of the brain linked to emotional arousal and decreased responses in regions that govern self-control.'
when you typed the URL... sorry, "address" into your internet explorer in windows XP, you misspelled "myspace" as "slashdot". It's ok, my learning disabled daughter does it all the time.
This is absolutely true; I can provide photos (or you can come see for yourself)
The defunct business next door to my house has signs saying "$500 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of persons destroying this property." There was what looked like a very weatherbeaten, unmaintained house and a large tin structure that looked like it too had not been maintained in years; gutters falling, etc.
Then last March 12th two F2 tornados tore through here. It ripped the hell out of both structures (again, I took pictures). The structures were subsequently razed.
So if you can find God and get him in court, $500 is yours for the taking!
I'd heard of a skilled engineer who wrote a "virus" for mainframe devices almost 20 years ago.
The first viruses were written for and on a mainframe in a university setting. IIRC it was sometime in the late 60s. It's been 20 years since I read the book that described it, but it was thought a game; whose virus could kill the other viruses.
They had boot sector viruses for PCs back as early as 1983, almost as soopn as IBM started making PCs.
I couldn't switch completely to Linux since I have about 50 gig of data on HDb that Mandrake 10.1 can't access (thinks subdirectories are files, thanks to Microsoft who automatically converted FAT32 to some other file system), so I'm dual boot; Windows for audio (50 gb of MP3s) and Linux for the internet.
I uninstalled all networking components in Windows and disabled the network card, but somehow I'm still paranoid about the Windows side. Can I still be pwned in Windows over the wire?
Windows stopped nagging me, I found the place to disable the nags. I wish I could find a Linux driver for a Creative Audigy.
I would worry more about NICs. Completely OS independant. Hell, given the proper facilities, facilities Malware Distributor Sony has, you could put it on a NIC chip on the motherboard.
Hell, you don't even need to manufacture the board or chip, just rewrite the driver (shudder).
Nobody went to jail over the Sony fiasco, despite the fact that it broke a lot of laws in a lot of countries. Isn't there one single country anywhere that isn't owned by your brother, the big corporation?
So it's entirely plausible that Sony actually did try to implement this because at the time they had not yet learned how bad agressive DRM was going to be for their bussiness
Huh? They lost my business, naybe a few other nerds, but I don't see them in chapter 13, 11, or 7. I didn't see anyone go to jail or even fired for it. In fact, I don't see where they sufferred one tiny bit. "He he, we got caught this time. Next time we'll be more careful!"
I'm not a security professional, nor do I consider myself a hacker in the modern sense (old school maybe; I know how to use a soldering iron) but this seems so damned obvious I can't figure out why Security Focus would print it except for the fact that Norton is only in the paranoia business these days.
Of COURSE you could put a rootkit in a PCI card. It would have to be done at the factory, even if the "factory" is in Joe's basement and Joe is selling cards to his friends.
Or Joe could sell PCs with his homemade card installed already.
This is a big "duh". The article should have been "how to protect yourself against a rootkit in a PCI card". Obviously, your antispyware and antivirus software wouldn't have a ghost of a chance of finding it.
I would consider the possibility of a PCI card rootkit very low until Sony put rootkits on audio CDs, ruined a bunch of computers (mine included when my daughter played an infected audio CD she bought at the now out of business record store she worked at).
I personally am on a lifelong Sony boycott cecause if it, both hardware and software, but a one man boycott does nothing but ease my paranoia. I would EXPECT hardware from Sony to contain malware, and everyone else should too since their rootkit didn't cost them anything but one man's business. Now I wonder if the 42 inch flat screen Trinitron I bought a few years ago has a rootkit? No matter, I don't have cable and really don't care if anybody knows what I'm watching.
I'd be very interested in finding out how one could protect themselves against a hardware rootkit?
On Limewire too, and if you don't share your upload directory you won't get caught. Probably why the RIAA is suing them.
But there are a hell of a lot of songs out there that people WANT you to download, songs they've poured their soul into and put on P2P themselves. If I search for "scatterbrain" (and there are hundreds of different songs with that name) and I haven't heard of the artist (or whoever wrote the tags goofed) how am I supposed to know if it's legit or not?
That's true, but it's an artificial word loaded with meaningless emotional impact, and sticks in my craw. So's "pigopolist" but I'm not bringing a knife to a gunfight.
The troops deserve no blame whatever. The shame is on the heads of the Bush administration, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. My point is their jobs shouldn't be in Iraq, so neither should they.
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You say "might be worthy", personally I don't think ANY speech is worthy of censorship. Speech I disapprove of is the speech that most needs protecting.
Look what free speech did for Michael "Kramer" Richards. Neonazis shoot themselves in the feet all the time; abhorrent as their words are, they are their own worst enemies.
<sarcasm> Ban Kenneth Starr's speech! Forty million dollars to investigate a blow job? WTF? That's the kind of speech that should be banned!
You can switch them out, you know. I have two CD cases in my car's glove box, but both are filled with music. If someone calls and asks for computer help, I just trade music CDs with whatever utilities (or in come cases an OS, Mandriva) I need.
A screwdriver, nutdriver, tweezers and pliars are handy, too.
I was going to add a spare hard drive to a friend's Dell, install Linux on it, make it dual boot, and disable networking in its Windows side. But the damned case is riveted! WTF kind of cheap piece of shit is that???
This sounds like the European study I read about New Scientist that showed that marijuana smokers died in more fatal road accidents than nonsmokers.
They barely mentioned that almost all the marijuana smokers who died were on motorcycles, that most European bikers smoke weed, while a small percentage of the auto drivers smoked pot.
So... wrecking a bike is more dangerous than wrecking a car means that marijuana causes fatal accidents.
It's good to know that the US isn't the only country with politics based "science".
I'm not sure what's more depressing - the idiots in power, or the fuckwits who voted them in.
Well, when a corporation can give ten million dollars to the Republican and ten million dollars to the Democrat, it doesn't really matter who you vote for, does it? Either way, the corporation wins and you lose.
That's why I split my vote between the Greens and the Libertarians - "Well, I voted against the asshole!"
So does a pretty girl. Their point????
People Eating Tasty Animals!
Not the post, but the fact that some dumbass modded it "insoghtful". WTF?
when you typed the URL... sorry, "address" into your internet explorer in windows XP, you misspelled "myspace" as "slashdot". It's ok, my learning disabled daughter does it all the time.
Oh my god! It's full of nerds!
You know people with six feet? Is that a full 30 toes?
That would be "levitating aunt" to your cousin, right?
This is absolutely true; I can provide photos (or you can come see for yourself)
The defunct business next door to my house has signs saying "$500 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of persons destroying this property." There was what looked like a very weatherbeaten, unmaintained house and a large tin structure that looked like it too had not been maintained in years; gutters falling, etc.
Then last March 12th two F2 tornados tore through here. It ripped the hell out of both structures (again, I took pictures). The structures were subsequently razed.
So if you can find God and get him in court, $500 is yours for the taking!
20 mm? That sounds more like a semicolon;
I would think rooting a bank president's computer or a voting machine would be valuable enough for a little work. Retire after one job!
I'd heard of a skilled engineer who wrote a "virus" for mainframe devices almost 20 years ago.
The first viruses were written for and on a mainframe in a university setting. IIRC it was sometime in the late 60s. It's been 20 years since I read the book that described it, but it was thought a game; whose virus could kill the other viruses.
They had boot sector viruses for PCs back as early as 1983, almost as soopn as IBM started making PCs.
I couldn't switch completely to Linux since I have about 50 gig of data on HDb that Mandrake 10.1 can't access (thinks subdirectories are files, thanks to Microsoft who automatically converted FAT32 to some other file system), so I'm dual boot; Windows for audio (50 gb of MP3s) and Linux for the internet.
I uninstalled all networking components in Windows and disabled the network card, but somehow I'm still paranoid about the Windows side. Can I still be pwned in Windows over the wire?
Windows stopped nagging me, I found the place to disable the nags. I wish I could find a Linux driver for a Creative Audigy.
I would worry more about NICs. Completely OS independant. Hell, given the proper facilities, facilities Malware Distributor Sony has, you could put it on a NIC chip on the motherboard.
Hell, you don't even need to manufacture the board or chip, just rewrite the driver (shudder).
Nobody went to jail over the Sony fiasco, despite the fact that it broke a lot of laws in a lot of countries. Isn't there one single country anywhere that isn't owned by your brother, the big corporation?
So it's entirely plausible that Sony actually did try to implement this because at the time they had not yet learned how bad agressive DRM was going to be for their bussiness
Huh? They lost my business, naybe a few other nerds, but I don't see them in chapter 13, 11, or 7. I didn't see anyone go to jail or even fired for it. In fact, I don't see where they sufferred one tiny bit. "He he, we got caught this time. Next time we'll be more careful!"
As will the other slimy, evil multinationals.
I'm not a security professional, nor do I consider myself a hacker in the modern sense (old school maybe; I know how to use a soldering iron) but this seems so damned obvious I can't figure out why Security Focus would print it except for the fact that Norton is only in the paranoia business these days.
Of COURSE you could put a rootkit in a PCI card. It would have to be done at the factory, even if the "factory" is in Joe's basement and Joe is selling cards to his friends.
Or Joe could sell PCs with his homemade card installed already.
This is a big "duh". The article should have been "how to protect yourself against a rootkit in a PCI card". Obviously, your antispyware and antivirus software wouldn't have a ghost of a chance of finding it.
I would consider the possibility of a PCI card rootkit very low until Sony put rootkits on audio CDs, ruined a bunch of computers (mine included when my daughter played an infected audio CD she bought at the now out of business record store she worked at).
I personally am on a lifelong Sony boycott cecause if it, both hardware and software, but a one man boycott does nothing but ease my paranoia. I would EXPECT hardware from Sony to contain malware, and everyone else should too since their rootkit didn't cost them anything but one man's business. Now I wonder if the 42 inch flat screen Trinitron I bought a few years ago has a rootkit? No matter, I don't have cable and really don't care if anybody knows what I'm watching.
I'd be very interested in finding out how one could protect themselves against a hardware rootkit?
On Limewire too, and if you don't share your upload directory you won't get caught. Probably why the RIAA is suing them.
But there are a hell of a lot of songs out there that people WANT you to download, songs they've poured their soul into and put on P2P themselves. If I search for "scatterbrain" (and there are hundreds of different songs with that name) and I haven't heard of the artist (or whoever wrote the tags goofed) how am I supposed to know if it's legit or not?
That's true, but it's an artificial word loaded with meaningless emotional impact, and sticks in my craw. So's "pigopolist" but I'm not bringing a knife to a gunfight.
Don't get me started on the word "gay"...
You're right about the recording quality, but I couldn't get them to listen to me; plus, they're live shows in bars with bad acoustics.
But hey, they're free!
You can make breading with only salt and pepper?
The troops deserve no blame whatever. The shame is on the heads of the Bush administration, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. My point is their jobs shouldn't be in Iraq, so neither should they.
I was referring to the water making machine, not the KFC recipe. Patenting the recipe would be stupid.